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Falcon Lake, on the U.S.-Mexico border, has been named the best bass fishing lake in the country. But a Mexican drug cartel also uses the lake to smuggle drugs. While that hasn't kept the anglers away, it does mean fishing there carries an element of risk.

The North Pole is in international waters but now Canada is arguing that Santa Claus is definitely Canadian. CTV News reports various Canadian government departments and agencies cite proof.

It is difficult to find work if you've been incarcerated. Outside Seattle, one women's prison is trying to give inmates a better chance by training some of them for nontraditional jobs.

The U.S. health care industry has begun reducing the use of high-risk opioid pain medications. But clinicians in many fields still prescribe large quantities of opioids, ignoring federal guidelines.

Long reviled by many Egyptians as the backbone of a corrupt and abusive state, the country's police have become unlikely heroes for opponents of now-ousted President Mohammed Morsi. The police haven't been reformed, but frustration with the Islamist ex-president trumps public anger at the police.

-The United States may soon have an Arctic ambassador again to represent the nation’s interests in the far north.-Gov. Mike Dunleavy is eyeing a property tax break for the long-planned Alaska LNG project.-Republicans in the House delivered a rare rebuke of Trump when they passed a bill to restore union rights for federal employees, but Alaska’s congressman wasn’t among them.

The adoption of the 2026 spending plan followed a couple hours of council members offering final amendments at Monday’s meeting, which itself came after a series of budget meetings in November. Mayor Mindy O’Neall released her proposed budget in late October.

This week, we've got annoying holiday movies, chatty White House insiders, and cheese.

European Union leaders have agreed to provide a massive interest-free loan to Ukraine to meet its military and economic needs for the next two years. The loan will not rely on frozen Russian assets.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on the social platform X that, at Trump's direction, she is ordering the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause the program.