This is your twenty four to seven use update the latest use this hour In just four minutes, Millions are heading to airports and hitting the roads as Christmas is now just two days away, whether it could cause issues for travelers as snow is expected in parts of the Northeast today.

In the West, winds in heavy rainer in the forecast for tonight.

Meantime, Christmas will be warm across the Midwest and South, with record daily high temperatures possible.

The Justice Department has pushed back against mentions of President Trump and the latest batch of Epstein files.

Overnight, the Department of Justice made more than eleven thousand files available in its latest release, including court records, emails, videos, and news clippings.

In a post on x, the DOJ said some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the twenty twenty election.

The DOJ added, if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.

The DOJ was required to release all day documents by December nineteenth under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, but official say they're being released in batches due to the high volume and the need to redact information to protect victims.

President Trump says the new Trump class US battleships will be the world's fastest, largest, and most lethal with nuclear capabilities.

Mitch McCann reports that some analysts are raising questions about how that'll be accomplished.

Meanwhile, a former Navy campton told CNN, we no longer have the shipbuilding and maritime industrial infrastructure to do this quickly.

Trump says there will be two ships built first, followed by another eight and eventually twenty five new battleships.

The Pentagon says the Navy will develop the design for the battleships.

President Trump says he'll also play a role.

Investors fear of the FED will be in a grinchy mood as far as rate cuts, with news that the US economy is growing faster than expected.

New government numbers released today show the US gross domestic product group by four point three percent between July and September.

Analysts had expected a gain of three point two percent.

But stocks are a little changed after the report, with investors now thinking an interest rate cut in twenty twenty six is less likely I'm Chris Caragio.

The Powerball jackpot is rolling over again with no grand prize winner on Monday night.

That puts it at a staggering one point seven billion dollars with the next straw on coming tomorrow on Christmas Eve.

Even though there was no big winner last night, once again, there were a number of million dollar winners Monday, with those tickets being sold in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.

Fraudulent job applications from people in North Korea have spiked twenty seven percent over the past year.

William Denzilo reports that's according to Amazon's chief security officer.

He said they use identity theft, including hacked LinkedIn accounts, to try to trigg recruses into giving them work.

They do that by remotely controlling laptops situated in the US to try to mask their overseas presence.

In a LinkedIn post, Stephen Schmid said Amazon has blocked eighteen hundred applications from suspected North Korean operatives since April of twenty twenty four.

He says the applicant's objective is typically to get hired and funnel wages back to the regime's weapons programs.

Barry Manilow says he's battling lung cancer.

In an Instagram post yesterday, the singer said it was found when he underwent an MRI after getting bronchitis, and that he'll have surgery to remove it.

It's pure luck that it was found so early, he posted, adding the doctors do not believe it is spread.

No chemo, no radiation, just chicken soup and I Love Lucy reruns.

NBC's Chloe Melos reports the surgery will force Manilo to postpone several concerts that he had scheduled next month.

He plans to be back on stage at his Las Vegas residency in February.

Chat GBT is rolling out its own year in Review feature.

This is similar to the popular Spotify Wrapped and will be offered to select users in certain markets, including the US.

The OpenAI chatbot will offer it users a custom analysis of twenty twenty five that aims to be fun whether you enjoyed the year or not.

I'm Chris Krazio