Monday Mix

HEADLINES:

• The U.S. offers Ukraine a 15-year security guarantee for now, Zelenskyy says (NPR)

• Trump Greets Ukrainian President Zelensky at Mar-a-Lago (C-Span)

• China holds military drills around Taiwan as warning to ‘separatist forces’ (BBC)

• Trump and Netanyahu to meet in Florida for crucial talks on Iran and Gaza (NBC)

• How Oil, Drugs and Immigration Fueled Trump’s Venezuela Campaign (NYT)

• Winter storm brings heavy snow and ice to busy holiday travel weekend (NPR)

• New winter storm brings dangerous wind, snow and ice (ABC)

• Why the Supreme Court Is Giving ICE So Much Power (Atlantic)

• ‘We are the free world now’ — Europe declares war on free speech in the US (The Hill)

• What America Might Look Like With Zero Immigration (NYT)

• ‘Ghost resorts’: as hundreds of ski slopes lie abandoned, will nature reclaim the Alps? (Guardian)

• Santa’s good and bad economies list (Financial Times)

• China expands nuclear warhead manufacturing capacity, research finds (WP)

• The Slow, Inevitable Death of the Bowl Game (Atlantic)

• Humanoid Robots Keep Slipping Into the Future, Much Like Fusion (CleanTechnica)

• Cat Clinging To Side Of Christmas Tree Admits That Was Extent Of Plan (Onion)