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Another prisoner swap is in the works. I'm Dave Anthony, Fox News, and this one involves a prisoner at Guantanamo. After we were told the U.S. secretly freed 11 more terror suspects from Gitmo sent to Oman, two of them were bodyguards for Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. All had been held for 20-plus years but never charged.
The swap being negotiated involves a senior al-Qaeda operative. The deal would be Rahim al-Afghani for three Americans held in Afghanistan. George Glesman, Ryan Corbett, and Mahmoud Habibi, an NSC spokesman, is telling the Wall Street Journal today the safety and security of Americans overseas is one of the Biden-Harris administration's top priorities. Fox's Peter Doocy, if the swap happens, there would only be 14 terror suspects left at Guantanamo.
It's possible we'll get reaction from President-elect Trump. We just learned he'll talk to the press an hour from now from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida ahead of his sentencing Friday in New York. Trump lawyers just filed a motion with the state appeals court trying to dismiss the case he calls a witch hunt. The president-elect was convicted of falsifying business records. President Biden will be in California today establishing two big new national monuments to preserve more than 800,000 acres of federal land.
The day after a Biden offshore drilling ban that President-elect Trump vows to undo, and he may need Congress' help. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie and Congressman Bob Latta argue the move, quote, will lead to higher energy prices for American families, the loss of American jobs, and greatly diminish our country's energy security. President Biden argues offshore drilling could, quote,
cause irreversible damage to places we hold dear. Fox's Ryan Schmelz, after days of people paying tribute to former President Jimmy Carter in Atlanta, his casket will soon be flown to Washington to Lyon State at the U.S. Capitol before a funeral Thursday. His grandson, Jason Carter, tells Fox, He wants to be known as a peacemaker, as someone who promotes human rights, that love for freedom, that American ideal of democracy. Carter died last month at age 100. America's listening to Fox News.
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It's a mixed market on Wall Street so far this morning. The Dow's up 43 points, but the Nasdaq is down 106. The S&P 500 is losing 10 points. The stock for Facebook's parent company, Meta, is down by about 1%.
as the social media giant makes a policy change to end third-party fact-checking. Conservatives complain they've been censored. What started as a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to shut down opinions and shut out people with different ideas, and it's gone too far.
So I want to make sure that people can share their beliefs and experiences on our platforms. Met a CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, announcing the change this morning to a newer model involving users monitoring content similar to Elon Musk's X. As President-elect, Trump's getting ready to take office again. He was banned by Facebook after the 2021 Capitol riot that allowed back on the platforms two years later.
Well, this is music to the ears of millions of Americans struggling to pay their medical bills. A new rule finalized today that is if it gets implemented. The move by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would prohibit loan providers from using medical debt information while making lending decisions. The Biden administration says it will remove about $49 billion in medical debt from credit reports and could lift the credit scores of about 15 million Americans by an average of 20 points.
The Bureau says having medical debt on a credit report is not a good predictor of whether someone will repay a loan and that inaccurate billing is often reported by consumers. The new rule is said to take effect 60 days after being published in the Federal Register, but with President-elect Donald Trump returning to office this month, its future is in question.
Tonya J. Powers, Fox News. The price of oil is up more than a half dollar. It's back over 74 bucks a barrel. Gas is up a fraction, but AAA's national average for regular remains 306 per gallon. That's the same price as a week ago, and it's one penny less than we were paying one year ago.
I'm Dave Anthony and this is Fox News. Fox stands united with loved one Louisiana in support of the victims and families impacted by the New Year's Day French Quarter terrorist attack. Visit go.fox forward slash NOLA to support. That's go.fox forward slash N-O-L-A.