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USA
All seven people aboard a Cessna Citation C550, including former
NASCAR
driver
Greg Biffle
and members of his family, died when the jet crashed while returning to Statesville Regional Airport, following earlier reports...
7h
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USA
TikTok
signed a deal to sell its US business to
Oracle
,
Silver Lake
and
MGX
, allowing the app to remain available in the USA after a
divest-or-ban law
pushed
ByteDance
into months of negotiations. Under binding...
2h
/14m
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USA
Kristin Cabot
said in interviews published by The
New York Times
and
The Times
of London that she had been separated before the
Coldplay
concert and that both she and
Andy Byron
have begun divorce proceedings, following...
9h
/1h
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USA
Donald Trump
unveiled new descriptive plaques beneath a gold-heavy display he calls the
Presidential Walk
of Fame, replacing
Joe Biden
’s portrait with an image of an autopen and his signature after earlier reports that...
2h
/1h
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France
The Sun
, in an article by
Harvey Geh
, recalled a similar February death as it updated details about a 24-year-old British skier who fell about 300 metres down a steep off-piste slope at Les Arcs 2000 in the French Alps....
21m
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USA
One of
Zohran Mamdani
’s appointees resigned after antisemitic social media posts from 2011 and 2012 resurfaced, following her appointment this week to lead his
office of appointments
.
Catherine Almonte Da Costa
...
26m
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USA
Trump Media will provide up to $300 million and invest $200 million immediately to fund
TAE Technologies
’ first US fusion plant,
Michl Binderbauer
said, following the all‑stock merger that values the combined company at...
10h
/6h
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USA
Freedom 250
is sponsoring a slate of semiquincentennial events including the
Patriot Games
, which
Donald Trump
announced as a four-day competition for the nation’s top high school athletes next fall after his initial...
1h
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USA
Charles Fain Lehman
warned that President
Donald Trump
's order to have the Justice Department reschedule marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III will chiefly benefit large cannabis companies, following Trump's move to...
32m
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USA
Elsie Hewitt
announced on
Instagram
that their daughter, Scottie Rose Hewitt Davidson, was born last week, following the couple’s July pregnancy reveal. Hewitt posted photos and wrote that the baby was “My best work...
48m
/8m
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USA
Nike
reported flat revenues for the second quarter of fiscal 2026, posting $12.4 billion and beating analysts' expectations after the company returned to growth last quarter following five consecutive declines. Elliot...
1h
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Italy
Kering
is acquiring
Raselli Franco Group
in a staged deal that values the Valenza-based supplier at about €575 million and begins with a 20 percent purchase for €115 million in early 2026, following earlier...
5h
/2h
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SouthKorea
LG
will allow users to delete a
Microsoft Copilot
shortcut after several owners, including
Engadget
staff, discovered the icon had appeared on some newer
LG
smart TVs and initially seemed impossible to remove.
LG
...
2h
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Netherlands
The USA imposed sanctions on two
ICC
judges who rejected Israel’s challenge to the court’s Gaza investigation, following earlier US moves against court officials. The measures, announced by Secretary of State Marco...
8h
/6h
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USA
Unemployment climbed to 4.6 percent as core CPI slowed to 2.6 percent in November, raising questions about the 2.7 percent headline that may be biased by missing October price data after the federal funding shutdown....
10h
/4h
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France
Frédéric Péchier
was convicted and sentenced to life by a
French criminal court
after investigators linked a long pattern of deliberate poisonings of 30 patients between 2008 and 2017. Prosecutors said Péchier secretly...
13h
/7h
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USA
Analysts sharply upgraded Micron and its stock jumped after the company posted much stronger-than-expected first-quarter results, with
DRAM
revenue up 69 percent year over year and shares rising as much as 14 percent,...
4h
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Albania
Torches and water were thrown as lawmakers disrupted a parliamentary vote amid protests over corruption allegations against
Belinda Balluku
, following weeks of unrest that began when
SPAK
moved to lift her immunity....
4h
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Argentina
Thousands protested in Buenos Aires against a labor reform pushed by
Javier Milei
as the
Senate
began debating the bill, following the
CGT
’s planned mass march at Plaza de Mayo that mobilized unions and social groups....
5h
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UK
William
and
Catherine
published their 2025 family Christmas portrait on social media with the caption "Wishing everyone a very Happy Christmas," following an April photoshoot that supplied several family images used...
13h
/2h
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USA
Alan Dershowitz
has outlined legal theories in a newly published book that he says could allow
Donald Trump
to remain president for an additional term after he discussed the idea at a
White House
Chanukah event....
10h
/8h
#
BBC
“
TikTok
owner signs deal to sell US business
”
22m
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France
Mindy Chen
accepts Nico's proposal and becomes engaged, creating a friendship rift after Season 5 sent
Emily Cooper
between Paris and
Rome
and closed in
Venice
. The split followed secret sparks between Mindy and Alfie,...
11h
/4h
#
USA
Two families —
Tricia Maciejewski
and Ros and
Mark Dowey
— filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against Meta using newly released internal records after their teenage sons,
Levi Maciejewski
and
Murray Dowey
, died by suicide...
6h
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USA
Justice Department attorneys are racing to redact thousands of pages tied to
Jeffrey Epstein
and
Ghislaine Maxwell
ahead of a congressionally mandated deadline on Friday, following
House Oversight Committee
disclosures...
22h
/51m
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Venezuela
Donald Trump
announced a blockade of oil tankers tied to Venezuela after US forces seized a sanctioned tanker and as his administration expands a months-long campaign against alleged narco-trafficking. Officials say the...
22h
/3m
#
Fox
“
Jesse Watters discusses reactions to
Donald Trump
's primetime address
”
1h
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Taiwan
The Trump administration announced more than $10 billion in arms sales to Taiwan, including medium-range missiles,
HIMARS
and drones, following earlier US notifications that outlined an eight-part offer. The State...
20h
/10h
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Sudan
UN human rights investigators call for independent probes after a new
OHCHR
report says more than 1,000 civilians were killed when the
RSF
seized the Zamzam camp in April, following interviews with 155 survivors who...
6h
#
USA
Peter Arnett
died in Newport Beach, California, at age 91 from prostate cancer, his family said, following a long career as a frontline war correspondent who reported from Vietnam and Baghdad. Born in Riverton, New...
18h
/9h
#
USA
University of Michigan
hires law firm
Jenner & Block
and expands an independent review of athletics culture and procedures after interim president
Domenico Grasso
announced a probe following the firing and arrest of...
8h
#
Belgium
The protests threatened to derail the EU leaders' summit after around 7,000 farmers surrounded EU institutions in Brussels to oppose the
Mercosur
trade deal, following an earlier mobilisation that brought tractors and...
14h
/7h
#
USA
The US government admitted in a court filing that actions by an air traffic controller and Army helicopter pilots helped cause the midair collision that killed 67 people near Reagan National Airport, after months of...
25h
/8h
#
CNN
“
Private jet crashes after takeoff in North Carolina
”
3h
#
USA
Thursday’s official weigh-in for
Jake Paul
and
Anthony Joshua
will stream live on
Most Valuable Promotions
and
Netflix
Sports
YouTube
channels, following the matchup announced for the
Netflix
main event at the Kaseya...
12h
/9h
#
USA
The
Associated Press
updated that the Ursids meteor shower will peak Sunday night into Monday morning and remain visible in the Northern Hemisphere through Dec. 26, following earlier AP reports that the shower was...
10h
#
Russia
European and Ukrainian intelligence say
Moran Security
operatives have been placed aboard shadow-fleet tankers to conduct espionage and protect sanction-busting oil shipments, following earlier reports of covert Russian...
16h
/9h
#
USA
The
Kennedy Center
Board of Trustees voted to rename the John F.
Kennedy Center
for the Performing Arts the
Trump-Kennedy Center
, a move announced by
White House
press secretary
Karoline Leavitt
after months in which...
29h
/1h
#
Belgium
Giorgia Meloni
asked for more time, prompting the
European Commission
to postpone the EU–
Mercosur
trade agreement signing until January after weeks of farmer protests and last‑minute opposition had already threatened...
20h
/2h
#
USA
Dan Bongino
announced he will leave the
FBI
in January amid disputes over the handling of Epstein files and criticism of
ICE
raids, following his controversial appointment earlier this year. Bongino thanked Donald...
26h
/16h
#
Italy
Laura Burdese
will become
Bulgari
’s chief executive officer on July 1 next year, succeeding
Jean-Christophe Babin
after she was named deputy CEO last year. She will report to
Stéphane Bianchi
, and Babin will remain...
10h
#
Ecuador
Mario Pineida
and his partner were fatally shot and Pineida's mother was wounded in a targeted attack in Guayaquil, following earlier reports that Pineida had been killed in a daytime shooting. Officials said the attack...
17h
/10h
#
Spain
The central government will convert government buildings into a nationwide network of climate shelters and expand regional schemes, following Sánchez's earlier announcement of the plan to protect people from intense...
10h
#
USA
Reporting that the payment repackages existing housing funds, critics called the one-time $1,776 warrior dividend announced by
Donald Trump
in a prime-time
White House
address a political rebrand rather than a new...
22h
/1h
#
USA
OpenAI
has launched an in-chat app directory inside
ChatGPT
available on iOS, Android and the web, and opened a developer submission process with resources after earlier releases of interactive apps and an
SDK
in...
11h
#
Lebanon
Israel said it carried out airstrikes across southern and northeastern Lebanon that killed a
Hezbollah
operative and struck weapons storage as it sought to disrupt rearmament ahead of a deadline at the end of the month...
10h
#
USA
HHS
announced regulatory proposals to cut
Medicare
and
Medicaid
payments to hospitals that provide gender-affirming care to people under 19, following House votes that advanced a federal ban on care for minors. Robert...
23h
/2h
#
USA
Fact‑checkers disputed claims after
Donald Trump
's year‑end
White House
address, which earlier coverage described as a combative defense of his first 11 months in office and a blame‑the‑opponent strategy. Reporters...
11h
#
Denmark
The European Court of Justice ruled that Denmark’s 2018 "
ghetto law
" can lead to discrimination on the basis of ethnicity and left it to
Danish courts
to decide whether the numerical "non‑Western" threshold breaches EU...
19h
/3h
#
BBC
“
More photos from Epstein estate released by Democratic lawmakers
”
6h
#
USA
The
Oscars
will move to
YouTube
from 2029, a symbolic blow to network television after the
Academy
announced
YouTube
would become the exclusive global streaming home beginning with the 101st ceremony. The multi‑year,...
30h
/11h
#
USA
Dr.
Jonathan Reiner
said he was “seriously concerned” about
Donald Trump
's health after watching the president's speech, following a column by
Moira Donegan
that catalogued signs of physical decline and a
New York Times
...
12h
#
TheJoeRoganExperience
“
Michael P. Masters
”
7h
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Germany
Birkenstock
forecast annual profit below Wall Street expectations as the Trump administration's 15% US import tariff is set to shave about 100 basis points from gross margins, following a quarter in which revenue rose...
13h
#
USA
Ghislaine Maxwell
filed this week a pro se petition in federal court asking to vacate, set aside or correct her conviction and 20‑year sentence, saying substantial new evidence undermines the 2021 sex‑trafficking...
26h
/22h
#
NewYorkTimes
“
Nick Reiner
seen before arrest
”
8h
#
USA
Four
House
Republicans, including
Ryan Mackenzie
, signed a Democratic discharge petition that guarantees a
House
vote on a three-year extension of
Affordable Care Act
subsidies in January after earlier votes failed and...
24h
/3h
#
Italy
Investigators are analysing seized drives and widening the probe after an electrician who installed home surveillance systems was arrested in Trieste when his partner found nude photos of her underage daughters....
14h
#
TEDTalks
“
Why are people starting to sound like
ChatGPT
”
9h
#
France
20 Minutes
is following amateur club Lyon La Duchère in a video series ahead of its
Coupe de France
tie with Toulouse, after
Olympique Lyonnais
sealed direct
Champions League
quarterfinal qualification by beating...
14h
#
Germany
Federal prosecutors charged eight people on Dec. 18 over an alleged right-wing terror cell called
Letzte Verteidigungswelle
, following police raids in May that detained suspects aged 14 to 21. The indictment in Hamburg...
15h
/14h
#
CNN
“
Inflation cooled in November to 2.7%
”
10h
#
Brazil
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
said he will veto a parliamentary bill that would sharply reduce
Jair Bolsonaro
's 27-year, three-month prison sentence after the Senate approved the measure this week and the lower house had...
24h
/6h
#
Belgium
ReBirth completed a majority-stake recapitalisation of
Cowboy
, converting legacy obligations into equity and supplying a combined €15 million to clean up the balance sheet and restart production, after earlier reports...
17h
#
BBC
“
Parents of teenage sextortion victim sue Meta
”
11h
#
USA
The Trump administration has ordered a sharp expansion of denaturalization efforts, asking
USCIS
field offices to refer 100 to 200 cases per month to the
DOJ
for fiscal 2026 after earlier reports said the agency would...
16h
#
Italy
Leonardo Apache La Russa
said he was cleared of a revenge-porn charge and revealed he suffered depression and contemplated suicide after a Milan judge declared the charge extinguished following a €25,000 settlement....
17h
#
USA
Craig Melvin
visited and interviewed
James Van Der Beek
at his Texas ranch and posted behind-the-scenes photos showing Van Der Beek upbeat, after Van Der Beek publicly revealed last November that he has stage 3...
17h
#
USA
The Senate confirmed billionaire
Jared Isaacman
as
NASA
administrator, ending a monthslong nomination saga that included an earlier withdrawn nomination and a November renomination by
Donald Trump
. The Senate approved...
27h
/23h
#
USA
Investigators say they have identified a suspect and have interviewed a man who appeared on surveillance video in proximity to the suspect following the
Brown University
shooting that killed two students and wounded...
37h
/43m
#
USA
Jamieson Greer
published a presentation to congressional committees this week saying Canada must change its protected dairy market and its
Online Streaming Act
if the administration is to recommend renewing the
USMCA
,...
19h
#
USA
Jane's Addiction
has officially disbanded following a private settlement that resolves lawsuits arising from last year’s onstage altercation in Boston. Navarro, Avery and Perkins had sued seeking at least $10 million,...
26h
/13h
#
USA
The White House announced that
TrumpRx
and a most-favored-nation pricing approach will start in January 2026, following agreements the administration says link US drug prices to lower foreign prices and...
19h
#
UK
Celtic
sit second in the
Scottish Premiership
, six points behind
Hearts
, amid a deepening crisis after
Wilfried Nancy
lost his fourth match in as many games when
Dundee United
beat
Celtic
2-1.
Daizen Maeda
put
Celtic
...
23h
/18h
#
TheDaily
“
Congress failed to extend health care subsidies
”
14h
#
USA
Kevin Warren
said the Bears have expanded their stadium search beyond Chicago to include the club's 326-acre Arlington Heights property and sites in Northwest Indiana after state leaders told the team the project would...
20h
#
Russia
Vladimir Putin
is expected to signal at his end-of-year news conference whether he will pursue peace or continue the war in Ukraine, after he warned senior military officers that Russia would expand territory if Kyiv...
33h
/2h
#
Australia
A video released shows
Ahmed Al-Ahmed
receiving a giant symbolic cheque after more than AU$2.5 million was raised by over 43,000 people following his intervention at the Bondi Beach Hanukkah shooting. Al-Ahmed remains...
41h
/2h
#
USA
Dolby
and
LG
unveiled the modular
LG Sound Suite
using
Dolby FlexConnect
, following earlier reports that
LG
planned an
H7
soundbar as part of a new Sound Suite. The collection—centered on the
H7
and including
M7
and
M5
...
21h
#
CNN
“
Woman marries
ChatGPT
character
”
16h
#
Germany
Sam Kerr
scored a late header and became the first Australian—and only the second Chelsea player—to reach 20 Champions League goals as Chelsea came from behind to beat Wolfsburg 2-1 and advance directly to the Women's...
25h
/22h
#
Belgium
European leaders met in Brussels this week to push through a Commission plan to lend roughly €210 billion of frozen
Central Bank of Russia
assets to the EU so funds can be lent to Ukraine as a reparations loan,...
39h
/11h
#
USA
Carr defended his actions and denied intending threats at a Dec. 17 hearing after he pressed broadcasters to punish
Jimmy Kimmel
following Kimmel’s Sept. 15 monologue about the fatal shooting of
Charlie Kirk
. Senators...
26h
/24h
#
USA
Jennifer Lawrence
admitted on a recent episode of Variety and CNN's
Actors on Actors
that she accidentally took Ambien while filming The
Hunger Games
: Catching Fire, hallucinated during a 2013 dance scene with Philip...
23h
#
USA
Players and coaches were scheduled to depart at 8:25 p.m. ET after their team plane was delayed by an equipment issue,
Adam Schefter
reported, following earlier accounts that the Rams were seeking alternate travel to...
23h
#
SouthAfrica
The
South African government
is working to rescue 17 nationals trapped inside the Russian military and fighting in Ukraine, following reports that they were lured to Russia and tricked into joining.
Cyril Ramaphosa
’s...
26h
/7h
#
TheHill
“
NewsNation panel discusses Trump's Oval Office address
”
17h
#
USA
Susan Illston
will block the Trump administration from laying off hundreds of federal workers following unions' lawsuit to stop more than 4,000 cuts announced during the 43-day government shutdown. Illston said she will...
23h
#
USA
The
Pittsburgh Penguins
are being sold to the
Hoffmann family
in a deal reported to be worth roughly SEK 15.8–16.7 billion, following earlier reports that
Fenway Sports Group
had reached an agreement to sell the club....
24h
#
USA
Oracle
shares fell another 5%, dragging the
Nasdaq
down about 1.8%, after investors reacted to fresh signs of financial strain including stalled financing for a planned $10 billion, 1‑gigawatt data centre in Saline...
29h
/14h
#
China
A
Reuters
report says a Chinese prototype extreme ultraviolet lithography machine built by former
ASML
engineers is now undergoing testing in Shenzhen after
Reuters
revealed the project used ex-
ASML
staff working under...
24h
#
Belgium
Volodymyr Zelensky
warned Belgium and other European leaders that there are greater threats than lawsuits if the EU does not act, following his push at the European Council summit in Brussels this week to unlock roughly...
34h
/7h
#
Italy
The
Court of Cassation
has confirmed
Matteo Salvini
’s acquittal in the
Open Arms
case, after the
Palermo tribunal
cleared him last year. The decision closes proceedings over the August 2019 episode in which the NGO ship...
24h
#
Israel
Donald Trump
is pressing for a summit between Israeli and Egyptian leaders after
Benjamin Netanyahu
announced a $35 billion deal to export Israeli
natural gas
to Egypt. Netanyahu will travel to the USA later this month...
28h
/27h
#
VirginIslandsUS
The US government sued the US Virgin Islands, its police department and Police Commissioner
Mario Brooks
, alleging the territory’s gun‑permit rules unlawfully block Americans from exercising their
Second Amendment
...
24h
#
USA
The Senate required Defense Secretary
Pete Hegseth
to hand over unedited footage of US strikes near Venezuela and withheld a quarter of his travel budget, following final approval of the 3,000-page National Defense...
30h
/28h
#
USA
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after a
Velocity V-Twin
crashed shortly after departing
Nashua Airport
and came to rest upside down in a snow bank in the
Cannongate Condominiums
parking lot at about...
25h
#
Venezuela
The UN Security Council will meet on Tuesday to address the crisis after Washington announced a blockade on sanctioned vessels and
Donald Trump
ordered a broad military deployment in the Caribbean. Caracas sent an...
Wed
/8h
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USA
Melania Trump
announced that the documentary
MELANIA
will open exclusively in theaters on Jan. 30 after an earlier trailer and reports that the film was shot over a concentrated 20-day period around the presidential...
33h
/28h
#
Fox
“
Near miss: Vehicle crashes through the front of a hardware store
”
19h