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Russia
Vladimir Putin
said Russia’s troops are advancing and warned the country will achieve its objectives if Ukraine does not accept Russian terms, following his annual end-of-year Direct Line event where he repeated...
5h
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USA
Donald Trump
ordered a pause in the US
Diversity Visa
lottery after investigators found the Brown and
MIT
shootings suspect had entered the country through the program, following an initial suspension announced by...
7h
/2h
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Norway
Mette-Marit
is being prepared for a possible lung transplant after her chronic lung disease worsened this autumn, following earlier tests that showed a clear decline in lung function. She told
NRK
that she had hoped...
5h
/3h
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USA
ByteDance
and
TikTok
have signed binding agreements with
Oracle
,
Silver Lake
and Abu Dhabi–based
MGX
to sell most of
TikTok
’s US operations to a new joint venture, avoiding a threatened US ban after months of...
15h
/11h
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USA
Russell Brand
criticized
Katy Perry
’s relationship with
Justin Trudeau
at a
Turning Point USA
event in Phoenix, after Perry was publicly linked to Trudeau earlier this year. Brand said he still loves Perry but called...
2m
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France
The government will seek a special law to roll over the 2025 budget into 2026 after a joint committee collapsed, leaving lawmakers unable to agree on the 2026 state budget. The committee of seven senators and seven...
3h
/1h
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USA
Video of a May immigration raid in Worcester showing officers restraining a 16-year-old has reignited debate over bystander recordings, after The Intercept published an investigation into how
Donald Trump
’s second-term...
7m
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USA
Newly disclosed messages show
Steve Bannon
and
Jeffrey Epstein
discussed using a
Kovel agreement
and other steps to try to shield Bannon’s filmed interviews with Epstein, after the
House Oversight
Committee released...
8h
/4h
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USA
A jury in Milwaukee found
Hannah Dugan
guilty of felony obstruction after prosecutors accused her of interfering with
ICE
agents who tried to arrest
Eduardo Flores‑Ruiz
in her courthouse. Prosecutors say Dugan left the...
10h
/29m
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USA
Erika Kirk
said late last night that
Turning Point USA
has already decided it wants
JD Vance
as the next US president, after she publicly endorsed him at Turning Point’s
AmericaFest
in Phoenix. Kirk, who has taken over...
7h
/5h
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USA
Lochte clarified his recent remarks and explained why he is auctioning three of his six Olympic gold medals in a recent
Instagram
statement, after he announced the auction and said he was writing a tell-all book last...
1h
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USA
SpaceX
says the
Starlink
35956 satellite likely suffered a small onboard explosion, vented its propulsion tank, dropped about 4 kilometers in orbit and released trackable debris after the company had earlier reported...
2h
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UK
ONS
figures show UK retail volumes fell 0.1% in November, following earlier signs that
Black Friday
and seasonal discounts underperformed. The drop was driven by a 2.9% monthly pullback in online and other non‑store...
8h
/4h
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Italy
The government removed major pension provisions from its 2026 budget amendment after a nighttime dispute with the right-wing
Lega
, following an earlier overnight showdown that forced
Giancarlo Giorgetti
to back down and...
6h
/4h
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Italy
The Palermo Juvenile Prosecutor's Office has opened an investigation after an 11-year-old boy said he was sexually abused by a group of schoolmates outside his school, following the family report that the child told his...
3h
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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...
27h
/21h
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USA
Barack Obama
released his annual list of favorite books, movies and music for 2025, posting it on social media and linking to his
Medium
page after
USA TODAY
reported his mid-December cultural roundup. He highlighted...
4h
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USA
Injuries to
Milton Williams
,
Will Campbell
and others leave the New England
Patriots
still positioned to win the
AFC
East and reach the playoffs after collapsing against the Buffalo
Bills
last week. Analysts say New...
4h
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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....
24h
/21h
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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,...
25h
/17h
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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...
26h
/16h
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USA
Federal investigators have begun examining the wreckage after a Cessna Citation 550 crashed while attempting to return to Statesville Regional Airport and killed all seven people aboard, including retired
NASCAR
driver...
20h
/54m
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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...
36h
/14h
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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...
33h
/23h
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USA
Keith Lee
was named
TikTok
's Creator of the Year and accepted the award onstage at the
Palladium Theatre
in Los Angeles, following
TikTok
's first US awards ceremony that honored creators' influence. Lee, who has more...
10h
/7h
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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...
31h
/23h
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Bangladesh
Violent protests erupted across Bangladesh after
Sharif Osman Hadi
died late Thursday in Singapore after six days on life support following a gunshot to the head while launching his campaign for national elections,...
8h
#
Venezuela
Russia's foreign ministry warned the USA against making a “fatal mistake” after a recent US strike in the eastern Pacific killed four men, a development that follows months of US maritime operations near Venezuela. US...
35h
/26h
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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...
26h
/23h
#
USA
Kevin Lunday
was unanimously confirmed as commandant of the US
Coast Guard
after the service revised guidance on hate symbols, removing language that had described swastikas and nooses as "potentially divisive". Jacky...
11h
/1h
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BBC
“
I was fired by Rockstar games for alleged leaks - I just wanted to join a union
”
2h
#
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...
28h
/20h
#
CNN
“
Trump's Patriot Games spark
Hunger Games
comparisons
”
3h
#
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...
30h
/23h
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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...
38h
/21h
#
TheDaily
“
Trump Says the Economy Is Good
”
4h
#
USA
Michael Sykes
highlighted
Nike
’s second-quarter results and said CEO
Elliott Hill
called the company "in the middle innings" of its comeback after
Nike
reported modest revenue growth but steep losses in Greater China....
15h
/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...
33h
/15h
#
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...
43h
/15h
#
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...
31h
/24h
#
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...
24h
#
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...
36h
/14h
#
USA
The
CPUC
cut the allowed returns for
PG&E
, Southern California Edison,
San Diego Gas & Electric
and
Southern California Gas
starting in 2026, reducing
PG&E
’s maximum return on equity to 9.98 percent from 10.28 percent...
10h
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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...
24h
#
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...
24h
#
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...
40h
/30h
#
USA
Catherine Almonte Da Costa
resigned after old antisemitic social media posts resurfaced, following her announcement as
Zohran Mamdani
’s director of appointments. The
Anti-Defamation League
posted
X
messages from 2011...
14h
/12h
#
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...
24h
#
Japan
Sony
will acquire the
Peanuts
franchise for about $460 million after agreeing to buy
WildBrain
’s 41 percent stake, giving
Sony
an 80 percent ownership share and leaving the
Schulz family
with 20 percent. The deal, which...
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...
37h
/16h
#
TheVergecast
“
Brendan Carr discusses regulation before Congress
”
4h
#
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...
32h
/16h
#
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
...
26h
#
USA
Donald Trump
announced that the White House will host the first-ever Patriot Games next fall as part of
Freedom 250
, following his July preview of the semiquincentennial competition. He said the four-day televised event...
14h
/12h
#
Waveform
“
WTF Happened in 2025 - Waveform Rewind
”
5h
#
USA
An amended complaint filed in
Los Angeles County court
alleges
Riley Keough
is the biological parent of one of
John Travolta
and the late
Kelly Preston
’s children, following photos showing Keough in her first public...
12h
#
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,...
43h
/25h
#
BBC
“
Brown University
shooting suspect found dead
”
6h
#
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...
27h
#
USA
Florida carried out its 19th execution of the year, executing
Frank Athen Walls
amid new scrutiny of error-prone Florida Department of Corrections records and the rapid pace of state warrants after courts denied his...
12h
#
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...
16h
/15h
#
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...
23h
/15h
#
USA
Sean Astin
, chair of
SAG-AFTRA
, praised
Harrison Ford
after the union announced he will receive the
SAG-AFTRA
Life Achievement Award; the union announced the honor this week and Ford will be presented the award at a...
13h
#
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...
23h
/19h
#
USA
Economists warn Thursday’s inflation report may be misleading after a recent federal funding shutdown hamstrung data collection, following
Labor Department
readings that showed CPI up 2.7 percent and core CPI up 2.6...
23h
/2h
#
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....
28h
#
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....
13h
#
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...
14h
#
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...
39h
/36h
#
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...
28h
#
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...
14h
/13h
#
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...
38h
/17h
#
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...
28h
#
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...
18h
/15h
#
Reuters
“
Australia to launch gun buyback scheme after Bondi massacre
”
10h
#
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...
30h
#
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...
37h
/19h
#
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...
21h
/20h
#
CNN
“
Brown University
shooting suspect found dead
”
10h
#
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....
31h
#
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
...
16h
#
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...
30h
#
BBC
“
Parents of teenage sextortion victim sue Meta
”
25h
#
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...
31h
#
Sudan
Thousands of displaced people face life-threatening shortages in Tawila after the Rapid Support Forces seized El Fasher in late October, following an April assault on the Zamzam displacement camp that the UN Human...
20h
/5h
#
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....
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...
41h
/36h
#
TheHill
“
Trump to sign mammoth defense spending bill into law
”
12h
#
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,...
18h
#
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...
Wed
/14h
#
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
,...
32h
#
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,...
40h
/26h
#
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....
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
...
36h
/32h
#
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...
20h
#
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...
33h
#
TheDaily
“
Congress failed to extend health care subsidies
”
27h
#
BBC
“
TikTok
owner signs deal to sell US business
”
13h
#
Fox
“
Jesse Watters discusses reactions to
Donald Trump
's primetime address
”
15h
#
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...
34h