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Top News Stories for Sunday, December 21st 2025
Saturday, Dec 20th, 2025 -
on Friday offered a deeper look at the jet-setting lifestyle of the late sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein — but few major revelations. The department, citing the task of ensuring no information included in the release could be used to identify victims, did not make public its entire database on Friday, as the law required. The department said it would turn over more files in the coming weeks. Angel ...
Source: insider.com
Saturday, Dec 20th, 2025 -
PROVIDENCE — It was 8:30 p.m. on Monday night, the third day of the frantic manhunt for the gunman who opened fire on students at Brown University . Police had just released new images of a person of interest in the case, but they were grainy, and he had a mask over his face. Morale in the city felt low, after a lead on a person detained for 20 hours on Sunday turned out to be a dead end. A Reddit user posted ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Dec 20th, 2025 -
Personnel from the United States boarded and seized a vessel off the coast of Venezuela on Saturday, according to a US official familiar with the matter, as the Trump administration ramps up pressure on Caracas. It was the second known instance of the US interdicting a vessel near Venezuela this month and comes after Trump announced this week a "blockade" of sanctioned oil tankers going in and out of the country. ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Dec 20th, 2025 -
– Jordan confirmed Saturday that its air force took part in strikes launched by the United States on Islamic State group targets in Syria in retaliation for the earlier this month. The Jordanian military said in a statement that its air force "participated in precise airstrikes ... targeting several ISIS positions in southern Syria," using a different abbreviation for the Islamic State group. Jordan is one of ...
Source: news4jax.com
Saturday, Dec 20th, 2025 -
Elon Musk , the justices split on parts of the liability analysis but agreed that rescinding the entire package was "an inappropriate remedy" given Tesla's subsequent performance and shareholder support. The decision effectively clears the way for Musk to exercise options on about 303 million Tesla shares (split‑adjusted), a stake values at roughly $139 billion based on the stock's latest closing price. To ...
Source: bradenton.com
Saturday, Dec 20th, 2025 -
The home teams were dominant in the first year of the College Football Playoff . This year? Not so much No. 10 seed Miami used an opportunistic defense and got enough offense to pull out a 10-3 win at No. 7 Texas A&M . The victory by the Hurricanes came one day after . Miami advances to the quarterfinals and a meeting with Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl on Dec. 31. The defensive struggle was scoreless at halftime. ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Dec 20th, 2025 -
KYIV -- Ukraine has used drones four times in the past few weeks to hit oil tankers from Russia's shadow fleet, escalating the war in the seas and showing that Ukraine's security services agency feels increasingly emboldened to launch audacious attacks and claim them publicly. One ship was struck by aerial drones Thursday night in the Mediterranean Sea, more than 1,200 miles from Ukraine. The other three were hit ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Dec 20th, 2025 -
An engineer from Germany has become the world's first wheelchair user to go into space. Michaela Benthaus, who suffered a spinal cord injury in a mountain bike accident seven years ago, had reached out to a retired space engineer online to see if her dream of being an astronaut was still possible. He then helped organise the historic 10-minute flight with Blue Origin, the space tourism company founded by Jeff ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Dec 20th, 2025 -
The U.S. reportedly plans to overhaul the country's childhood vaccine schedule. The move, first reported by CNN , would change how many vaccines to protect against various diseases children get and when they receive those immunizations. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., secretary of health and human services, is a longtime vaccine skeptic and supports altering the vaccine schedule. Recommendations for several vaccines that ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Saturday, Dec 20th, 2025 -
Lawyers also attempting to throw out two federal charges, saying US attorney general has ties to UnitedHealth Group Lawyers for Luigi Mangione are attempting to avoid the death penalty and throw out two federal charges in the justice department's case against him, arguing that attorney general Pam Bondi is biased because she used to work at a lobbying firm that represents UnitedHealth Group. In court documents ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Dec 20th, 2025 -
LONDON (AP) — British children's author and comedian David Walliams has denied allegations of inappropriate behavior after publisher HarperCollins dropped him. Walliams, 54, is one of the U.K.'s bestselling children's book authors and a former judge on the TV show "Britain's Got Talent." In a statement on Friday, HarperCollins said: "After careful consideration, and under the leadership of its new CEO, ...
Source: apnews.com
Saturday, Dec 20th, 2025 -
Former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua knocked out YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul in their controversial Netflix-backed bout in Miami. Two-time world champion Joshua made hard work of defeating his vastly less experienced opponent on Friday night, but finally made his superior size and power count in the later stages of the eight-round fight. A mediocre contest at the Kaseya Center – with the two ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
"Starting next year, American drug prices will come down fast and furious and will soon be the lowest in the developed world," President Donald Trump claimed Friday as the White House announced agreements with nine pharmaceutical manufacturers. The administration struck most favored nation (MFN) pricing deals with Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, Boehringer Ingelheim, Genentech, Gilead Sciences, GSK, Merck, Novartis, ...
Source: commondreams.org
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
More members of the Kennedy family are speaking out after President Donald Trump added his name to the Kennedy Center this week. Following a controversial vote by a MAGA-friendly board, workers officially added Trump's name to the Kennedy Center's exterior on Friday, Dec. 19. They tacked on "The Donald Trump and" above the previously-existing lettering, which reads, "The John F. Kennedy Memorial ...
Source: people.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
, saying cannabis is "properly" classified as a Schedule I drug with no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. "Since before President Trump took office, many of us…have argued against the rescheduling of marijuana as a Schedule I drug," the attorneys general of Indiana, Iowa, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Wyoming said in a joint statement on Thursday. "We all believe the ...
Source: marijuanamoment.net
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
Short week, strange and bad trip. It started with Rams star receiver Puka Nacua ripping NFL referees and making an antisemetic gesture on a livestream. It ended with an epic fourth-quarter collapse. And a potentially catastrophic fall from the No. 1 seed in the NFC. The Rams' 38-37 overtime defeat by the Seattle Seahawks on Thursday night at Lumen Field continued a cascade of ill-timed news for coach Sean McVay and ...
Source: latimes.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
The Trump administration suspended the green card lottery program Friday, invoking the immigration status of the Brown University shooting suspect to eliminate another pathway to legal entry in the US. The Diversity Immigrant Visa Program , a 35-year-old initiative that grants permanent residency to people from countries with low immigration rates to the US, offered Claudio Manuel Neves Valente — the ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
Existing-home sales saw the third consecutive month of modest increases as mortgage rates have been lower; however, inventory growth appears to be stalling as winter comes, according to the latest National Association of Realtors® (NAR) data. NAR's Existing-Home Sales Report for November found that sales increased 0.5% increase in existing-home sales month-over-month to a rate of 4.13 million, following a 1.2% ...
Source: rismedia.com