The top Democrat on the Oversight Committee, Representative Robert Garcia has brought aggressive tactics and reality-show flair to investigating Trump.

The Atlanta plugg pioneer faced challenges that almost derailed his career, but now, he's back and leading by example

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Experts unpack the reasons audiences keep pressing play on feel-good holiday-themed romantic comedies.

Retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, his wife, Cristina, and their kids were killed Thursday in a North Carolina plane crash. Captain Laura Einsetler joins CBS News to discuss the crash.

Quote from: DanClemmensen on Today at 02:17 pmYour equation is incomplete, but I understand your intent. If we replace it with a more valid equation it still ignores the cost to NASA caused by the disruptions to th...

Peter Navarro’s bid to overturn his conviction for evading a congressional subpoena appeared to receive little backing from a federal appeals court Thursday. A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit grilled Navarro lawyer Stanley Brand during an unusual oral argument wh…

Are you making the most out of your OnePlus phone? Adjust these settings to unlock better performance and faster speeds.

What was said isn’t surprising; it’s who said it.

The firm's Enovum unit will deliver 40 megawatts of critical IT load in two phases at a campus in Madison, North Carolina, under a 10-year agreement.

A host of figures from the world of sport died in 2025 - BBC Sport remembers some of those sporting names.

The best streaming deals this week (Dec. 18, 2025) include the ESPN Unlimited, Hulu, and Disney+ bundle, Paramount+, Spotify, and more.

What “unretirements” can tell us about the job market

Amtrak and a key panel of Union Station leaders on Thursday approved a renegotiated agreement that will officially restore federal control of the Washington, D.C., transportation hub amid efforts to overhaul the facility. Leaders from Amtrak and the Union Station Redevelopment Corporation (USRC) Boa…

The United Kingdom has named a replacement for its former ambassador to the United States, Peter Mandelson, who was removed for links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. According to a press release from the U.K.’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), Christian Turner, whom th…

Exploring every timeline in the Gundam series.

One of SpaceX's Starlink broadband satellites suffered an anomaly in orbit on Wednesday (Dec. 17) that led to its partial breakup, according to the company.

arXiv:2511.18929v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Recent progress in robotics and embodied AI is largely driven by Large Multimodal Models (LMMs). However, a key challenge remains underexplored: how can we advance LMMs to discover tasks that assist humans in open-future scenarios, where human int…

The National Center for Atmospheric Research has played a leading role in providing data, modelling and supercomputing to researchers around the world – but the Trump administration is set to shut it down

Windows users can't go back to 8GB of RAM, but laptop makers may not have a choice.

The order calls on the US attorney general to expedite federal reclassification, creating fewer barriers for studies.

ServiceNow attempts to build one (secure) platform to rule them all.

Officials confirm racer Greg Biffle was among those who boarded the small aircraft that crashed at a regional airport in North Carolina.

Relatives of the late President John F Kennedy have expressed outrage at the proposal to rename the arts centre.

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The president also tasked OPM Director Scott Kupor with analyzing whether to provide federal law enforcement officers with a 3.8% pay increase, in line with what military service members are set to receive next month.

The country artist was granted executive clemency for past crimes, including aggravated robbery.

The JBL Flip 7 portable Bluetooth speaker is on sale at Amazon for only $99.95. That's 33% off and its lowest price on record.

arXiv:2504.11717v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: We propose a human-centered safety filter (HCSF) for shared autonomy that significantly enhances system safety without compromising human agency. Our HCSF is built on a neural safety value function, which we first learn scalably through black-box …

Launched in March, NASA's SPHEREx space telescope has completed its first infrared map of the entire sky in 102 colors.

New constellation would provide security for NATO’s eastern flank, German brigade in Lithuania
The post Germany awards $1.9 billion SAR satellite deal to Rheinmetall-Iceye venture appeared first on SpaceNews.

The bittersweet comedy about divorce and standup also features stellar acting from Laura Dern.
Will Arnett Delivers a Career-Best Performance in Bradley Cooper’s Is This Thing On?: Review
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Instacart's "unlawful tactics" hurt shoppers and raised the cost of groceries, according to the FTC.

Biden or Harris would just not even do anything, they would have just poured more money into the moon project, at least Trump is actually trying to beat China back to the moon of which most Senators and Congress people don't give a damn about.

arXiv:2512.14872v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Accelerator control systems often represent relatively complex and safety-sensitive human-machine interfaces within process control industries. These systems are technically robust and reflect the cumulative integration of solutions built and adapte…

arXiv:2512.14902v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Frontier AI developers operate at the intersection of rapid technical progress, extreme risk exposure, and growing regulatory scrutiny. While a range of external evaluations and safety frameworks have emerged, comparatively little attention has been p…

The series is inspired by the country star's music.

Convert your TV into a smart TV with a streaming stick and watch all your favorite sci-fi shows and movies in one place, to access your streaming service of choice.

From the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack to career milestones for the likes of G-DRAGON, SEVENTEEN, JENNIE, MARK, NMIXX and more, enjoy the K-pop scene's best records.

Ruth Wilkinson says good regulation allows business to thrive without risking workers’ health John Fingleton’s claim that health and safety rules are holding UK infrastructure back (Report, 12 December) is not only wrong, it’s dangerous. Stripping back protections in the name of speed is a false eco…

Investigators are also examining the possibility that the case is connected to the killing of an M.I.T. professor in his home in Massachusetts.

Sharif Osman Bin Hadi was a leading figure during the uprising toppled former prime minister Sheikh Hasina in 2024.

Trump ramps up pressure with major military force deployed.

New update aims to provide a safe experience for teens between the ages of 13 and 17.

-According to touristic agencies notices over the past couple weeks, a Jielong 3 will be launched near Hailing island, off the coast of Yangjiang at the end of the month, possibly around December 26th.-A Jielong 3 was seen yesterday with a Pakistani F...

An FBI media adviser has emerged as one of Kash Patel's fiercest public defenders and promoters of the bureau under his leadership.

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Os repórteres Patricia Xavier e Daniel Carvalho contam os assuntos que marcaram a semana no Brasil. Com edição de Barbara Nascimento e produção de Raphael Almeida.

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arXiv:2512.15274v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) significantly enhances the reasoning capability of Large Language Models (LLMs). Current RLVR approaches typically conduct training across all generated tokens, but neglect to explore which tokens …

Prime Minister Mark Carney has been playing up protecting Canada’s energy sovereignty by expanding fossil fuel extraction. But who owns the oil patch? The reality is that U.S. capital controls the majority of oil and gas companies operating in Canada and that American ownership of the Canadian oil r…

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NASA Space Apps announced Thursday 10 winners of the 2025 NASA Space Apps Challenge. During this two-day hackathon, participants gathered at 551 local events across 167 countries and territories to showcase their STEM skills and proposed ways to transform NASA’s open data into actionable tools. More…

Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt congratulated Trump — and Kennedy — on the change, which Democrats are calling illegal

In this week's Muni Moment: Nick Gross, son of one-time Bond King Bill Gross, is joining Russell Westbrook in backing a new entertainment district in Oklahoma City that will be anchored by a new soccer stadium. Some funding will come from the sale of $50 million in voter-approved general-obligation …

Two wireless mice, two external hard drives, and a partridge in a pear tree.

Liberals should reconcile with America’s oil and gas industry.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday signaled it would be illegal for the Trump administration to rename the Kennedy Center without “legislative action.” “The Kennedy Center Board has no authority to actually rename the Kennedy Center in the absence of legislative action,” Jeff…

Morocco beat Jordan 3-2 as a strike from inside his own half by Oussama Tannane set the tone for a spectacular final.

arXiv:2512.15483v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Self-driving laboratories (SDLs) are combining recent technological advances in robotics, automation, and machine learning based data analysis and decision-making to perform autonomous experimentation toward human-directed goals without requiring any …

Gov. Kathy Hochul said the state would spend another $77 million on police patrols in the subway, acknowledging that felony assaults remain stubbornly high.

Tory's Bullseye charthttps://twitter.com/torybruno/status/2001736860016742471QuoteTory Bruno@torybrunoAnother triple bullseye. Leo is right where he wants to be

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arXiv:2509.24832v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) continue to scale, the memory footprint of key-value (KV) caches during inference has become a significant bottleneck. Existing approaches primarily focus on compressing KV caches within a single prompt or reusing s…

Kato's "Turn the Lights Off" made it to the top of a Spotify chart: "Never in a million years!"

FedEx said adjusted earnings will be $17.80 to $19 a share for the fiscal year, the courier said in a statement, raising the low end of its prior profit forecast. The midpoint of that range is higher than the $18.28 per share average analyst estimate compiled by Bloomberg. Thomas Black, a Bloomberg …

arXiv:2512.14753v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Watermarking large language models (LLMs) is vital for preventing their misuse, including the fabrication of fake news, plagiarism, and spam. It is especially important to watermark LLM-generated code, as it often contains intellectual property.Howeve…

A newly reconstructed fossil face from Ethiopia reveals surprising complexity in early human evolution. By digitally fitting together teeth and fossilized bone fragments, researchers reconstructed a strikingly well preserved face of a human ancestor that lived 1.5 million years ago. The find represe…

CSAIL researchers find even “untrainable” neural nets can learn effectively when guided by another network’s built-in biases using their guidance method.

It's now official: Captain America star Chris Evans will be back in Avengers: Doomsday.

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Ever wondered how planetary systems like our own Solar System form? Thanks to the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope, we’re getting a unique peek behind the cosmic curtain into these dusty environments. In this collage, we see the images of 31 baby star systems. Click on the white dots nex…

Determining the prevalence of atmospheres on terrestrial planets is a core objective in exoplanetary science. While M dwarf systems offer a promising opportunity, conclusive observations of terrestrial atmospheres have remained elusive, with many yielding flat transmission spectra. We observe four t…

Rep. Richard Hudson (R-N.C.) on Thursday mourned the loss of famed NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and his family after they died in a jet crash. “I am devastated by the loss of Greg, Cristina, and their children, and my heart is with all who loved them,” Hudson wrote in a post on the social platform...

They're not part of a vast, Marvel-style universe, and neither is a classic. So why are the "Avatar" movies so successful?

“It’s a huge moment for us to be the first K-pop group to perform at NBA Crossover," Cortis says

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that Democrats are expecting the Trump administration to release the full files on Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, as required by law. "Based on my conversations with some of the top Democrats who've been working on this matter related to the f…

Mayer gets the "Archetype" treatment.

This holiday film is presumably inspired by Hailee Steinfeld's relationship with current Buffalo Bills Quarterback Josh Allen.

arXiv:2507.04346v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: This paper aims to improve the action smoothness of a cascaded online learning flight control system. Although the cascaded structure is widely used in flight control design, its stability can be compromised by oscillatory control actions, which p…

People who switched from semaglutide or tirzepatide to orforglipron largely maintained their weight loss.

Eight percent of the narrowing gender pay gap came from women having fewer children, according to a new study.

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Newly minted NASA administrator Jared Isaacman has expressed a desire to shake things up at NASA. It appears he’ll hit the ground running.

Videos show people in Minnesota and Illinois throwing snowballs at federal agents trying to arrest residentsICE, meet snow. As federal agents aggressively raid and detain immigrants in cities across the US, people working to prevent these arrests are using the abundant snow on the ground to fight ba…

Solana tumbled below $120 to its weakest price since April, while SUI, DOGE and ADA also fell sharply.

From Adam Sandler’s Hanukkah Song to Christmas Robe, here’s where you can catch old (and new) holiday-themed SNL sketches without cable

The Coast Guard will remove divisive language from its new workplace harassment policy that downgraded the definition of swastikas and nooses from hate symbols to “potentially divisive,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Thursday.  Noem’s announcement, made over social media, comes after …

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The objective is now officially 2028Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Launches a New Age of American Space Ac...

Some patients will wait up to 15 years for an appointment, unless improvements are made, the report says.

ECB and Cricket Australia could bring in UltraEdgeSnicko hit by more bad decisions on day two in AdelaideThe England and Wales Cricket Board has held talks with Cricket Australia about the possibility of replacing the decision review system (DRS) technology Snicko with an alternative UltraEdge for t…

Grandparents are engaging with their grandchildren far more than previous generations, researchers find.

From fulfillment centers and factory floors to distribution hubs, automation is accelerating. Robots, forklifts, and mobile platforms now move materials, inspect products, and coordinate with human workers, all in increasingly dynamic environments. This shift has created a surge in demand for advanc…

Parliamentary scrutiny follows claims that commercial agreements put the mental health of shopkeepers at riskVodafone executives will next month meet MPs scrutinising the company’s treatment of scores of business owners running its stores.The move follows claims reported by the Guardian last week of…

"A few minutes of love is so important to them," singer-entrepreneur says of furry family members.

Human review didn't stop AI from triggering lockdown at panicked middle school.

Cessna jet crashed during attempted return to airportNo confirmation Biffle was aboard the aircraftFAA and NTSB responding to North Carolina crashA small plane owned by retired Nascar driver Greg Biffle crashed and exploded into flames while attempting to land at Statesville Regional Airport in Nort…

Lovable Labs Inc., the creator of a popular artificial intelligence tool for building websites and applications, today announced that it has raised $330 million in funding. Alphabet Inc.’s CapitalG fund and Menlo Ventures jointly led the Series B round. They were joined by the venture capital arms o…