House Democrats pressing to extend expiring ObamaCare subsidies are already looking ahead to a looming federal funding deadline as potential leverage in the fight.  Both issues are already poised to take center stage on Capitol Hill when Congress returns to Washington next month after the long holid…

The John C. Reilly-hosted event will be held on Jan. 7 at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium.

The transcripts and photos were part of Department of Justice files arising from investigations into the disgraced financier and his former girlfriend.

An artificial intelligence-generated soul singer named Solomon Ray has climbed Christian music charts, igniting a national debate over authenticity, race, faith and the future of music.Why it matters: Solomon Ray's rise marks one of the first times an AI-generated Black Christian artist has broken t…

Law firms representing Google and Apple have reportedly warned that employees who need a visa stamp to re-enter the United States should avoid leaving the country due to longer-than-usual visa processing times.

You don't have to search the upside down to find the best Stranger Things gifts outside of Hawkins, so celebrate season five's release with these top gifts.

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Services honoring the victims of last week's deadly attack on a Bondi Beach Hanukkah celebration are ongoing, including a touching lifeguard vigil by those working at the Australian tourist destination. Meanwhile, President Trump announced a plan to lower drug prices on Friday. All that and all that…

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The Republican-led Justice Department’s release of photos of the former president with Jeffrey Epstein will introduce yet another generation to his flaws and controversies.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) for a second day in a row is hitting the Trump administration hard over its partial release of files related to the disgraced pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, arguing the Department of Justice is “flaunting” the law as passed by Congress this fall. Massie, who has repeatedly bat…

⚽ Updates from Hill Dickinson Stadium; kick-off 8pm GMT⚽ Scores | Table | Follow us on Bluesky | Mail Scott3 min: Gyokeres picks up possession on the centre line and tries to round Keane, hoping to instigate a footrace. Clank! No way past. He goes over, demanding a free kick. He’s not getting one. M…

The winner of this year's competition is announced as Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly host the final for the last time.

The iRobot founder opens up about the 18-month regulatory process that he says doomed the Roomba maker -- and what it means for American innovation.

A debate on X over seemingly conflicting bitcoin forecasts from Fundstrat analysts drew a response from Tom Lee, highlighting differing mandates and time horizons.

Prince William and his son prepare a Christmas lunch during visit to the Passage Charity in LondonPrince George joined his father, the Prince of Wales, on a visit to a homelessness project to help with Christmas lunch preparations in London.
Prince William took his son to the Passage Charity in cen…

NSW parliament to sit this week to consider new legislation in response to shooting. Follow updates liveNSW will move to ban phrase ‘globalise the intifada’ in crackdown on ‘hateful’ rhetoric. Here’s what we know so farGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastFourteen people injure…

'Steel Ball Run,' the next chapter in the 'Jojo's Bizarre Adventure' saga, gets a new trailer ahead of its spring premiere.

We build LEGO Tropical Aquarium, a set that gives any room a big decorative piece that you don't have to clean.

This week's guests include Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie, who led the push for Friday's release of the Epstein files.

Tarana Burke tells Marc Lamont Hill on Epstein, Trump and how widespread sexual violence is in the United States.

Dave Chappelle went after Bill Maher in his new Netflix special, “The Unstoppable,” for criticizing his appearance at Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh Comedy Festival. “Recently in the news, I’ve been getting a lot of grief, again, because I did a comedy festival in Saudi Arabia,” Chappelle said to applause. “…

The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Saturday released more files, documents and photos connected to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a day after the deadline for releasing all of the files. DOJ on Fridan released thousands of its documents, but came under criticism from Democrats and Republica…

Netflix’s 300 million global subscribers got just what they wanted: to see a former YouTuber knocked out brutallyGeorge Foreman once said boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire. Putting aside the breathtaking exhibitions of physical and psychological intensity it can produce, boxing ha…

Thomas Skinner, who was first to be voted off current series of Strictly Come Dancing, says he got more votes than shownThomas Skinner has alleged he received a message suggesting the BBC had rigged the vote that saw him eliminated from Strictly Come Dancing.
The businessman claimed on social media…

Red ribbons and Palestinian flags were seen at aLondon vigil calling for the Israeli release of imprisoned Palestinians.

Defending champions Liverpool win 2-1 at Tottenham to climb to fifth in the Premier League table.

U.S. personnel seized a second oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Saturday as President Trump ratchets up the pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.  The seizure of the vessel, which took place in international waters, was led by the Coast Guard and assisted by the U.S. Navy, accordi…

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The four astronauts set to fly around the Moon during NASA’s Artemis II test flight depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, during a dress rehearsal for launch day on Dec. 20, 2025. From left are CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astro…

Thousands gather in Bradford for the first of two events bringing the curtain down on culture year.

The incident marks the second time in recent weeks that the US has seized an oil tanker near Venezuela.

Move comes days after Trump announces ‘blockade’ of sanctioned oil tankers and US seizes tankerUS forces on Saturday stopped a second merchant vessel off the coast of Venezuela in international waters, according to two US officials, the Associated Press reported.The move comes days after Donald Trum…

ChatGPT users can now tweak the chatbot’s warmth, enthusiasm, and emoji use.

Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has called for changes in the U.N. Security Council to give Africa a bigger role in global decisions

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A new S&P Global report shows that the data center market is booming.

Faraway road trips just got a lot easier, at least for the passengers. Sony Honda Mobility, the joint venture between the two Japanese conglomerates created to produce electric vehicles, announced that its Afeela EV will come with PS Remote Play. While playing video games in a car may be a niche fea…

After meeting while hiking the Inca trail, Jenny and Jarod’s chemistry was extraordinaryGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIn 2011 I was in my mid-30s and had just arrived home in Kent after spending two years working and travelling abroad. I had a new teaching contract coming up in the Midd…

In addition to this week's drm-intel-next pull request to DRM-Next adding Nova Lake display support, a drm-xe-next pull request was also sent out on Friday that prepares a new multi-queue feature for Xe3P_XPC -- initially just the "Crescent Island" AI inference accelerator card. Plus other new featu…

It's the second time in recent weeks that the United States has interdicted a tanker, and it comes amid a large U.S. military build-up in Latin America.

Being bottom at Christmas need not mean the drop. Three years ago, Wolves were in such a position, the difference being they kicked off Boxing Day then with 10 points rather than two. Wolves have offered historic incompetence, the worst losing run in club history.Keane Lewis-Potter’s second-half dou…

Sometimes a game simply refuses to yield easy conclusions. Liverpool continued their gathering of momentum, a second straight win secured by goals from Alexander Isak and Hugo Ekitiké, but whether they would have done so had proceedings not been skewed in the 33rd minute feels decidedly uncertain. T…

The great artificial intelligence boom that’s fueling US economic growth now depends heavily on credit markets to finance the investments, and utilities are among the key borrowers.

"Can’t wait to see you in 2026," Young wrote in a social media update.

UNI jumped after voting began on a proposal to activate Uniswap protocol fees, while broader crypto markets traded quietly.

Gamers who prefer physical copies of their favorite titles may be getting a major win with the Switch 2. In an unexpected announcement from retro video game publisher ININ Games, Nintendo reportedly has "two new smaller cartridge sizes" for its Switch 2 console. For ININ Games, these rumored game ca…

The move comes after US President Donald Trump ordered a "blockade" of sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela.

US lawmakers who pushed for the documents to be made public have criticised the initial release as incomplete.

NEW YORK (AP) — Bowen Yang, coming off a huge year or two of projects, will depart “Saturday Night Live” mid-season after Saturday's episode hosted by his “Wicked” co-star Ariana Grande. He joined the show as a writer in 2018, became a featured player the following season and was promoted to the mai…

Rejoice, two of the biggest contributors to the AI movie trailer problem on YouTube have been taken down.

Michaela Benthaus from Germany soared 65 miles above the Earth’s surface in 10-minute Blue Origin flightA paraplegic engineer from Germany blasted off on a dream-come-true rocket ride with five other passengers on Saturday, leaving her wheelchair behind to float in space while beholding Earth from o…

UFC fighter Sean Strickland said Friday that he will not participate in the White House fight next year, citing the Trump administration’s controversy around the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “I think I’d wanna do the White House… if there was some kind of inclusion for fans,” Strickl…

The material released was too little, and what remains in the vaults will be disclosed too late. This is the critics’ view, at least, after the Department of Justice released thousands of files relating to the disgraced financier and sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein on Friday. The disclosure came aft…

The vessel, which was flying a Panamanian flag, was not on a list of tankers under U.S. sanctions.

The right mastered influencer politics. Now they’re tearing the movement apart.

Suspect killed himself after allegedly killing an MIT professor and two Brown University studentsAn autopsy report on the suspect in the mass shooting at Brown University and the killing of an MIT professor in Massachusetts has shown that he died from by suicide two days before he was found in a sto…

Chisnall out despite hitting 11 180s in 3-2 defeatDirk van Duijvenbode and Motomu Sakai bow outDave Chisnall was dumped out of the PDC world championship by Ricardo Pietreczko despite hitting 11 180s in an Alexandra Palace thriller. Chisnall, the No 21 seed, paid the price for double trouble and mis…

⚽ Updates from the 5.30pm Premier League kick-off⚽ Scores | Table | Follow us on Bluesky | Mail BarryLiverpool: Curtis Jones has revealed Mo Salah apologised to the Liverpool squad for the fallout from his interview criticising the club and Arne Slot before hightailing it to Morocco for Afcon. Andy …

Lawyers also attempting to throw out two federal charges, saying US attorney general has ties to UnitedHealth GroupLawyers 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 Bo…

In a search of exoplanets, scientists see the first-ever impacts between large objects in a nearby star system.

Hot, humid conditions during pregnancy undermine child health much more than heat alone, according to new research.

The first moment in my life when people began to talk about movies as if they could go away tomorrow was right after the pandemic struck. At that point, no one knew which end was up, but with America’s movie theaters having closed down, movies had gone away — at least temporarily. We all wondered: […

US forces on Saturday stopped a second merchant vessel in international waters off the coast of Venezuela, US officials said, days after President Donald Trump announced a blockade of sanctioned oil tankers. The move follows last week’s seizure of an oil tanker as Washington steps up pressure on Car…

With the Arch Linux packages for the NVIDIA official graphics driver moving to the now-stable NVIDIA 590 driver series that drops the GeForce GTX 900 and GTX 1000 series GPU support, Arch Linux users with those old Maxwell and Pascal graphics cards will need to transition to using the NVIDIA legacy …

A conservative who has served in the Senate since 2021, Ms. Lummis attributed the decision to the “difficult, exhausting session” this fall on Capitol Hill.

The Prince of Wales says he is looking forward to working with the SAS Regimental Association.

For decades, economists have focused on how climate change will impact the future. New research shows the impact is already here

"It was the coolest experience!" said Michaela Benthaus after the 10-minute Blue Origin flight.

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Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Friday warned against making early endorsements in the 2028 presidential race, pushing the GOP to seek a competitive primary instead. “I think it’s very important that the Republican party have a competitive primary,” McEnany, who served at the …

President Trump's conflicting approach to China has led to Republican legislation to prevent the Trump administration from liberalizing regulations that limit China's access to advanced computer chips, which could have devastating consequences for U.S. AI supremacy.

Taiwan ordered sweeping security reforms after a knife attack killed three people and injured 11 in Taipei.

Bowen Yang will take his last turn as a cast member on “Saturday Night Live” tonight. His final episode will be hosted by his “Wicked” costar Ariana Granda and Cher as musical guest. It was announced on Thursday that Yang will exit the NBC sketch show in the middle of his eighth season. Yang first […

Escapee was seen chasing a woman around Upper Seagry and trying to eat fruit on a festive wreathAn escaped goat which went on a rampage in a Wiltshire village was safely lassoed by police carrying riot shields.
The runaway ruminant mammal was trotting around Upper Seagry, near Chippenham, and was s…

The new tech could save patients from unnecessary follow-up exams, painful procedures, and anxiety.

While research has focused on the link between smoking and lung cancer, a new study finds that where people live also can make a difference.

Is it being paused, only to be quietly killed later on?

The fund will use Coinbase Crypto Services as its initial staking provider and pay a 4% service fee, with rewards accruing to the fund and reflected in its net asset value.

Dopey podcast host David Manheim reflects on his friend’s struggles with addiction and the burden of legacy

The U.S. military early Saturday boarded a tanker that is not under U.S. sanctions as it shipped Venezuelan oil in hopes of escaping a blockade imposed by President Trump, according to two sources familiar with the action.Why it matters: The show of force makes it clear the Trump administration cons…

As police scoured New England this week for the gunman who killed two people at Brown University, a parallel manhunt erupted online, falsely targeting a Palestinian student.Authorities say the real suspect, a Portuguese national also linked to the slaying of an MIT professor, was found dead Thursday…

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Repeated environmental changes can lead evolution in unexpected directions, and research from Vermont shows that studying a single population does not capture the full story of an entire species. All forms of life exist in environments that are constantly shifting. Seasons change, wet years follow d…

Will we get this bill after all?

The full scope of Glamsterdam has not yet been finalized, but developers are targeting it to go live in 2026.

New research finds that pregnancy during early career stages can influence women's long-term earnings and career continuity.

New research has uncovered a clue explaining how tiny rats have evolved such potent immunity against rattlesnake venom.

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The U.S. Coast Guard is leading the action, the second to be interdicted by U.S. forces as Trump’s “complete blockade” of oil from Venezuela.

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Scientists are urging governments to act immediately on plastic pollution, warning that waiting for a binding Global Plastics Treaty could mean years of damaging delay while plastic waste continues to accelerate worldwide.

This punishment is way too much.

The photo is one of a series of images exposing the unparalleled access to British high society and power that the former prince granted convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Following a successful launch of 27 new satellites, SpaceX loses one in minor explosion.

A rare dinosaur discovery sheds new light on the evolution of flight. Fossils of dinosaurs found with well-preserved feathers suggest that some of these animals were no longer capable of flight. The researchers explain that even a detail as subtle as how feathers are replaced can dramatically reshap…

Researchers have identified a key reason why the batteries that power everything from smartphones to electric vehicles deteriorate over time.

Republicans such as Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene slam redactions, but others express satisfactionConservative reaction to the partial release of documents in the Jeffrey Epstein case has been mixed, with Trump administration supporters highlighting the prominent presence of Bill Clinton …