A 400-mile blanket of fog has socked in California's Central Valley for weeks. Scientists and meteorologists say the conditions for such persistent cloud cover are ripe: an early wet season, cold temperatures and a stable, unmoving high pressure system.

Researchers from Yunnan University, the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan have unveiled new insights into the fragmentation mechanisms of high-mass star-forming regions.

Wheat jumped as escalating tension between Russia and Ukraine sparked concerns over crop exports from the Black Sea region. Soybeans also rose.

Ukrainian forces say they have hit an oil terminal, a pipeline, two parked jet fighters, and two ships in a series of strikes on Russian soil

This is the company's second sale of part of its ETH treasury, following a $40 million sale in October to fund share repurchases.

Talaya Gaines, a veteran TV sports executive, has been named vice president of talent relations and development at ESPN, marking a return to the Disney sports-media giant. Gaines had most recently worked as vice president of content strategy and original programming for MSG Networks. She worked a pr…

Turning Point USA, the organization co-founded by slain political activist Charlie Kirk, held an event over the weekend that highlighted a growing rift among members of the conservative movement after speakers made various jabs at one another. CBS News' Fin Gomez has the latest.

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Hello and welcome to the newsletter, a grab bag of daily content from the Odd Lots universe. Sometimes it's us, Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway, bringing you our thoughts on the most recent developments in markets, finance and the economy. And sometimes it's contributions from our network of expert…

Auroras may be visible from Alaska to Idaho as incoming speedy solar wind continues to buffet Earth's magnetic field.

Alphabet Inc. has agreed to buy clean energy developer Intersect Power LLC for $4.75 billion in cash, plus its existing debt, marking one of the largest deals by the tech giant in its push to dramatically expand its data center footprint to power AI.

If podcasters engage with the service, it could make Threads more compelling to listeners and viewers.

Our weekly playlist highlights songs that our writers, editors, and contributors are listening to on repeat

Michael Saylor’s Strategy Inc. bolstered its cash reserve to $2.19 billion and paused purchases of Bitcoin over the past week as the largest digital asset treasury company appears to be settling in for a long crypto winter.

The U.S. is pursuing a third oil tanker near Venezuela, a U.S. official tells CBS News. Last week, President Trump announced a blockade of all sanctioned oil vessels leaving or entering the country's waters. CBS News' Willie James Inman has more.

Zambia’s Patson Daka scored in stoppage time to lock in a draw with Mali in their Africa Cup of Nations Group A opener. Mali controlled the match but were punished in the 92nd minute by a spectacular diving header.

A new study takes a longitudinal look at healthcare affordability problems, finding the issue is more pervasive than previously thought.

The company made 80 times as many reports to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children during the first six months of 2025 as it did in the same period a year prior.

arXiv:2512.17440v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We describe four special families of ellipse-inscribed Poncelet triangles about the incircle which maintain certain triangle centers stationary and which also display interesting conservations.

Oracle Chair Larry Ellison says he will personally back Paramount Skydance's bid for Warner Bros. Discovery with a guarantee of $40 billion in equity financing. Ellison's son David is the CEO of Paramount. Paramount is trying to beat out a rival bid from Netflix. Bloomberg's Caroline Hyde reports. …

UnitedHealth fallout, Medicaid upheaval, and Medicare Advantage woes.

The Trump administration said Monday that it's immediately pausing all leases for offshore wind projects under construction due to "national security risks."Why it matters: It's among the most sweeping broadsides yet against the renewable energy source that's most directly in President Trump's cross…

America’s ability to make precision-guided missiles was threatened during Trump’s tariff war. But experienced players have rescued the supply chain, for now.

The 29-year-old woman who created the “MyBoyfriendIsAI” community on Reddit isn’t dating (or sexting) her A.I. boyfriend anymore. She found something more fulfilling.

The top home automation systems consolidate all your smart home devices into a single hub, providing an intuitive interface that combines smart home convenience to make your life easier.

As of Dec. 22, you can get the Lego Botanicals Flower Arrangement (10345) for $65.99, down from $109.99, at Amazon.

A Russian general was killed in a car bombing in Moscow on Monday, authorities said. CBS News foreign correspondent Ramy Inocencio has the latest.

A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2025.

Bitcoin-mining mega data center seen leaking heat into the environment in an image captured from orbit by a thermometer satellite

Century Waste Services is challenging the agency’s decision, alleging it didn’t adequately assess pricing proposals from a competitor. This marks the first known legal challenge to one of the city’s commercial waste zone contracts.

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With Christmas just days away, festive preparations are in full swing for those celebrating. In France, one of the traditions is eating a Christmas log cake, or “bûche de Noel”. On the set, Carys Garland is joined by Nicolas Guercio, the executive pastry chef at Hotel Lutetia in Paris. Discover the …

Chadderton Town Hall, OldhamSet over the course of local village hall fundraiser, Jim Cartwright’s play is charmingly performed and has a built-in sense of communityYesterday it was the salsa class. Coming up is the panto. On other days, it may be anything from language lessons to arts and crafts. T…

Palestinian Christians are reviving their seasonal public celebrations, hoping to bring light and holiday spirit at the end of a gloomy year in the West Bank.

Instacart had drawn criticism for testing an AI-based system that enabled retailers to charge different prices for the same grocery items.

Bondholders for one of China’s biggest real estate developers extended a grace period to negotiate a delayed repayment of a $285 million bond.

A destructive windstorm disrupted the power supply to more than a dozen atomic clocks that keep official time in the United States.

Mysterious ‘little red dots’ seen by the James Webb Space Telescope can be explained by a new kind of black hole enshrouded in an enormous ball of glowing gas

arXiv:2512.17604v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Picking sequences are well-established methods for allocating indivisible goods. Among the various picking sequences, recursively balanced picking sequences -- whereby each agent picks one good in every round -- are notable for guaranteeing allocation…

Israel's approval of 19 new settlements stands to redraw occupied West Bank, undermining prospect of two-state solution.

It does make sense if you think about it.

Plastics are not inert: they gradually break into fragments over time, forming micro- and then nanoplastics (i.e., particles

The Nespresso Vertuo Pop+ is on sale for under $100 at Amazon and is a great last-minute gift for anyone in your life.

arXiv:2512.17805v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We develop a minimax theory for operator learning, where the goal is to estimate an unknown operator between separable Hilbert spaces from finitely many noisy input-output samples. For uniformly bounded Lipschitz operators, we prove information-theo…

The singer said an MRI showed a cancerous spot on one of his lungs after he recovered from a lengthy bout of bronchitis.

Wells Fargo & Co.’s global-markets business is expanding into options clearing, a capital intensive and operationally arduous corner of finance dominated by Bank of America Corp. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

Move made after first phase of anti-subsidy investigation widely seen as retaliation for bloc’s EV tariffsChina will impose provisional duties of up to 42.7% on certain dairy products imported from the EU from Tuesday after concluding the first phase of an anti-subsidy investigation widely seen as …

When the songwriter, singer, sideman, and DJ had his music removed from Spotify over suspected artificial streams, he raised a ruckus

Doctors and scientists say this year's influenza season could be tougher than usual, with a new version of the flu virus, called H3N2, spreading quickly.

Ribosomes—the tiny factories that build proteins in our cells—don't all work with the same efficiency. Researchers from Japan have discovered that ribosomes actually compete with one another, and those that perform poorly are selectively broken down when more efficient ones are present. This built-i…

When a crisis strikes, rumors and conspiracy theories often spread faster than emergency officials can respond and issue corrections.

Target Corp., Whole Foods Market and Walmart Inc. will be added as defendants in lawsuits against baby formula maker ByHeart for selling a product potentially contaminated with spores that cause infant botulism.

Wigmore Hall, LondonCutting’s programme of songs and music were all connected to the theme of night, in an evening that felt more cabaret than concertHugh Cutting is still sometimes described as a rising countertenor. That should surely now be unconditional. Cutting has risen, almost to the top, and…

House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) on Monday said Democrats are considering “all options” to compel the Justice Department to release the full slate of documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In an interview on “CNN News Central,” the No. 2 House Democrat accused the …

arXiv:2512.16024v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: In this paper, we introduce a multi robot payload transport system to carry payloads through an environment of unknown and uneven inclinations while maintaining the desired orientation of the payload. For this task, we used custom built robots wit…

The experiments would cut the prices of some drugs to bring them in line with what other countries pay, saving Medicare billions.

Unfortunately, it appears Democrats are keen to end 2025 on the wrong foot.

New House proposal would exempt some stablecoin payments from capital gains taxes and allow stakers to defer income recognition for up to five years.

A feared recession didn’t materialize, but unemployment rose, wage growth slowed and affordability challenges are mounting.

Lennon opened up about maintaining the legacy of the Fab Four and his father, John Lennon, in a recent interview.
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“Those who are arriving in White Nile [state] are arriving in a severe situation.”

China ⁠will impose provisional duties of up to 42.7% on dairy products imported from the European Union, the latest in a series of measures against EU exports widely seen as retaliation for the bloc's electric vehicle tariffs.

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board went after former Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) over his “tax the rich” proposal in a New York Times opinion piece. “The rich who favor higher taxes pitch this as an act of civic virtue. But paying higher taxes on income or capital gains is no great sacrifice fo…

Your iPhone battery life shouldn't be this bad. Update these iOS 26 settings to resolve the issue ASAP.

The Doogee S200 Max proves you can have extreme durability and performance in one device. Just don't expect it to go easy on your wrists.

Lexar's ES5 portable SSD is tough enough to brush off dust, water, and falls of up to 10 feet, and it's uniquely portable.

For centuries, gold has been the go-to haven asset in times of political and economic uncertainty. Its status as a reliably high-value commodity that can be transported easily and sold anywhere offers a sense of safety when everything else is in turmoil.

As a months-long hunger strike persists, calls for immediate government intervention grow louder.

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Lindsay Foreman is being held in Tehran's infamous Evin prison alongside her husband.

A car bomb killed a senior Russian general in southern Moscow on Monday morning as officials reported "slow progress" in talks with the United States on how to end the war in Ukraine. Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov, 56, head of the Russian General Staff's training department, was killed when the …

arXiv:2512.17309v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: RoboEarth was a pioneering initiative in cloud robotics, establishing a foundational framework for robots to share and exchange knowledge about actions, objects, and environments through a standardized knowledge graph. Initially, this knowledge was pr…

arXiv:2410.13161v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Continuous normalizing flows are known to be highly expressive and flexible, which allows for easier incorporation of large symmetries and makes them a powerful computational tool for lattice field theories. Building on previous work, we pre…

For those still using old AMD GCN 1.0 "Southern Islands" or GCN 1.1 "Sea Islands" graphics cards, the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel is a wonderful holiday gift. With Linux 6.19, the GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs are now defaulting to the modern AMDGPU kernel driver in place of the legacy "Radeon" DRM driver that ha…

Images from geostationary satellites alone aren’t enough to help planes avoid contrail-prone regions, MIT researchers report.

The deal brings a team with specialized experience building event-based trading systems, including veterans from Polymarket and Kalshi.

Save $250 on the 2025 MacBook Air with the M4 chip. Now just $749 at Amazon, the lowest price on record for the 16GB RAM model.

Chris Rea found fame in the 1980s in Britain with hits such as "Fool (If You Think It's Over)" and "Let's Dance."

The singer is expected to take a one-month recovery period before returning to the stage.
Barry Manilow Undergoing Lung Cancer Surgery, Postpones Farewell Tour
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arXiv:2512.17008v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has re-emerged as a natural approach for training interactive LLM agents in real-world environments. However, directly applying the widely used Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) algorithm to multi-turn tasks exposes…

The police officer who identified Mangione from a missing person’s report clears up some misconceptions that continue to make headlines a year after the United Healthcare shooting

New research suggests liver cells exposed to too much fat revert to an immature state that is more susceptible to cancer-causing mutations.

“The response has been phenomenal!” Fatehi says of the upcoming song, which also features Ciara.

The geographic expansions continue for the ride-hailing companies' robotaxi plans.

Technical momentum built as institutional flows drove price through key resistance levels amid an 87% volume surge above average.

A fatty diet doesn’t just damage the liver — it rewires its cells in ways that give cancer a dangerous head start. Eating a diet high in fat is one of the strongest known risk factors for liver cancer. New research from MIT explains why, showing that fatty diets can fundamentally change how liver ce…

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is offering migrants living in the U.S. illegally a $3,000 stipend to voluntarily self-deport by the end of the year. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Monday that DHS is tripling the so-called “exit bonus” for migrants who register to self-d…

The famous couple turned up at the restaurant in Leicestershire while visiting the area to see a show.

The world’s energy demand is rising, and NREL’s ULIS power module could help meet it. Demand for energy worldwide is climbing rapidly, driven in part by power hungry data centers that support artificial intelligence and by growth in manufacturing. Meeting these expanding energy needs is becoming an …

arXiv:2506.18283v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Neural networks make accurate predictions but often fail to provide reliable uncertainty estimates, especially under covariate distribution shifts between training and testing. To address this problem, we propose a Bayesian framework for unc…

CMA rejects retailers’ claims on operating costs, saying weak competition is not passing on lower wholesale pricesDrivers are being overcharged for petrol and diesel, the UK’s consumer watchdog has said, dismissing forecourt operators’ excuse for charging more at the pump.Fuel retailers have said th…

A "Cyber Shield" would enable the United States and its Indo-Pacific allies to attribute quickly, act collectively, and stem Beijing’s cyber coercion.
The post America’s Cyber Retreat Is Undermining Indo-Pacific Security appeared first on Just Security.

Ayoub El Kaabi's spectacular bicycle kick gernered royal approval as Morocco opened the 35th Africa Cup of Nations with a 2-0 victory over Comoros on Sunday. Home fans, including Moroccan Crown Prince Moulay Hassan, who greeted the players before kickoff, witnessed a tense match as Comoros, ranked 1…

The singer has died in hospital on Monday following a short illness, his family said.

Ellis Genge's long-range score, George Hendy's hot streak and Saracens and Exeter renewing their rivalry feature in our Gallagher Prem round-up.

CMS unveiled the Long-Term Enhanced ACO Design, or LEAD, Model, that will run for ten years following the end of the popular ACO REACH Model.

The upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel (unless it ends up being called Linux 6.20) will drop support for the AMD NPU2 as their second-generation neural processing unit that never ended up being released into any retail products...

Magnolia Pictures has acquired U.S. rights to “Late Fame,” the acclaimed new film from “Diane” director Kent Jones. It world premiered at the Venice Film Festival and later played at the New York Film Festival. “Late Fame” stars Willem Dafoe, Greta Lee and Edmund Donovan. Magnolia plans to release t…

This year’s highlights include the remodelling of a Richard Seifert brutalist ‘corncob’ tower, a celebration of Japanese carpentry and a wearable hot-water bottle • The best art and photography of 2025• More on the best culture of 2025In a case of contents outshining the container, the V&A’s nationa…