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.

A new UNSW-led global meta-analysis shows that PFAS concentrations can double at every step up the food chain, leaving top predators—and humans—potentially exposed to higher chemical loads.

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.

Russia’s flagship Urals crude oil slumped to about $34 a barrel in a signal that US sanctions on Moscow are having an impact.

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

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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…

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

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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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…

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.

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.

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.

The bookshop chain said the bestselling author will ‘no longer be appearing’ at a Dundee event after HarperCollins announced it won’t publish new titles by himDavid Walliams has been dropped from the Waterstones Children’s book festival following allegations of inappropriate behaviour. The decision …

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.

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

Daiwa Securities Group Inc. is resuming an expansion of its mergers and acquisitions business to capitalize on a dealmaking boom at home and lift its standing abroad.

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.

arXiv:2512.17515v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Medical image classification is a critical task in healthcare, enabling accurate and timely diagnosis. However, deploying deep learning models on resource-constrained edge devices presents significant challenges due to computational and memory limit…

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.

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. …

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.

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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.

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

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.

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

Our visual highlights from the animal world this year include a mouse caring for its companion, dolphins communicating in an unexpected way and a colossal squid caught on camera for the first time

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

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

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

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…

arXiv:2512.16625v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: In-context diffusion models allow users to modify images with remarkable ease and realism. However, the same power raises serious privacy concerns: personal images can be easily manipulated for identity impersonation, misinformation, or other mali…

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…

WBD had urged shareholders to reject $108.4bn hostile takeover bid from Paramount, which is controlled by the Ellisons, following $82.7bn Netflix deal The tech billionaire Larry Ellison has agreed to provide a personal guarantee of more than $40bn for Paramount Skydance’s fight to gain control of Wa…

As number of lunar satellites soars, sites will be marked out where defunct hardware can be crash-landedPatches of the moon are destined to become spacecraft graveyards where dead lunar satellites and other defunct hardware can be crashed into the ground, far away from sites of cultural and scientif…

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

Shares of the bitcoin miner jumped higher last week on its $7 billion pact with Google-backed Fluidstack.

The main distillery will be closed for site enhancements, the company said. The pause comes after whiskey production has dropped amid a challenging year.

An analysis of the expansion of cracks in the Thwaites Glacier over the past 20 years suggests that a total collapse could be only a matter of time.

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...

The largest U.S. bank is exploring spot and derivatives services for hedge funds and pensions as regulatory clarity improves, a person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.

Thomas Lee's ETH treasury firm acquired nearly 99,000 tokens last week as crypto markets slid.

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) said President Trump had an “awful” last week and warned that the Republican Party will soon have a “big problem” if the president doesn’t begin making Americans’ lives better. “It's not a strange week, Jon, it's an awful week,” the former Trump ally-turned-…

It does make sense if you think about it.

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

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

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 …

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.

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

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…

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 …

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

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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…

Lennon opened up about maintaining the legacy of the Fab Four and his father, John Lennon, in a recent interview.
Sean Ono Lennon Fears Gen Z Will “Forget” The Beatles
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Lindsay Foreman is being held in Tehran's infamous Evin prison alongside her husband.

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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…

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

Mani's coffin was carried out of Manchester Cathedral by Liam Gallagher and his Stone Roses bandmates.

It’s far from obvious why President Trump would reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug at a time when we are learning the many ways it is more dangerous than thought.

The Nintendo Switch 2 supports a wide range of controllers, from Nintendo’s own Pro Controller to many Bluetooth gamepads you might already have. Whether you’re setting up your new console for the first time or adding extra controllers for multiplayer games, pairing them is simple as long as you kno…

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…

South coast most likely to see snowflakes, though a full festive blanketing has been unlikely for decades now While ongoing showers might suggest this Christmas will be a washout, experts say a wintry snap is on its way and some areas of the UK might even have a white Christmas.According to the Met …

Channel 4 said Kimmel would deliver a "deeply personal and characteristically jovial address"

University researchers presented Rex at this month's Linux Plumbers Conference 2025 in Tokyo. Rex is designed for "safe and usable" Rust-based kernel extensions that could serve in place of eBPF programs for extending the Linux kernel functionality...

The world record holder on his remarkable year, that viral kiss and why he’s serious about music Plenty of sports stars strive for perfection. In 2025, Mondo Duplantis achieved it. He broke the pole vault world record four times. Retained his world indoor and outdoor titles. Won all 16 competitions …

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 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.

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

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…

Starlight and stardust are not enough to drive the powerful winds of giant stars, transporting the building blocks of life through our galaxy. That's the conclusion of a new study from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, of red giant star R Doradus. The result overturns a long-held idea about…

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.

“Those who are arriving in White Nile [state] are arriving in a severe situation.”

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.

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.