National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said Sunday that President Trump will likely back legislation to send $2,000 tariff rebate checks to Americans in the new year. “I would expect that in the new year, the president will bring forth a proposal to Congress to make that happen,” Hassett t…

Mr. Kimmel will speak out against fascism and about the importance of free speech in the holiday address, according to a Channel 4 spokesman.

Animal welfare strategy plans to end some country pursuits and protect pets

Indonesia is seeking to plug an unusually deep revenue shortfall before year-end by scrutinizing wealthy individuals and big businesses for extra tax payments.

Waymo suspended service of its self-driving cars amid a blackout that hit a third of San Francisco residents Saturday night.

Researchers warn generative tools are helping militant groups from neo-Nazis to the Islamic State spread ideologyWhile the artificial intelligence boom is upending sections of the music industry, voice generating bots are also becoming a boon to another unlikely corner of the internet: extremist mov…

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The latest trove of legal documents has been heavily redacted, but several famous figures are recognisable.

Steve Witkoff says representatives share goals to stop killing, support Ukraine and end war with RussiaA White House envoy said on Sunday he held “productive and constructive” talks in Florida with Ukrainian and European representatives to end the nearly four-year war between Russia and Ukraine.Post…

OpenAI gave its AI chatbot a professional makeover with the latest GPT-5.2 release, and some users are already complaining about its tone. For anyone who's finding ChatGPT rude or sassy, OpenAI has some welcome news since it's letting users further customize its personality with extra warmth or enth…

Also in today’s newsletter: Macro hedge funds enjoy best year since 2008, and fraudsters use AI to fake artwork authenticity

Jimmy Kimmel is set to give the 2025 Alternative Christmas Message for U.K. network Channel 4. Sometimes humorous, sometimes serious, the famed message — which will air on Christmas Day — has become an annual tradition of Channel 4’s and serves as an alternative to the British monarch’s televised ad…

Excitons are pairs of bound negatively charged electrons and positively charged holes that form in semiconductors, enabling the transport of energy in electronic devices. These pairs of charge carriers also emerge in transition metal dichalcogenides, thin semiconducting materials comprised of a tran…

This summer, more than a dozen Burrowing Owls hatched in an unusual habitat: in plastic underground tunnels within the footprint of a sprawling, 10,000-acre solar energy complex outside of Phoenix...

Was 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' another worthwhile trip to Pandora, or should this be the last of the films?

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Studying one of the simplest animals, Stanford's Prakash Lab uncovered how it folds itself into complex shapes—revealing new insights into a fundamental cellular feature and the origins of tissue folding.

On this "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" broadcast, Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna join Margaret Brennan.

The singer's character got the Grinch pregnant. You read that right.
Ariana Grande Falls for The Grinch in Love Is Blind Parody Sketch on SNL
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When Mark Benedict and his wife, Mary Shaw, moved in 2017 to Salmon Prairie, Montana, a remote enclave about two hours north of Missoula, they felt like they had won the retirement lottery. Their...

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French President Emmanuel Macron has announced plans to build a new aircraft carrier

Hearts "have arrived" as Scottish Premiership title contenders after beating Rangers for the second time this season, says Kris Boyd.

UNICEF executive director Catherine Russell said what is happening in South Sudan is currently the "largest humanitarian crisis" the organization is seeing. "The challenges are absolutely staggering," she added.

2018 champion Cross untroubled in win over WhiteCullen accuses Suljovic of ‘cheating’ during defeatRob Cross eased into the third round of the PDC World Darts Championship with a 3-1 win over the veteran Ian White.It has been a disappointing year for the 2018 champion, with a host of early exits in …

The NFL game kicks off at 1 p.m. ET on Sunday (Dec. 21).

“Avatar: Fire and Ash” ignited with $88 million in its domestic box office debut. It’s a decent start, albeit a significant decline from the opening weekend of 2022’s sequel “Avatar: The Way of Water” with $134 million. However a larger question looms about the financial fate of the big-budget block…

Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz looks back at the work of actor and director Rob Reiner, whose films became part of our shared cinematic language because of their humor, drama, and aching belief in humanity.

Jihad Al-Shamie had been investigated in connection with rape allegation before deadly October assault

Manchester United's injury problems worsened as captain and talisman Bruno Fernandes was replaced in a 2-1 defeat by Aston Villa.

MPV 0.41 is out today as the newest feature release for this MPlayer/mplayer2-derived open-source video player. With MPV 0.41 there is a big focus on improving Wayland support as well as now preferring Vulkan Video acceleration over alternative video decode APIs...

'SNL' referenced the Epstein files several times on Saturday night, including on Weekend Update.

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One of the features that sadly didn't make it into the recent Linux 6.19 merge window was the long-awaited AMD ISP4 driver for supporting the web camera found with the high-end HP ZBook Ultra G1a and also expected to be used by future flagship AMD Ryzen laptops...

Cutting-edge therapies exist, but the market cannot deliver them cheaply. Britain must build NHS capacity so that cures become collective goods, not expensive productsJust a small fraction of our 20,000 genes can cause disease when disrupted – yet that sliver accounts for thousands of rare disorders…

As a holiday treat for "Sunday Morning" viewers, The Rockettes perform "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers," a highlight of Radio City's "Christmas Spectacular" since its debut in 1933.

Even with all the challenges of 2025, sustainability managed to sustain in 2025.

This was a year of extremes for the US stock market. The S&P 500 Index plunged to the verge of a tariff-induced bear market in April, only to quickly rebound after President Trump relented and by late June was hitting repeated records fueled by enthusiasm for all things artificial intelligence.

Archbishop Paul Coakley, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said that President Trump's deportation campaign is instilling fear, and "that's something that concerns us all, that people have a right to live in, in security and without fear of random deportations."

France ​will ⁠build a new aircraft carrier to boost ​its ‍capacities ​as a maritime ​power, President Emmanuel Macron told French troops gathered at a military ‍base in ​Abu Dhabi. Macron arrived in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday to celebrate Christmas with troops and to discuss bilateral ties w…

Spanish researchers have created a powerful new open-source tool that helps uncover the hidden genetic networks driving cancer. Called RNACOREX, the software can analyze thousands of molecular interactions at once, revealing how genes communicate inside tumors and how those signals relate to patient…

Zohran Mamdani, New York’s mayor-elect, is among the latest politicians to be tagged with the term, raising the question: What did theater kids do to deserve such scorn?

Swings in the dollar, gold and government debt have been fertile territory for funds such as Rokos and Caxton

Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said the move was about blocking the establishment of a Palestinian state.

A way to electrically modify the chirality of organic–inorganic hybrid materials, in which chiral molecules adsorb onto inorganic surfaces, has been demonstrated by researchers at Science Tokyo. By using an electric double-layer transistor with a chiral electrolyte, specific chirality was imposed on…

If you have a tween in your life, get-ready-with-me videos may be familiar to you. These videos saturate social media feeds, targeting young girls with multi-step skincare and routines.

Popular brands partner with kid-fluencers to create viral skincare products and social media content, and the ski…

Stranger Things actor appears after its series finale, while rapper performs one day after Don’t Be Dumb arrives

Georgetown men's basketball coach Ed Cooley was suspended by the school on Sunday for one game after throwing a water bottle into the stands at the end of a loss to Xavier the night before.

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The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsThe dramatic chipmunk, distracted boyfriend, the raccoon with the candy floss or “success kid”, what is – or was – the absolute …

A former friend of the man accused​ of the deadly Brown University shooting​ and killing an MIT professor​ described him as a "socially awkward" person who showed signs of anger during their time on campus together.

Captain Fernandes injured in defeat at Aston Villa‘We need to find solutions, we continue with our plan’Ruben Amorim insisted Manchester United risk making mistakes in the January transfer window if they panic after Bruno Fernandes joined their growing injury list. Amorim said he expects the United …

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) predicted Sunday that an extension of subsidies offered under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will pass the House with backing from both sides of the aisle. “House Democrats are going to continue to fight to get this extension through the Congress on our …

Earlier this year, the U.S. designated MS-13, which was formed in Los Angeles in the 1980s by Salvadoran immigrants, a terrorist organization.

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The BBC goes to a rebel-held part of Myanmar, ahead of a government-mandated election starting this month.

TV host who came under pressure from Trump government will say: ‘From a fascism perspective, this has been a really great year’The US comedian whose late-night show was briefly cancelled after pressure from Donald Trump’s government is to urge UK audiences to stand up for free speech.In a defiant al…

Two prevailing narratives have driven markets recently. The first is that Nvidia Corp.’s moat is eroding primarily thanks to graphics processing unit alternatives such as tensor processing units and other application-specific integrated circuits. The second is that Google LLC generally and its Gemin…

As the immune system weakens with age, researchers have found a way to temporarily boost its function by reprogramming liver cells to support T-cell development. As people get older, the immune system often becomes less effective. T cell numbers shrink and these cells tend to respond more slowly to …

The country has seen a wave of recent mass abductions, as it suffers from multiple interlinked security concerns.

The reported breach includes 86 million audio files.

The vessel was flying a false flag and under a judicial seizure order, according to US officials cited by US media.

During November 2025, ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) used five of its science instruments to observe 3I/ATLAS. The instruments collected information about how the comet is behaving and what it is made of.

Durante dos décadas, luchó contra incendios forestales para el gobierno de EE. UU. Ahora se enfrenta al cáncer, a las deudas y a la amenaza de separarse de su hijo de 11 años.

Pam Duncan-Glancy stood down as the party's education spokeswoman earlier this month after admitting a "serious error of judgement".

When prison inmates break the rules, they may be placed in solitary confinement—sometimes for 24, 48 or 72 hours. Although it is frequently criticized, disciplinary segregation is still widely used in Quebec's provincial jails.

The show's final episode of 2025 also featured Cher as the musical guest.

Barca punish 10-man hosts Villarreal to win eighth consecutive La Liga game and move four points clear at the summit.

Argentina’s Diego Lerner, a guiding force for The Walt Disney Company’s roll out in Latin America and Europe from 1990 to this year, died Dec. 18 in Buenos Aires at the age of 71 after a long illness. In a gesture from Disney, Lerner had been named honorary president of The Walt Disney Company Latin…

Yamini Rangan has seen tremendous growth at the software company since joining in January 2020.

A Supreme Court ruling that scraps Donald Trump’s tariffs — and refunds the import fees collected — would create a major “administrative problem,” the president’s top economic adviser said Sunday.

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"Grab your cocoa and settle in by the fire" for some yuletide joy.
Metallica’s James Hetfield Unveils Spoken Word Rendition of “Twas The Night Before Christmas”
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Trump administration escalates campaign of pressure against Nicolás Maduro

US special envoy Steve Witkoff called weekend talks in Florida “productive and constructive” as officials from the US, Europe, and Ukraine worked to align positions. President Donald Trump pushes for a quick end to the nearly four-year conflict, but Russia wants to keep seized Ukrainian land.

Senate negotiators are set for a high-wire act on health care in the coming weeks after leaving Washington for the holidays without a resolution on the expiring enhanced subsidies, with lawmakers increasingly shifting into campaign mode as the calendar flips to the new year. The chamber has been con…

Brahim Diaz and Ayoub El Kaabi scored second-half goals as Morocco beat Comoros 2-0 in the Africa Cup of Nations opener in Rabat. Diaz broke the deadlock 10 minutes after the break, and substitute El Kaabi sealed the win with a stunning overhead kick.

Galaxy Digital’s Alex Thorn says options markets, falling volatility and macro risks make next year hard to forecast even as the firm keeps a bullish long-term view.

“Saturday Night Live” this week mocked President Trump’s new “Patriot Games” by likening them to the games in the famous “Hunger Games” book series. In the cold open, Trump, played by SNL’s James Austin Johnson, appears to be mimicking the address the president gave earlier this week. Johnson’s Trum…

Enough of the orchestrated outrage – the BBC needs to be clear that there’s no systemic dishonesty at play, writes Anthony Lawton. Plus letters from Michele Ryan and Mike PenderYour editorial (16 December) rightly calls for collective resistance to Donald Trump’s assault on the BBC. But it is import…

The photos were among the thousands of documents made public on Friday. By Saturday they had disappeared with no explanation or notice.

The move comes days after President Donald Trump said that he was ordering a blockade of sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela.

Traffic signals failed in large portions of the California city while Waymo robotaxis stopped in streets and intersectionsA widespread power failure plunged San Francisco into darkness on Saturday night, disrupting traffic citywide and forcing numerous self-driving Waymo taxis to stop abruptly in th…

There is simply no stopping this Aston Villa machine, cylinders pumping, exclusively handcrafted by Unai Emery, the manager who reacted to Morgan Rogers’ winning goal against Manchester United by launching his jacket into the night sky. “Birmingham, are you listening?” came the chorus from the home …

Morgan Rogers scores twice for Aston Villa in their 2-1 win against Manchester United, extending Villa's unbeaten run to 10 matches in all competitions.

The pop icon sang "DJ Play A Christmas Song" and "Run, Run Rudolph."
Cher Returns to SNL After 40 Years with Christmas Performances
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The pursuit of the tanker, off the coast of Venezuela, is the second such operation this weekend and the third in less than a week.

The IOPC says it can exercise its investigatory power if warranted, after its director said she was willing to launch a probe.

What happens to an organization when employees transfer between jobs internally? Does it matter whether a single worker transfers or if a team of employees is "lifted and shifted" together?

Plus, 21 Savage’s latest project arrives, while a record-tying six of the top 10 are holiday albums.

On a June Sunday morning in Rowe, Massachusetts, the local library’s spare chairs fill quickly for a talk about swallows. It’s aptly timed: Lately, a community debate has erupted over the fate of...

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How common are Earth-like planets in the universe? When I started working on supernova explosions, I never imagined that my research would eventually lead me to ask a question about the origin of Earth-like planets. Yet that is exactly where it brought me.

Rep. Ro Khanna said the release of an initial tranche of files and photos related to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was a "slap in the face of survivors," while Rep. Thomas Massie said the DOJ is "flouting the spirit and the letter of the law."

Roland Rudd of Tate responds to an article by Jonathan Jones that questioned the organisation’s ambition and priorities. Plus a letter from Liz Goddard on Máret Ánne Sara’s installation at Tate ModernOne of the joys of art is that it never fails to spark debate. In that spirit, I always enjoy Jonath…

There may not be any reports of stick drift with the ROG Xbox Ally yet, but that doesn't mean there won't be. If you'd rather not end up with joysticks that have a mind of their own, GuliKit revealed its latest TMR Electromagnet Joystick Modules made specifically for your Xbox handheld.
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Official indicates vessel is subject to sanctions after Trump’s ‘blockade’ on sanctioned tankers in and out of VenezuelaUS Coast Guard officials said on Sunday that they are tracking an oil tanker in international waters close to Venezuela, according to media reports, marking the second such action …

A week after gunmen killed 15 people at a Hanukkah celebration, hints of political divisions and anti-immigration rhetoric emerge in Australia.

Newcastle 14-50 BathChampions score eight tries against bottom sideBath returned to the summit of the Prem, exposing the gulf between top and bottom with maximum points at Kingston Park.Despite resting several front-liners, they ran in eight tries to bounce back from last week’s Champions Cup defeat…