#Earth

USA

Devin Nunes will serve as co‑CEO with Michl Binderbauer and the merged company is valued at more than $6 billion as the firms said they will select a site and begin construction next year on what they call the world’s...

3h/48m

USA

Kristin Cabot described weeks of harassment — as many as 600 calls a day, paparazzi camping outside her home and her children entering therapy — following July’s viral Coldplay kiss‑cam clip that had already upended her...

2h/44m

France

Frédéric Péchier was convicted and sentenced to life by a French criminal court after investigators linked a long pattern of deliberate poisonings of 30 patients between 2008 and 2017. Prosecutors said Péchier secretly...

6h/45m

USA

Economists warn the November inflation reading may be understated after a federal shutdown halted October price checks, following a Labor Department report that consumer prices rose 2.7 percent year‑over‑year and 0.2...

3h/2h

Netherlands

The USA imposed sanctions on two more judges at the International Criminal Court after the court rejected an Israeli challenge to its investigation of alleged Gaza war crimes. The judges, Gocha Lordkipanidze of Georgia...

53m/20m

USA

Alan Dershowitz has outlined legal theories in a newly published book that he says could allow Donald Trump to remain president for an additional term after he discussed the idea at a White House Chanukah event....

3h/57m

Russia

Russia has frozen negotiations after Vladimir Putin insulted Western leaders as “little European pigs,” demanded a change of leadership before talks resume and threatened to seize the Donbas, following earlier reports...

26h/22h

France

The Season 5 soundtrack and Ashley Park’s multiple musical performances are central to the new Netflix release, following the show’s return that sends Lily Collins’s Emily Cooper between Paris and Rome and into a Venice...

4h/2h

USA

Peter Arnett died in Newport Beach, California, at age 91 from prostate cancer, his family said, following a long career as a frontline war correspondent who reported from Vietnam and Baghdad. Born in Riverton, New...

11h/2h

Venezuela

Russia's foreign ministry warned the USA against making a “fatal mistake” after a recent US strike in the eastern Pacific killed four men, a development that follows months of US maritime operations near Venezuela. US...

15h/5h

UK

William and Kate Middleton released their 2025 holiday card featuring a photograph by Josh Shinner following an April photoshoot that supplied several family images used across the year. Kensington Palace shared the...

5h/2h

Taiwan

The Trump administration announced more than $10 billion in arms sales to Taiwan, including medium-range missiles, HIMARS and drones, following earlier US notifications that outlined an eight-part offer. The State...

12h/3h

USA

Multiple people were killed, Iredell County Sheriff Darren Campbell confirmed, after a Cessna C550 erupted in a large fire while landing at Statesville Regional Airport following earlier reports that the plane had taken...

10m

Australia

The Australian government will introduce new legislation against anti‑Semitism following the terrorist attack at a Hanukkah celebration near Bondi Beach that killed 15 people. Deputy Immigration Minister Matt...

34h/17h

USA

University of Michigan hires law firm Jenner & Block and expands an independent review of athletics culture and procedures after interim president Domenico Grasso announced a probe following the firing and arrest of...

USA

Melania Trump announced that the documentary MELANIA will open exclusively in theaters on Jan. 30 after an earlier trailer and reports that the film was shot over a concentrated 20-day period around the presidential...

26h/21h

Belgium

The protests threatened to derail the EU leaders' summit after around 7,000 farmers surrounded EU institutions in Brussels to oppose the Mercosur trade deal, following an earlier mobilisation that brought tractors and...

7h/9m

USA

Thursday’s official weigh-in for Jake Paul and Anthony Joshua will stream live on Most Valuable Promotions and Netflix Sports YouTube channels, following the matchup announced for the Netflix main event at the Kaseya...

5h/2h

Russia

European and Ukrainian intelligence say Moran Security operatives have been placed aboard shadow-fleet tankers to conduct espionage and protect sanction-busting oil shipments, following earlier reports of covert Russian...

9h/2h

Venezuela

Venezuelan navy began escorting ships out of its ports after Donald Trump ordered a full blockade of sanctioned tankers that enter or leave Venezuela, following an earlier campaign of interdictions and a tanker seizure...

41h/17h

USA

Senators Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal asked Attorney General Pam Bondi to recuse herself from the DOJ review of potential deals for Warner Bros. Discovery after disclosing that her former employer Ballard...

35h/19h

Ecuador

Mario Pineida and his partner were fatally shot and Pineida's mother was wounded in a targeted attack in Guayaquil, following earlier reports that Pineida had been killed in a daytime shooting. Officials said the attack...

10h/3h

USA

The US government admitted in a court filing that actions by an air traffic controller and Army helicopter pilots helped cause the midair collision that killed 67 people near Reagan National Airport, after months of...

18h/59m

USA

Young Thug proposed to Mariah the Scientist during a hometown benefit concert in Atlanta, following a relationship that began in 2021 and a brief split in October that ended in reconciliation. Footage from State Farm...

27h/20h

USA

The Associated Press updated that the Ursids meteor shower will peak Sunday night into Monday morning and remain visible in the Northern Hemisphere through Dec. 26, following earlier AP reports that the shower was...

USA

Witness descriptions match the images police released as the search entered its fifth day after a weekend shooting last week that killed two Brown University students, Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, and wounded...

30h/20h

Italy

Laura Burdese will become Bulgari’s chief executive officer on July 1 next year, succeeding Jean-Christophe Babin after she was named deputy CEO last year. She will report to Stéphane Bianchi, and Babin will remain...

Lebanon

Israel said it carried out airstrikes across southern and northeastern Lebanon that killed a Hezbollah operative and struck weapons storage as it sought to disrupt rearmament ahead of a deadline at the end of the month...

Spain

The central government will convert government buildings into a nationwide network of climate shelters and expand regional schemes, following Sánchez's earlier announcement of the plan to protect people from intense...

USA

OpenAI has launched an in-chat app directory inside ChatGPT available on iOS, Android and the web, and opened a developer submission process with resources after earlier releases of interactive apps and an SDK in...

USA

Dan Bongino announced he will leave the FBI in January amid disputes over the handling of Epstein files and criticism of ICE raids, following his controversial appointment earlier this year. Bongino thanked Donald...

19h/9h

USA

Fact‑checkers disputed claims after Donald Trump's year‑end White House address, which earlier coverage described as a combative defense of his first 11 months in office and a blame‑the‑opponent strategy. Reporters...

USA

Dr. Jonathan Reiner said he was “seriously concerned” about Donald Trump's health after watching the president's speech, following a column by Moira Donegan that catalogued signs of physical decline and a New York Times...

USA

Donald Trump announced in a national address the night before that nearly 1.5 million service members will receive a one-time "warrior" bonus of about 16,000 SEK (roughly $1,776) after first unveiling the idea in June....

15h/12h

Belgium

Emmanuel Macron asked EU leaders to postpone signing the Mercosur trade pact following intensified farm protests that disrupted roads in France and a 10,000‑strong farmers’ march in Brussels that earlier used tractor...

13h/26m

France

The European Parliament voted 358–202 to back the citizens' initiative My Voice, My Choice to create an EU-funded scheme covering travel and abortion procedures for people from member states with restrictive laws,...

28h/18h

TheJoeRoganExperience

“

Michael P. Masters”

25m

USA

Donald Trump has reworked the White House portrait gallery, installing partisan plaques along a Presidential Walk of Fame that use combative language and have prompted a fresh controversy after earlier reports revealed...

22h/39m

Denmark

The European Court of Justice has sent the case back to Denmark for a national court to decide whether the policy’s “non‑Western” residency criterion constitutes unequal treatment, following a challenge to Denmark’s...

12h/2h

Belgium

EU leaders will meet Thursday in Brussels to decide whether to unlock frozen Russian assets after officials and media cited a higher aggregate of about $246 billion, reviving a Commission proposal to use immobilized...

32h/18h

Germany

Birkenstock forecast annual profit below Wall Street expectations as the Trump administration's 15% US import tariff is set to shave about 100 basis points from gross margins, following a quarter in which revenue rose...

USA

The Oscars will move to YouTube from 2029, a symbolic blow to network television after the Academy announced YouTube would become the exclusive global streaming home beginning with the 101st ceremony. The multi‑year,...

23h/4h

Germany

The German Defence Ministry says the initiative involves approximately 545 billion kronor in military purchases spread over about 30 procurements, following a parliamentary defence committee approval of nearly €50...

29h/26h

Qatar

Real Madrid congratulated PSG after Paris Saint-Germain beat Flamengo on penalties to win the Intercontinental Cup, praising "a well-deserved title" and naming president Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, coach Luis Enrique, the...

30h/18h

NewYorkTimes

“

Nick Reiner seen before arrest”

USA

Nick Reiner appeared in Los Angeles court on two counts of first-degree murder and agreed to a new arraignment date after his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead in their Brentwood home....

37h/18h

USA

iRobot filed for bankruptcy this week, underscoring critics' view that the Roomba failed to deliver on the promise of everyday home robotics after the device launched the market in 2002 and lost ground to cheaper...

24h

USA

Jack Smith told House Judiciary Committee members in a closed-door deposition that his team developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Donald Trump criminally conspired to overturn the 2020 election, after...

24h

France

20 Minutes is following amateur club Lyon La Duchère in a video series ahead of its Coupe de France tie with Toulouse, after Olympique Lyonnais sealed direct Champions League quarterfinal qualification by beating...

USA

Ghislaine Maxwell filed this week a pro se petition in federal court asking to vacate, set aside or correct her conviction and 20‑year sentence, saying substantial new evidence undermines the 2021 sex‑trafficking...

19h/15h

TEDTalks

“

Why are people starting to sound like ChatGPT”

Italy

Investigators are analysing seized drives and widening the probe after an electrician who installed home surveillance systems was arrested in Trieste when his partner found nude photos of her underage daughters....

UK

Charles James Spencer-Churchill is due to appear at Oxford Magistrates' Court on Thursday after being charged with three counts of intentional strangulation linked to alleged incidents between November 2022 and May last...

28h/24h

UK

Tuition fees for EU students in the UK will be the same as those paid by British students following an agreement to rejoin the EU Erasmus+ exchange programme, building on the earlier decision to withdraw after Brexit....

33h/18h

USA

HHS proposed regulations would bar medical providers from receiving Medicare or Medicaid funds if they offer puberty blockers, hormone therapy or procedures such as mastectomies to minors, following a declaration signed...

16h/34m

Germany

Federal prosecutors charged eight people on Dec. 18 over an alleged right-wing terror cell called Letzte Verteidigungswelle, following police raids in May that detained suspects aged 14 to 21. The indictment in Hamburg...

8h/7h

CNN

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Inflation cooled in November to 2.7%”

USA

Google is working with Meta to accelerate adoption of its AI chips, and OpenAI is in talks to raise at least $10 billion from Amazon and to use Amazon's chips after earlier reports said Amazon was discussing roughly a...

29h/18h

UK

Hulcan co-founders Mario Maher and Joe Wilkinson have bought the intellectual property of defunct London e-tailer Matches and its label Raey and said they will relaunch both next year, after acquiring the brands from...

30h/28h

Brazil

The Senate approved a bill that could cut Jair Bolsonaro's 27-year sentence and will send it to Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who has said he will veto it, after the Chamber of Deputies had already passed the text. The...

16h/1h

USA

The Trump administration has ordered a sharp expansion of denaturalization efforts, asking USCIS field offices to refer 100 to 200 cases per month to the DOJ for fiscal 2026 after earlier reports said the agency would...

BBC

“

Parents of teenage sextortion victim sue Meta”

Belgium

ReBirth completed a majority-stake recapitalisation of Cowboy, converting legacy obligations into equity and supplying a combined €15 million to clean up the balance sheet and restart production, after earlier reports...

USA

New York Times reporting says Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump had a closer and more tangled social relationship than Trump now admits, following House Oversight Democrats’ release of undated photographs from Epstein's...

15h/4m

Italy

Leonardo Apache La Russa said he was cleared of a revenge-porn charge and revealed he suffered depression and contemplated suicide after a Milan judge declared the charge extinguished following a €25,000 settlement....

10h

UK

The UK has given Roman Abramovich a final 90-day deadline to transfer £2.5 billion from the 2022 sale of Chelsea FC into a new foundation to fund humanitarian relief in Ukraine, after the proceeds were frozen in a...

26h

USA

Cedric Lodge was sentenced to eight years in federal prison in Williamsport after new court proceedings detailed that he and his wife, Denise Lodge, trafficked body parts taken from cadavers donated to Harvard Medical...

31h/19h

USA

Craig Melvin visited and interviewed James Van Der Beek at his Texas ranch and posted behind-the-scenes photos showing Van Der Beek upbeat, after Van Der Beek publicly revealed last November that he has stage 3...

10h

USA

Police intensified their search for a suspect after Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro was shot outside his Brookline apartment and died at a hospital, following initial reports that a...

42h/18h

USA

Lawmakers and industry say a retroactive fix and a special enrollment period could provide relief in 2026 after two Senate votes to extend ACA enhanced subsidies failed and the House advanced a GOP alternative that...

17h/4h

USA

Two Teamsters-affiliated unions announced opposition to Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern’s proposed $85 billion merger, saying months of talks left them unconvinced and raising fresh safety and cost concerns after...

28h

USA

The Senate confirmed billionaire Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator, ending a monthslong nomination saga that included an earlier withdrawn nomination and a November renomination by Donald Trump. The Senate approved...

20h/16h

Belgium

Economists and European officials are disputing White House claims that continental Europe is falling behind the USA, after the National Security Strategy and recent US statements portrayed Europe as declining while...

29h

USA

Greene warned on CNN’s The Source that Donald Trump’s hold on the Republican Party appears to be loosening and predicted Republicans could face a poor showing in the 2026 midterm elections after she first warned that...

35h/30h

USA

The California Department of Motor Vehicles gave Tesla 90 days to correct marketing for its driver-assist systems or face a 30-day suspension of both its manufacturing and dealer licenses, following an earlier finding...

39h/19h

USA

A McKinsey Global Institute analysis finds that tasks filling more than half of US work hours could, in theory, be automated with existing technologies, following earlier warnings that AI can be both stunningly capable...

30h

USA

New reporting says Susie Wiles spoke at length with a Vanity Fair journalist and made candid remarks about Donald Trump, including calling him "the personality of an alcoholic," after a longer Vanity Fair profile...

Tue/19h

USA

Jamieson Greer published a presentation to congressional committees this week saying Canada must change its protected dairy market and its Online Streaming Act if the administration is to recommend renewing the USMCA,...

11h

UK

Celtic sit second in the Scottish Premiership, six points behind Hearts, amid a deepening crisis after Wilfried Nancy lost his fourth match in as many games when Dundee United beat Celtic 2-1. Daizen Maeda put Celtic...

16h/11h

USA

Jane's Addiction has officially disbanded following a private settlement that resolves lawsuits arising from last year’s onstage altercation in Boston. Navarro, Avery and Perkins had sued seeking at least $10 million,...

19h/6h

Italy

A draft decree from the Environment Ministry would eliminate in-person inspections for boilers under 70 kilowatts, affecting about 20 million units, and replace them with remote checks every four years after earlier...

30h

USA

The White House announced that TrumpRx and a most-favored-nation pricing approach will start in January 2026, following agreements the administration says link US drug prices to lower foreign prices and...

12h

TheJoeRoganExperience

“

Bret Weinstein”

24h

TheDaily

“

Congress failed to extend health care subsidies”

Myanmar

Kim Aris warned that "For all I know, she could be dead already" as he urged politicians in Tokyo to press for his mother’s release, after the Myanmar junta insisted she is "in good health". Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel...

31h

USA

Donald Trump last week signed an executive order directing the Justice Department to form an AI Litigation Task Force to sue states and asking the Department of Commerce to consider withholding federal broadband...

34h/24h

USA

Kevin Warren said the Bears have expanded their stadium search beyond Chicago to include the club's 326-acre Arlington Heights property and sites in Northwest Indiana after state leaders told the team the project would...

13h

USA

Norman Podhoretz died peacefully overnight, his son John Podhoretz confirmed, following a decades-long career as a leading and controversial neo-conservative editor. As editor of Commentary from 1960 to 1995, Podhoretz...

32h

TEDTalks

“

This movie never ends the same way twice”

26h

CNN

“

Journalist behind Wiles interview responds to criticism”

26h

USA

Dolby and LG unveiled the modular LG Sound Suite using Dolby FlexConnect, following earlier reports that LG planned an H7 soundbar as part of a new Sound Suite. The collection—centered on the H7 and including M7 and M5...

14h

SouthAfrica

South Africa will expel seven Kenyans who worked for the US program to resettle Afrikaners, home affairs officials said, after intelligence indicated some Kenyan nationals entered on tourist visas and allegedly took...

32h

Germany

Sam Kerr scored a late header and became the first Australian—and only the second Chelsea player—to reach 20 Champions League goals as Chelsea came from behind to beat Wolfsburg 2-1 and advance directly to the Women's...

18h/14h

USA

Jennifer Lawrence admitted on a recent episode of Variety and CNN's Actors on Actors that she accidentally took Ambien while filming The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, hallucinated during a 2013 dance scene with Philip...

15h

CNN

“

Woman marries ChatGPT character”

Belgium

Jamieson Greer, the USA Trade Representative, warned Washington could impose tariffs and other restrictions on European companies after the European Commission’s recent fines and probes and after Donald Trump began...

38h/23h

USA

Players and coaches were scheduled to depart at 8:25 p.m. ET after their team plane was delayed by an equipment issue, Adam Schefter reported, following earlier accounts that the Rams were seeking alternate travel to...

16h

USA

Niall Horan was placed on vocal rest and could not perform during The Voice Season 28 Holiday Spectacular finale, after which Aiden Ross was crowned the season winner on NBC. The two-night finale featured...

37h/36h

TheHill

“

FBI argued no probable cause for Mar-a-Lago raid”

27h

Italy

The triptych by Michael Triegel has been loaned for two years to the Teutonic chapel at the Vatican and was publicly displayed there last week after UNESCO concerns and a July decision to move the panel from its planned...

33h