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Lead: Brooks Koepka, the 35-year-old five-time major champion, has left LIV Golf to prioritise family life, his representatives announced on Tuesday. Koepka joined the Saudi-backed breakaway tour in 2022 and accumulated five LIV victories across four seasons. LIV Golf said the split was mutually agreed and confirmed captaincy of Koepka’s Smash side will pass to … Read more
Lead The Los Angeles Chargers received Pro Bowl recognition for multiple players in the 2026 roster announcement, led by quarterback Justin Herbert. Defensive leader Derwin James Jr. and kicker Cameron Dicker were also named, prompting immediate responses from players and team staff. The selections recognize individual performance during the season and have generated discussion about … Read more
Lead Creator Jacob Tierney told Variety that although HBO Max has officially renewed Heated Rivalry for a second season, the team has not yet begun the necessary writing and production work, so a return could be more than a year away and may not arrive by 2026. The Canadian co-broadcaster Crave and HBO Max helped … Read more
On Tuesday authorities arrested 33-year-old Ashlee Buzzard on suspicion of killing her 9-year-old daughter, Melodee Buzzard, whose decomposed body was found in a rural area of Utah on Dec. 6. Investigators say Melodee was last seen alive on Oct. 9 near the Colorado‑Utah border during a road trip with her mother; her disappearance was reported … Read more
Lead The killing of 27-year-old Dipu Chandra Das in Mymensingh and widespread demonstrations in Dhaka have intensified a diplomatic rift between India and Bangladesh. In the days that followed, Hindu nationalist rallies in India and anti-India demonstrations in Bangladesh prompted both capitals to suspend some visa services and summon each other’s envoys. Bangladeshi authorities say … Read more
Lead Governor Bob Ferguson on the Office of Financial Management website has released a proposed 2026–27 supplemental budget that concentrates state efforts on three priorities: housing, transportation and affordability. The package is a mid‑cycle adjustment to the regular biennial budget meant to respond to changing needs across Washington. The proposal frames targeted investments and policy … Read more
Lead The U.S. Department of State (Office of the Spokesperson) posted an item in December 2025 titled “Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex.” The host page on state.gov is currently not accessible and returns an explicit error message, preventing direct review of the full text. At the time of this report, the … Read more
Lead: At COP30 in Brazil, Australian researchers warned that Antarctica is showing signs of multiple abrupt and potentially irreversible changes. Presentations led by Prof. Nerilie Abram and colleagues synthesize ice-core, ocean and ecological records to show shrinking sea ice, weakening deep-ocean currents, destabilizing ice sheets and rapidly shifting ecosystems. Some indicators now sit outside twentieth-century … Read more
Lead On 23 December 2025 at the Emirates Stadium, Arsenal drew 1-1 with Crystal Palace but advanced to the Carabao Cup semi-finals after an epic 8-7 sudden-death penalty shoot-out. Arsenal dominated large spells of the match — enjoying around 80% possession — while Palace keeper Walter Benítez produced a string of crucial saves. Maxence Lacroix’s … Read more
Lead: In May 2024, an international research team identified the Freya Hydrate Mounds, a system of gas-hydrate cold seeps beneath Molloy Ridge near Greenland at about 3,640 meters (nearly 12,000 feet). The site hosts the deepest gas-hydrate seep recorded and a record-setting methane gas flare rising roughly 3,300 meters (10,000 feet) through the water column. … Read more
Lead: The US Department of Justice’s eighth tranche of Jeffrey Epstein investigative files, released 23 December, includes an August 2001 email from a sender identified as “A” writing from “Balmoral” that asks Ghislaine Maxwell if she has found “some new inappropriate friends.” The release — more than 11,000 files in the largest single DOJ batch … Read more
An apparent gas blast collapsed a section of the Bristol Health and Rehab Center (also known as Silver Lake Nursing Home) in Bristol Township, Bucks County, on Tuesday afternoon, leaving an uncertain number of residents and staff trapped. The incident occurred around 2:15 p.m. on the 900 block of Tower Road as utility crews had … Read more
Fans of the HBO Max/Crave drama Heated Rivalry have turned the internet into a nonstop reaction chamber this week as Season 1 reaches its final episode. What began as a romance-novel adaptation has become a cultural flashpoint: viewers are sharing jokes, memes and feverish speculation on X (formerly Twitter) about the show’s central pairing, Shane … Read more
Who: Libya’s chief of staff, Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad, and four others; When: 23 December 2025; Where: near Kesikkavak village, Haymana district, Ankara province; What: a Libya-bound Dassault Falcon 50 business jet crashed after departing Ankara; Result: Libyan prime minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah confirmed Haddad’s death and loss of the aircraft, while Turkish authorities continue … Read more
Lead Newly released U.S. Department of Justice documents show that a correspondent identified only as “A” emailed Ghislaine Maxwell from a British royal summer residence in August 2001, asking whether she had located new “inappropriate” acquaintances. The messages are part of a trove of exchanges between Maxwell and an alias labeled “The Invisible Man,” dated … Read more
