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Lead President Donald Trump announced on Dec. 21, 2025, via Truth Social that he has appointed Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry as the United States Special Envoy to Greenland. The president said the move is meant to strengthen U.S. national-security interests tied to Greenland’s strategic location. Landry confirmed on Dec. 22 that the role is a … Read more

Lead: Senior diplomats from Southeast Asia convene in Kuala Lumpur on Monday aiming to halt renewed deadly border clashes between Thailand and Cambodia. The fighting, which resumed on 8 December, has killed at least 41 people and displaced close to one million residents near the 800km (500-mile) frontier. The meeting seeks to rebuild a ceasefire … Read more

Lead Sunday night at M&T Bank Stadium ended in disappointment for the Baltimore Ravens, who lost their final regular-season home game, 28-24, to the New England Patriots. The Ravens were hampered by a first-half injury to quarterback Lamar Jackson, and New England rookie Drake Maye threw for 380 yards and two touchdowns. An 89-yard final … Read more

Lead On Dec 21, 2025 at Bank of America Stadium, the Carolina Panthers edged the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 23-20, moving a game clear in the NFC South with two weeks remaining in the regular season. Rookie kicker Ryan Fitzgerald hit a 48-yard field goal with 2:20 left to provide the decisive points, and the Bucs’ … Read more

Lead DENVER — On Sunday afternoon at Empower Field at Mile High, Trevor Lawrence led the Jacksonville Jaguars to a 34-20 road victory over the Denver Broncos in Week 16 of the 2025 NFL season. Lawrence threw three touchdown passes and added a 1-yard rushing score as the Jaguars improved to 11-4 and stretched their … Read more

Nintendo has begun distributing a new 3.0.0 update for Donkey Kong Bananza on Nintendo Switch 2 that introduces Thai language support and an in-game camera automatic tracking option. The update, rolled out this week, makes on-screen text available in Thai when the console language is set to Thai/English while keeping audio in English. Players can … Read more

Lead On Saturday, a citywide power outage in San Francisco left roughly 130,000 customers without electricity at its peak and coincided with a separate traffic headache: multiple Waymo autonomous SUVs came to a halt in public streets, contributing to congestion. The outage followed a fire at a five-story power substation and prompted Pacific Gas and … Read more

Vice President JD Vance closed the final day of Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest on Sunday, December 21, 2025, at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona, rallying attendees around Christianity and an “America First” agenda while paying repeated tribute to the late founder Charlie Kirk. Earlier in the week, Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk’s widow and … Read more

Lead Jim Beam’s parent company, Suntory Global Spirits, has announced the main Jim Beam distillery in Kentucky will stop production for the entire 2026 calendar year to allow site upgrades. The decision was disclosed in a statement on Sunday and comes amid broader industry uncertainty tied to recent US trade policy shifts. Other operations in … Read more

Nintendo released an update for Donkey Kong Bananza on the Nintendo Switch 2 on December 21, 2025, moving the game to Version 3.0.0. The patch adds Thai text support and introduces a new toggle for the camera’s automatic tracking in the in-game Options menu. Nintendo’s support notes also cite several unspecified fixes aimed at improving … Read more

This flu season has been comparatively mild so far, but public health experts warn it could intensify in the coming weeks after a new H3N2 subclade—identified after this season’s vaccine was manufactured—began circulating internationally. Data from the U.K. show unusually high hospitalisation rates for this time of year, and the variant (subclade K) was first … Read more

Lead James Cook rushed for 117 yards and two touchdowns as the Buffalo Bills defeated the Cleveland Browns 23-20 in Cleveland on Dec. 21, 2025. Josh Allen, playing through a right-foot injury sustained late in the first half, completed 12 of 19 passes for 130 yards and added 17 rushing yards. The win moved Buffalo … Read more

Lead: Waymo resumed its autonomous ride-hailing operations in San Francisco on Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025, after a sweeping power outage disrupted traffic signals across large portions of the city. The outage, partly traced to a fire at a Pacific Gas & Electric substation near Eighth and Mission Streets on Saturday, left roughly 130,000 homes and … Read more

James Ransone, the Baltimore-born character actor best known for his Season 2 turn on HBO’s The Wire and later roles in horror films such as It Chapter Two and The Black Phone, died on Dec. 21, 2025, in Los Angeles. He was 46. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed the death and, according … Read more

CBS’s 60 Minutes withdrew a planned report on the Trump administration’s deportation of Venezuelan migrants to CECOT, a strict prison in El Salvador, hours before the show was to air. The network said on Sunday evening that the piece, titled “Inside CECOT,” will be rescheduled because it “needed additional reporting.” The episode pull came roughly … Read more