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Lead: Michaela Benthaus, a 33-year-old paraplegic engineer from Germany, flew on Blue Origin’s New Shepard from West Texas on Saturday, 20 December 2025, becoming the first person who uses a wheelchair to ride to the edge of space. The roughly 10-minute suborbital mission reached more than 65 miles (105 km) altitude and delivered more than … Read more
Federal records tied to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were posted by the Justice Department beginning Friday and continued to appear on the agency’s public “Epstein Library” site into Saturday. By Saturday afternoon, NPR identified more than a dozen items that were available on Friday but could no longer be downloaded, including a file that … Read more
New South Wales (NSW) authorities moved this week to outlaw the chant “globalise the intifada” and fast-track tougher hate-speech, protest and firearms measures after the Bondi Beach attack that killed 15 people last Sunday. Premier Chris Minns said he will recall state parliament next week and seek to classify the slogan as hate speech while … Read more
Dec. 20, 2025 — At Kyle Field in College Station, No. 7 Texas A&M and No. 10 Miami played a low-scoring, turnover- and kicking-driven College Football Playoff semifinal. The teams were scoreless through the first half — the first 0-0 half in CFP play since 2014 — before Miami finally broke the deadlock early in … Read more
Lead: On December 20, 2025, the Delaware Supreme Court reversed the Court of Chancery and reinstated the 2018 compensation plan that could award Elon Musk roughly $55 billion in option value, a sum that by recent share prices would be worth far more. The high court nonetheless found the award merited only a nominal penalty … Read more
Lead: On December 20, 2025, ballistic missiles struck port infrastructure in Odesa, southern Ukraine, killing eight people and wounding 27, Ukraine’s emergency service said. The attack hit vehicles and port facilities late Friday, with some casualties reported on a bus at the strike site. The strike occurred as U.S.-backed diplomatic efforts — including planned talks … Read more
Lead Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., directed by President Donald Trump, is preparing to propose a new childhood immunization schedule that mirrors the fewer-dose approach used in Denmark. The development, reported on Dec. 19, 2025, follows tentative steps Kennedy and his appointees took over the past year toward reshaping vaccine guidance. Administration officials say … Read more
Former president Bill Clinton on Friday accused the White House of using him as a political scapegoat after a congressionally ordered release of government files included photographs showing him with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell and with a young woman in a pool. Clinton has repeatedly said he severed ties with Epstein around 2005 and … Read more
Lead German actor Lars Eidinger has been tapped to portray Brainiac in James Gunn’s upcoming Superman and Lex Luthor film Man of Tomorrow, Deadline reports. The casting marks what the report describes as Brainiac’s first appearance on the big screen. The film pairs David Corenswet’s Superman with Nicholas Hoult’s Lex Luthor against a new cosmic … Read more
In Billund, Denmark, CBS News was granted a rare tour of a museum at the heart of the LEGO Group’s origin story, a staff-only collection that traces the brand’s evolution from mid-20th-century bricks to today’s multimillion-piece showcases. The exhibit sits adjacent to founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen’s original home and preserves early sets, including a 1955 … Read more
Dec. 20, 2025 — Bowen Yang, the 35-year-old actor and comedian and five-time Emmy nominee, announced on Saturday that he will leave Saturday Night Live after this weekend’s episode. The departure, revealed in an Instagram post, marks an unexpected midseason exit for a performer who joined the show as a writer in 2018 and rose … Read more
Lead On December 20, 2025, director-writer James Gunn announced that German actor Lars Eidinger will play Brainiac in Man of Tomorrow, the follow-up to this summer’s Superman. The casting was revealed via Gunn’s post on X and resolves weeks of speculation about the villain role. David Corenswet returns as Superman and Nicholas Hoult is set … Read more
Lead: Saline Township officials south of Ann Arbor say they settled a lawsuit in December 2025 that cleared the path for a 2.2-million-square-foot hyperscale data center planned by OpenAI partner Related Digital and Oracle. The board’s settlement follows a Sept. 12 suit filed by Related Digital and several landowners after the township voted 4-1 to … Read more
Lead Valve has stopped producing the Steam Deck LCD 256GB model, removing the $399 entry-level option from sale in the U.S. and listing a notice on its storefront that the configuration will not return once stock is exhausted. As of this report the 256GB LCD SKU is out of stock on the U.S. site and … Read more
With a single victory the Philadelphia Eagles can clinch a second straight NFC East crown, and that opportunity arrives Saturday with a 5:00 PM kickoff in Landover, Maryland against the Washington Commanders. The matchup carries extra resonance: Washington was the team the Eagles beat in the 2024 NFC Championship Game en route to Super Bowl … Read more
