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Lead: Taiwanese authorities say a 27-year-old man carried out a planned knife-and-smoke-grenade rampage across Taipei on Friday, December 19, 2025, killing three people and wounding 11. Officials say the suspect, identified as Chang Wen, set fires at multiple sites, deployed smoke grenades near a major metro station and in a department store, and died after … Read more
Lead On Friday, former two-time unified heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua dominated and stopped Jake Paul in a one-sided bout streamed live on Netflix, dropping Paul four times before a sixth-round knockout. Joshua, listed at 6-foot-6 with an 82-inch reach, entered the fight as an overwhelming BetMGM favorite and used his size and power to good … Read more
Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bündchen, 45, married Joaquim Valente in a private ceremony at their Surfside, Florida home after a marriage license issued on December 1 and a wedding two days later on December 3. The union follows the couple’s public life together since 2023 and the birth of their first child, a son, on February … Read more
Bowen Yang is reported to be departing Saturday Night Live midseason after eight years with the program. Multiple entertainment outlets say this Saturday’s episode — hosted by Ariana Grande with Cher as the musical guest — is slated to be his final SNL appearance. Yang first joined the show as a writer in 2018 and … Read more
Lead On Dec. 20, 2025 in Norman, No. 9 Alabama erased a 17-0 hole to defeat No. 8 Oklahoma 34-24 in the first round of the College Football Playoff. The Crimson Tide turned momentum late in the second quarter with a blocked punt and a pick-six, then assembled a 24-0 run in the second half … Read more
U.S. equities finished the week on a constructive note Friday as major indexes closed higher following renewed buying in AI-linked stocks. The S&P 500 rose 0.88% to 6,834.50, the Nasdaq Composite climbed 1.31% to 23,307.62, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average added 183.04 points to 48,134.89. Strength in names tied to artificial intelligence and several … Read more
On Dec. 20, 2025, at Miami’s Kaseya Center, former two-time unified heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (29-4, 26 KOs) ended Jake Paul’s (12-2) latest crossover experiment with a sixth-round knockout. The scheduled eight-round bout ended at 1:31 of Round 6 after Joshua forced four knockdowns over the course of the fight. Paul spent much of the … Read more
On Dec. 20, 2025 in Norman, Oklahoma, No. 9 seed Alabama rallied from a 17-point hole to defeat No. 8 Oklahoma 34-24 in the College Football Playoff first round. Quarterback Ty Simpson threw for 232 yards and two touchdowns while freshman Lotzeir Brooks—scoreless during the regular season—found the end zone twice and posted season highs … Read more
Lead Anuradha Mittal, who chaired Ben & Jerry’s independent board for seven years, says she was warned by Magnum executives they would publish defamatory claims about her if she did not resign. The allegation surfaces amid a widening dispute over the autonomy of Ben & Jerry’s board after Unilever spun off its ice cream division … Read more
Lead: On Friday, retro publisher ININ Games briefly posted that Nintendo had announced two new, smaller cartridge sizes for the Switch 2, then removed that claim and issued a correction. The publisher said the change allowed it to revise production plans for a physical Switch 2 release of R-Type Dimensions III and that the boxed … Read more
Dec. 19, 2025 — The Delaware Supreme Court on Friday reinstated the 2018 compensation package for Elon Musk at Tesla, reversing a lower-court order that had undone the award. The unanimous five-member court ruled rescission was an improper remedy, finding that canceling the plan left Mr. Musk uncompensated for years of service. The decision clears … Read more
Lead Taylor Swift’s new Disney+ docuseries episodes show Andrea Swift prompting her daughter to consider dating NFL star Travis Kelce. The third and fourth installments landed on Disney+ on Thursday and include scenes where Andrea recounts tracking Kelce’s appearances at Swift’s shows. Those segments link moments from Kelce bringing a friendship bracelet to Swift’s tour … Read more
In response to a deadly ambush on 13 December in Palmyra that killed two US soldiers and a US civilian interpreter, US forces launched a large-scale strike across central Syria on Friday evening. US Central Command (Centcom) reported the operation hit more than 70 targets using over 100 precision munitions, with fighter jets, attack helicopters, … Read more
Lead: NASA announced that four crew members from three agencies will fly on SpaceX Crew-12 to the International Space Station no earlier than Feb. 15, 2026, for a long-duration science expedition. The crew includes NASA astronauts Jessica Meir (commander) and Jack Hathaway (pilot), ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev as mission specialists, … Read more
Lead: On 19 December 2025 at the Kaseya Center in Miami, Anthony Joshua defeated Jake Paul by sixth-round knockout in an eight-round, non-title heavyweight contest that capped a star-studded Netflix card. Joshua, 36, entered the ring at 243.4lb and imposed a physical advantage over Paul, 28, who weighed 216.6lb at the official weigh-in. The bout—contested … Read more
