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Lead: Authorities say the suspected gunman in the December shootings linked to Brown University and the killing of an MIT professor was found dead in a New Hampshire storage unit, days after two students were killed and nine others were wounded on the Providence campus. The suspect has been identified as 48-year-old Claudio Manuel Neves … Read more

Lead: The U.S. military announced on Thursday that it conducted two strikes against boats in the eastern Pacific it described as carrying contraband, saying five people were killed. U.S. Southern Command posted videos and a statement claiming the vessels were moving along established narcotrafficking routes and engaged in illicit operations. Officials said three people died … Read more

Lead: Ukraine says it used aerial drones to strike a Russian-linked “shadow fleet” tanker roughly 1,250 miles (2,000 km) from its borders, off the coast of Libya, in the first Mediterranean strike of its war. Kyiv and a Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) source said the tanker, identified as the Qendil, suffered critical damage and … Read more

Lead On Dec. 19, 2025, European leaders approved a $105 billion, interest-free loan to Ukraine that officials say will avert an immediate budget shortfall and underpin Kyiv’s war effort over the next two years. The loan is expected to cover roughly two‑thirds of Ukraine’s financial needs during that period and gives Ukrainian negotiators greater leverage … Read more

Lead Avatar: Fire and Ash returns viewers to James Cameron’s richly constructed moon, Pandora, as the Sully family faces fresh grief and new moral tensions. The film opens with the Sullys mourning the death of their eldest son Neteyam and explores how that loss reshapes relationships among Jake and Neytiri’s children, their adopted daughter Kiri, … Read more

Lead: A tip from a Reddit user identified only as “John” played a central role in Providence investigators’ effort to identify the person police say killed two Brown University students and, two days later, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor. The tip — posted after the department released images of a person of interest — … Read more

Lead New York Federal Reserve President John Williams said on Friday that technical issues around data collection likely pushed November’s consumer price index (CPI) reading slightly lower. Speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box on Dec. 19, 2025, Williams estimated the distortion at roughly one-tenth of a percentage point after the Bureau of Labor Statistics published a … Read more

Lead: On Friday, Dec. 19, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS made its closest pass to Earth, approaching within 168 million miles (270 million kilometers) at about 1 a.m. EST (0600 GMT). Discovered by NASA’s ATLAS survey on July 1, 2025, the object has provided a rare chance to study material formed beyond the solar system. After its … Read more

Lead Frankfurt am Main, 18 December 2025 — ECB President Christine Lagarde and Vice‑President Luis de Guindos told markets today the Governing Council will leave the three key interest rates unchanged while reaffirming the objective to stabilise inflation at 2% in the medium term. Eurosystem staff projections show headline inflation averaging 2.1% in 2025, 1.9% … Read more

EU leaders, after about 17 hours of often tense negotiations that stretched into the early hours of Friday, agreed to raise €90bn in zero-interest loans to keep Ukraine solvent for the next two years; the package is guaranteed by the bloc’s common budget. Kyiv had pressed that the funding was essential to pay troops and … Read more

At CES 2026 in Las Vegas, Displace unveiled the Displace Hub, a wall-mount accessory that can convert compatible existing TVs into mostly wireless displays. The Hub combines Displace’s “active-loop suction” mounting system with a built-in PC and a 15,000mAh rechargeable battery to power screens and run the company’s ambient computing platform. Displace says the Hub … Read more

Lead: President Donald Trump plans to return to Rocky Mount, North Carolina, on Friday, Dec. 19, 2025, in a visit that caps a week of public efforts to cast the U.S. economy as on the mend. The stop comes as recent polls show weak approval for his economic stewardship — a NPR/PBS News/Marist survey found … Read more

20th Century Studios’ Avatar: Fire and Ash collected an estimated $12 million in Thursday previews from showings that began at 2 p.m., setting an early tone for the holiday weekend. The figure trails the 2022 Avatar: The Way of Water previews ($17 million) but industry trackers still place the threequel between a $90 million and … Read more

Lead President Donald Trump directed the suspension of the U.S. diversity visa (green card) lottery on Thursday after authorities identified Claudio Neves Valente, a Portuguese national who entered the United States through that pathway, as the suspect in shootings at Brown University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said on … Read more

Lead: On Sunday in Los Angeles the Seattle Seahawks edged the Rams 38-37 in overtime after a dramatic late comeback that masked a host of mistakes earlier in the game. Seattle committed three turnovers, including two interceptions by QB Sam Darnold, and trailed late before converting a two-point play in regulation and winning on an … Read more