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Lead: Los Angeles prosecutors announced on Tuesday that they will file two counts of first-degree murder against 32-year-old Nick Reiner in the deaths of his parents, actor-director Rob Reiner, 78, and Michele Singer Reiner. The bodies were discovered Sunday in the master bedroom of the family home in Brentwood, Los Angeles, and law enforcement says … Read more

Lead On November 25 teams at NASA Goddard in Greenbelt, Maryland completed the final assembly of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and declared the observatory mission complete. The wide-field survey telescope, built around a 2.4 meter primary mirror, has passed thermal vacuum, acoustic and vibration testing and is on track for launch as soon … Read more

Lead Washington — On December 16, 2025, after Vanity Fair published an extensive profile quoting White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, President Donald J. Trump and several Cabinet members publicly defended her. The Vanity Fair piece, by Chris Whipple, is based on 11 interviews with Wiles conducted between Jan. 11 and Nov. 5 and … Read more

Lead Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson said a stretch of U.S. Highway 2 between Skykomish and Leavenworth will remain closed for “months” after severe storm damage from an atmospheric river. State officials say the closure affects about 49 miles of roadway, with sections completely washed out and at least one bridge buried under several feet of … Read more

On Dec. 16, 2025, the American Heart Association (AHA) published a review in Circulation that has reignited a long-running debate over whether light alcohol consumption benefits cardiovascular health. The review, aimed at practicing cardiologists and released in July, concluded that one to two drinks per day appears not to raise—and may modestly lower—the risk of … Read more

On December 2025, the White House announced that President Donald J. Trump signed a new Proclamation broadening travel and entry limits for nationals from multiple countries deemed to have persistent weaknesses in identity verification, vetting, and information sharing. The measure preserves full bans on the original 12 high-risk countries and adds five more for full … Read more

Lead: Los Angeles authorities announced they will brief the public after filmmaker Rob Reiner, 78, and his wife Michele, 68, were found dead at their Brentwood home on Sunday. Emergency responders arrived about 15:38 local time (23:38 GMT) and the couple were pronounced dead at the scene; their 28-year-old daughter Romy discovered the bodies. Police … Read more

December 16, 2025 — Meta on Tuesday rolled out a software update that adds a conversation-focus mode to its Ray‑Ban Meta and Oakley Meta HSTN smart glasses, aiming to make speech clearer in noisy settings. The feature, announced earlier this year at Meta Connect, is initially available in the U.S. and Canada through an Early … Read more

Who: Nuno F. G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old professor in nuclear science and engineering at MIT and a native of Portugal. When and where: police say he was shot multiple times at his Brookline, Massachusetts, apartment on Monday evening, with officers called to the scene at about 8:30pm local time. What happened next: Loureiro was taken … Read more

Lead Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters on Tuesday that the Pentagon will not make public the unedited video of a September strike in the Caribbean that killed two people who had survived an earlier attack on a boat allegedly carrying cocaine. He said members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committees would be … Read more

December 16, 2025 — In Brussels, the European Commission proposed on Tuesday to dilute the EU’s 2035 ban on the sale of new combustion-engine cars, cutting the requirement from a full phase-out to a 90% tailpipe emissions reduction target. The change would allow a 10% carve‑out of new vehicles after 2035 — potentially plug‑in hybrids, … Read more

Lead Files from a kernel debug kit and an iOS pre-release build suggest Apple is testing a broad slate of forthcoming hardware, including a higher-end iMac apparently powered by an M5 Max chip. The debug-kit entry lists an internal identifier J833c on a platform tagged H17C, which engineers and observers link to M5 Max silicon. … Read more

Ken Griffin, founder and chief executive of Citadel, told the Financial Times that the White House should publicly distance itself from the Federal Reserve to safeguard the central bank’s independence and market confidence. The remarks, made in an interview with the FT, prompted renewed debate about the boundaries between political actors and monetary authorities. Griffin … Read more

Therapists treating eating disorders report a rise in orthorexia, an unhealthy preoccupation with eating only foods perceived as healthy. In recent years clinicians in private practice and virtual care have seen more patients whose diets become restrictive enough to cause nutritional shortfalls, social withdrawal, and emotional distress. Although orthorexia is not an official DSM-5 diagnosis, … Read more

Lead NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a roughly $4 billion observatory slated for launch in 2027, will spend part of its early mission deliberately observing cosmic voids—vast, sparsely populated regions of the cosmos. A recent paper in The Astrophysical Journal outlines how Roman’s wide-field infrared surveys could detect and measure tens of thousands of … Read more