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Lead: A single ticket bought for Saturday’s Powerball drawing (Dec. 20, 2025) could win an estimated $1.5 billion annuity or a $689.3 million lump sum, if it matches the winning numbers. The jackpot climbed after no grand-prize ticket matched Wednesday’s draw. That earlier drawing produced two $2 million winners and matched five white balls and … Read more
Lead Pope Leo XIV has invited every cardinal in the global Catholic hierarchy to Rome for a two‑day consistory on Jan. 7–8, 2026, immediately after the Jan. 6 close of the 2025 Holy Year. The Vatican framed the meeting as a consultative session to advise the pope on governing the universal Church. The timing follows … Read more
Kentucky overturned an early deficit to defeat No. 22/20 St. John’s 78-66 on Saturday in the CBS Sports Classic in Atlanta. Otega Oweh led the Wildcats with 20 points, five rebounds and three steals while the UK bench outscored the Red Storm 40-10. Jayden Quaintance, making his first appearance of the season, contributed 10 points … Read more
Lead: Supermodel Gisele Bündchen, 45, and jiu-jitsu instructor Joaquim Valente, 38, reportedly married in a private ceremony at their Miami home last month. The news, first reported by Page Six, surfaced shortly before her ex-husband Tom Brady, 48, posted two brief Instagram stories that many followers found striking. Brady’s images — one reading ‘forever young’ … Read more
Lead: Jake Paul underwent corrective jaw surgery Saturday morning after suffering a broken jaw in Friday night’s heavyweight bout at Miami’s Kaseya Center, where Anthony Joshua stopped him with a sixth-round knockout. Paul was hospitalized after the fight and posted images showing fractures in two places; surgeons inserted titanium plates and he will be limited … Read more
Comedian Bowen Yang is leaving Saturday Night Live in the middle of its current season, stepping away during his eighth year with the long-running NBC sketch show. His final appearance is scheduled for the Saturday episode hosted by Ariana Grande with Cher as the musical guest. Yang, 35, confirmed the departure in a brief social … Read more
Dec. 20, 2025 — 1:04 p.m. Health officials warn a fast-spreading influenza strain dubbed subclade K is driving a nationwide uptick in flu cases and hospital visits. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a 14.3% rise in the nation’s hospitalization rate as of Friday, and early samples show the new subclade accounts for … Read more
Lead The Philadelphia Eagles (9-5) visit the Washington Commanders (4-10) in Week 16 on Saturday, December 20, with kickoff set for 5:00 p.m. ET. The game will air nationally on FOX and is available to local streamers through FOX’s platforms. Multiple radio options — English and Spanish — and the NFL’s subscription service NFL+ provide … Read more
Lead: The U.S. Coast Guard is intercepting a sanctioned vessel on Dec. 20, 2025, in international waters of the Caribbean Sea off Venezuela, three U.S. officials told reporters. The operation is ongoing and authorities have not yet released the ship’s name or precise coordinates. If confirmed, this would be the second sanctioned tanker seized by … Read more
Lead: James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash opened Friday to a $36.5 million haul from 3,800 North American theaters, immediately leading the domestic box office. Early estimates place the film on track for an $85 million to $90 million domestic weekend and as much as $365 million worldwide by Sunday. The third entry follows returning … Read more
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
