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Lead On 18 December 2023, Democrats on the US House Oversight Committee published a set of 68 photographs subpoenaed from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, drawn from roughly 95,000 images the committee says it holds. The batch includes site plans for Great St James island, multiple passports (most redacted), screenshots of messages including the line “I will … Read more
Week 16 brings an NFC West showdown as the 11-3 Seattle Seahawks host the 11-3 Los Angeles Rams at Lumen Field. Media prognosticators are split, with several outlets favoring Seattle and others backing the Rams; the consensus centers on turnovers, red‑zone finishing and short‑week injury questions that could swing home‑field implications. The teams met earlier … Read more
Lead Former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and members of his family were killed when a small business jet crashed and caught fire while landing at Statesville Regional Airport in North Carolina on Dec. 18, 2025. Local authorities and the families identified the victims, and the Iredell County Sheriff’s Office said five adults and two children … Read more
The first teaser for Avengers: Doomsday confirms that Chris Evans will reprise Steve Rogers, and it closes with a surprising image: Captain America holding a newborn child. The short clip, attached to screenings of Avatar: Fire and Ash, sets the blockbuster for a Dec. 18, 2026 release and ends on a one-year countdown. The teaser’s … Read more
Lead President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday directing the attorney general to move cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III under federal law, a change intended to widen research and ease some restrictions. The order does not legalise cannabis federally but would reclassify it alongside drugs such as codeine-containing pain relievers. The … Read more
In 2004 Paul Kalas first reported a planet-like source near Fomalhaut; two decades later astronomers have observed a separate, striking event near the same star: what appears to be two large planetesimals colliding and producing a bright, expanding dust cloud. The feature—detected at the outer edge of Fomalhaut’s debris belt roughly 133 astronomical units (AU) … Read more
The Powerball jackpot climbed to an estimated $1.5 billion after Wednesday’s drawing produced no jackpot winner, marking the seventh-largest prize in combined Mega Millions and Powerball history and one of eight top-10 jackpots since 2022. This is the 14th lottery prize to surpass $1 billion, a milestone first reached in 2016. The prize has been … Read more
Lead: A business jet registered to a former NASCAR driver crashed near Statesville Regional Airport in Statesville, North Carolina, during the early hours, killing six people, local authorities confirmed. Emergency responders secured the scene and recovery operations were completed before investigators began a preliminary on-site review. Federal and local agencies have said a formal technical … Read more
Lead The White House announced that the Kennedy Center’s board voted to rename the national performing arts venue the “Trump-Kennedy Center,” a decision said to have been reached this week during a board meeting. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt posted that the vote was unanimous and framed the change as recognition of President Trump’s role in … Read more
Lead: In 2023, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured changing bright knots of material near the young star Fomalhaut, 25 light-years from Earth, and astronomers now interpret those features as dust clouds produced by two separate collisions between large space rocks. The study, published Thursday in the journal Science, finds the impactors were at least 37 … Read more
Lead Law-enforcement sources told CBS News that investigators have identified a person of interest in the fatal shooting at Brown University that killed two students and wounded nine others. The attack, which took place on Saturday inside the Barus & Holley engineering building during final exams, has prompted an active search that entered its sixth … Read more
Multiple sources briefed on the probes told ABC News on Dec. 18, 2025, that investigators are examining a possible connection between the mass shooting on the Brown University campus and the fatal shooting of an MIT professor in Brookline. Detectives working both cases reportedly compared notes in the previous 24 hours and say they are … Read more
Five days after Rob Reiner, 78, and Michele Singer Reiner, 70, were found dead in their Brentwood home, a clearer timeline is taking shape around the killings and the arrest of their son, 32-year-old Nick Reiner. Authorities charged Nick with two counts of murder on Tuesday; he appeared in court the following day and is … Read more
Lead Elliott Investment Management, the private investment firm that owns Waterstones and Barnes & Noble, has held early talks about a possible initial public offering for the bookselling group, the Financial Times reported on 18 December 2025. Sources say the multibillion-pound business prefers a London listing to New York, though no final decision has been … Read more
Lead NASA engineers at JPL are certifying the Perseverance rover to drive up to 100 kilometers on Mars as the agency’s Mars Sample Return (MSR) plans remain unsettled. Perseverance landed in Jezero Crater in February 2021 and has already driven roughly 40 kilometers while caching 33 sample tubes for potential return to Earth. With the … Read more
