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Lead On Dec. 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM EST, organizers announced the Powerball jackpot had reached an estimated $1 billion for the Saturday drawing, marking the seventh-largest prize in the game’s history. This is the second time a Powerball jackpot has hit the $1 billion mark in 2025 after no ticket matched all six numbers … Read more

Lead On December 13, 2025, a Los Angeles jury awarded a combined 40 million dollars to two women who said Johnson & Johnson talcum powders triggered their ovarian cancer. The verdict split as 18 million for Monica Kent and 22 million for Deborah Schultz and her husband. Johnson & Johnson said it will appeal the … Read more

Lead Hollywood is bracing after Warner Bros put itself up for sale, triggering a high-stakes contest between Paramount Skydance and Netflix that has workers fearing more layoffs and industry disruption. The dispute, unfolding in recent days on the back of a tentative Netflix agreement and a hostile $108bn Paramount Skydance bid, centers on who will … Read more

Lead: President Donald Trump presided over the ceremonial coin toss at the Army‑Navy game on Saturday at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland, and a brief on-field moment quickly dominated social feeds. Video clips circulating online showed the coin appearing to travel upward without visible rotation before landing, and the referee called tails, giving Army … Read more

Dan Houser, the co-creator of Grand Theft Auto, has published his debut novel, A Better Paradise, a near‑future dystopia in which a gaming platform unleashes a sentient AI that begins to manipulate human thought. Written before ChatGPT became widely available and first issued as a podcast, the book follows Mark Tyburn, a tech CEO who … Read more

Fernando Mendoza, Indiana University’s redshirt junior quarterback, was named the 91st Heisman Trophy winner on Dec. 13, 2025, during ABC’s ceremony at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York. Mendoza finished the voting with 2,362 points and 643 first-place votes, edging Vanderbilt’s Diego Pavia and Notre Dame’s Jeremiyah Love. The award caps a 13-0 season … Read more

Jane Fonda on December 2025 released a satirical short that reworks Nicole Kidman’s recent AMC Theatres spot to criticize the proposed Netflix acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). The parody, staged inside a movie theater, echoes Kidman’s cadence while replacing celebration with warnings about consolidation’s effects on creativity, jobs and independent media. Fonda’s clip follows … Read more

Lead: A fast-moving clipper system tapping Atlantic moisture is bringing the season’s first broadly felt snow to New York City and the wider Tri-State region, with impacts expected through Sunday. The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Weather Advisory covering New York City and much of the Tri-State into Sunday afternoon, and municipal crews … Read more

Lead Brian Walshe, 50, faces a jury in Norfolk County after his wife Ana was declared dead on January 1, 2023, and prosecutors say he dismembered her and discarded remains in area dumpsters. Jury deliberations began on December 13, 2025, after eight days of testimony that examined digital searches, physical evidence and conflicting accounts. Prosecutors … Read more

On Saturday in Newark, the Vancouver Canucks began integrating three players acquired a day earlier from the Minnesota Wild after the blockbuster trade that sent defenseman Quinn Hughes to Minnesota. Marco Rossi, Zeev Buium and Liam Ohgren skated in a heavy, instruction-focused practice at the RWJBarnabas Health Hockey House as the club prepares for its … Read more

Lead: On Saturday in Providence, a gunman dressed in dark clothing opened fire inside the Barus & Holley engineering building at Brown University during engineering finals, killing at least two people and wounding eight others. Campus police and Providence officers conducted an extensive search of campus buildings and grounds for hours after the attack while … Read more

Lead: On Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025, John Cena — after more than 23 years with WWE — headlined the final WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., wrestling what was billed as his last in-ring match. Cena faced Gunther, who earned the opportunity by winning WWE’s “Last Time Is Now” … Read more

At least two people were killed and eight others critically or seriously wounded in a shooting on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025, at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. The incident occurred a little after 4 p.m. local time inside the Barus & Holley engineering building, where final exams were under way. Providence officials said the … Read more

Legendary actor and comedian Dick Van Dyke celebrated his 100th birthday on Saturday, marking a rare centennial milestone for a performer still active in public life. In recent years he has continued performing locally in Malibu with a troupe called Vandy Camp, contributed to new media projects including a Coldplay music video, and appears in … Read more

Lead: Abraham Quintanilla Jr., the music producer who discovered and managed his daughter Selena as she rose to become a Grammy-winning star of Tejano music, died on Dec. 13, 2025. He was 86. The death was announced by his son, A.B. Quintanilla, on Instagram; the post did not specify a location or cause. Quintanilla turned … Read more