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Lead On Dec. 17, 2025, internal guidance circulated to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) field offices directs staff to provide the Department of Justice’s Office of Immigration Litigation with 100–200 denaturalization cases per month in fiscal 2026. The instruction, confirmed in reporting by The New York Times, would mark a dramatic increase compared with … Read more

Markets will enter the Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025 session with traders focused on a compact set of catalysts that could drive volatility and sector rotation. Economic releases, company reports and Fed commentary all line up to influence price action across U.S. equities and fixed income. Ahead of the session, investors are weighing year‑end positioning, recent … Read more

Lead BP has named Meg O’Neill as its next chief executive, replacing Murray Auchincloss and making her the first woman to run a major global oil company. The appointment was announced this week and O’Neill will take up the role on 1 April, with Carol Howle serving as interim CEO until then. Auchincloss, who succeeded … Read more

Interim University of Michigan president Domenico Grasso said on Dec. 17, 2025, that the school will move quickly to terminate employees if a wide-ranging review of the football program and athletic department uncovers credible wrongdoing. Grasso spoke in a video update one week after the university fired head football coach Sherrone Moore on Dec. 10 … Read more

Financial Times reports that BP has replaced chief executive Murray Auchincloss after a tenure of under two years, marking another abrupt leadership change at one of the world’s largest oil majors. The move, disclosed by the FT and attributed to company and market sources, follows a period of strategic repositioning for BP as it balances … Read more

Dan Bongino, who was appointed deputy director of the FBI by President Donald Trump, announced Wednesday that he will leave the bureau in January. His written statement thanked Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi and Director Kash Patel and said he was grateful for the opportunity to serve. The departure follows months of high-profile disputes and … Read more

Lead: Former special counsel Jack Smith told House Judiciary Committee members on Dec. 17, 2025, in a private deposition that his decisions to prosecute former President Donald J. Trump were driven by evidence rather than politics. Smith said his team developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump participated in a scheme to overturn the … Read more

Lead: On Sept. 8, 2025, during the Bears’ home opener at Soldier Field, President & CEO Kevin Warren described a renewed momentum around the team and its fans. In an open letter released 100 days later, Warren reiterated the organization’s plan to pursue a new, world-class stadium and confirmed Arlington Heights remains the only Cook … Read more

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Wednesday that the Academy Awards will leave ABC after the 2028 ceremony and begin streaming on YouTube in 2029, with YouTube holding global streaming rights through 2033. ABC will continue to broadcast the Oscars through 2028, which will be the ceremony’s 100th anniversary. The shift … Read more

Lead Researchers have identified tiny mud nests built by bees inside fossilized skulls and jaw bones recovered from a limestone cave on Hispaniola, a discovery published 17 December 2025 in Royal Society Open Science. The finds, dated to roughly 20,000 years ago, represent the first recorded use of bones as nesting substrate by bees and … Read more

Lead: Delta President Glen Hauenstein will retire effective Feb. 28, 2026, the company announced in a Dec. 17, 2025 memo from CEO Ed Bastian. Hauenstein, who joined Delta in 2005, led the airline’s evolution from a largely domestic carrier into a global network spanning six continents and numerous joint ventures. Delta said Joe Esposito, a … Read more

On Tuesday, OpenAI rolled GPT Image 1.5 into ChatGPT, making photorealistic image edits available to all users via conversational prompts. The model is described as a native multimodal generator that handles text and pixels in one network and reportedly produces images up to four times faster than its predecessor while costing roughly 20 percent less … Read more

Nick Reiner, 32, made his first public court appearance in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, roughly three days after his parents, Rob Reiner, 78, and Michele Singer Reiner, 70, were found dead in their Brentwood home. Flanked by lead counsel Alan Jackson and two other attorneys, Reiner was visible only briefly and wore … Read more

Lead: Week 16 forces high-stakes roster choices for fantasy managers as playoff berths and championships loom. This guide weighs start-or-sit decisions for key quarterbacks based on matchups, recent form and advanced metrics. We highlight favorable plays (Jacoby Brissett, Jared Goff, Jordan Love, Bryce Young) and risky options to bench, offering concrete, data-driven reasoning to help … Read more

Lead A 25-year Swedish cohort study of nearly 28,000 people found that regular consumption of higher-fat cheese and cream was associated with a lower risk of developing dementia, particularly vascular dementia. Participants who averaged at least 50 grams per day of high-fat cheese or at least 20 grams per day of high-fat cream showed reduced … Read more