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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

Lead: More than two years after she vanished, Belgian national Celine Cremer’s mobile phone was recovered over the weekend near Philosopher Falls in northwestern Tasmania, police said. Cremer was last seen on June 17, 2023, in Waratah; her car was located about 10 days later. The device was discovered by an independent search group organized … Read more

New report finds the Arctic continues to warm faster than the planet as a whole Lead: A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) update released December 16, 2025, reports the Arctic is warming and changing more quickly than the global average, with direct local effects and global implications. Scientists documented striking phenomena — including hundreds … Read more

Veteran gaming reporter Mike Straw told the Insider Gaming podcast that multiple sources remain confident Half‑Life 3 will ship as a launch title tied to Valve’s new Steam Machine hardware in spring 2026. The claim revives a wave of early‑2025 rumours that the game was nearing completion but comes after at least one previously suggested … Read more

Lead University of Michigan officials told USA Today that a staff member alleged to have had an “inappropriate relationship” with fired and arrested former head coach Sherrone Moore remains employed because campus policy governs supervisor–employee intimate relationships. The policy (201.97) places reporting responsibility on the supervisor and requires a management plan to remove supervisory influence … Read more

Lead: Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have detected an extraordinary Jupiter-mass companion, PSR J2322-2650b, orbiting a millisecond pulsar and exhibiting an atmosphere dominated by helium and molecular carbon. The discovery, reported Tuesday in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, was made possible because the pulsar emits little visible light, allowing Webb to capture a clean … Read more

New pooled research finds that for people at low cardiovascular risk, reducing saturated-fat foods such as butter, cheese and fatty cuts of meat produced little to no benefit over about five years, while measurable gains appeared mainly among those already at high cardiovascular risk. The meta-analysis reviewed 17 trials covering 66,337 participants and was published … Read more

Lead: James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash arrives after years of anticipation, expanding the saga of Pandora with even more ambitious visuals and motion-capture work. Released December 19th, the film returns to Jake Sully and Neytiri as their family and adopted kin struggle with grief and the fallout of a brutal raid. The movie is … Read more

Lead: Xcel Energy warned Monday that it is likely to implement a Public Safety Power Shutoff beginning at noon on Wednesday, Dec. 17, for parts of Colorado’s Front Range as unseasonably dry conditions coincide with forecast high winds. The utility cited an elevated wildfire risk driven by weeks of warmth and low moisture, with wind … Read more