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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

Lead Amazon’s $629.99 Kindle Scribe Colorsoft is a rare e-reader that combines a color E Ink screen with a pressure‑sensitive stylus and notebook‑style note tools. After a week of hands‑on testing, the device impressed with long battery life, light weight (14.1 oz) and a pleasant Premium Pen, but its muted color, awkward one‑handed handling on … Read more

Lead: The US labor market showed signs of cooling in the delayed jobs release covering November and partial October data, with the unemployment rate rising to 4.6% from 4.4% in September. Payrolls increased by 64,000 in November, weaker than typical monthly gains, while October registered large federal payroll cuts that contributed to an overall loss. … Read more

U.S. equity markets slipped on Tuesday after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a delayed employment report that painted a mixed picture of the labor market. The S&P 500 fell about 0.3% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped roughly 120 points (0.3%), while the Nasdaq traded near breakeven as investors absorbed the data. November … Read more

On Dec. 16, 2025, actress Genie Francis reflected on the death of her longtime on-screen partner Anthony Geary, who died Sunday at 78. Francis, 63, and Geary spent 37 years portraying Laura and Luke Spencer on General Hospital, a pairing that helped reshape daytime television and drew massive audiences. Their 1981 wedding episode alone attracted … Read more

Lead Cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Jeremy London and cardiologist Dr. Glenn Hirsch have warned that heart attacks and abnormal heart rhythms rise around the Christmas and New Year period, with Christmas Eve cited as a particularly high-risk day. They attribute the seasonal increase to behavioral shifts—binge drinking, overeating (especially salty foods), reduced physical activity, stress and … Read more

Lead James Cameron’s third Avatar instalment, Avatar: Fire and Ash, opened in December 2025 as part of the franchise that includes the 2009 original and 2022’s Avatar: The Way of Water. At 197 minutes, the film is markedly longer than earlier entries and leans heavily on spectacle over tidy storytelling. Critics argue it favors franchise … Read more

Lead: Howard Stern announced on Tuesday morning that he has signed a new three-year agreement to remain with SiriusXM, ending months of public speculation about his future. The deal, Stern said, gives him greater flexibility and more free time while keeping him on the satellite platform he joined in 2006. Terms were not disclosed, though … Read more

Lead: In December 2025, as Netflix and Paramount contest control of Warner Bros., the studio’s long, fraught history of mergers has returned to the headlines. From the $182 billion AOL–Time Warner wedding in 2000 to AT&T’s $85.4 billion purchase of Time Warner in 2018 and the 2022 formation of Warner Bros. Discovery, repeated consolidation attempts … Read more

Lead: U.S. nonfarm payrolls increased by a seasonally adjusted 64,000 in November after an abbreviated October count showed a 105,000 decline, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Tuesday in figures delayed by the recent government shutdown. The unemployment rate climbed to 4.6%, the highest since September 2021, while a broader measure including discouraged and … Read more

Lead: Nick Reiner, 32, was arrested and booked on murder charges Sunday in connection with the deaths of his parents, actor-director Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, authorities and media reported. On the same day, Providence police released an image they believe shows the gunman in the Brown University campus shooting that killed two students … Read more

Lead: On 16 December 2025, a UK court sentenced 54-year-old Paul Doyle to 21½ years in prison after he drove his van into crowds of Liverpool supporters during the club’s Premier League victory parade on 26 May 2025. The attack, captured on dashcam and other footage, injured more than 130 people — including infants, children … Read more

Lead Kraft Heinz has named Steve Cahillane, the former CEO who oversaw Kellogg’s post-breakup spinoff, as its next chief executive effective Jan. 1. The move comes as the food giant prepares to split into two publicly traded companies, a separation the company projects will occur in the second half of 2026. Cahillane will lead the … Read more

Lead: The U.S. economy recorded a loss of 105,000 jobs in October and a gain of 64,000 in November, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday, helping to clarify a months-long period of mixed signals in the labor market. The national unemployment rate rose to 4.6% in November. Revisions released with the report also trimmed … Read more

Lead: On Dec. 16, 2025, outside Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, a group of Palestinian hikers altered a planned route after encountering an Israeli settler encampment near a centuries-old spring. What had been linear walks across hills and valleys are increasingly truncated as new tents and outposts appear along traditional paths. Hikers now report … Read more