admin

Lead: Reddit has filed a legal challenge in the High Court of Australia against the government’s new law that bars people under 16 from holding accounts on specified social platforms. The rule, which took effect on Wednesday, applies to ten major services and has attracted global attention as a test case for child-protection regulations. Reddit … Read more

President Donald Trump announced on December 11, 2025, that he had granted a pardon to Tina Peters, a former Mesa County clerk serving a nine-year state sentence after a 2024 conviction for crimes tied to unauthorized access of voting machines. The move comes even though Peters was prosecuted, tried and sentenced in Colorado state court, … Read more

Lead: Robert Suarez, a 34-year-old Venezuelan fireballer who led the National League with 40 saves last season, agreed to a three-year, $45 million contract with the Atlanta Braves on Thursday in Orlando, Fla. The deal positions Suarez as a setup man and the primary insurance policy behind incumbent closer Raisel Iglesias, who signed a one-year, … Read more

Lead Jonathan Blow, the designer behind Braid and The Witness, revealed a new puzzle game, Order of the Sinking Star, during The Game Awards 2025. The isometric, grid‑based title promises roughly 1,000 discrete puzzles and an estimated 250 hours of playtime for a typical run (up to 500 hours for completionists). The game layers multiple … Read more

Lead On Dec. 11, 2025 at the White House, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to challenge state and local laws that regulate artificial intelligence. The order instructs the Justice Department to create an “AI Litigation Task Force,” asks the Federal Trade Commission and Federal Communications Commission to coordinate with DOJ, … Read more

Lead: At The Game Awards 2025, Remedy Entertainment revealed Control: Resonant, a follow-up to the studio’s 2019 Game of the Year, Control. The new entry is scheduled for release in 2026 on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, and it shifts the player perspective from Jesse Faden to her younger brother, Dylan. The Hiss … Read more

Lead: Dana Walden, Co-Chairman of Disney Entertainment, spoke to Bloomberg’s The Circuit about her place in the final stages of the company’s search for a new CEO and the recent Jimmy Kimmel suspension. In the interview she pushed back on framing internal candidates as rivals and described the company’s decision to pause Kimmel’s show as … Read more

Traders on the New York floor and in after-hours markets pushed benchmark indexes to new highs on Dec. 11, 2025, and futures tilted higher as the session closed. The Dow and S&P 500 recorded fresh intraday and closing records, while Nasdaq lagged after weakness in some large-cap tech names. Dow futures were up about 56 … Read more

Lead: On Dec. 11, 2025, an excavation crew struck an underground natural gas line on East Lewelling Boulevard in the unincorporated Ashland area of Alameda County, triggering an explosion and fire that damaged three buildings and sent six people to hospitals. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PG&E) says it was notified at 7:35 a.m., shut … Read more

Lead On Thursday, December 11, 2025, a gas-line explosion leveled at least one home and set off a large fire on the 800 block of East Lewelling Boulevard in Hayward, California. The blast, captured on a nearby doorbell camera, occurred about 9:30 a.m. after a construction crew earlier damaged an underground gas line. Six people … Read more

Lead On Dec. 11, 2025, an 18K gold necklace worn by Mariah Carey in her Christmas Holiday Special was announced for auction, with an appraisal of $595,000 and bidding opening the following Saturday. The statement notes the piece features three Colombian emeralds totaling nearly 60 carats and some 55 carats of diamonds along a 16.5-inch … Read more

On Dec. 11, 2025, a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia declined to return new charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James, marking a second consecutive grand-jury rejection within one week. The back-to-back refusals came amid a broader dispute between Ms. James and President Trump, whose administration has pursued renewed criminal scrutiny of political … Read more

Lead: In December 2025 Blizzard acknowledged and formalized a player-discovered way to make houses float in World of Warcraft, saying it had turned the glitch into an optional UI state after players rapidly adopted the unintended effect. Community Manager Randy “Kaivax” Jordan posted on the official forums that the development team moved “quickly” to enable … Read more

Federal Judge Paula Xinis of the U.S. District Court in Maryland on Thursday ordered the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Pennsylvania, finding the Trump administration lacked legal authority to continue his detention. Abrego was wrongfully deported to El Salvador in March and returned to the United States … Read more

Tyler Robinson, 22, appeared in person at a Provo, Utah, court on Dec. 11, 2025, for the first time since his arrest in the Sept. 10 fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University. Robinson is charged with seven state counts, including aggravated murder, an offense in Utah that can carry the … Read more