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Lead: On December 10, 2025, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced it lowered the federal funds target range by 25 basis points to 3-1/2 to 3-3/4 percent. The statement, released at 2:00 p.m. EST, said economic activity has expanded at a moderate pace while job gains have slowed and the unemployment rate has edged … Read more
Lead The Federal Reserve is widely expected to approve a quarter-point reduction to its benchmark interest rate at its final policy meeting of the year on Wednesday, lowering the target to 3.50–3.75 percent. Policymakers will publish fresh economic projections, including the so-called dot plot, which market participants and analysts expect to reveal a divided committee … Read more
Lead Real Madrid and Manchester City meet in a high-profile Champions League fixture kicking off at 20:00 GMT. Pre-match reports highlight a surprise bench note and several injury concerns ahead of the game. Real sit sixth in the Champions League table and second in La Liga, while City arrive on the back of mixed recent … Read more
Kentucky State University officials and local authorities identified the student killed in a campus shooting as 19-year-old De’Jon Darrell Fox Jr. The shooting occurred on Tuesday afternoon on the Frankfort campus; Fox was taken to a nearby hospital and later pronounced dead, the Franklin County Coroner’s Office said. One other student was critically injured and … Read more
Lead On Dec. 10, 2025, CBS News announced Tony Dokoupil, 44, will become the solo anchor of the network’s flagship broadcast, CBS Evening News, replacing the dual-anchor team of John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois. The appointment is the first major personnel change at CBS News under incoming editor in chief Bari Weiss, who began the … Read more
Lead: As Republicans prepare to make the 2026 midterms a referendum on Donald Trump, Democrats in key races are split over strategy. In Texas, U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett opened a Senate bid by directly confronting Trump, while state Rep. James Talarico is emphasizing economic and pocketbook issues instead. The divergence reflects a broader Democratic debate … Read more
Lead Justin Hayward, co-lead singer of the Moody Blues, is now the only surviving member of the group inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame at Cleveland Public Hall in April 2018. In a Zoom interview from his home in a small village near the French side of the Italian border, Hayward described … Read more
In 2025 consumer opinion shifted markedly in favor of home projectors, driven by practical, higher-performance models from companies such as Anker and Valerion. Two standout products — Anker’s SoundCore Nebula X1 and Valerion’s VisionMaster Max — combined triple‑laser engines, Dolby Vision support and simplified setup to broaden appeal beyond enthusiasts. That momentum builds on earlier … Read more
Lead The Sundance Film Festival on Thursday unveiled its 2026 program — the festival’s last edition in Park City after 44 years, ahead of a planned move to Boulder, Colorado, in 2027. The slate includes 105 projects across features, docs and episodic work and leans heavily into comedy alongside politically charged documentaries and restored classics. … Read more
Lead US authorities have proposed requiring visitors who use the 90‑day visa‑waiver (ESTA) to provide five years of social media history as a condition of entry. The proposal, filed by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and posted in the Federal Register, would affect citizens of roughly 40 countries … Read more
Lead: Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni on Wednesday said it would be “ridiculous” to consider benching starter Jalen Hurts after Monday night’s 22-19 overtime loss to the Los Angeles Chargers. Sirianni made the comments during his weekly appearance on 94 WIP in Philadelphia, and reiterated that Hurts will start the next game against the … Read more
On December 10, 2025, a federal judge in California ordered the Trump administration to return control of California National Guard troops to Governor Gavin Newsom and blocked their deployment in Los Angeles. The injunction targets about 300 Guard members that the Department of Defense had kept in federal service under Title 10 after orders issued … Read more
Researchers report evidence from a roughly 400,000-year-old hearth in Britain that they say represents the earliest confident example of hominins making fire, potentially pushing accepted evidence back by about 350,000 years. Excavations and geochemical analyses found burned sediments, heat-altered flint tools and two small iron pyrite fragments that researchers argue were likely brought to the … Read more
Lead On Dec. 10, 2025, President Donald J. Trump moved closer to naming a successor to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell, whose term expires in May 2026, even as the central bank prepares to decide interest rates this week. The search has added a political dimension to an already fraught policy decision, because Mr. … Read more
Lead: Kyle Schwarber agreed to a five-year, $150 million contract to remain with the Philadelphia Phillies, the club announced on Tuesday. The deal makes the 32-year-old a designated hitter in Philadelphia and is the first major free-agent signing among hitters this offseason. Schwarber arrives at the agreement after a career season in 2025 in which … Read more
