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Early Monday in east Jerusalem, Israeli police entered the compound of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, the agency said, escalating a months‑long campaign after Israel banned UNRWA from operating on its territory. UNRWA described the incursion as an unauthorized, forceful breach of the agency’s … Read more

Lead: Leonardo DiCaprio’s One Battle After Another emerged as the standout at the Golden Globe nominations announced on Monday, earning nine nods and positioning the film as the awards season frontrunner. The drama about the abduction of a former revolutionary’s daughter also secured acting nominations for DiCaprio and co-stars Sean Penn, Teyana Taylor, Benicio Del … Read more

Lead: Indianapolis Colts quarterback Daniel Jones suffered a torn right Achilles tendon on the final weekend of the 2025 season, ending his campaign and complicating plans for 2026. Jones had signed a one-year, $14 million deal with the Colts and had won eight of 12 starts before exiting Sunday in Jacksonville. The injury arrives as … Read more

Since taking office on 29 January 2025, President Ahmed al-Sharaa has undertaken an intense diplomatic sprint that has produced rare international goodwill for Damascus. In early December 2025 envoys from all 15 members of the UN Security Council visited Damascus to mark the anniversary of the fall of Bashar al-Assad, a show of unity unprecedented … Read more

Lead Since 1992, diagnoses of eight cancers in U.S. patients under 50 have roughly doubled, triggering urgent debate over whether finding more cancers earlier is always beneficial. The rise—reported by researchers and highlighted in an American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) special conference in December 2025—includes tumors of the thyroid, anus, kidney, small intestine, colorectum, … Read more

Lead: A 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck off Japan’s northeastern coast late Monday, prompting evacuation orders and a tsunami warning for parts of Iwate, Aomori and Hokkaido. Japan’s Meteorological Agency (JMA) warned that waves of up to about 3 meters (nearly 10 feet) could impact some coastal areas, and recorded a 40-centimeter (16-inch) wave in parts of … Read more

Lead: Mars, Incorporated has obtained final, unconditional approval from the European Commission on December 8, 2025, clearing the way for its planned purchase of Kellanova. The companies, headquartered in McLean, Virginia and Chicago, Illinois respectively, expect to close the transaction on December 11, 2025, subject to customary closing conditions. Once completed, Kellanova’s snack and cereal … Read more

Lead European Council President António Costa on Monday strongly rebuked the United States for suggesting it might influence political outcomes in Europe, saying only Europeans should decide which parties govern them. His comments followed the Trump administration’s national security strategy, published on Friday, which characterizes some European allies as weak and appears to offer tacit … Read more

Lead: Paramount Skydance on Monday announced a hostile, all-cash offer to buy Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), going directly to the studio’s shareholders after losing a months-long bidding contest to Netflix. The bid matches Paramount’s prior $30-per-share proposal that WBD had rejected last week, and is backed by equity from the Ellison family and RedBird Capital … Read more

2025-12-08 — President Donald Trump publicly said he would be “involved in that decision” over Netflix’s proposed $72 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, injecting political uncertainty into a deal that parties had expected to weather regulatory review. The comment came days after executives including Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav and Netflix co-CEO Ted … Read more

Lead Colin Allred, the Democrat who ran statewide in 2024, announced on the final filing day for Texas’ 2026 primaries that he is ending his campaign for U.S. Senate and instead will run for Congress in the newly drawn 33rd Congressional District based in Dallas. Allred, who represented a nearby House seat for six years … Read more

Lead: In the months after what some interviewees described as the end of Bashar al‑Assad’s rule, Syrians who fled during the conflict have begun returning. Chef Imad Alarnab, who left for London in 2015, went back to Damascus in November and found a city undergoing visible reconstruction. Academic Ammar Azzouz returned in March after 14 … Read more

President Donald Trump said on December 8, 2025, he will sign an executive order this week to impose a single federal standard for artificial intelligence, aiming to curtail state-level regulations. Speaking from the White House, Trump said a unified rule would prevent companies from seeking multiple state approvals for AI deployments. The announcement was made … Read more

Lead: President Volodymyr Zelensky traveled to London on Dec. 8, 2025, to meet Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer, France’s President Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz. The closed-door summit at 10 Downing Street aims to shore up military assistance and strengthen Zelensky’s negotiating leverage as peace talks with Russia have stalled. European leaders say … Read more

Lead The Pittsburgh Steelers moved past a difficult Week 13 and a swirl of questions about coach Mike Tomlin and quarterback Aaron Rodgers with a key road victory in Week 14. On Sunday in Baltimore the Steelers beat the Ravens 27-22 when edge rusher Alex Highsmith sacked Lamar Jackson on the game’s final play. Rodgers … Read more