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Lead On 7 December 2025, Saturday Night Live returned to Studio 8H with Melissa McCarthy hosting for the sixth time. The episode opened with a political cold open starring Colin Jost as embattled defense secretary Pete Hegseth and folded in several holiday-themed sketches. McCarthy delivered physical set pieces that showcased her strengths, but the show … Read more

Lead On Dec. 5 Netflix announced terms to acquire Warner Bros. Streaming & Studios in a transaction tied to a broader corporate split that will leave traditional cable and live-sports assets outside the streamer. Warner Bros. Discovery will spin its Global Networks unit into a new publicly traded company, Discovery Global, with the separation expected … Read more

Lead: New retail-tracking figures for Black Friday week show PlayStation 5 led US console unit sales, while an unfamiliar device — the Nex Playground — outsold individual Xbox SKUs. Circana data shared by analyst Mat Piscatella on December 7, 2025, places PS5 at 47% of US hardware units, Switch 2 at 24%, and the Nex … Read more

Lead Rep. Adam Smith, the leading Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, told ABC News on Dec. 7, 2025, that surveillance footage of a U.S. strike on an alleged drug-trafficking vessel in the Caribbean Sea on Sept. 2 would contradict how Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and some Republicans have described the encounter. Lawmakers … Read more

Lead: A new set of studies published in Nature and Cell and reported Dec. 7, 2025, suggests the shingles (varicella‑zoster) vaccine could both lower the risk of developing dementia and slow decline in people already diagnosed. Researchers from Stanford Medicine and other groups analyzed health records and experimental data pointing to reduced disease progression and … Read more

Lead On December 6, 2025, Japan reported that a Chinese fighter jet directed its fire‑control radar at Japanese military aircraft during a weekend encounter, marking what Tokyo described as the first such radar lock. The episode comes amid rising strain after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s remarks last month suggesting Japan might join other countries in … Read more

Days after President Donald Trump granted a pardon to Texas congressman Henry Cuellar and the congressman’s wife, Trump publicly rebuked Cuellar for what he described as a “lack of loyalty.” The pardon came while the Cuellars faced federal bribery allegations that accused them of accepting thousands of dollars from Azerbaijani interests and a Mexican bank … Read more

Lead At the Yas Marina Circuit on the final day of the 2025 season, Lando Norris delivered the result he needed to claim his first Formula 1 Drivers’ Championship. Starting second on the grid between pole-sitter Max Verstappen and McLaren team mate Oscar Piastri, Norris finished third — behind Verstappen and Piastri — to secure … Read more

Dec. 7, 2025 — In the opening sketch of Saturday Night Live’s Dec. 7 broadcast, Colin Jost left his Weekend Update desk to play conservative commentator Pete Hegseth in a Pentagon press-conference segment. Hosted by Melissa McCarthy — her first time back since 2017 — and featuring musical guest Dijon, the episode opened with Jost … Read more

Lead On Dec. 7, 2025 at Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi, Lando Norris clinched his first Formula 1 world championship by finishing third in the season finale. Max Verstappen crossed the line first in the race while Oscar Piastri took second; Norris’s P3 was enough to secure the title by two points. The result … Read more

Audiences returned to Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza in force over the post-Thanksgiving weekend, sending Universal’s Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 to a strong opening. The sequel grossed an estimated $63 million domestically on its first weekend, outperforming industry projections of $35 million to $40 million. International receipts added roughly $46 million from 76 markets, bringing the … Read more

Lead: The US administration last week published a 33-page National Security Strategy that Moscow says is “largely consistent” with its outlook, a Kremlin spokesperson told TASS. The paper portrays Europe as facing a risk of dramatic demographic and cultural change and does not list Russia as a direct threat to the United States. It also … Read more

Lead: Over the past decade crypto has swung between technological promise and speculative excess. In conversations with limited partners, founders and investors from Singapore to London, the same question arises: how much of this ecosystem delivers real value? While memecoins, leveraged products and ephemeral NFT markets have dominated headlines, a quieter shift is unfolding—stablecoins, institutional … Read more

Lead Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu told reporters he believes the first phase of the UN-backed Gaza ceasefire is nearly complete and that the second phase must require Hamas to disarm. He made the comments during a joint press appearance with German chancellor Friedrich Merz in Israel, and said he will raise next steps with … Read more

Lead On the eve of Selection Day — the College Football Playoff bracket reveal scheduled for Sunday at 11 a.m. CT on ESPN — Alabama’s spot in the 12-team field was in serious doubt after a 28-7 loss to Georgia in the SEC title game. Entering Saturday, sportsbooks and model forecasts showed Alabama as a … Read more