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Lead: On Dec. 8, 2025, Paramount Skydance submitted a $108.4 billion hostile, all-cash offer to acquire all of Warner Bros. Discovery, days after Warner struck an agreement with Netflix valued at $82.7 billion. Paramount Skydance said its $30-per-share tender would cover Warner Bros. Discovery’s debt and provide shareholders a faster, cleaner cash exit. The move … Read more
Houston’s defense seized control at Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday night, intercepting Patrick Mahomes three times and halting Kansas City on two second-half fourth-down attempts to secure a 20-10 win. The victory moved the Texans to 8-5, one game behind the Jacksonville Jaguars in the AFC South, while the Chiefs fell to 6-7 and now face … Read more
Google invited reporters to test a prototype of its next-generation smart glasses in early December, showing how the device can surface directions, answer calls and annotate scenes using Gemini and the Android XR platform. During a May demo and follow-up sessions this week, Google demonstrated live image edits and voice-driven queries that appear near the … Read more
On Dec. 8, 2025, a powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 struck offshore of Aomori Prefecture on Honshu after 11 p.m. local time, prompting tsunami warnings for parts of northern Japan and immediate evacuation orders. The Japan Meteorological Agency reported a 5.6-magnitude aftershock and issued tsunami alerts for Aomori, Iwate and Hokkaido, with … Read more
Lead On Dec. 8, 2025, President Donald J. Trump hosted the Kennedy Center Honors ceremony in Washington, D.C., taking a central role in selecting and praising the evening’s honorees. The lineup included Sylvester Stallone, the rock band Kiss, Gloria Gaynor, George Strait and Michael Crawford, whom Mr. Trump singled out for his role in Phantom … Read more
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 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
