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Less than 24 hours before their Sunday Night Football showdown with the San Francisco 49ers, the Chicago Bears secured the NFC North title when the Green Bay Packers fell to the Baltimore Ravens on Saturday night. It is the Bears’ first division crown since 2018 and only their sixth in this century, guaranteeing a home … Read more
Lead Iran’s president declared that Tehran is engaged in what he called an “all-out war” with the United States, Europe and Israel, following a sequence of military strikes, cyber incidents and reciprocal diplomatic measures. The statement, delivered amid heightened regional violence and sanctions pressure, framed these developments as part of a broader confrontation rather than … Read more
Lead The Seattle Seahawks prepared for their Week 17 matchup against the Carolina Panthers during practice on Wednesday, December 24, 2025, at the Virginia Mason Athletic Center. Coach Mike Macdonald oversaw a full session in which key veterans, including wide receiver Cooper Kupp, took part. The week’s work will shape late-season roster decisions and the … Read more
Lead On Christmas Day, a 15-year-old girl was allegedly abducted at knifepoint while walking her dog in Porter, a Houston suburb. Her father used the phone’s parental-control location feature to find the device about 2 miles (3.2 km) away in a wooded area of neighboring Harris County and went to the site. He found his … Read more
Lead: New York City’s subway system will retire the MetroCard payment option for good at the end of 2025. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) set Dec. 31, 2025, as the last day to buy or refill MetroCards as the transit network completes its transition to OMNY, a contactless tap-and-go fare system introduced in 2019. Officials … Read more
More than 40 million people are under watches or warnings as a fast-moving winter storm advances from the Dakotas through the Great Lakes and into northern New England over the coming days. Blizzard Warnings are active from Grand Forks and Fargo, North Dakota, through Rochester, Minnesota, and Mason City, Iowa, with forecasts of 3 to … Read more
The recent reshuffle in the GLP-1 market has renewed attention on large, currently out-of-favor drugmakers. In late 2025, Novo Nordisk’s GLP-1 pill approval and Eli Lilly’s competitive injectables reshaped investor expectations, while legacy firms Bristol Myers Squibb, Merck and Pfizer trade well below prior highs. Each of the three names offers differing yields, payout ratios … Read more
Lead Filmmakers Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein drew on Marty Reisman’s 1974 memoir to inspire their new film Marty Supreme, spotlighting a swaggering table-tennis hustler in 1950s New York. Reisman (born 1930, died 2012) rose from a Seward Park ping‑pong table to international exhibitions, World Championship competition and decades of showmanship. The memoir mixes verified … Read more
Lead Guineans cast ballots on Sunday in the country’s first presidential election since a military takeover in 2021, with junta leader Gen. Mamadi Doumbouya widely viewed as the frontrunner. The vote completes a four-year transition that began after Doumbouya removed President Alpha Condé. The campaign unfolded under a new constitution that lifted a ban on … Read more
Lead In 2025 the dominant theme across U.S. restaurants was the pursuit of “value”: chains from McDonald’s to Chili’s leaned on lower-priced bundles, promotions and marketing to counter falling traffic and tighter household budgets. Consumers earning under $40,000 a year cut back on dining out, and industry surveys show eating out is the first discretionary … Read more
On December 28, 2025, Mashable published hints and the full solution for the New York Times’ Connections: Sports Edition daily puzzle #461. The guide summarizes the four category themes, explains the logic behind them, and reveals all 16 solution words for readers who want the answers. Players who prefer to solve the puzzle themselves can … Read more
Brigitte Bardot, the French actress who rose to international fame in the 1950s and later became a high‑profile animal‑rights campaigner and controversial political voice, has died at 91. Her death was confirmed Sunday at her home in southern France by Bruno Jacquelin of the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the Protection of Animals; no cause of … Read more
Lead: In 2025 the US economy produced mixed signals: an unexpectedly strong third-quarter GDP reading contrasted with persistent price pressures and signs of weakening labor-market momentum. President Donald Trump hailed the data as evidence of a renewed economic boom, while official statistics show unemployment rising and job counts dipping in several months. Policymakers at the … Read more
How a Social-Media Tiff Built Texas’s $1B Parks Fund Lead: In 2025 an unlikely online spat between a Republican megadonor and an environmental campaigner morphed into a political partnership that helped create a $1 billion Texas state fund to buy parkland. The dispute began four years earlier on Twitter over wind turbines and bird mortality, … Read more
In southern Ukraine, an underground Cold War launch complex has been repurposed as the Museum of the Strategic Missile Forces, where visitors trace the history of Soviet strategic arms and the choice Ukraine made to dismantle its nuclear arsenal after independence. The site documents that 10 intercontinental ballistic missiles once stood on this base, each … Read more
