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Lead Sunday night at M&T Bank Stadium ended in disappointment for the Baltimore Ravens, who lost their final regular-season home game, 28-24, to the New England Patriots. The Ravens were hampered by a first-half injury to quarterback Lamar Jackson, and New England rookie Drake Maye threw for 380 yards and two touchdowns. An 89-yard final … Read more
Lead On Dec 21, 2025 at Bank of America Stadium, the Carolina Panthers edged the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 23-20, moving a game clear in the NFC South with two weeks remaining in the regular season. Rookie kicker Ryan Fitzgerald hit a 48-yard field goal with 2:20 left to provide the decisive points, and the Bucs’ … Read more
Lead DENVER — On Sunday afternoon at Empower Field at Mile High, Trevor Lawrence led the Jacksonville Jaguars to a 34-20 road victory over the Denver Broncos in Week 16 of the 2025 NFL season. Lawrence threw three touchdown passes and added a 1-yard rushing score as the Jaguars improved to 11-4 and stretched their … Read more
Nintendo has begun distributing a new 3.0.0 update for Donkey Kong Bananza on Nintendo Switch 2 that introduces Thai language support and an in-game camera automatic tracking option. The update, rolled out this week, makes on-screen text available in Thai when the console language is set to Thai/English while keeping audio in English. Players can … Read more
Lead On Saturday, a citywide power outage in San Francisco left roughly 130,000 customers without electricity at its peak and coincided with a separate traffic headache: multiple Waymo autonomous SUVs came to a halt in public streets, contributing to congestion. The outage followed a fire at a five-story power substation and prompted Pacific Gas and … Read more
Lead James Cook rushed for 117 yards and two touchdowns as the Buffalo Bills defeated the Cleveland Browns 23-20 in Cleveland on Dec. 21, 2025. Josh Allen, playing through a right-foot injury sustained late in the first half, completed 12 of 19 passes for 130 yards and added 17 rushing yards. The win moved Buffalo … Read more
Vice President JD Vance closed the final day of Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest on Sunday, December 21, 2025, at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona, rallying attendees around Christianity and an “America First” agenda while paying repeated tribute to the late founder Charlie Kirk. Earlier in the week, Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk’s widow and … Read more
Lead Jim Beam’s parent company, Suntory Global Spirits, has announced the main Jim Beam distillery in Kentucky will stop production for the entire 2026 calendar year to allow site upgrades. The decision was disclosed in a statement on Sunday and comes amid broader industry uncertainty tied to recent US trade policy shifts. Other operations in … Read more
Nintendo released an update for Donkey Kong Bananza on the Nintendo Switch 2 on December 21, 2025, moving the game to Version 3.0.0. The patch adds Thai text support and introduces a new toggle for the camera’s automatic tracking in the in-game Options menu. Nintendo’s support notes also cite several unspecified fixes aimed at improving … Read more
This flu season has been comparatively mild so far, but public health experts warn it could intensify in the coming weeks after a new H3N2 subclade—identified after this season’s vaccine was manufactured—began circulating internationally. Data from the U.K. show unusually high hospitalisation rates for this time of year, and the variant (subclade K) was first … Read more
Lead: Waymo resumed its autonomous ride-hailing operations in San Francisco on Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025, after a sweeping power outage disrupted traffic signals across large portions of the city. The outage, partly traced to a fire at a Pacific Gas & Electric substation near Eighth and Mission Streets on Saturday, left roughly 130,000 homes and … Read more
James Ransone, the Baltimore-born character actor best known for his Season 2 turn on HBO’s The Wire and later roles in horror films such as It Chapter Two and The Black Phone, died on Dec. 21, 2025, in Los Angeles. He was 46. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed the death and, according … Read more
CBS’s 60 Minutes withdrew a planned report on the Trump administration’s deportation of Venezuelan migrants to CECOT, a strict prison in El Salvador, hours before the show was to air. The network said on Sunday evening that the piece, titled “Inside CECOT,” will be rescheduled because it “needed additional reporting.” The episode pull came roughly … Read more
Lead Body-camera and store surveillance released by officials show a 21-year-old accused shoplifter, Shane C.L. Newman, allegedly drawing a handgun and pointing it at an off-duty Canton police officer inside a Walmart in Canton, Ohio, on Dec. 18, 2025. The weapon did not fire; a Walmart loss-prevention employee tackled Newman and officers quickly handcuffed him. … Read more
China’s central bank left its 1-year and 5-year loan prime rates at 3.00% and 3.50% on Monday, marking a seventh consecutive meeting without change on 22 December 2025 in Beijing. The decision comes as recent November data showed softer retail sales and industrial output and an ongoing downturn in the property sector, even as policymakers … Read more
