Powerball jackpot soars to $1.5 billion for Saturday night’s drawing – ABC7 Los Angeles

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Lead Saturday night’s Powerball drawing produced no jackpot winner, lifting the estimated top prize to about $1.6 billion as reported on Sunday, December 21, 2025. The drawing, held across the multi-state Powerball network, returned winning numbers 4, 5, 28, 52, 69 with Powerball 20 and a Power Play of 3x. The rollover marks one of … Read more

Power Returns to Most of San Francisco After Widespread Outage

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Lead: On Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025, a major electricity outage left nearly one-third of San Francisco without power, disrupting businesses and prompting the cancellation of the San Francisco Ballet’s evening performance of “The Nutcracker.” Utilities and emergency crews worked through the afternoon and evening as firefighters battled a blaze at a PG&E substation near 8th … Read more

US intercepts second merchant tanker off Venezuela in international waters

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Lead U.S. forces apprehended a second merchant tanker carrying Venezuelan crude on Saturday in international waters east of Barbados, the Department of Homeland Security said. The interception, part of an expanded U.S. blockade announced this month, came after an earlier seizure on 10 December and targeted a Panama-flagged vessel believed to be the Centuries. U.S. … Read more

Rob Reiner’s son Nick still on suicide watch, in solitary confinement after being charged with parents’ murders – Entertainment Weekly

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Lead: Nick Reiner, 32, remains on suicide watch and in solitary confinement at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles after being arrested on Dec. 13 and charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner. Jail medical staff evaluated him on Dec. 15 … Read more

Indie Game Awards disqualify Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 after generative AI controversy – Notebookcheck

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Lead: At the Indie Game Awards 2025 on December 21, Sandfall Interactive’s Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was stripped of both Game of the Year and Debut Game after the studio’s producer, François Meurisse, confirmed that generative AI tools were used in development. The awards body says the studio had previously agreed that no generative AI … Read more

Jordan Love Exits for Training Room After Helmet-to-Helmet Hit; Questionable to Return

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Packers quarterback Jordan Love left the Bears game with 8:15 remaining in the second quarter after absorbing a helmet-to-helmet hit from Chicago defensive lineman Austin Booker. Officials threw a roughing-the-passer flag on the play; Love’s head struck the turf and he was escorted to the training room for concussion evaluation. Green Bay listed Love as … Read more

Pay Once for 20TB: Internxt Lifetime Cloud Storage for $399.97

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Lead: Internxt is offering a lifetime 20TB cloud storage subscription for a one‑time payment of $399.97 (regularly $4,900) in a limited sale running through Dec. 21. The plan promises enough capacity for millions of photos and documents, plus end‑to‑end encryption and GDPR compliance. The deal is marketed via third‑party sellers and aims to replace recurring … Read more

U.S. Coast Guard Boards Panamanian Tanker Carrying Venezuelan Oil

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Dec. 20, 2025 — The U.S. Coast Guard boarded a Panamanian-flagged tanker, the Centuries, in Caribbean waters after it had left Venezuela on Saturday, officials and industry sources said. The action, confirmed by a Homeland Security statement, is the second U.S. operation this month involving a tanker carrying Venezuelan crude bound for Asia. U.S. officials … Read more

San Francisco Outage Leaves 130,000 Without Power

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Lead On Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025, a widespread electrical outage plunged much of northern San Francisco into darkness, cutting service to about 130,000 homes and businesses, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) said. The disruption began in the Richmond and Presidio neighborhoods and areas around Golden Gate Park in the early afternoon and expanded across … Read more

House Divided: Oregon and James Madison Alma Maters Meet in CFP

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When the College Football Playoff bracket set No. 5 Oregon against No. 12 James Madison on Dec. 7, a Salem household that once assumed the matchup “would never happen” suddenly found itself split along alma-mater lines. Hailey Adkisson, a 2009 James Madison graduate from Eastern Washington, and her husband Derek, a 2007 Oregon alumnus, are … Read more