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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
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
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
Late on Saturday night at Soldier Field, the Chicago Bears rallied from a 10-point deficit to tie Green Bay 16-16 in the final 1:59 of regulation and then won 22-16 in overtime when Caleb Williams connected on a 46-yard touchdown to DJ Moore. The victory improved the Bears to 11-4 and gave them a 1.5-game … Read more
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
In the early hours of 21 December 2025, armed attackers opened fire at a licensed tavern in Bekkersdal township near Johannesburg, killing at least nine people and wounding 10. Police say the shooting occurred just before 1:00 a.m. local time (23:00 GMT on 20 December) and that a manhunt is under way for the perpetrators. … Read more
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
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
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
Saturday night’s Powerball drawing on Dec. 20, 2025 produced a winning sequence that pushed the top prize to an extraordinary $1.5 billion. The numbers drawn were 4, 5, 28, 52 and 69 with Powerball 20 at the 11 p.m. ET drawing; a matching ticket would be eligible for a one-time cash payment of $686.5 million … Read more
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
Lead: In Week 16 of the 2025 NFL season, Philadelphia beat Washington 29-18 on Saturday to secure its second straight NFC East title, while the Seattle Seahawks edged the Los Angeles Rams 38-37 in Thursday night’s overtime thriller to vault into the NFC’s top seed. The Eagles relied on a more productive run game and … Read more
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
Lead On Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025 at Soldier Field in Chicago, the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears played a tense Week 16 game with major playoff implications. Green Bay led 6-0 at halftime, but the game’s headline came when Packers QB Jordan Love exited with a concussion and was ruled out; backup Malik Willis … Read more
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
