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Comedian Bowen Yang is leaving Saturday Night Live in the middle of its current season, stepping away during his eighth year with the long-running NBC sketch show. His final appearance is scheduled for the Saturday episode hosted by Ariana Grande with Cher as the musical guest. Yang, 35, confirmed the departure in a brief social … Read more
Dec. 20, 2025 — 1:04 p.m. Health officials warn a fast-spreading influenza strain dubbed subclade K is driving a nationwide uptick in flu cases and hospital visits. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a 14.3% rise in the nation’s hospitalization rate as of Friday, and early samples show the new subclade accounts for … Read more
Lead The Philadelphia Eagles (9-5) visit the Washington Commanders (4-10) in Week 16 on Saturday, December 20, with kickoff set for 5:00 p.m. ET. The game will air nationally on FOX and is available to local streamers through FOX’s platforms. Multiple radio options — English and Spanish — and the NFL’s subscription service NFL+ provide … Read more
Lead: The U.S. Coast Guard is intercepting a sanctioned vessel on Dec. 20, 2025, in international waters of the Caribbean Sea off Venezuela, three U.S. officials told reporters. The operation is ongoing and authorities have not yet released the ship’s name or precise coordinates. If confirmed, this would be the second sanctioned tanker seized by … Read more
Lead: James Cameron’s Avatar: Fire and Ash opened Friday to a $36.5 million haul from 3,800 North American theaters, immediately leading the domestic box office. Early estimates place the film on track for an $85 million to $90 million domestic weekend and as much as $365 million worldwide by Sunday. The third entry follows returning … Read more
Lead: Michaela Benthaus, a 33-year-old paraplegic engineer from Germany, flew on Blue Origin’s New Shepard from West Texas on Saturday, 20 December 2025, becoming the first person who uses a wheelchair to ride to the edge of space. The roughly 10-minute suborbital mission reached more than 65 miles (105 km) altitude and delivered more than … Read more
Federal records tied to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were posted by the Justice Department beginning Friday and continued to appear on the agency’s public “Epstein Library” site into Saturday. By Saturday afternoon, NPR identified more than a dozen items that were available on Friday but could no longer be downloaded, including a file that … Read more
New South Wales (NSW) authorities moved this week to outlaw the chant “globalise the intifada” and fast-track tougher hate-speech, protest and firearms measures after the Bondi Beach attack that killed 15 people last Sunday. Premier Chris Minns said he will recall state parliament next week and seek to classify the slogan as hate speech while … Read more
Dec. 20, 2025 — At Kyle Field in College Station, No. 7 Texas A&M and No. 10 Miami played a low-scoring, turnover- and kicking-driven College Football Playoff semifinal. The teams were scoreless through the first half — the first 0-0 half in CFP play since 2014 — before Miami finally broke the deadlock early in … Read more
Lead: On December 20, 2025, the Delaware Supreme Court reversed the Court of Chancery and reinstated the 2018 compensation plan that could award Elon Musk roughly $55 billion in option value, a sum that by recent share prices would be worth far more. The high court nonetheless found the award merited only a nominal penalty … Read more
Lead: On December 20, 2025, ballistic missiles struck port infrastructure in Odesa, southern Ukraine, killing eight people and wounding 27, Ukraine’s emergency service said. The attack hit vehicles and port facilities late Friday, with some casualties reported on a bus at the strike site. The strike occurred as U.S.-backed diplomatic efforts — including planned talks … Read more
Lead Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., directed by President Donald Trump, is preparing to propose a new childhood immunization schedule that mirrors the fewer-dose approach used in Denmark. The development, reported on Dec. 19, 2025, follows tentative steps Kennedy and his appointees took over the past year toward reshaping vaccine guidance. Administration officials say … Read more
Former president Bill Clinton on Friday accused the White House of using him as a political scapegoat after a congressionally ordered release of government files included photographs showing him with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell and with a young woman in a pool. Clinton has repeatedly said he severed ties with Epstein around 2005 and … Read more
Lead German actor Lars Eidinger has been tapped to portray Brainiac in James Gunn’s upcoming Superman and Lex Luthor film Man of Tomorrow, Deadline reports. The casting marks what the report describes as Brainiac’s first appearance on the big screen. The film pairs David Corenswet’s Superman with Nicholas Hoult’s Lex Luthor against a new cosmic … Read more
In Billund, Denmark, CBS News was granted a rare tour of a museum at the heart of the LEGO Group’s origin story, a staff-only collection that traces the brand’s evolution from mid-20th-century bricks to today’s multimillion-piece showcases. The exhibit sits adjacent to founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen’s original home and preserves early sets, including a 1955 … Read more
