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Fernando Mendoza capped a historic season Saturday night in New York by winning the 2025 Heisman Trophy, becoming the first player from Indiana University to take college football’s top individual honor. The Miami-born quarterback led the Hoosiers to a 13-0 record, the program’s first Big Ten championship since 1967 and its first-ever No. 1 ranking. … Read more
Chicago-area residents should prepare for accumulating snow in some locations and dangerously low wind chills this weekend as the National Weather Service and local meteorologists warn. Advisories and alerts cover parts of northeastern Illinois, northwest Indiana and southeastern Wisconsin beginning Saturday evening and lasting into Sunday. Municipalities including Aurora have opened warming centers and adjusted … Read more
Around 4:05 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025, a shooter opened fire inside the Barus & Holley engineering and physics building at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, during a period when exams and study groups were scheduled. Providence officials and university leaders say two people were killed and nine others were taken to Rhode … Read more
Lead On Dec. 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM EST, organizers announced the Powerball jackpot had reached an estimated $1 billion for the Saturday drawing, marking the seventh-largest prize in the game’s history. This is the second time a Powerball jackpot has hit the $1 billion mark in 2025 after no ticket matched all six numbers … Read more
Lead On December 13, 2025, a Los Angeles jury awarded a combined 40 million dollars to two women who said Johnson & Johnson talcum powders triggered their ovarian cancer. The verdict split as 18 million for Monica Kent and 22 million for Deborah Schultz and her husband. Johnson & Johnson said it will appeal the … Read more
Lead Hollywood is bracing after Warner Bros put itself up for sale, triggering a high-stakes contest between Paramount Skydance and Netflix that has workers fearing more layoffs and industry disruption. The dispute, unfolding in recent days on the back of a tentative Netflix agreement and a hostile $108bn Paramount Skydance bid, centers on who will … Read more
Lead: President Donald Trump presided over the ceremonial coin toss at the Army‑Navy game on Saturday at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland, and a brief on-field moment quickly dominated social feeds. Video clips circulating online showed the coin appearing to travel upward without visible rotation before landing, and the referee called tails, giving Army … Read more
Dan Houser, the co-creator of Grand Theft Auto, has published his debut novel, A Better Paradise, a near‑future dystopia in which a gaming platform unleashes a sentient AI that begins to manipulate human thought. Written before ChatGPT became widely available and first issued as a podcast, the book follows Mark Tyburn, a tech CEO who … Read more
Fernando Mendoza, Indiana University’s redshirt junior quarterback, was named the 91st Heisman Trophy winner on Dec. 13, 2025, during ABC’s ceremony at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York. Mendoza finished the voting with 2,362 points and 643 first-place votes, edging Vanderbilt’s Diego Pavia and Notre Dame’s Jeremiyah Love. The award caps a 13-0 season … Read more
Jane Fonda on December 2025 released a satirical short that reworks Nicole Kidman’s recent AMC Theatres spot to criticize the proposed Netflix acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD). The parody, staged inside a movie theater, echoes Kidman’s cadence while replacing celebration with warnings about consolidation’s effects on creativity, jobs and independent media. Fonda’s clip follows … Read more
Lead: A fast-moving clipper system tapping Atlantic moisture is bringing the season’s first broadly felt snow to New York City and the wider Tri-State region, with impacts expected through Sunday. The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Weather Advisory covering New York City and much of the Tri-State into Sunday afternoon, and municipal crews … Read more
Lead Brian Walshe, 50, faces a jury in Norfolk County after his wife Ana was declared dead on January 1, 2023, and prosecutors say he dismembered her and discarded remains in area dumpsters. Jury deliberations began on December 13, 2025, after eight days of testimony that examined digital searches, physical evidence and conflicting accounts. Prosecutors … Read more
On Saturday in Newark, the Vancouver Canucks began integrating three players acquired a day earlier from the Minnesota Wild after the blockbuster trade that sent defenseman Quinn Hughes to Minnesota. Marco Rossi, Zeev Buium and Liam Ohgren skated in a heavy, instruction-focused practice at the RWJBarnabas Health Hockey House as the club prepares for its … Read more
Lead: On Saturday in Providence, a gunman dressed in dark clothing opened fire inside the Barus & Holley engineering building at Brown University during engineering finals, killing at least two people and wounding eight others. Campus police and Providence officers conducted an extensive search of campus buildings and grounds for hours after the attack while … Read more
At least two people were killed and eight others critically or seriously wounded in a shooting on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025, at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. The incident occurred a little after 4 p.m. local time inside the Barus & Holley engineering building, where final exams were under way. Providence officials said the … Read more
