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Lead: In a Dec. 7, 2025 60 Minutes interview, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said President Donald Trump has abandoned his MAGA base by prioritizing industry interests over domestic needs. Greene, who voted with Mr. Trump 98% of the time before their relationship deteriorated, singled out support for the crypto and pharmaceutical sectors as evidence. She … Read more
SpaceX postponed a planned Starlink liftoff on Dec. 7 after weather concerns, pushing the mission to no earlier than Dec. 8 from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A. The flight — Starlink 6-92 — will use booster B1067, set to make its record 32nd flight, and is expected to deliver SpaceX’s 3,000th Starlink satellite of … Read more
Lead In Week 14 at FirstEnergy Stadium, rookie Shedeur Sanders produced an eye-catching stat line while the Cleveland Browns fell to the Tennessee Titans. Sanders completed 23 of 42 passes for 364 yards with 3 TDs and 1 INT, added 29 rushing yards and a touchdown on three carries, and was sacked twice. Tennessee rookie … Read more
On Friday, authorities said a 33-year-old man, identified as Oscar Solarzano, allegedly stabbed another passenger on the Charlotte Area Transit System Blue Line, leaving the victim in critical but stable condition. Solarzano was arrested nearby by Charlotte-Mecklenburg police and ordered to remain jailed; court records shown at a release hearing note he is undocumented and … Read more
On Dec. 7, 2025, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced it will waive the final $11 million payment owed from a 2023 settlement with Southwest Airlines after the carrier’s December 2022 winter-storm collapse. The settlement originally assessed a $140 million civil penalty — the largest the agency had imposed for consumer-protection violations — with $35 … Read more
Lead — A 33-year-old man was arrested after a stabbing on Charlotte’s LYNX Blue Line on Friday that left one person in critical but stable condition, police said. The incident occurred near the 25th Street and North Brevard Street station at about 4:50 p.m. and follows the fatal August killing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska … Read more
Lead On December 7, 2025, markets staged an unusual response when Treasury yields rose even as the Federal Reserve moved to cut interest rates, a divergence that Bloomberg and others say has not been seen broadly since the 1990s. The gap between central-bank policy and bond-market pricing unfolded on Wall Street and prompted a sharp … Read more
Lead On Sunday in Jacksonville, the Jacksonville Jaguars beat the Indianapolis Colts 36-19, a result that flipped the AFC South race and dealt the Colts a potentially season-ending blow. Indianapolis lost starting quarterback Daniel Jones to an Achilles injury during the game; reports indicate the injury will likely sideline him for the remainder of the … Read more
Lead The Indianapolis Colts will be without starting quarterback Daniel Jones for the remainder of the season after he suffered a torn Achilles tendon during Sunday’s first half in Jacksonville. The injury was reported as non-contact; Jones and team staff recognized the severity immediately, and he walked to the locker room following the play. The … Read more
On 7 December 2025, Representative Ilhan Omar defended Somali residents of her Minnesota district after President Donald Trump described the community as “garbage” during a White House cabinet meeting. Speaking on CBS’s Face the Nation, Omar called the president’s language “completely disgusting” and warned that dehumanizing rhetoric can spur violent acts against targeted groups. The … Read more
Lead: State and federal agencies monitored social media and local message boards around the clock as they carried out a multiweek immigration enforcement operation in and around New Orleans, law enforcement records reviewed by The Associated Press show. The operation, promoted internally as “Catahoula Crunch,” produced 38 arrests in the first two days; agency briefings … Read more
Lead WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump publicly rebuked Rep. Henry Cuellar on Sunday for filing to run as a Democrat after the president issued him a pardon. Trump posted on Truth Social that Cuellar showed “a lack of loyalty” and warned “no more Mr. Nice guy,” comments that came days after the pardon was announced. … Read more
Lead: President Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy, published Dec. 7, 2025, emphasizes migration and domestic resilience while giving limited attention to the renewed great-power competition with China and Russia. The omission is notable as Beijing’s nuclear arsenal has more than doubled since the previous 2017 strategy and Russia remains engaged in its nearly four-year war … Read more
Democratic lawmakers on Sunday intensified calls for the Pentagon to make public video of a second U.S. strike on an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the Caribbean, a move they say is needed to resolve questions about the attack’s lawfulness. The strike, on 2 September, left 11 people dead, including two men killed in a follow-up … Read more
ARK Invest, led by Cathie Wood, projects that SpaceX could reach an enterprise value of roughly $2.5 trillion by 2030 based on an open-source Monte Carlo model released by the firm. The projection relies on a simulation that incorporates 17 distinct input variables to estimate future revenue streams and market conditions. ARK’s central estimate places … Read more
