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Max Verstappen secured pole position at the Yas Marina Circuit on Saturday, setting up a winner-takes-most finale in Sunday’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The Red Bull driver posted a 1:22.207 on his second run to edge McLaren’s Lando Norris by 0.201 seconds and team-mate Oscar Piastri by 0.230. Norris enters the weekend leading the championship … Read more
About a dozen Republican state senators in Indiana have reported threats and harassment as they weigh a Trump-backed plan to redraw congressional districts ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Incidents described to reporters include a swatting attempt aimed at Sen. Spencer Deery’s home while his son prepared for school, pipe-bomb scare reports to law enforcement, … Read more
Lead The National Park Service has revised its free-admission calendar for 2026, adding President Donald Trump’s birthday on June 14 while removing free entry for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth. The change, announced as part of a broader schedule update, also adjusts other holidays and special observances that previously qualified for waived fees. … Read more
December 6, 2025 — María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, confirmed she will travel to Oslo to receive the award on Dec. 10 despite threats and legal warnings from Venezuelan authorities. The head of the Nobel Institute, Kristian Berg Harpviken, told Agence France-Presse he had spoken with Machado … Read more
Dec. 6, 2025 — Federal health officials reported that a Michigan man has died of rabies after receiving a kidney from an Idaho donor who later tested positive for the virus. The donor, scratched by a skunk in October 2024, developed neurologic symptoms about five weeks later and died; several organs were transplanted, including the … Read more
Frank Gehry, who has died aged 96, leaves a body of work that remade how cities, audiences and clients imagine contemporary architecture. Across six decades he advanced a highly expressive, maximalist language — from his titanium-clad Guggenheim Bilbao (1997) to the stainless steel Walt Disney Concert Hall (2003) — that produced immediate landmarks and recurring … Read more
Lead Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is confronting the most serious crisis of his tenure after two separate controversies — a Caribbean campaign in which survivors from a 2 September boat strike appear to have been killed in a follow-up “double‑tap” attack, and an inspector‑general finding that he shared sensitive strike details on the Signal messaging … Read more
Months after an American Eagle campaign drew criticism, actress and two‑time Emmy nominee Sydney Sweeney addressed the controversy, saying she was surprised by the public reaction and stressing she opposes hate. The ad, released in July, used the word “jeans” in a slogan that some viewers read as a double entendre for “genes,” prompting accusations … Read more
Lead: U.S. and Ukrainian delegations said on Dec. 5, 2025 they will reconvene on Saturday after two days of negotiations in Florida to refine a U.S.-mediated peace framework for Ukraine. Participants described steps forward on a security architecture and a postwar prosperity agenda but stressed that any real breakthrough depends on Russia’s willingness to de-escalate … Read more
Lead: In the final practice hour ahead of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday, George Russell posted the quickest time while the session was briefly halted after Lewis Hamilton spun into the barriers just past the halfway mark. Russell set a 1m 23.334s lap to top the timesheets, edging championship leader Lando Norris by … Read more
After a search exceeding 50 days, Penn State selected Matt Campbell as the program’s 17th full-time head coach. Campbell, a three-time Big 12 Coach of the Year and Iowa State’s winningest coach, arrives with a short list of immediate priorities, chief among them assembling a staff for the 2026 season. Some assistants from James Franklin’s … Read more
Two members of West Virginia’s National Guard were attacked while on duty near the White House on Nov. 26, 2025 — Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom was killed and Air Force Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe was wounded. The incidents, and the state’s unusually large per-capita contribution to the D.C. deployment, have prompted debate across West Virginia … Read more
Lead Brian Cole Jr., a Virginia resident accused of placing two pipe bombs outside the Republican and Democratic National Committee headquarters on the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, made his first federal court appearance on Dec. 5, 2025. Federal agents arrested Cole on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, after nearly … Read more
Lead Russian President Vladimir Putin concluded a two-day visit to India on Friday in New Delhi, during which Moscow pledged to keep energy shipments flowing to support India’s fast-growing economy. Leaders Vladimir Putin and Narendra Modi presented their ties as steady, sealed several bilateral accords and announced progress toward a free trade understanding with the … Read more
Lead Indiana and Ohio State meet Saturday in the Big Ten Championship at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis in what is arguably the biggest game in Indiana football history. The Hoosiers, coached by Curt Cignetti with offensive coordinator Mike Shanahan, arrive having transformed expectations in 2025. For Ohio State, fresh off a high-profile road game … Read more
