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Lead Malaysia announced that Ocean Infinity, a U.S. marine robotics company, will restart a seabed search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 beginning Dec. 30 in a targeted 15,000-square-kilometer area of the southern Indian Ocean. The Boeing 777 vanished on March 8, 2014, with 239 people aboard and has not been recovered despite multinational efforts. Families … Read more

The U.S. labor market cooled further in November as private payrolls unexpectedly declined by 32,000, ADP reported on Wednesday. The drop was driven overwhelmingly by losses at small firms, while larger employers added workers. The result was well below economists’ Dow Jones consensus expectation of a 40,000 gain and followed an upwardly revised October increase … Read more

Music refused to sit still in 2025: across continents and styles artists took daring paths and reshaped popular taste. Rolling Stone’s annual list collects these shifts into a single snapshot — from genre-defying debuts to late-career triumphs — and shows which records defined the year. The selection spans flamenco, Afropop, shoegaze, club music and more, … Read more

Dec. 3, 2025 — The LA Clippers announced in the early hours of Wednesday that they are parting ways with veteran point guard Chris Paul, who had said last month this would be his final NBA season. The move came while the team was in Atlanta preparing to face the Hawks and follows a 116–loss … Read more

Lead: On Dec. 3, 2025, the Department of Homeland Security announced coordinated enforcement operations in New Orleans and the Twin Cities, prompting immediate community alarm and official pushback. DHS officials described a large-scale sweep in New Orleans, called Operation Catahoula Crunch, with a stated goal of 5,000 arrests or more, while a separate ICE surge … Read more

Lead Universal Audio’s new amp-simulation plugin Paradise, released in late 2025, packages carefully chosen cabinet and microphone emulations with a flexible signal chain that lets users mix and match amps, cabs and mics. The plug-in supports up to ten effects — five placed before the amp and five after — and includes UA’s well-known recreations … Read more

Trump officials say second strike aimed to destroy drug boat instead of crew On 2 September 2025, U.S. forces carried out a follow-up strike on a fast-moving drug boat that killed survivors, and senior Trump administration officials have defended the action as intended to sink the vessel rather than to target people aboard. White House … Read more

On Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025, the early national signing period opened and several high-profile recruits locked in their college choices. The morning’s biggest development came after Tuesday night’s reported flip: five-star quarterback Jared Curtis moved his pledge from Georgia to Vanderbilt. As of Wednesday, eight ESPN 300 prospects remained uncommitted, including defensive end Jordan Carter … Read more

Airbus said on Wednesday it will cut its 2025 commercial delivery target to “around 790” aircraft after discovering incorrect-thickness metal fuselage panels on certain A320-family jets, forcing inspections across hundreds of airframes and temporary operational disruptions for carriers. The reduction of 30 units from the prior 820-plane target follows a weekend series of fixes and … Read more

Federal advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are preparing to vote Thursday and Friday on whether to remove or delay the long-standing recommendation that every newborn receive a hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth. The birth dose, adopted widely in the early 1990s, is credited with a roughly 99 percent … Read more

Lead On Dec. 3, 2025, a wave of U.S. importers moved to preserve claims for refunds of duties paid after the Trump administration’s wide-ranging tariffs, even before the Supreme Court issues a final decision. Companies including Costco and Bumble Bee Foods have opened legal avenues—lawsuits, formal claims and retained counsel—seeking a fast payout if justices … Read more

On Sept. 2, President Donald Trump announced a U.S. military strike in the Caribbean that he said killed 11 alleged drug smugglers; he and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth framed the action as a major blow against South American cartels. Officials initially released limited operational detail and later faced scrutiny after reports that some survivors from … Read more

Lead Experts warn that cosmetic dermal fillers can cause dangerous vascular complications after a multi‑center ultrasound review of 100 mishaps found absent blood flow in crucial facial vessels. The study, led by Dr Rosa Sigrist and presented at the Radiological Society of North America annual meeting, examined cases from May 2022 to April 2025 across … Read more

Lead India has reversed a recent directive requiring smartphone manufacturers to pre-install a government-run cyber-safety application, Sanchar Saathi, on new handsets after widespread public criticism. The order, passed last week and made public on Monday, had required devices be shipped with the app and for it not to be “disabled or restricted,” prompting privacy and … Read more

Lead Dr. Salvador Plasencia, 44, is scheduled to be the first of five defendants sentenced in federal court in Los Angeles after pleading guilty to selling ketamine to actor Matthew Perry in the weeks before Perry’s overdose death on Oct. 28, 2023. Prosecutors are seeking a three-year prison term; the judge may hear statements from … Read more