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The California Golden Bears travel to the Clarence T.C. Ching Complex to face the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors in the Hawaii Bowl.

President Donald Trump marked Christmas Eve by chatting with children about their holiday wishes. Vacationing at Mar-a-Lago in Florida he and first lady Melania Trump took calls from kids through the North American Aerospace Defense Command, which has long playfully tracked Santa's journey. Trump joked about ensuring St. Nick isn't a "bad Santa" infiltrating the country. He was in a jovial mood, unlike previous years when he criticized political opponents. Asked about leaving cookies for Santa, Trump... Читать дальше...

Charlie Kirk's widow, Erika, was criticized for telling fans to 'rest' during a holiday message as she shilled for his new book.

'We got the call on Saturday evening that this bear was curled up on the middle of the road and somebody shooed it off the road,' Angelika Langen said.

What has become clear for the Jets is they are not a quarterback away.

US judge clears Trumps HB visa fee dealing a blow to tech firms

Jack Tosh Holiday Tournament at York, Dec. 26-Dec. 31.

Trying to sort out the massive, one-of-a-kind holiday tournament at York is no small task. It runs Friday through New Year’s Eve.

With 32 teams it’s unique. And with 17 teams with winning records and 12 with at least seven wins on the season — but no dominant team in the field — it represents a bit of a five-day basketball quagmire.

But a team that can get through five days of play without a loss is piling up wins and building... Читать дальше...

Middleton hosted her annual "Together At Christmas" carol service on Dec. 5

Gemini may soon stop interrupting your workflow. Google is developing a change that lets the assistant continue handling requests in the background, allowing users to move between apps without losing progress.

Combs argues his sentence was improperly decided and asked that his conviction also be thrown out.

A man who participated in Bonnie Blue's 1,000-men sex stunt claims he has been diagnosed with a brutal sexually transmitted disease.

Members of the media fraternity, the majority from the Nation Publishing Company, said a final farewell to veteran colleague Albert Brandford at his funeral service yesterday. The morning service at St Mark Anglican Church, St John, drew a cross section of people whose lives were touched in some way by a man regarded as one […]

Olivia Culpo is getting into position for Christmas.  The model gave a glimpse inside her and husband Christian McCaffrey’s first holiday season since welcoming their baby girl Colette. And...

By William Chislett

A seminal person was missing last month from the official events to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of General Franco, the dictator who ruled Spain from 1939 to 1975 after winning a three-year civil war. That person was King Juan Carlos, Franco’s successor as head of state, who, using the dictator’s authoritarian powers, piloted a large part of the country’s transition to democracy and bravely faced down an attempted coup in 1981 by nostalgic Francoists.[1]

Juan Carlos... Читать дальше...

This La Jolla woman was charged with soliciting the murder of her husband in 2023. Now officials say she is dead by her own hand.

By Michael Hollister

It doesn’t begin with tanks. It begins with a fiber-optic cable. With a battery production facility. With a data center in Thailand’s heartland, owned by Chinese interests. While the West talks about “values,” China invests—systematically, irreversibly.

Thailand, long a neutral buffer between competing great powers, is tilting. Not loudly. Not on command. But through infrastructure, through economic logic, through cultural proximity. The country that once... Читать дальше...

The cat has no teeth and was brought to the shelter by animal control on November 13, a volunteer told Newsweek.

By Yang Xite

Research into economic growth is an undertaking that anyone concerned with the economy will inevitably engage in. As early as 2013, ANBOUND's founder Kung Chan applied information analysis methods to study China's economic growth. His conclusion was that China's economy could not sustain high-speed growth indefinitely; instead, it would experience a progressive slowdown. Under ideal conditions, the average growth rate would decline by about one percentage point roughly every ten years. Читать дальше...

India's space programme is ending 2025 without the kind of moment that usually defines year-end roundups. There is no dramatic first, no single image meant to carry symbolic weight. Instead, the year closes on something less visible but more telling: the quiet normalisation of complex commercial launches. Today's BlueBird-2 mission falls squarely into that category.

(Photo credit: Bob Donnan-Imagn Images)

Tampa Bay's five-year playoff streak is in jeopardy as it takes on host Miami on Sunday afternoon in Miami Gardens, Fla.

The Buccaneers (7-8) need a win to keep their playoff hopes alive and set up a Week 18 showdown with Carolina for the NFC South title. A loss would eliminate Tampa Bay from postseason contention.

The Dolphins (6-9) are relegated to a spoiler r

By Ali Haj Suleimand and Hebaa Shehade

Twinkling trees, festive markets, and decorations hanging from shop doors and balconies mark the Christmas season this year in Syria’s Christian neighborhoods — though celebrations remain more modest than before the war.

“The atmosphere is better than last year,” said Sahar Safar, a member of the Sisterhood of Our Lady of Damascus Church, recalling the air of uncertainty after the swift and sudden fall of the Assad regime’s 55-year strangle of the country on Dec. Читать дальше...

Adelaide United will host Western Sydney Wanderers at Coopers Stadium on Friday in another round of the 2025-26 Australia A-League campaign.

Argentina’s government has become increasingly skeptical of the World Health Organization, reflecting a wider reconsideration of international health institutions in the aftermath of Covid-19. Although Argentina has not formally withdrawn, it has expressed dissatisfaction with the WHO’s performance, its growing reliance on donor-funded agendas, and its push for expanded treaty authority.