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Top News Stories for Tuesday, December 23rd 2025
Monday, Dec 22nd, 2025 -
The U.S. Coast Guard tried Saturday to intercept an oil tanker linked to Venezuela that is now fleeing away from the Caribbean Sea, according to three U.S. officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive operation, days after President Donald Trump said he would crack down on sanctioned vessels involved in the country's oil trade. The tanker, called the Bella 1, was en route to pick up oil ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Monday, Dec 22nd, 2025 -
Copenhagen, Denmark — Denmark said Monday it would summon the U.S. ambassador after President Trump appointed a special envoy to Greenland, the Danish autonomous territory he has often expressed interest in obtaining. Since returning to the White House in January 2025, Mr. Trump has said the U.S. needs the resource-rich island for security reasons and has refused to rule out the use of force to secure it . On ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Monday, Dec 22nd, 2025 -
The Powerball jackpot now stands at an estimated $1.6 billion, making it one of the largest lottery prizes in U.S. history, Powerball officials said Sunday. No ticket matched all six winning numbers on Saturday — white balls 4, 5, 28, 52, 69 and red Powerball 20. That sets up the fifth-largest U.S. jackpot ever for Monday's drawing, according to a news release from Powerball. The biggest U.S. jackpot was ...
Source: wfla.com
Monday, Dec 22nd, 2025 -
US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff has hailed talks on ending Moscow's war in Ukraine as "productive and constructive", after holding separate meetings with Ukrainian, European and Russian negotiators in the state of Florida. The talks in Miami on Sunday were the latest in a series of meetings between the US, Russia and Ukraine on a 20-point plan touted by US President Donald Trump to end the nearly four-year-old war. ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Monday, Dec 22nd, 2025 -
Backlash after broadcaster announces the program, due to air on Sunday night, 'needs additional reporting' CBS News is facing a backlash, including from one of its own correspondents, after it cancelled a 60 Minutes investigation into a brutal prison in El Salvador where the Trump administration has deported hundreds of migrants. The episode of its flagship program about the Cecot megaprison was due to air on ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Dec 22nd, 2025 -
– A car bomb killed a Russian general on Monday, in a year. Investigators said Ukraine may be behind the attack. Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Operational Training Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces' General Staff, died from his injuries, said Svetlana Petrenko, the spokesperson for Russia's Investigative Committee, the nation's top criminal investigation agency. "Investigators are pursuing ...
Source: news4jax.com
Monday, Dec 22nd, 2025 -
"It was the coolest experience," exclaimed Micahela Benthaus as she landed on Earth after an enthralling trip in space that lasted about 10 minutes. As the ivory-colored, dome-shaped craft flanked open its hatch, the recovery team unrolled a carpet on the desert floor of West Texas, southwestern United States. Some staff members ushered hauled the wheelchair for her, that she had left to navigate the remarkable ...
Source: greenmatters.com
Sunday, Dec 21st, 2025 -
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Sunday that the Justice Department's decision to remove over a dozen photographs Saturday that had been released as part of the files on Jeffrey Epstein on Friday "has nothing to do with President Trump" and that it came at the request of victim advocacy groups. Instead, Blanche said, the removed photographs included unredacted pictures of women, and "that photo will go ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Sunday, Dec 21st, 2025 -
Saquon Barkley ran for 132 yards and a touchdown, and the Philadelphia Eagles clinched their second straight NFC East title with a 29-18 win over the Washington Commanders in Landover, Md. The Eagles (10-5) became the first team to repeat as NFC East champions since 2004. Jalen Hurts completed 22 of 30 passes for 185 yards and two touchdowns. A.J. Brown had nine catches for 95 yards. Barkley averaged 6.3 yards on ...
Source: aol.com
Sunday, Dec 21st, 2025 -
By COLLEGE STATION, Texas The No. 10 Miami Hurricanes' national championship hopes are still alive after a 10-3 upset win over the No. 7 Texas A&M Aggies on Saturday at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas. Miami (11-2) next faces the No. 2 Ohio State Buckeyes (12-1) in a quarterfinal matchup in the Cotton Bowl (Dec. 31, 7:30 p.m.). Here are nine notable stats from the Hurricanes' win over the Aggies. 10 : Miami's ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Sunday, Dec 21st, 2025 -
Israel's Cabinet on Sunday finalized approval of 19 new Jewish-only settler colonies in the illegally occupied West Bank , a move the apartheid state's far-right finance minister said was aimed at thwarting Palestinian statehood. Cabinet ministers approved the legalization of the previously unauthorized settler outposts throughout the occupied Palestinian territory, bringing the total number of new settlements in ...
Source: commondreams.org
Sunday, Dec 21st, 2025 -
Attackers wound 10 others in Bekkersdal after opening fire at people in a bar and 'randomly' shooting in the street, police say Nine people have been killed after gunmen opened fire at a bar near Johannesburg in the second mass shooting in South Africa this month. Ten more were wounded in the early morning attack at the tavern in the impoverished Bekkersdal township in a gold mining area about 25 miles (40km) ...
Source: theguardian.com
Sunday, Dec 21st, 2025 -
The FBI received a complaint about in 1996, nearly a decade before they investigated his activities in Florida and more than two decades before the Department of Justice brought . The complaint was made publi c as part of a larger document release Dec. 19 under the . The document is redacted so that the complainant is not named, but Maria Farmer and her lawyer quickly identified it as hers. "Complainant stated that ...
Source: aol.com