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Top News Stories for Saturday, December 27th 2025
Friday, Dec 26th, 2025 -
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The United States airstrikes that targeted Islamic State group militants in northwestern Nigeria on Thursday marked a major escalation in an offensive that the West African's overstretched military has struggled with for years. U.S. President Donald Trump said on social media that the "powerful and deadly" strikes in the state of Sokoto were carried out against IS gunmen who were ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Dec 26th, 2025 -
A strong storm system that brought relentless winds, rain and snowfall to California this week was expected to ease Friday, but there was still a risk of high surf along the coast, flash flooding near Los Angeles and avalanches in the Sierra Nevada. Waves near the San Francisco Bay Area could reach up to 25 feet Friday, parts of Southern California were at risk of flooding, and avalanches could hit the Lake Tahoe ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Dec 26th, 2025 -
Israel has become the first nation in the world to formally recognise Somaliland, marking a significant diplomatic breakthrough for the breakaway region in the Horn of Africa. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Friday that Israel and Somaliland had signed a joint declaration establishing full diplomatic relations, describing it as being "in the spirit of the Abraham Accords", a set of deals brokered by ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Dec 26th, 2025 -
Christmas came early for someone who purchased a Powerball ticket at a gas station outside Little Rock, Arkansas, worth more than $1.8 billion. The lone winner in Wednesday's Christmas Eve drawing matched all five winning numbers and the Powerball to capture the second-largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history, ending the game's without a top prize winner. Here are some things to know about the Powerball jackpot and ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Dec 26th, 2025 -
The band said Bamonte, who joined the band in the early 1990s, died aged 65 "after a short illness at home", in a statement on their website, which they said was posted with "enormous sadness". The guitarist and keyboard player for The Cure, Perry Bamonte, has died. The band said Bamonte died aged 65 "after a short illness at home", in a statement on their website, which they said was posted with "enormous ...
Source: news.sky.com
Friday, Dec 26th, 2025 -
Reading time 2 minutes Google is finally introducing a way for users to change their Gmail addresses ending with @gmail.com, just in time for the new year. A page on the company's help center was recently updated with new rules for changing email addresses, outlining a way that would let users keep the familiar @gmail.com ending. The update was first spotted by users in a "Google Pixel Hub" Telegram group , who ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Friday, Dec 26th, 2025 -
PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (AP) — Imprisoned former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was sentenced to 15 years and a hefty 13.5 billion ringgit ($3.3 billion) in fines and assets after being convicted Friday in his biggest corruption trial tied to the multibillion-dollar looting of the 1MDB state investment fund . The nation's High Court found Najib, 72, guilty on four counts of abuse of power and 21 charges of ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Dec 26th, 2025 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By STEVEN SLOAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The president of the Kennedy Center on Friday fiercely criticized a musician's sudden decision to cancel a Christmas Eve performance at the venue after the White House announced that President Donald Trump's name would be added to the facility. "Your decision to withdraw at the last moment — explicitly in ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Friday, Dec 26th, 2025 -
A Palestinian assailant rammed his car into a man and then stabbed a young woman in northern Israel on Friday, killing both, police said, as the Israeli defense minister quickly ordered military retaliation on what he said was the attacker's West Bank hometown. The attack began Friday afternoon in the northern city of Beit Shean, where the Palestinian man crashed his vehicle into people, killing one man and ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Dec 26th, 2025 -
(Bloomberg) -- China announced largely symbolic sanctions against 20 US defense companies and 10 executives, signaling its anger over Washington's latest arms sales to Taiwan while stopping short of a broader escalation. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Friday it would sanction companies including Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., L3Harris Maritime Services, Boeing's operations in St. Louis, as well as Vantor, ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Dec 25th, 2025 -
PALM BEACH, Florida, Dec 25 (Reuters) - The White House will unveil new details on President Donald Trump's planned East Wing ballroom during a hearing early next month, according to a federal commission tasked with reviewing the project. The new ballroom, which Trump has said would cost $400 million and would dwarf the adjacent White House building, has been challenged in court by preservationists, ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Dec 25th, 2025 -
De'Aaron Fox scored 29 points to lead the San Antonio Spurs to a 117-102 road win over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday. The Spurs have won eight consecutive games -- which do not include the NBA Cup final loss to the New York Knicks on Dec. 16 -- extending their longest winning streak since 2018-19. The Thunder have dropped back-to-back games for the first time this season and have lost four of their last six ...
Source: aol.com