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DHS confirms it has body-cam video in shooting of Alex Pretti

Investigators are reviewing body-camera videos from immigration agents in the fatal shooting of Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson confirmed to NBC News.
Homeland Security investigators have videos recorded by cameras worn by multiple agents, department spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said.
The agents involved in the Pretti shooting were part of the Border Patrol Tactical Unit, a specialized force, McLaughlin said. Two law enforcement officials told NBC News that unit has more body-worn cameras.

Several Psychiatric Disorders Share The Same Root Cause, Study Suggests

Researchers have discovered that eight different psychiatric conditions share a common genetic basis.
A study published in early 2025 pinpointed specific variants among those shared genes, showing how they behave during brain development.
The US team found many of these variants remain active for extended periods, potentially influencing multiple developmental stages – and offering new targets for treatments that could address several disorders at once.
Related: Study Traces Autism's Origin to The Rise of Human Intel

A minute-by-minute timeline of the Alex Pretti shooting, based on 5 verified videos

The interaction that ended in the death of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday morning began at least three minutes earlier when Pretti appeared to be using his phone to record CBP officers, according to videos reviewed and verified by ABC News.
Minutes later, Pretti was pinned on the street by multiple federal agents -- visibly being hit by one of them -- when one of the officers can be seen leaving the struggle with what appears to be a gun.
Those videos appear to contradict, at least in part, claims

Navy bans sailors from using kratom, other drugs

The U.S. Navy announced that it is prohibiting the consumption of an organic opioid, along with several other substances, in a recent service-wide message.
The Navy announced in a Jan. 14 memo that service members were barred from using kratom, mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine.
“Protecting service member welfare and readiness is paramount to maintaining an effective fighting force,” the message reads. “Additionally, substance misuse by members of the armed forces is incompatible with military standards of good order, discipline, perform

Demand for Bitcoin is rising at a time when supply remains relatively fixed.
New financial products are reducing some of the risk and volatility of investing in Bitcoin.
Bitcoin has a track record of posting triple-digit returns that dates all the way back to 2012.
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Right now, Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) is going nowhere fast. It currently trades for just $90,000 and is sitting nearly 30% below its all-time high of $126,000 from October.

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Transcript of emergency call made by Barron Trump read aloud in U.K. ******* ault case

Barron Trump, the teenage son of President Donald Trump, called police to report an alleged ******* ault in the United Kingdom last year, according to multiple reports.
In January 2025, Barron Trump made an emergency call to UK authorities to report that a woman he had met on social media was being ******* aulted. He told a dispatcher that he saw the woman being attacked when he video-called her, according to local reports from The London Standard, The Times, Sky News, Metro and other outlets.
The emerg

Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin-focused company Strategy is once again edging toward a key valuation threshold, as its market-to-net-asset-value multiple, or mNAV, hovers just above levels that could undermine the logic of holding its stock as a proxy for Bitcoin exposure.
In early trading on January 2, Strategy shares rose modestly, offering brief relief after months of pressure.
Even with the bounce, the stock remains down roughly 66% from its July peak.
The company’s mNAV, a measure comparing its market valuation to the value of its Bitcoin holdings, stood near 1.02, leaving little margin befor

The widening protests in Iran over the country’s worsening economy escalated Thursday, with demonstrators clashing with police in multiple provinces, leaving several people dead.
At least three protesters were killed and 17 others wounded during an attack on a police station in Iran’s western province of Lorestan, the semiofficial Fars News Agency reported.
The clashes between activists and security forces have intensified since the protests kicked off over the weekend, triggered by degrading economic hardships, currency devaluation and poor living conditions.
The recent demonstrations are

In early November, a massive storm hit farmers and residents in the Great Southern and Wheatbelt regions of Australia. Unfortunately, the damage to crops, roads, and buildings has been extensive.
According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, heavy rainfall and hail caused extensive flooding and damage across multiple towns. Farmers, in particular, faced partial or total crop loss, interrupting the grain harvest.
Some towns reported over 100 millimeters of rainfall during the "unbelievable" storm. Meanwhile, farmer Murray Hall was on the road at the time and wondered whether the large

Quantum computing remains a concern for Bitcoin and crypto markets, posing a security threat to its underlying cryptography. However, a new threat emerges as a controversial "Cat" Bitcoin Improvement Proposal, sparking heated debate among developers about labeling millions of inscription-related outputs as permanently unspendable.
The draft BIP seeks to address concerns about blockchain bloat, raising key questions around property rights and core Bitcoin principles. Community responses range from strong support to warnings about setting a risky precedent.
Every Bitcoin transaction spends coi

The US ETF market achieved a historic "triple crown" in 2025, setting records in inflows ($1.4 trillion), new launches (1,100+), and trading volume ($57.9 trillion). This is the first time all three metrics hit records simultaneously since 2021.
Three consecutive years of double-digit S&P 500 gains powered the rally. But Wall Street is starting to ask: what comes next?
That precedent carries a warning. The year following the 2021 triple crown saw the S&P 500 plunge 19% amid the Federal Reserve's aggressive rate hikes. The tech-driven rally that fueled ETF inflows reversed sharply, with both

The winter solstice is upon us, marking the shortest day and longest night of the year.
People across the country have already faced multiple blankets of white snow where they live, but the winter solstice marks the first official day of winter.
The solstice also marks the start of the Pagan holiday, Yule, according to the Old Farmer's Almanac. The holiday is thought to celebrate the sun's return and the land's rebirth as days begin to get longer after the longest night of the year.
The solstice is celebrated by many as a time of rebirth and change. Many cultures throughout human history ha

With the four weekday games from last week's holiday slate, your Week 14 NFL predictions should account for the rest advantages that teams have. Games like Bengals vs. Bills (-6), Ravens vs. Steelers (+6), Chiefs vs. Texans (+3.5) and Eagles vs. Chargers (+2.5) all feature teams with multiple days of rest over their opponent. While sportsbooks factored this in when setting the Week 14 NFL odds, having the edge in rest hasn't always been beneficial in regard to NFL spread success. Cincinnati, for example, who played on Thanksgiving Day, is 0-6 ATS over its last six games when it has the rest ad

A group of researchers say it's time for academia to get serious about studying UFOs.
The movement, championed by the Society for UAP Studies, is wrapping up an international conference aimed at establishing a new discipline dedicated to studying unidentified anomalous phenomena (or UAPs, the more formal term for UFOs).
Michael Cifone, the society's co-founder and president, said he's interested in what he calls "the empirical weird."
His catch-all phrase encompasses things that blur the lines between the real and the possible, phenomena that defy easy explanation: the spiritual, the parano

Russia unleashes massive drone and missile attack on Ukraine as diplomatic talks continue

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia unleashed a major missile and drone barrage on Ukraine overnight into Saturday, after U.S. and Ukrainian officials said they’ll meet on Saturday for a third day of talks aimed at ending the nearly 4-year-old war,
Following talks that made progress on a security framework for postwar Ukraine, the two sides also offered the sober ****** sment that any “real progress toward any agreement” ultimately will depend “on Russia’s readiness to show serious commitment to long-term pea

A Russian cosmonaut was recently booted from an upcoming NASA and ******* eX mission to the International ******* e Station that will launch from Florida.
Russia's ******* e agency confirmed the ******* efarer's removal and replacement on the mission, known as Crew-12, but did not provide a reason. However, multiple reports have suggested the move could have been related to an alleged national security violation during training in the United States.
The news represents another recent blow to Russia's ******* eflight program after the launch pad the nation uses is Kazakhstan was damaged in a

Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Narendra Modi at Hyderabad House in New Delhi, India, on Friday, Dec. 5, 2025. Credit - Prakash Singh—Bloomberg via Getty Images
Even as Russia once again made clear this week that it had no intention of pursuing genuine peace negotiations on Ukraine, Vladimir Putin landed in New Delhi to a red carpet treatment. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted the Russian leader on Thursday with a handshake and hug on the tarmac, breaking diplomatic protocol. The sight was a reminder that Russia is far from a geopolitical pariah in important parts of the world, and

With the four weekday games from last week's holiday slate, your Week 14 NFL predictions should account for the rest advantages that teams have. Games like Bengals vs. Bills (-5.5), Ravens vs. Steelers (+5.5), Chiefs vs. Texans (+3.5) and Eagles vs. Chargers (+2.5) all feature teams with multiple days of rest over their opponent. While sportsbooks factored this in when setting the Week 14 NFL odds, having the edge in rest hasn't always been beneficial in regard to NFL spread success. Cincinnati, for example, who played on Thanksgiving Day, is 0-6 ATS over its last six games when it has the res

A Russian cosmonaut was recently booted from an upcoming NASA and ******* eX mission to the International ******* e Station.
Russia's ******* e agency confirmed the ******* efarer's removal and replacement on the mission, known as Crew-12, but did not provide a reason. However, multiple reports have suggested the move could be related to an alleged national security violation during training in the United States.
Due to launch early in 2026, the Crew-12 mission could send a contingent of international astronauts – including two Americans – for a six-month science rotation at the Internationa

Startups will soon be ready to demonstrate how they make nuclear fusion work, but a lot of obstacles are in their way.
Could the end of the energy crisis be in sight?
"Creating a working star on Earth might sound flat-out impossible, had scientists not already gone so far toward doing it," The New York Times reported as multiple startups are looking to get fusion out of laboratories.
Fusion is the thermonuclear reaction that occurs in the core of stars, including the sun. But why all the hype around it?
As the International Atomic Energy Agency explains it, "if nuclear fusion can be replic

A triple whammy polar vortex is coming. Will your state feel the chill?

Three rounds of cold Arctic air from a shifting polar vortex are expected to plunge much of the central and eastern U.S. into a cold snap in the coming weeks, meteorologists say. The first wave of the triple whammy of winter weather is happening this week.
“The week will end with some of the coldest air of the season so far, as a front advances from the Midwest into the Northeast and mid-Atlantic,” said Renee Duff, AccuWeather senior meteorologist.
Meteorologists forecast two more blasts of frigid temperatures for mil

A triple whammy polar vortex is coming. Will your state feel the chill?

The polar vortex is on the move and will take up a position near Hudson Bay, Canada, directing rounds of Arctic air southward from the North Pole to parts of the central and eastern United States through the middle of the month. The waves of Arctic air will trigger rounds of flurries and squalls in some areas and may help fuel storms with more widespread snow.
The Arctic air is expected to deliver subzero temperatures from the Dakotas and Minnesota to Iowa and Nebraska, and by far the lowest temperatures of the season

The Bennu asteroid, a ******* e rock not too far from Earth that is rich in carbon, continues to be a trove of information for scientists keen to learn about how life may have begun in our solar system.
More than two years ago, a robotic ******* ecraft dropped off a delivery of rocky samples from the surface of Bennu. The material has been a gift to the world's researchers, who soon found signs that asteroids that collided with Earth billions of years ago may have given rise to life on Earth.
In the latest discoveries, multiple teams of researchers have found a bevy of interesting characteri

'Off-the-shelf' cancer therapy hunts and kills deadly tumors, new study finds

Scientists at UCLA have developed an "off-the-shelf" cell-based immunotherapy that was able to track down and kill pancreatic cancer cells even after they had spread to other organs.
In a mouse study, the treatment slowed cancer growth, extended survival and remained effective even within the harsh environment of solid tumors.
"Even when the cancer tries to evade one attack pathway by changing its molecular signature, our therapy is hitting it from multiple other angles at the same time. The tumor simply can’t a

NFL Week 14 picks: Texans bury Chiefs as multiple underdogs pull outright upsets

We are in the home stretch. The calendar has flipped to December, the holiday lights are up, and our bank accounts are reeling thanks to all the Christmas shopping we have on deck. In lockstep with all the craziness of the holiday season, we're in the nitty-gritty of the NFL campaign. As we move into the final full month of the regular season, each game carries with it massive stakes, as one wrong move could result in contenders falling out of the playoffs entirely. It truly is a magical time of the year.
As w

Witnesses urged to come forward after 3 kids killed in shooting at child's party

STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — Authorities in California urged witnesses of a deadly shooting at a child's birthday party to come forward as the search for a suspect stretched into another day.
Three children ages 8, 9 and 14 and a 21-year-old were killed Saturday when gunfire broke out at a banquet hall in Stockton where at least 100 people were gathered, San Joaquin County Sheriff Patrick Withrow said. Detectives believe the gunfire continued outside and there may have been multiple shooters.
Eleven people were al

The most common valuation yardstick is the mNAV. It compares a company's enterprise value (EV) — which is a firm's market cap plus debt minus any cash — to the market value of its bitcoin holdings. This provides investors with a means to evaluate the extent to which the market ***** igns a premium or discount to its treasury.
The metric is now widely followed. Strategy publishes its own mNAV on its investor site, while third-party dashboards such as BitcoinTreasuries.net track various mNAV figures across multiple firms.
While the EV-based calculation simplifies the calculation of the metric,

The S&P 500, Nasdaq Composite, and Dow Jones Industrial Average have all surged to multiple record-closing highs in 2025.
We appear to be witnessing a clear bifurcation between the health of the U.S. economy and the stock market.
Historical precedent tends to favor optimistic, long-term-minded investors.
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Despite a ******* py beginning to April, 2025 has shaped up as another banner year for Wall Street's major stock indexes. The benchmark S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC), growth stock-dominated Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX: ^IXIC), and ageless Dow Jon

Auburn football hires USF's Alex Golesh as next head coach
The Montgomery Advertiser

This story has been updated to include quotes and new information.
AUBURN — Alex Golesh has been hired as Auburn football's next head coach, the program announced Sunday, Nov. 30, coming from South Florida to succeed Hugh Freeze on the Plains.
Golesh, 41, signed a six-year deal to come to become the 33rd head coach in Auburn history, according to multiple reports. Contract figures have yet to be released.
“Auburn Football is one of the proudest, most tradition-rich programs in all of college football an

One Vanguard ETF tracks the S&P 500, providing exposure to the broader U.S. economy.
Another ETF focuses on companies that consistently increase their annual dividends.
The third ETF invests in international stocks -- a good hedge against downturns in the U.S.
10 stocks we like better than Vanguard S&P 500 ETF ›
There are many different ways to approach stock investing, but my favorite -- and what I recommend to most investors -- is through exchange-traded funds (ETFs). ETFs take a lot of the legwork out of investing by allowing you to invest in multiple companies at once. This could range