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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

Billionaire who sold two companies to Coca-Cola says he tries to convince people not to become entrepreneurs: ‘Every single day, you can go bankrupt’

Mike Repole, the billionaire entrepreneur who co-founded and sold beverage giants Glaceau and BodyArmor to Coca-Cola for a combined $9.7 billion, has an unexpected message for aspiring business owners: Don’t do it.
In an interview with The School of Hard Knocks, a popular social-media channel known for interviewing wealthy entrepreneurs, Repole shared his contrarian view on entrepreneurship, emphasizing the brutal realities that most success

A photo of Miss Finland sparks racist accusations and furor across Asia

HELSINKI, Finland (AP) — Finland’s government is facing heavy pressure and accusations of racism from several Asian countries after its representative to the 2025 Miss Universe pageant was seen pulling the corners of her eyes in a photo -- and some Finnish politicians posted their own photos repeating the gesture.
Sarah Dzafce lost her Miss Finland crown last week after a photo of Dzafce pulling the skin at the corners of her eyes posted on social media went viral late last month. The photo, and its caption reading “ea

Trump halts green card lottery that let suspect in Brown and MIT shootings into U.S.

President Donald Trump suspended the green card lottery program on Thursday that allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the United States.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on the social platform X that, at Trump’s direction, she is ordering the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause the program.
“This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country,” she said of the suspect, Portuguese national Claudio Neves Vale

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are racing to put humans back on the moon for the first time in 50 years.
New NASA boss Jared Isaacman said the agency will pick whichever company finishes its lunar lander first.
Acting NASA head Sean Duffy reopened ******* eX's contract in October, saying Musk's company was "behind schedule."
NASA's new boss has reiterated the stakes for the lunar race between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
On his first day in the job, Jared Isaacman said the ******* e agency would pick whichever company finished its moon lander first, out of Musk's ******* eX or Bezos' Blue Origin.

Bitcoin critic Peter Schiff challenged President Donald Trump to a debate on the U.S. economy Saturday after Trump blasted Fox & Friends on Truth Social for featuring Schiff, accusing the show of “heading in a different direction.
Early Saturday morning, Trump erupted on Truth Social, complaining about Fox & Friends hosting Schiff, a financial commentator and radio personality who has been vocal about America’s affordability crisis.
Trump, who has dismissed the concept of an affordability crisis as a Democratic “con job,” bristled at giving Schiff a platform to make his case.
“Why would Fox

MLK Day and Juneteenth dropped as free park days. Trump's birthday added.

In 2026, Americans will get free admission to national parks on President Donald Trump's birthday but no longer on Juneteenth and Martin Luther King Jr. Day, according to the National Park Service website.
Previously, the National Park Service included these two federal holidays among its free-entry days for around 100 park sites.
National parks ordered to check gift shops for DEI-type items
Federally recognized in 2021 under the Biden Administration, Juneteenth has been celebrated for more than a century and a hal

Bitcoin critic Peter Schiff challenged President Donald Trump to a debate on the U.S. economy Saturday after Trump blasted Fox & Friends on Truth Social for featuring Schiff, accusing the show of “heading in a different direction.
Early Saturday morning, Trump erupted on Truth Social, complaining about Fox & Friends hosting Schiff, a financial commentator and radio personality who has been vocal about America’s affordability crisis.
Trump, who has dismissed the concept of an affordability crisis as a Democratic “con job,” bristled at giving Schiff a platform to make his case.
“Why would Fox

Week 14 in the NFL continues on Sunday, and the NFL DFS player pool is loaded with plenty of intriguing options as there are 11 games on the main slate, which consists of all the afternoon games. The most expensive players to use for NFL DFS lineups are Jonathan Taylor, De'Von Achane, Bijan Robinson, Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Puka Nacua and Ja'Marr Chase.
Are those NFL DFS picks worth paying up for, and which daily Fantasy football sleepers should you consider? Before setting any NFL DFS lineups on sites like FanDuel or DraftKings, be sure to check out the NFL DFS advice, strategy, and stacks from

Bitcoin may be holding slightly below $90,000, but data imply that the $100K year-end target is still alive as ****** ysts point out that three Bitcoin Price Prediction indicators are flashing a green signal.
The first and most critical driver is the shift in Federal Reserve monetary policy.
After months of reducing liquidity through quantitative tightening, where the central bank stopped reinvesting proceeds from maturing bonds and Treasury holdings, the Fed ended this program on December 1.
Markets are now positioning for an easing cycle.

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In 2002, evolutionary biologist Jenny Graves shared a controversial calculation. The human Y chromosome, she wrote two years later in a commentary, "is running out of time."
The male-determining **** chromosome has lost 97 percent of its ancestral genes in the last 300 million years. If that rate continues, Graves calculated, it could vanish in several million more.
The doomed fate of the Y chromosome quickly took the media by storm, in many cases without the nuance Graves had intended.
Related: Many Men Lose Y Chromosomes as They Age. Now We May Know Why It's So Deadly
Her evolutionary m

Trump directs RFK Jr. to review childhood vaccine plan after hepatitis B pivot

President Donald Trump is all in on Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s plan to scrutinize the list of vaccines American children get.
Trump directed Kennedy on Friday to review the childhood vaccine schedule and potentially revise it to align with those of other developed countries, most of which recommend fewer shots.
The directive, in the form of an official presidential memo, was issued hours after federal vaccine advisers downgraded decades-old guidance urging newborn immunization against hepatitis B,

Babbel reveals the most mispronounced words of 2025

DALLAS (AP) — From the election of Zohran Mamdani to the intrigue surrounding the jewel heist at the Louvre, keeping up with this year's news also left some Americans struggling with **** unciations. That's put both the name of New York City's incoming mayor and the famed Paris museum on a list of the most mispronounced words in 2025.
The language-learning company Babbel and closed-captioning company The Captioning Group on Thursday released a list of the words that news anchors, politicians and other public figures in the U.S. struggled

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) — The world of crime and DNA has evolved significantly over the past decade, including the use of phenotyping to help solve cases.
In the Lowcountry, a 40-year-old cold case was solved recently with the help of new DNA testing.
WSAV reached out to Parabon NanoLabs, a company that does bioinformatic testing and genealogy testing to better understand how they are able to use their technology to help law enforcement.
Director of Bioinformatics Ellen Greytak told WSAV that they’re able to predict certain physical traits through phenotyping.
“We started with a very large da

President Donald Trump’s once-steady approval rating is finally taking a plunge.
An aggregation of polls shows that the affordability crisis—and Trump’s failure to prioritize it—is finally catching up to him, with The New York Times reporting that the president is now underwater by 14 percentage points.
Trump’s net approval rating sat around -10 for months, with his ordering of the National Guard into Democratic-led cities, his ICE crackdown, and targeting of his political enemies not causing the figure to budge.
Now, the saying that Americans vote with their wallets is proving true. This a

NEW YORK (PIX11) — A JetBlue flight from Cancun to Newark suddenly dropped mid-air and injured 15 passengers, a frightening episode that forced an unexpected emergency landing in Tampa.
For weeks, investigators believed the Airbus A320’s violent plunge was caused by a software malfunction. But now, some experts are pointing to something far more unusual: the possibility that a cosmic flare disrupted the aircraft’s systems.
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The scare unfolded back in October.
Passengers had been thrown into overhead panels as the plane abruptly lost control, and the FAA quickly labeled it a

'The water level's rising': 911 calls capture desperation of catastrophic Texas floods

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story contains audio clips and descriptions of 911 calls that may be distressing. Listener discretion is advised.
Heartbreaking pleas for help poured into the Kerrville, Texas, police department’s Telecommunications Center as the deadly catastrophic floods swept across Texas Hill Country in the early hours of July 4.
The recordings, released by the Kerrville Police Department on Friday, are uploaded in the order the calls came in, tracing the flood emergency minute by minute and the

Egypt found itself back on the international front pages in the second half of this year. The country played host to the Sharm el-Sheikh conference in October when US President Donald Trump rallied global and regional powers alike behind his ceasefire plan for the Gaza Strip. Shortly after, in November, Cairo invited world leaders to attend the spectacular opening of the new Grand Egyptian Museum next to the pyramids.
Amid these eye-catching events, other domestic developments have received less attention. Most notable were Egypt’s parliamentary elections, with the first round held in Novembe

“Tiny cars” which are popular in ****** an will be allowed to be built in U.S. factories, Presdient Donald Trump has announced.
“I have just approved TINY CARS to be built in America,” the president wrote on Truth Social Friday, having previously described the vehicles as “very cute.”
“Manufacturers have long wanted to do this, just like they are so successfully built in other countries. They can be propelled by gasoline, electric, or hybrid. These cars of the very near future are inexpensive, safe, fuel efficient and, quite simply, AMAZING!!! START BUILDING THEM NOW!... ENJOY!!!”
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Even though the Carolina Panthers are winning more games now and are in the playoff conversation, the talk surrounding the team is, understandably, all about Bryce Young's future. Has he played his way into a long-term contract extension?
The answer is probably not yet. He's still had his fair share of ups and downs, but he's won them some games, and he seems to have ultimately improved on his success from the end of last season.
The Panthers are expected to pick up his fifth-year option. Beyond that? It's anyone's guess, but two former NFL players want to see him stay in Car

It was all smiles at Washington DC's Kennedy Centre as the leaders of the US, Mexico and Canada took the stage for the 2026 World Cup draw, even as trade tensions simmered in the background.
For Donald Trump, the brief interaction marked his first meeting with Mexico's Claudia Sheinbaum, who leads the largest trading partner for the US.
While Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has already met with Trump several times, trade talks have been halted.
Trump this week signalled a willingness to leave in place a long-standing free trade agreement between the US, Canada and Mexico.
The agreement

Somalis arrested as immigration crackdown in Minnesota's Twin Cities begins

By Heather Schlitz and Andrew Hay
MINNEAPOLIS - People of Somali origin are among those arrested in an immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, federal officials said on Thursday, two days after President Donald Trump hurled insults at immigrants from the Horn of Africa country and said he ‌wanted them out of the United States.
The Minneapolis arrests began on Monday, the Department of Homeland Security said in its first statement ‌on the operation. Officials did not give a total arrest figure but gave profiles of 12

The NFL Week 14 schedule is full of intrigue, including several with playoff implications. Among them is the NFC North-leading Chicago Bears (9-3), who have won five in a row, visiting the 8-3-1 Green Bay Packers, who have won three straight. Caleb Williams of the Bears will face off against Jordan Love and the Packers in a battle between up-and-coming quarterbacks. Green Bay is the 6.5-point favorite and is 5-7 against the spread, while the Bears are 8-4 ATS. Green Bay has won 11 of the last 12 matchups between the teams.
There are a number of other solid matchups on the Week 14 NFL schedule

In recent remarks at the “Revitalizing America’s Markets” event, SEC Chair Paul Atkins laid out a plan that would fundamentally redefine what it means to be a public company in the United States. He framed it as a plan to “make IPOs great again,” but beneath the rhetoric lies something far more consequential: a shift toward a marketplace where public companies behave like private ones — shielded from disclosure, insulated from shareholder input, and increasingly detached from the long-term health of the broader economy. In essence, it is a move toward absolute control by CEOs and their boards

By Charlie Devereux and Jesus Calero
MADRID, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Spain is investigating whether a recent swine fever outbreak in Barcelona could have been caused by a laboratory leak, the ‌Agriculture Ministry said on Friday.
The country, the European Union's top pork producer, is ‌trying to reassure trading partners after 13 wild boars tested positive for the virus in hills outside the city. The disease is harmless to humans but can be deadly for pigs and wild boars.
Genome ⁠sequencing by a Madrid ‌lab showed the strain was “very similar” to one first detected in Georgia in 2007 and now wide

Obamacare anxiety rising among House GOP centrists: 'To do this is buffoonery'

Frustration is mounting among moderate House Republicans as various competing health care plans appear to be going nowhere, with less than 10 working days left on the calendar before millions of Americans see their health insurance premiums spike.
A small but animated group of GOP centrists is imploring party leaders to extend the ObamaCare tax credits set to expire at the end of the year. But they’ve run into a wall of opposition from Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who’s cold to the idea, and a larger group of c

(Bloomberg) -- The S&P 500 has climbed more than 16% in 2025, while Bitcoin is down 3% — the first time since 2014 that stocks have rallied while the token is down, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
The digital ***** et has rarely deviated so cleanly from other risk ***** ets even during past crypto winters. The dislocation defies expectations that cryptocurrencies would thrive under President Donald Trump’s return to the White House amid favorable regulation and a wave of institutional adoption.
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Trump Replaces Architect to Lead $300 Million Ballroom Design

The Trump administration is ramping up its immigration crackdown in ways that could alter America’s economy for years to come.
In the wake of the deadly shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 28 — and the arrest of suspect Rahmanullah Lakanwal, an Afghan national who worked with the CIA to battle the Taliban in his home country — director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Joseph Edlow announced he would begin a “reexamination of every Green Card for every alien from every country of concern” at Trump’s request (1).
The countries in question, which also

Headline 2: Türkiye receives first dedicated organic cotton training resource
The Organic Cotton Training Curriculum (OCTC) is now publicly available in Turkish and English, alongside a Trainer’s Handbook to support sector-wide adoption.
Developed with Ankara-based Prospera Impact and informed by Turkish sector partners, the curriculum adapts proven good farming practices to Türkiye’s soils, climate and growing conditions.
It also introduces the programme’s first module on regenerative agriculture, offering clear direction on soil health, biodiversity and long-term resilience.
Beyond field

Ether vs. Bitcoin teases 170% gains as ETH price breaks 5-month downtrend

Ether price action staged a repeat of its 2021 bull market moves against Bitcoin, leading to predictions of fresh long-term highs against BTC.
Ether
ETH
$3,140
is teasing 170% gains in under two months as history repeats itself against Bitcoin
BTC
$91,395
.
Key points:
Ether has the potential to rematch long-term highs above 0.09 in Bitcoin terms.
Bull market history continues to play out for the largest altcoin, with $3,700 the next target.

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