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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

Trump announces 'Patriot Games' with 2 competitors from every state and territory

America’s 250th birthday is on July 4, 2026, and the White House is planning to go all out to celebrate, promoting new national events, such as the “Patriot Games,” that will anchor the yearlong festivities.
President Trump announced Thursday the launch of Freedom 250, “a national, non-partisan organization leading the Administration’s celebration” to “deliver the most extraordinary commemoration in American history,” according to a news release.
“These landmark events — spanning culture, faith, innovation,

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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Plans for a new £2.3bn acute hospital for part of Cambridgeshire seeing rapid population growth have been described as ambitious but necessary.
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH), which operates Addenbrooke's Hospital, says that by 2040 it will need double the number of beds it currently has, and an emergency department five or six times the size.
It is already short of about 160 acute beds, and the new "radical" plans would offer more community support and would ideally see people attend hospital only for emergencies or specialist care that cannot be delivered locally

In a late August Barchart article on Bitcoin, I concluded with the following:
Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies are highly volatile **** ets. While the bullish trend remains firmly intact, the price history suggests that another price plunge is not out of the question.
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Bitcoin was trading just below $116,200 per token on August 22, and while the price

Search for missing Brooklyn boy continues after neighbor detects nearby 'death smell'

More than two months after a Brooklyn woman denied having any children when cops came looking for her missing 11-year-old autistic son the whereabouts of the boy remain a mystery.
NYPD cops, fearing the worst, have released a sketch and a computer-generated image of Jacob Pritchett, as well as a photo of the mother, Jacqueline Pritchett, all in the hopes a member of the public will help them find the boy, dead or alive.
As the search continues, his 50-year-old mother, described by authorities as mentally

[LIVE] Bitcoin Price Watch: September PCE Inflation Hits 2.8% as Expected—Will F...

According to The Kobeissi Letter, the S&P 500 surges +0.5% as Core PCE inflation unexpectedly falls to 2.8%, now just 30 points away from a new record high.
The Letter noted: "The S&P 500 has now added +$3.3 TRILLION since the November 21st low. Those who ignored the noise are winning. **** et owners are winning."
Core PCE came in at 2.8% versus 2.9% expected, with the softer-than-expected reading fueling risk **** et gains as December Fed rate cut odds hold at 88.8%.

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A prehistoric bird that lived and died 120 million years ago has presented forensic paleontologists with a baffling medical mystery.
Somehow, it managed to die with more than 800 tiny pebbles in its throat – a situation that researchers think almost certainly caused its demise. But why was the sparrow-sized bird swallowing the stones in the first place?
It's a discovery that raises some interesting questions about the diet, behavior, and physiology of prehistoric birds – especially since the mass of stones discovered in the esophagus of the newly discovered Chromeornis funkyi is unlike anyth

The UK is deporting 60 delivery riders found to be working illegally after an immigration crackdown.
Targeted action against workers in the so-called gig economy led to 171 arrests nationwide last month, the Home Office said.
Those arrested included Chinese nationals working in a restaurant in Solihull, Bangladeshi and Indian riders in east London, and Indian delivery riders in Norwich.
The drive comes as ministers try to crack down on illegal working in the UK, as part of efforts to deter those coming to the country illegally.
Home Office figures show there were 8,232 arrests of illegal w

Surf Cam Captures Possible UFO Sighting in SoCal (Video)

With hundreds of cameras live-streaming continuously all across the globe – primarily, of course, to check surf conditions – Surfline has a godlike network of eyeballs.
And occasionally, it’s not just the waves that Surfline’s cams capture. The cameras have recorded (and ****** isted in solving) crimes; they’ve caught sharks breaching at popular surf spots like Lower Trestles; and dead whales slowly and sadly washing ashore.
But this next clip may just be the biggest in terms of strange phenomena, outside the realm of surfing, as ca

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Dec. 4—WINONA, Minn. — It was a dinosaur that once roamed the earth 66 million years ago, and now a big piece of its sits housed in a lab at Winona State University in one of the rarest and largest fossil discoveries in recent memory.
It was called Edmontosaurus. And the duck-billed dinosaur was really big. From the tip of its snout to the end of its tail, it was as big as a city bus. And it lived alongside its contemporaries Tyrannosaurus Rex and Triceratops and existed just before all the large dinosaurs were wiped out in a mass extinction.
Its bones sticking out of the ground in the North

Peter Schiff engaged in a debate with CZ at Binance Blockchain Week after challenging Bitcoin’s legitimacy as a generator of real economic value.
Speaking on stage opposite Changpeng Zhao (CZ), Schiff argued that Bitcoin is a zero-sum wealth transfer rather than a productive ***** et.
Here is Schiff’s full statement as delivered during the debate:
"All Bitcoin does is enable a transfer of wealth from people who buy BTC to the people who sell it. When Bitcoin is created, there's no real wealth. We have about 20 million Bitcoin now that we didn't have 15 years ago. But we're no better off bec

Build On Bitcoin (BOB), a Bitcoin Defi crypto token, delivered a dramatic surge today, printing what traders often call a “God candle” after rocketing more than 100% in a day.
While the rally may seem compelling at first glance, a closer look at the token’s underlying fundamentals raises serious concerns that investors should not ignore.
Across social platforms, BOB is being labeled a major “red flag” due to structural risks in its token distribution. Data from Go Plus Security reveals that the top 10 holders control more than 93% of the entire BOB supply. Such extreme concentration is often

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

A new study is flipping the script on how we think about renewable energy, and it is revealing a surprising flaw in the way a major industry is funded.
UK researchers Colm O'Shea, Piers Horne, and Mark Maslin found that wind power has delivered more than $132.4 billion in total savings for consumers since 2010. Besides the work wind power has done to clean up the UK's electricity grid, this is also a major win for families and the economy.
Plus, it is a reminder that clean energy is more than just an environmental upgrade.
From 2010 to 2023, wind generation cut costs by $195.2 billion, incl

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

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A ****** e and radiation expert claims a JetBlue flight incident that left at least 15 people hospitalized may have been caused by "cosmic rays"
The statement contradicts an explanation from Airbus, the plane's manufacturer, which cited "solar radiation" as the cause
Clive Dyer, the expert at the University of Surrey, told ****** e.com solar activity was insignificant the day of the incident
A ****** e and radiation expert is disagreeing with Airbus’ recent explanation of a flight incident that left at least 15 people injured back in Octobe

In 1999, hikers on Vancouver Island suddenly began falling mysteriously ill. Doctors found strange nodules growing on their lungs, and several people died as cases mounted over the next few years. The culprit was Crypotoccus gattii, a microscopic fungus that typically lives on rotting logs in tropical rainforests and that had somehow found its way thousands of miles north.
“We had this new fungus showing up in the Pacific Northwest that wasn't supposed to be there,” recalls molecular epidemiologist David Engelthaler, who was called in by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CD

Scientists debate a 70-year-old UFO mystery as new images come to light

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More than 70 years ago, astronomers at the Palomar Observatory in California photographed several star-like flashes that appeared and vanished within an hour — years before the first satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched into orbit.
New peer-reviewed research revisiting those midcentury sky plates repo

Six test subjects are being sought for a ***** e study in which they will live in isolation in a laboratory in the German city of Cologne for 100 days.
The study is being initiated by the European ***** e Agency (ESA) and will be carried out in spring 2026 by the German Aerospace Centre (DLR).
At the same time, the DLR is also looking for participants for a 60-day bed rest study on gravity simulation, according to a statement issued on Monday.
Participants in the isolation study will receive €23,000 in compensation. People between the ages of 25 and 55 are eligible to apply.
In addition to

Lasers are everywhere. Whether for barcode scanners, hair removal treatments or fiber-optic internet connections, these beams of light power our everyday lives. Their history dates back to Einstein’s theories in the 1910s and experiments funded by the U.S. government in the 1950s. It took decades for lasers to go from theory to research prototypes to ubiquitous technology.
Many discoveries follow a similar path, including right here in Tennessee.
Opinion: The fight of our lives: advancing cancer research in TN
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), a federally funded lab and our state’s larg

The Santa Claus rally is usually one of Wall Street’s favorite holiday traditions. Stocks tend to grind higher after Thanksgiving, volatility fades, and December often delivers one of the strongest months of the year.
This year, strategists say, Santa may not show up.
“None [of the months this year] have behaved the way they have seasonally," Amy Wu Silverman, head of derivatives strategy at RBC Capital Markets, told Yahoo Finance.
And there are plenty of reasons why. The year has offered reminder after reminder that this isn’t a normal market cycle: The DeepSeek meltdown in February, Presi

Powerful coast-to-coast storm to bring major impacts from heavy snow to ice

Closely following a major winter storm that unleashed travel chaos during the busy Thanksgiving holiday weekend, meteorological winter is set to kick off this week with a powerful coast-to-coast storm delivering a wide range of impacts.
The cross-country storm starts Sunday in the Rockies and tracks through Wednesday into the Northeast, likely posing threats of snow, ice and rain to airports, roadways and communities along its path.
Snow will develop across portions of the northern Rockies and pivot south, bringin

Fed contender Hassett says markets are already reacting as Trump nears decision

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said Sunday he has decided on his pick for the next Federal Reserve chair after making clear he expects his nominee to deliver interest-rate cuts.
“I know who I am going to pick, yeah,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One on his way back to Washington, without naming his choice. “We’ll be announcing it.”
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In Norway, ice melt high up in the mountains has uncovered remarkable archaeological discoveries. While the recent findings in these digs are exciting, the melting ice itself points to a larger issue.
According to Live Science, archaeologists have been excavating the Aurlandsfjellet area since August and have found items like a 1,500-year-old reindeer trap, as well as small pins and tools with meanings not fully understood by scientists.
"These are items we would never find in ordinary excavations, including a pine oar and a clothing pin made of antler," said archaeologist Leif Inge Åstveit,

Ozempic 2.0 is on the way: The latest on the next wave of weight loss drugs

Ozempic, and the class of weight loss drugs it has come to embody, has left its imprint seemingly everywhere: On the lives of millions of patients who’ve lost unprecedented amounts of weight. On grocery store shelves with new offerings explicitly catering to those taking the drugs. Even in the calculations of insurance companies studying the drugs’ effects on mortality. (Yes, there are Ozempic guides to Thanksgiving.)
For all the societal changes ushered in by GLP-1 drugs, their lofty price tags limit who can affor

Game Preview: No. 12 Gonzaga Meets No. 7 Michigan for the Players Era ******* le
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Tonight’s Players Era Championship game in Las Vegas delivers the best matchup of the young college basketball season season so far: No. 12 Gonzaga vs. No. 7 Michigan, with a $1 million NIL prize on the line for the winner’s war chest. Gonzaga arrives to the matchup following a 39-point drubbing of the Maryland Terrapins on Tuesday, a performance that showcased their ******* ing, tempo, and surging defensive confidence. Michigan reaches the ******* le game looking every bit like a top-10 machine unde

The human brain is not a hard-wired machine but a malleable organ that is regularly re-shaping itself.
Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge in the UK and the University of Pittsburgh in the US have now identified four major turning points in brain wiring between birth and death.
Like chapters of our lives, each of these neurological 'epochs' marks a new era of development or decline.
"Looking back, many of us feel our lives have been characterized by different phases," says senior author and neuroinformaticist Duncan Astle from Cambridge.
"It turns out that brains also go through

MANHATTAN (KSNT) – This year is the 50th anniversary of the first case of herbicide resistance in Kansas, and Kansas State University is reflecting on what has been done and what’s left to do with the issue.
The first known case of herbicide resistance in Kansas came in 1976 when populations of kochia, an early spring weed/herb native to Europe and Asia, growing near railroads were found to be resistant to atrazine, a popular herbicide used in corn and sorghum fields. Today, this resistant kochia can be found across the state.
Kansas Livestock ***** ociation approves policies for 2026
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