A Florida man fatally shot his wife, critically wounded his stepdaughter and then killed himself after the parents argued over changing the channel from "Monday Night Football," authorities said. Read more
Colombian President Gustavo Petro said Friday that survivors jumped into the sea to escape a U.S. attack on suspected drugsmuggling boats in the Pacific Ocean. Petro warned regional governments in a post on X after posting a map showing where the strike allegedly occurred, near Mexico and Guatemala.
U.S. President Donald Trump slammed actor George Clooney and wife, human rights lawyer Amal, after the couple acquired French citizenship. French authorities fast-tracked granting citizenship to the Clooneys and their children on Dec. 26, a move that became public earlier this week. France's Foreign Minister Jean-Nol Barrot backed the process, stressing the couple's philanthropic work.
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An 18-year-old Burger King worker intended to commit a terrorist attack with knives and hammers at a grocery store or fast-food restaurant in a Charlotte, N.C., suburb on New Year's Eve, the FBI said on Friday. Prosecutors charged the suspect, Christian Sturdivant of Mint Hill, N.C., with attempting to provide material support to Islamic State, according to court documents. "The FBI and partners foiled another potential New Year's Eve attack from an individual allegedly inspired by ISIS," FBI Director Kash Patel said. Sturdivant had been planning the attack for a year, according to authorities. Read more
Thousands of Americans are poised to be impacted by layoffs after the holiday season this year. Layoffs can be viewed as a signal about how companies view economic headwinds, but they could also be due to restructuring or plans to maximize profits.
More than 1.1 million layoffs occurred in 2025, according to a December 2025 report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
As regulators press Meta to crack down on rogue advertisers on Facebook and Instagram, the social media giant has drafted a "playbook" to stall them. Internal documents seen by Reuters reveal its tactics, including efforts to make scam ads "not findable" when authorities search for them.
The most potent attack ad of Donald Trump's comeback campaign seemingly ran on a loop during the final weeks before the 2024 election. Assailing rights for transgender people, its punch line indeed delivered a punch: "Kamala Harris is for they/them. President Trump is for you." 2025: Promise broken. Back in office, the president has shown that the only pronouns he really recognizes are the first-person kind: me, myself and I.
Ukraine staged the death of a high-ranked Russian fighting on Kyiv's side to prevent him being killed on Moscow's orders and lure out those involved in the plot, Ukrainian military intelligence announced on Thursday. The GUR military intelligence unit said the ruse even netted the $500,000 Russian reward for the "killing" of Denis Kapustin " also known as Denis Nikitin " leader of the Russian Volunteer Corps and "Timur Special Unit", which had announced on Saturday that Kapustin was killed on the frontline. On Thursday, Kapustin appeared via video link at a briefing with the head of Ukrainian military intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov. His assassination, the GUR and Timur unit said, "was ordered by the special services of the aggressor state Russia, which allocated half a million dollars to carry out the crime
Donald Trump welcomed 2026 with a glitzy bash at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach where he auctioned off a freshly painted portrait of Jesus Christ for $2.75m and said his new year's resolution was a wish for "peace on Earth".
"The peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world."
The popular account Libs of TikTok wrote, "CNN disputes that there's fraud in Minnesota Somali daycares because they called a bunch of daycares, one answered so they asked if they're committing fraud, and the daycare responded that they're not. I'm not kidding." Read more
North Carolina now only recognizes two genders, male and female, based on biological sex at birth. The intent is to stop transgender people from being allowed to change their gender on official state documents.
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie approved a new law setting up a reparations fund to compensate for slavery and racial discrimination that passed the city's Board of Supervisors earlier in December. In a statement to Newsweek, Lurie emphasized that while the new law sets up a reparations fund, the city is not allocating money to it. "I was elected to drive San Francisco's recovery, and that's what I'm focused on every day. We are not allocating money to this fund"with a historic $1 billion budget deficit, we are going to spend our money on making the city safer and cleaner," he said. The fund was set up in response to recommendations for single payments of as much as $5 million to any Black San Franciscans who might be eligible. Read more
In the hours following the tragic death of Caroline Kennedy's daughter Tatiana Schlossberg (35) from acute myeloid leukemia, Dummkopf Trumpf callously mocked the famous political dynasty on Truth Social, sharing screenshots of MAGA miscreants insulting the Kennedys for their disapproval of the Dotard-in-Chief befouling the Kennedy Center by him illegally adding his name to the American institution named after JFK.
Russia's defence ministry released video footage on Wednesday of what it said was a downed drone at a briefing intended to show Ukraine tried this week to attack a presidential residence and challenge Kyiv's denials that such an attack took place.
