San Francisco was affected by a massive power outage over the weekend. It started with a fire at a substation in the city on Saturday afternoon, causing a blackout that at times affected as much as a third of the city, leaving more than 130,000 homes without power. Among the city's affected critical systems were the traffic lights, which paralyzed Waymo's fleet of robotaxis, stopping them in their tracks and clogging traffic.
The U.S. has been conducting intelligence-gathering flights over large parts of Nigeria since late November, according to flight tracking data and current and former U.S. officials, in a sign of increased security cooperation between the countries. Reuters could not determine what information the flights are meant to obtain.
Heading into a year with midterm elections, 18 percent of voters approve of the way the Democrats in Congress are handling their job, while 73 percent disapprove, which is a record low job approval rating for them, according to a Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pea-ack) University national poll of registered voters released today.
Explanation: Yesterday the Sun reached its southernmost point in planet Earth's sky. Called a solstice, many cultures mark yesterday's date as a change of seasons -- from autumn to winter in Earth's Northern Hemisphere and from spring to summer in Earth's Southern Hemisphere. The featured image was taken just before the longest night of the 2025 northern year at Stonehenge in United Kingdom.
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A genetically drifted influenza A(H3N2) subclade K has spread to more than 34 countries since August 2025, causing hospitalizations to surge and setting records in the UK with 2,660 daily admissions. The US has recorded at least 4.6 million illnesses, 49,000 hospitalizations, and 1,900 deaths this season, with young children and older adults hit hardest.
At point blank range, an IDF soldier shot and killed Rayan Muhammad Abdul Qader Abu Mualla (16) who was unarmed as he walked to his home in the occupied West Bank town of Qabatiya.
PHOENIX (AP) -- When Turning Point USA's annual AmericaFest convention reached its halfway point, Erika Kirk tried to put a smiling face on things. "Say what you want about AmFest, but it's definitely not boring," said Kirk, who has led the influential conservative organization since her husband Charlie was assassinated in September. "Feels like a Thanksgiving dinner where your family's hashing out the family business." That's one way to put it. Some of the biggest names in conservative media took turns torching each other on the main stage, spending more time targeting right-wing rivals than their left-wing opponents. The feuds could ultimately define the boundaries of the Republican Party and determine the future of President Donald Trump's fractious coalition, which appears primed for more schisms in the months and years ahead. Here are some of the most notable moments from the four-day conference.
Timothy Loehmann, the former Cleveland police officer who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014, has been fired from his position as a ranger with the Snowshoe Resort Community District in West Virginia. The district's board of directors released the below statement on Friday: "Ranger Tim Loehmann is no longer employed by the SRCD. The Board of the SRCD met on December 19, 2025, to discuss personnel matters, and then voted unanimously to terminate the employment of Tim Loehmann effective immediately. Tamir Rice was playing with an airsoft pellet gun outside the Cudell Recreation Center in November 2014 when Loehmann shot him. The boy died the next day. The Cleveland Division of Police fired Loehmann in 2017 " not for the shooting, but for lying on his job application and failing to disclose that Independence police had previously deemed him unfit for duty.
Erika Kirk stunned the internet with an apparent slip of the tongue in which she implied her deceased husband Charlie was a "grifter." Honoring a student at a Turning Point USA event, Erika Kirk said, "Despite the devastating loss of Charlie Kirk, my incredible husband... Caleb has persisted with the same grift - gift - grit... it has been a long day." "Trust me you're not a grifter, honey," she said to the student. "It's all good."
Picnics are a fun way to catch up with your favourite people, but did you know there is a picnic table where folks from three different countries can have lunch together -- without crossing any borders?
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Anything goes on this thread. So post whatever y'all want. But I'll try to stay with media theme songs (emphasis on "try"). The cited link is A Swingin' Safari by Bert Kaempfert (1962). A theme of the TV show, The Match Game back in the day. Read more
In Buffalo NY, Ontario Premier Doug Ford and NYS Governor Kathy Hochul (D) jointly announced a deal to cooperate on sharing nuclear power across their border; concomitantly the Ontario Premier publicly shunned Florida, encouraging Canadians to join his boycott of Republican Governor Ron DeSantis' state.
A Namibian politician named after German dictator Adolf Hitler was declared the winner by a landslide in a local government election, according to official results published late Thursday. Read more
Seasons greetings, from your old friend Santa! Santa has been hard at work up at the North Pole preparing to deliver toys to all you wonderful girls and boys.
But lately, it hasn't been all candy canes and rainbows for old St. Nick, because some people don't like the fact that Santa started dating Mrs. Claus when she was just 14. Read more
