| Putin’s Year-End News Conference Set for Friday
- The annual news conference sets the Kremlin’s tone for the next year and highlights President Vladimir V. Putin’s grip over Russia.
Fri, 19 Dec 2025 09:17:15 +0000
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| Suspect in MIT Professor’s Death Was an Ex-Classmate from Portugal, Prosecutors Say
- Nuno F.G. Loureiro, the professor, attended the same physics program in Portugal as the man suspected in his killing.
Fri, 19 Dec 2025 08:50:09 +0000
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| A Reddit Post Led to a Breakthrough in the Brown Shooting Investigation
- A Reddit user provided information that helped identify Claudio Manuel Neves Valente as not only the suspect in the campus shooting, but also the murder of an M.I.T. professor.
Fri, 19 Dec 2025 08:49:56 +0000
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| Australia Announces Plan to Buy Back Guns in Wake of Bondi Attack
- The program is expected to take hundreds of thousands of firearms out of circulation, the prime minister said on Friday.
Fri, 19 Dec 2025 08:34:47 +0000
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| Bank of Japan Raises Interest Rates to Highest Level in 30 Years
- The Bank of Japan moved to slow inflation as the prime minister is borrowing more to fund an ambitious effort to build up industry and support households.
Fri, 19 Dec 2025 08:24:01 +0000
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| Europe to Lend $105 Billion to Ukraine, Without Touching Russian Funds
- European Union officials wanted to use Russia’s frozen assets to back a major loan to Ukraine. Facing opposition in their own camp, they settled on another way.
Fri, 19 Dec 2025 06:34:17 +0000
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| How Did a City of 10 Million People Nearly Run Out of Water?
- Restricting Tehran’s growth and water use — however politically difficult — would be more prudent than trying to engineer ever more elaborate workarounds.
Fri, 19 Dec 2025 06:00:05 +0000
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| Trump Administration to Appeal Harvard Funding Case
- Facing a deadline to appeal, the Justice Department told the courts late Thursday that it would try to overturn a judge’s ruling in favor of Harvard.
Fri, 19 Dec 2025 05:19:59 +0000
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| Britain Is Preparing for Attacks on Its Soil. Critics Say It Must Move Faster.
- As military officials sound the alarm over Russian hybrid attacks, the chair of Parliament’s defense committee said the government’s progress on ramping up home defense was “glacial.”
Fri, 19 Dec 2025 05:01:05 +0000
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| ‘A Singularly Turbulent Time’: Deeper Uncertainty in Store for Global Economy
- A reordering of the rules of trade, set on top of transformational change in technology, demographics and climate, is remaking jobs, politics and lives.
Fri, 19 Dec 2025 05:00:12 +0000
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| Trump Signs Order to Ease Restrictions on Marijuana
- Marijuana’s classification as one of the most dangerous and habit-forming substances has long drawn criticism.
Fri, 19 Dec 2025 04:25:18 +0000
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| Judge Convicted of Obstructing Agents as They Sought Undocumented Immigrant
- The Wisconsin state judge, Hannah C. Dugan, was accused of ushering a man to a side door as federal agents waited outside a courtroom.
Fri, 19 Dec 2025 03:28:11 +0000
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| Takeaways From the Trial of Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan
- The Milwaukee judge was charged with obstructing federal immigration agents, who were trying to arrest a man who had appeared before her on a battery charge.
Fri, 19 Dec 2025 03:05:55 +0000
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| Several Billion Dollars Were Lost to Fraud in Minnesota, Prosecutors Say
- Federal prosecutors said they were now investigating fraud worth billions of dollars in 14 social services programs in the state.
Fri, 19 Dec 2025 01:39:39 +0000
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| Trump Announces $1,776 ‘Warrior Dividend’ for Military
- President Trump promised active duty troops a $1,776 check, citing increased revenue raised by tariffs, but the funding is coming from money for the military included in this year’s domestic spending law.
Fri, 19 Dec 2025 01:03:38 +0000
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| Kennedy Center Board Moves to Rename It the Trump-Kennedy Center
- The board for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced that it would now be named the Trump-Kennedy Center, although a formal change may have to be approved by Congress.
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 23:38:58 +0000
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| Mamdani Appointee Resigns After Decade-Old Antisemitic Posts Re-emerge
- Catherine Almonte Da Costa resigned from her just-announced post as Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s director of appointments after the Anti-Defamation League resurfaced the comments.
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:13:51 +0000
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| Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry Are Worth Rooting For
- As a politician, Justin Trudeau was an excellent celebrity. And the rest of the world could learn a useful lesson from how he wielded his star power.
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:06:16 +0000
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| Palo Alto Confronts Billionaires Over Their Housing Compounds
- The Silicon Valley college town has changed drastically as Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page and other tech founders have scooped up multiple properties.
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:32:35 +0000
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| After Rob Reiner’s ‘North’ Flopped, He Proved He Could Take Criticism With Humor
- Roger Ebert said he “hated, hated, hated, hated, hated” Reiner’s 1994 film “North.” The director took it in stride.
Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:16:35 +0000
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