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Your mouth on weed is nothing to smile about

Smoking marijuana can increase cavities, tooth loss and the risk of oral cancers — but you can take steps to protect yourself.

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Dec 29, 2025 • 6:01 AM EST • Health • cnn.com
Wild things we learned about Earth in 2025

With findings on Earth’s polar extremes and its innermost core, scientists shaped how we look at the planet in 2025 in surprising and fascinating ways.

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Dec 29, 2025 • 6:01 AM EST • Science • cnn.com
#ANALYSIS: Samuel Alito keeps getting his way. So why does he seem so unhappy?

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has a remarkable record of transforming his old dissenting opinions into the new majority view and setting the direction of the law in America.

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Dec 29, 2025 • 4:01 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
Petah Tikva declared 'red city' for measles outbreak, six-month-old children to be vaccinated

According to the ministry’s statement, the exceptional step was taken due to the rapid spread of the disease in the city and the makeup of the population.

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Dec 29, 2025 • 1:15 AM EST • Health • jpost.com
BUSINESS MONDAY: Spotlight on Western MA Graphic Novels in Great Barrington

Located on the fringe of downtown Great Barrington, this retail store is filled with an eclectic, hand-curated inventory of comics for all ages.

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Dec 29, 2025 • 12:07 AM EST • Business • theberkshireedge.com
Analysis: Trump doubles down on big goal bets in end-of-the-year flurry

President Donald Trump is spending the end of the year trying to cash in huge foreign policy bets on which thousands of lives may depend and that will define his attempt to wield decisive power far beyond American shores.

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Dec 29, 2025 • 12:00 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
Takeaways from Trump’s meeting with Zelensky in Florida

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky traded freezing, missile-tormented Kyiv on Sunday for the frescoed dining room at Mar-a-Lago, where he hoped to gain President Donald Trump’s sign-off on a revised 20-point peace plan to end the war in his country.

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Dec 28, 2025 • 7:10 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
Microsoft Office 2019 drops to $29.97 for a lifetime Windows license

A one-time purchase that gets the job done.

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Dec 28, 2025 • 6:00 PM EST • Technology • mashable.com
Did the foldable iPhone just get leaked? Seems like it.

YouTuber Jon Prosser is being sued by Apple for his previous leaks. Now he dropped a new one.

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Dec 28, 2025 • 1:30 PM EST • Technology • mashable.com
How TIME’s Kid of the Year is using AI to help seniors
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Dec 28, 2025 • 11:26 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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‘Enough is enough’: Sen. Katie Britt calls on Congress to ‘put up guardrails’ for kids with AI
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Dec 28, 2025 • 11:21 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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Sen. Bernie Sanders warns AI is ‘the most consequential technology in the history of humanity’
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Dec 28, 2025 • 11:18 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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Amid low flu vaccination rates, rising morbidity, health officials clash over inoculation policies

Only 17% of Israelis have been vaccinated; health fund CEOs are divided over sanctions versus accessibility.

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Dec 28, 2025 • 9:45 AM EST • Health • jpost.com
Live updates: Trump administration news, Epstein files release
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Dec 28, 2025 • 8:27 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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Former CDC Chief Medical Officer criticizes Health Department’s handling of rising flu cases
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Dec 28, 2025 • 7:39 AM EST • Health • cnn.com
I'm an 83-year-old yoga instructor. I'm not your typical grandma — I still work to feel fulfilled and supplement my Social Security.

Barbara Brown, 83, works as a yoga instructor at nursing homes in Richmond, Virginia. She said her work has been fulfilling, though she needs to work.

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Dec 28, 2025 • 5:05 AM EST • Business • businessinsider.com
The Year in Climate: Attacks on Science, the Start of Trump’s Second Term and Surging Electricity Demand Foreshadow a Future Filled with Uncertainty

Global inaction on fossil fuel and plastic treaties, the dismantling of federal agencies and regulations and the rapid rise of data centers were just a few of the consequential stories that Inside Climate News tracked in 2025.

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Dec 28, 2025 • 5:00 AM EST • Science • insideclimatenews.org
Inside Floyd Mayweather's lavish, debt-filled post-boxing life

Private jets, Bugattis...and a pile of bills: Inside Floyd Mayweather's lavish, debt-filled post-boxing life

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Dec 28, 2025 • 4:08 AM EST • Business • businessinsider.com
Zelensky and Trump to meet in Florida after weeks of intensive peace talks

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrives here Sunday as his frozen capital of Kyiv comes under assault by Russian missiles and drones, a deadly reminder from the war’s aggressor that its attacks would continue even amid accelerated peace talks.

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Dec 28, 2025 • 4:00 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
Drop those free apps — own Microsoft Office for just $35

A productivity suite for real grown-ups.

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Dec 27, 2025 • 6:00 PM EST • Technology • mashable.com
This is ‘brain rot,’ a slang term with something to it

Teens talk about their “brain rot” online. While there isn’t data to back it up, per se, experts do have concerns about the effect on kids and adults.

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Dec 27, 2025 • 8:00 AM EST • Health • cnn.com
These small business owners will become uninsured after key ACA subsidies expire

When patients come to Eric Frankenfeld’s chiropractic practice with insurance woes, his wife, Lisa, the office manager, tells them not to worry because she’ll work with them to keep care affordable.

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Dec 27, 2025 • 7:01 AM EST • Health • cnn.com
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These small business owners will become uninsured after key ACA subsidies expire

When patients come to Eric Frankenfeld’s chiropractic practice with insurance woes, his wife, Lisa, the office manager, tells them not to worry because she’ll work with them to keep care affordable.

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Dec 27, 2025 • 7:01 AM EST • Business • cnn.com
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These small business owners will become uninsured after key ACA subsidies expire

When patients come to Eric Frankenfeld’s chiropractic practice with insurance woes, his wife, Lisa, the office manager, tells them not to worry because she’ll work with them to keep care affordable.

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Dec 27, 2025 • 7:01 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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Vivek Ramaswamy is rebranding himself

Vivek Ramaswamy barreled into politics as a flame-thrower willing to offend just about anyone. He declared America was in a “cold cultural civil war,” denied the existence of white supremacists, and referred to one of his rivals as “corrupt.” Two years later, Ramaswamy says he wants to be “conservative without being combative.”

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Dec 27, 2025 • 6:01 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
Philly sports' top 10 figures of 2025

Super Bowl MVP Jalen Hurts, Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber and Union coach Bradley Carnell were all instrumental in Philly sports this year.

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Dec 27, 2025 • 5:01 AM EST • Sports • phillyvoice.com
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Analysis: Donald Trump’s top 25 lies of 2025

It was hard to pick only 25. But it was easier than it used to be.

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Dec 27, 2025 • 4:00 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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Before ‘SNL,’ there was Sid Caesar and a roomful of Jewish writers

Legendary Jewish comedian Sid Caesar dominated the television screen beginning in the 1950's and left a lasting mark on American showbusiness as we know it.

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Dec 26, 2025 • 11:49 PM EST • Entertainment • jpost.com
Trump supporter: GDP numbers are a ‘full out win’ for Trump
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Dec 26, 2025 • 10:47 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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Kennedy Center president rebukes performer who called off Christmas Eve show over addition of Trump’s name

Kennedy Center president Richard Grenell lambasted a performer’s decision to cancel an annual Christmas Eve jazz concert, following the addition of President Donald Trump’s name to the Washington, DC, arts venue.

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Dec 26, 2025 • 8:52 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
US contemplates sending more resources to forcibly board oil tanker near Venezuela

The United States hasn’t given up its pursuit of the massive, rusted oil tanker it chased into international waters near Venezuela last weekend, and officials are now contemplating moving additional resources into the area to forcibly board the ship, people familiar with the matter said.

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Dec 26, 2025 • 4:29 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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Philly sports' top 10 games of 2025

From Cutter Gauthier's first visit to Philly to VJ Edgecombe's debut, Kyle Schwarber's four-homer night, and of course, the Super Bowl, Philly sports had a year to remember.

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Dec 26, 2025 • 4:17 PM EST • Sports • phillyvoice.com
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Nebraska's casinos set record for sports betting in November

The state's five racetrack casinos brought in more than $1.5 million in sports betting revenue last month, which was a 25% increase over the previous record set in November 2024.

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Dec 26, 2025 • 2:41 PM EST • Sports • nebraskapublicmedia.org
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Event Recap: 2025-26 Sports Academy National Cup

In the latest edition of ‘P.I. Pulse’, Pro Insight’s Tyler Glazier highlights prospects who stood out at Sports Academy National Cup after spending the weekend at Sports Academy in Thousand Oaks, CA for Session One of the annual event

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Dec 26, 2025 • 12:26 PM EST • Sports • prospectiveinsight.com
The year human evolution’s greatest mystery got a face

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

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Dec 26, 2025 • 8:30 AM EST • Science • cnn.com
A look at global trade in 2025
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Dec 26, 2025 • 5:44 AM EST • Business • cnn.com
'India Cured Me': NRI Returns After 10 Years, Criticises US Healthcare System

An NRI living in the US for 10 years returns to India, praising Indian healthcare and highlighting the high costs and complexity of the US system.

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Dec 25, 2025 • 9:29 PM EST • Health • ndtv.com
Trump says US military struck ISIS terrorists in Nigeria

President Donald Trump said Thursday he’d ordered a deadly strike on Islamic State terrorists in Nigeria, who he has accused of persecuting Christians in the country.

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Dec 25, 2025 • 6:19 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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This $40 Microsoft bundle makes an old PC feel brand new

Spoil an old PC with this bundle.

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Dec 25, 2025 • 6:00 PM EST • Technology • mashable.com
Make your aging computer feel brand new with Windows 11 Pro, now just $10

Yes, it's only $10.

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Dec 25, 2025 • 6:00 PM EST • Technology • mashable.com
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Owner of boutique gift wrapping business in Oakland Park turns grief into purpose

Christmas is quiet now, but just 24 hours earlier, the sound of scissors and ribbon filled On The Roll Wrapping in Oakland Park.

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Dec 25, 2025 • 5:03 PM EST • Business • nbcmiami.com
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The top 10 Philadelphia sports moments of 2025

This year, the Eagles and Phillies gave Philadelphia fans moments they'll never forget. Let's take a look at the 10 most memorable ones.

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Dec 25, 2025 • 7:22 AM EST • Sports • phillyvoice.com
The best everyday health advice we learned from science in 2025

We certainly saw some major health-related breakthroughs in 2025, including a universal cancer vaccine and human trials for the world's first treatment to reverse spinal cord injuries. But the year was also filled with smaller findings that can still have a big impact on your day-to-day health.

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Dec 25, 2025 • 7:03 AM EST • Health • newatlas.com
A Christmas tree 80 light-years wide appears in space

This Christmas, astronomers are highlighting a spectacular region of space that looks remarkably like a glowing holiday tree. Known as NGC 2264, this distant star-forming region sits about 2,700 light-years away and is filled with newborn stars lighting up clouds of gas and dust. The stars form a triangular shape called the Christmas Tree cluster, crowned by the dramatic Cone Nebula and wrapped in the swirling Fox Fur Nebula below. Together, these features create a festive cosmic scene spanning nearly 80 light-years, showing how young stars shape their surroundings on a truly galactic scale.

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Dec 25, 2025 • 7:00 AM EST • Science • sciencedaily.com
What's new to streaming this week? (Dec. 25, 2025)

What’s new on Netflix, Prime Video, and Disney+ for Christmas 2025? We've got you covered.

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Dec 25, 2025 • 6:23 AM EST • Entertainment • mashable.com
More House Republicans are leaving Congress to run for governor than in decades amid frustration over ‘toxic environment’

Congressional Republicans have yet to break the record for most retirements in a single year, but some say it’s only a matter of time before widespread frustration with the current state of Washington leads to a tipping point as many in the party head for the exits.

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Dec 25, 2025 • 4:00 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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Amazon’s After-Christmas Sale Is Stocked With Outdoor Gear Deals Up to 70% Off—Shop Cotopaxi, Osprey, and More

Amazon's after-Christmas sale is filled with incredible deals on hiking and camping gear from Osprey, Cotopaxi, The North Face, and more top brands up to 70 percent off. Upgrade your outdoor gear with high-quality tents, camping chairs, hiking boots, and more—starting at just $4.

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Dec 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM EST • Technology • travelandleisure.com
Today's Hurdle hints and answers for December 25, 2025

Everything you need to win.

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Dec 25, 2025 • 12:00 AM EST • Technology • mashable.com
Annual Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump’s name installed on Kennedy Center

The host of the Kennedy Center’s annual Christmas Eve jazz performance canceled Wednesday’s concert, citing the board of trustees’ move to rename the facility for both the 35th president and President Donald Trump.

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Dec 24, 2025 • 8:21 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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Trump tells 10-year-old child he made sure ‘a bad Santa’ is not ‘infiltrating’ the US

The phone rings. Would your 10-year-old like to speak with the president? He’s tracking Santa Claus from his living room in Palm Beach.

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Dec 24, 2025 • 6:49 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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DOJ says it has found over a million additional documents potentially related to Epstein

The Justice Department on Wednesday said it has uncovered over a million more documents potentially related to the Jeffrey Epstein case and may need “a few more weeks” to process and release them to the public.

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Dec 24, 2025 • 2:14 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
Democratic-led states sue HHS over proposal targeting hospitals that offer transgender care to minors

Eighteen Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a new Trump administration policy seeking to bar transgender care for minors at federally-funded hospitals.

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Dec 24, 2025 • 11:35 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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What Americans would tell Donald Trump or Democratic leaders if they could

Most Americans don’t have faith that their political leaders care what they have to say. But if they had the chance to tell Washington something, a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS finds, they’d say plenty, much of it about the economy.

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Dec 24, 2025 • 6:01 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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Supreme Court’s National Guard decision could force new debate over how Trump could use Insurrection Act

The Supreme Court’s decision Tuesday blocking President Donald Trump from sending the National Guard into American cities is likely to raise a politically fraught debate about the president’s willingness to invoke a 19th century law to deploy the regular military on American soil instead.

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Dec 24, 2025 • 6:00 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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‘It’s perpetuated this news cycle’: Frustration mounts in Trump’s orbit about messaging on latest Epstein documents

When the Justice Department released a first batch of Jeffrey Epstein files on Friday that included photographs of former President Bill Clinton, White House officials raced to amplify the importance of the new documents.

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Dec 24, 2025 • 4:00 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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From AI to Venezuela: Why 2026 is a hinge year for global power

One year ago this week, Joe Biden was president. I was in Doha, Qatar, negotiating with Israel and Hamas to finalize a ceasefire and hostage release deal. The incoming Trump team worked closely with us, a rare display of nonpartisanship to free hostages and end a war. It feels like a decade ago. A lot can happen in a year, as 2025 has shown.

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Dec 24, 2025 • 12:00 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
Medicare opens door to covering blockbuster drugs for weight loss

Some Medicare enrollees may soon be able to access super-popular drugs for obesity under a voluntary model program, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Tuesday. Eligible beneficiaries will only have to pay $50 a month.

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Dec 23, 2025 • 8:42 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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State Department imposes sanctions on former EU official, disinformation group leaders for ‘censorship’

The US State Department on Tuesday imposed visa sanctions on a former top European Union official and employees of organizations that combat disinformation for alleged censorship – sharply ratcheting up the Trump administration’s fight against European regulations that have impacted digital platforms, far-right politicians and Trump allies, including Elon Musk.

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Dec 23, 2025 • 6:38 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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Analysis: Extreme redactions undercut Epstein files release

Rather than settling matters, the government’s release of the Epstein files has had the opposite effect.

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Dec 23, 2025 • 6:33 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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Trump appears in new batch of Epstein documents

The Justice Department released a new batch of documents from Epstein investigation. President Donald Trump’s name is mentioned many times in the documents, including in references to flight records related to Epstein’s private plane. Authorities have not accused Trump of criminal wrongdoing related to Epstein. CNN’s Marshall Cohen reports.

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Dec 23, 2025 • 5:08 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
4 takeaways from the latest batch of the Epstein files

The Justice Department has released a new batch of documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein – documents that include many more mentions of President Donald Trump than last week’s dump.

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Dec 23, 2025 • 4:45 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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iPhone storage full? Check your System Data.

Apple's System Data can take up…how much storage space?!

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Dec 23, 2025 • 3:58 PM EST • Technology • mashable.com
CNN’s Top 10 of 2025: Big Business
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Dec 23, 2025 • 3:22 PM EST • Business • cnn.com
CNN’s Top 10 of 2025: Entertainment Stories
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Dec 23, 2025 • 3:00 PM EST • Entertainment • cnn.com
Rep. Harriet Hageman, who defeated Liz Cheney, announces run for Wyoming Senate seat

Wyoming’s lone U.S. representative is running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Cynthia Lummis, who isn’t seeking re-election.

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Dec 23, 2025 • 2:23 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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Dec 23, 2025 • 1:57 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
The Supreme Court’s most consequential term yet?
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Dec 23, 2025 • 1:03 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
With the ‘Trump Class,’ Navy battleships join a long list of government entities named for the President
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Dec 23, 2025 • 12:56 PM EST • Politics • cnn.com
Former Sen. Ben Sasse announces he has stage 4 pancreatic cancer and is ‘gonna die’

Former Republican Sen. Ben Sasse announced Tuesday that he’s been diagnosed with “metastasized, stage 4 pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die.”

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Dec 23, 2025 • 10:56 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
Why scientists want ice from 600 meters below the surface
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Dec 23, 2025 • 9:27 AM EST • Science • cnn.com
Junglepussy is ready to conquer the world

It’s hard not to be inspired by Junglepussy — just ask “One Battle After Another” director Paul Thomas Anderson. In our “Annual Self-Assessment,” the rapper reflects on the year and looks ahead to 2026: “You see how I rock the boat?”

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Dec 23, 2025 • 9:01 AM EST • Entertainment • cnn.com
Historical mysteries solved by science in 2025

Researchers studied fossils, well-preserved remains and even a single fingerprint to solve some of history’s long-standing mysteries this year.

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Dec 23, 2025 • 8:30 AM EST • Science • cnn.com
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Boost Your Windows SSD Performance by up to 85% With This Server Driver Trick

It's almost as good as downloading more RAM.

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Dec 23, 2025 • 8:19 AM EST • Technology • extremetech.com
What voters say they want for Christmas

Political opposites are closing 2025 as they did 2024: on each side of America’s Donald Trump divide. But CNN’s “All Over the Map” survey did provide several interesting takeaways. Some may be instructive about the midterm election climate, at least at this beginning stage.

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Dec 23, 2025 • 8:01 AM EST • Politics • cnn.com
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Can Science Tell Us Why?

The field of science is filled with questions. But are we asking the right ones?

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Dec 23, 2025 • 7:00 AM EST • Science • answersingenesis.org
The disunity of science is a feature, not a bug

Mathematical models wield miraculous power, but mistaking them for reality has trapped science in a destructive quest for a “Theory of Everything.” Physicist and philosopher Ragner Fjelland argues that this leads to bloated, Frankenstein theories kept alive by clumsy, ad-hoc amendments, which reduce rather than boost science’s power. Fjelland calls for a radical shift in our attitude: we must reorientate towards creating entirely new theories, celebrating rather than lamenting disunity and diversity in science. Science, from the scientific revolution in the seventeenth century to the present day, has more or less developed in a “reductionist” way. The fundamental assumption is that all sciences may be ordered in a hierarchy that can be represented as an upside-down pyramid. At the top we find the human sciences, and at the bottom physics. Strong (or “ontological”) reductionism maintains that all theories at one level can be completely reduced to the lower level, all the way down to theories of atoms and elementary particles, or whatever is “at the bottom.” In the end, all diversity in the world can be unified in one fundamental theory. Hence it is called a final theory, or a Theory of Everything.One of the central figures in developing the idea of a Theory of Everything is the Dutch theoretical physicist Gerard 't Hooft, who received a Nobel Prize in physics in 1999 for his work. He emphasizes the non-empirical status of the theory:There exists no closely resembling alternative theory. This means that any slight change brought about in the rules would make the theory unlikely or inelegant. The theory will be a "package deal": take it, or leave it. This should hold both for the local laws and for the boundary conditions.This endeavor is not new. On the contrary, it goes all the way back to the birth of Western philosophy 2,500 years ago. The Babylonians made regular astronomical observations during a period of 600 years, from 747 BCE until 150 ACE. They developed mathematical techniques to predict astronomical phenomena, but they made no attempts at explaining them. However, the Greeks developed models, both material and theoretical, to explain the observed phenomena.The best example is Plato’s late dialogue Timaeus. Here he introduces a divine craftsman, the Demiurge, who has constructed the universe according to an original plan. Plato seems to have thought that the original plan is what is actually real, while the material world is merely an imperfect realization of it. He therefore does not, in the Timaeus, reconstruct the material universe, but the original plan, which can then be used to explain the material universe.Plato’s aim in producing a theoretical model is to reconstruct the original plan. That is what he carries out in Timaeus—and some modern physicists have embarked on the same project. For example, Einstein’s basic attitude is reflected in the title of Abraham Pais’ biography: “Subtle is the Lord...,” echoing Einstein’s comment, “Subtle is the Lord, but malicious He is not.” In an interview Einstein compared our situation to a child who enters a huge library. The child knows that someone has written the books, but he does not know the languages in which they are written. He suspects that there is a mysterious order, but he does not know what it is.___“We have all been working in what Husserl called the Galilean style; that is, we have all been making abstract mathematical models of the universe to which at least the physicists give a higher degree of reality than they accord the ordinary world of sensation.”Steven Weinberg, Nobel Prize in Physics (1979)___This Platonist view is contrary to a widespread impression of science, symbolized by the picture of the “father” of modern science, Galileo Galilei, with his telescope. According to this impression, Galileo liberated himself from the dominating metaphysics of his day—basically Aristotelian philosophy—and constructed a telescope that he directed towards the sky, showing that Jupiter has four moons. He also performed experiments with bronze balls rolling down inclined planes and found the law of freely falling bodies.However, in other cases Galileo emphasized the unreliability of our senses. It is easy to see why. He defended Copernicus’ heliocentric hypothesis. According to this hypothesis, we are not at rest at the center of the universe, but moving at a tremendous speed through space. Why don’t we observe this motion? Galileo praises Copernicus because “with reason as his guide he resolutely continued to affirm what sensible experience seemed to contradict.” In other places he directly refers to Plato. SUGGESTED VIEWING The quest for a final theory With Michio Kaku Galileo’s Platonism goes back to his early writings. In The Assayer, published as early as 1623, Galileo compared the universe to a grand book that is written in the language of mathematics, and “its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.” Therefore, things that cannot be described by mathematics—for example, colors, smells and odors—are not real. They are merely subjective.This division into subjective and objective, advocated by Galileo and his younger contemporary René Descartes, is normally associated with a mechanistic world view, which is regarded as the opposite of Platonism. When we reduce something to, for example, molecules and atoms, we move “downwards.” In contrast, the Platonist moves “upwards,” to abstract entities. However, it only shows that when we address fundamental questions, we should be careful in applying everyday spatial metaphors like “up” and “down.”___Nature is complex, and we cannot in general construct mathematical models that adequately describe the world.___The endeavor of finding a Theory of Everything has been heavily criticized. In 2006, the theoretical physicist Lee Smolin published “The Crisis in Fundamental Physics.” He argued that one of the most fundamental principles of science is that we should only regard theories as scientific if we have the possibility to show that they are false by experiments. Although he did not refer to Karl Popper, other critics have referred to Popper and argued that a theory is not scientific if it cannot be falsified (see for example Ellis & Silk 2014).These were not the first physicists to be anti-reductionists. In 1972, the journal Science published an article by the physicist Philip Anderson with the title “More Is Different.” This is the kind of article a scientist would normally write only after he has won a Nobel Prize. However, Anderson won the Nobel Prize for physics five years later, in 1977. The article is amazing, not primarily because it argues in favor of anti-reductionism in general, but because it argues for anti-reductionism within physics itself. Anderson’s conclusion was:At each stage entirely new laws, concepts, and generalizations are necessary, requiring inspiration and creativity to just as great a degree as in the previous one. Psychology is not applied biology, nor is biology applied chemistry.We may say that Plato started the “unity of science movement,” based on Euclidean geometry as the model of all knowledge. A distinguishing mark of geometry is that all possible constructions can be reduced to a few fundamental principles. We have to acknowledge that this approach has limitations. In general, we can easily model technological systems. In addition, we may construct simplified and idealized models that capture important aspects of systems, from various perspectives and for various purposes. But nature is complex, and we cannot in general construct mathematical models that adequately describe the world. In a complex system, each level has its distinct, emergent, properties that are characteristic of this level. Therefore, a complex system should be investigated at different levels and from different perspectives. Instead of exclusively pursuing a scientific ideal based on the unity of science, we should acknowledge the diversity—or even the disunity—of science.

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Dec 23, 2025 • 7:00 AM EST • Science • iai.tv
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US bans new foreign drone models in a blow to Chinese giant DJI

A new rule by the Federal Communications Commission will make it impossible for US consumers to buy the next generation of foreign made drones.

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The Best of BoF 2025: Fashion and Sports Forge a Powerful Alliance

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Gloria Allred on Epstein files’ partial release: ‘I’m not here for politics. I’m here for justice, for my clients.’
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US strikes another vessel in eastern Pacific, killing 1

The US military conducted a strike against a “low-profile vessel” allegedly trafficking drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Monday, killing one person, according to US Southern Command.

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Trump reacts to photos made public from the Epstein files
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Health Ministry tightens oversight as demand for sperm donations surges

Health Ministry updates sperm bank rules as demand rises and fewer people donate, capping families per donor at 12, tightening genetic screening, and new import standards to improve safe donations.

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Trump says US remains in pursuit of oil tanker and it’d be ‘smart’ for Maduro to step down

President Donald Trump said Monday the US remains in active pursuit of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, more than 24 hours after the chase began, while repeating his threats against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

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Trump bemoans destroyed reputations from Epstein files release in first public comments since DOJ release

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With FDA approval of Wegovy pill, new era of oral GLP-1 weight loss drugs begins

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Justice Department’s heavy-handed redactions leave no one happy in the ‘Epstein files’ saga

The Justice Department’s release of the Epstein files — mandated by Congress to be completed last week — is still a work in progress.

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Judge presses Trump administration on its plans for Kilmar Abrego Garcia

An apparently frustrated federal judge pressed the Trump administration Monday to share what it was going to do next in the fast-moving saga over Kilmar Abrego Garcia days after she found he was being unlawfully held in immigration custody.

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Pillen halts freeze on Business Innovation Act funding

After a review of the program, Gov. Jim Pillen said he will ask the Legislature for an increase in funding for the Business Innovation Act, from $12 million this fiscal year, to $15 million next year.

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America’s oldest National Park Service ranger ever, who shared her own stories of life during WWII, dies

Betty Reid Soskin, who was the National Park Service’s oldest active ranger when she retired at age 100, has died. She was 104.

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Trump expected to make shipbuilding announcement amid tensions around Venezuela

President Donald Trump is expected to make an announcement about shipbuilding alongside his Pentagon chief and Navy secretary on Monday, according to a person familiar with the plans.

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