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Trump Media to merge with nuclear fusion company that wants to power AI

The parent company of President Donald Trump’s Truth Social media platform is merging with a fusion power company, an unusual pairing of the Trump name with a futuristic clean energy venture...

DATE: Dec 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

The Latest: Trump administration moves to cut off transgender care for children

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday unveiled a series of regulatory actions designed to effectively ban gender-affirming care for minors, building on broader Trump a...

DATE: Dec 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Restorers swap brushes for lasers in the first restoration of an iconic Roman monument in 40 years

Rome (AP) — High above the rooftops in the heart of Rome, restorers on Thursday used laser beams to clean a marble column in the piazza outside the prime minister’s office, removing layers o...

DATE: Dec 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Hubble Space Telescope spies dusty debris from two cosmic collisions

NEW YORK (AP) — NASA's Hubble Space Telescope got a rare look at the aftermath of two cosmic collisions — and helped scientists solve a decades-old mystery. Many years ago, scientists saw a ...

DATE: Dec 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Trump signs executive order that would reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that would reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug and open new avenues for medical research, a major shift ...

DATE: Dec 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Brian Walshe is sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his wife, whose body was never found

BOSTON (AP) — A Boston-area man was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for the grisly murder of his wife, who disappeared nearly three years ago and whose body has never been found. Brian...

DATE: Dec 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

DOJ vowed to punish those who disrupt Trump's immigration crackdown. Dozens of cases have crumbled

WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal agent described her wounds as “boo-boos.” Nevertheless, the Department of Justice aggressively pursued the alleged perpetrator. They jailed Sidney Lori Reid on ...

DATE: Dec 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Kremlin envoy set to visit Miami for talks on US peace plan for Ukraine

A Kremlin envoy will travel to Florida to discuss a U.S.-proposed plan to end the war in Ukraine, a U.S. official said Thursday, part of the ongoing back-and-forth diplomacy as the Trump adm...

DATE: Dec 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Lion and bear kept as pets in Albania find new homes in German wildlife sanctuaries

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A lion and bear rescued from captivity in northern Albania arrived in animal sanctuaries in Germany in early December after authorities in Tirana discovered they were...

DATE: Dec 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

US says price increases eased last month but data may be distorted and Americans aren't feeling it

WASHINGTON (AP) — At a time when Americans are frustrated and angry over the high cost of living, the government released a report Thursday showing that inflation had cooled unexpectedly in ...

DATE: Dec 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Mourners grieve 10-year-old killed in Bondi mass shooting as Australian leader pledges new hate laws

SYDNEY (AP) — Hundreds of mourners bearing bright bouquets and clutching each other in grief gathered at a funeral in Sydney on Thursday for a 10-year-old girl who was gunned down in an anti...

DATE: Dec 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Pope names fellow Chicagoan, Bishop Ronald Hicks, as new archbishop of New York

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Thursday made his most important U.S. appointment to date, naming a fellow Chicagoan as the next archbishop of New York to lead one of the biggest U.S. ar...

DATE: Dec 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

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