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Spread of famine in Gaza Strip averted but Palestinians there still face starvation, experts say

By SAM MEDNICK
Dec 19, 2025 7:41 am - The spread of famine has been averted in the Gaza Strip, but the situation remains critical with the entire Palestinian territory still facing starvation, the world's leading authority on food crises said Friday.
Retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and family among 7 killed in North Carolina plane crash

By ALLEN G. BREED and GARY D. ROBERTSON
Dec 18, 2025 9:44 pm - A business jet crashed Thursday while trying to return to a North Carolina airport shortly after takeoff, killing all seven people aboard, including retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and his family, authorities said.
Head of workplace rights agency urges white men to report discrimination

By CLAIRE SAVAGE
Dec 18, 2025 9:36 pm - The head of the U.S. agency for enforcing workplace civil rights posted a social media call-out urging white men to come forward if they have experienced race or sex discrimination at work.
Fast, harsh, alone: Trump beams into prime time with uncertain results

By Isaac Arnsdorf
Dec 18, 2025 8:50 pm - President Donald Trump crammed his usual 90-minute rally routine into 18 minutes of prime-time broadcast television on Wednesday, perplexing “Survivor” finale viewers and his own allies alike.
Trump will use military housing money for $1,776 Pentagon bonuses

By Jacob Bogage, Noah Robertson and Riley Beggin
Dec 18, 2025 8:44 pm - The Trump administration will repurpose $2.6 billion in military housing assistance to pay $1,776 “warrior dividend” bonuses to service members, according to a senior administration official.
GOP signals end to probes into military’s killing of boat strike survivors

By Noah Robertson
Dec 18, 2025 8:23 pm - Top Republican lawmakers have signaled they are ending their inquiries into a controversial U.S. military strike on an alleged drug smuggling vessel in the waters off Venezuela.
TikTok signs deal to form new US unit with investors, including Oracle, Silver Lake

By BARBARA ORTUTAY
Dec 18, 2025 8:20 pm - TikTok has signed agreements with three major investors — Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX — to form a new TikTok U.S. joint venture, ensuring the popular social video platform can continue operating in the United States.
A divided EU races against time to tap Russian assets for Ukraine

By Ellen Francis and Beatriz Ríos
Dec 18, 2025 8:15 pm - European leaders are racing to push through plans to unlock Russia’s frozen assets before Ukraine runs out of money and before the United States and Russia decide to use the funds as part of negotiations on the war.
HHS to revoke funding from hospitals offering youth gender transition care

By Paige Winfield Cunningham
Dec 18, 2025 7:43 pm - The Trump administration is moving to broadly curtail gender transition care for young people, proposing Thursday to eject medical providers from major federal health insurance programs if they provide services including hormone therapy or procedures such as mastectomies to children and teenagers.
Man suspected in Brown University shooting and MIT professor’s killing found dead, officials say

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER
Dec 18, 2025 5:38 pm - Authorities said Thursday that they're looking into a connection between last weekend's mass shooting at Brown University and an attack two days later near Boston that killed a professor at another elite school, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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