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TikTok pranks and delivery fails: A look back at the odd cases of 2025

By Charles Keeshan and Susan Sarkauskas
Dec 26, 2025 5:00 am - From social media challenges gone awry to a fiery family feud and an unlucky stickup man, here’s a recap of some of the odd and unusual cases we saw in 2025.
Trump says US struck IS targets in Nigeria

Dec 25, 2025 8:00 pm - President Donald Trump said Thursday night that he’d launched a “powerful and deadly” U.S. strike against Islamic State forces in Nigeria, after spending weeks accusing the West African country’s government of failing to rein in the persecution of Christians.
Christmas Eve winner in Arkansas lands a $1.82 billion Powerball lottery jackpot

By OLIVIA DIAZ
Dec 25, 2025 7:53 pm - A Powerball ticket purchased at a gas station outside Little Rock, Arkansas, won a $1.817 billion jackpot in Wednesday's Christmas Eve drawing, ending the lottery game’s three-month stretch without a top-prize winner.
Blast at mosque in Nigeria kills 5 and injures more than 30 in apparent suicide attack

By OPE ADETAYO
Dec 25, 2025 7:50 pm - A bomb exploded during prayers at a mosque in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri on Wednesday night, killing five people in what police described as a likely suicide attack. Police said that 35 people were also injured in the attack.
Trump warns against infiltration by a ‘bad Santa,’ defends coal in jovial Christmas calls with kids

By WILL WEISSERT
Dec 25, 2025 6:27 pm - President Donald Trump marked Christmas Eve by quizzing children calling in about what presents they were excited about receiving, while promising to not let a “bad Santa” infiltrate the country and even suggesting that a stocking full of coal may not be so bad.
Pope Leo XIV urges the faithful on Christmas to shed indifference in the face of suffering

By SILVIA STELLACCI and COLLEEN BARRY
Dec 25, 2025 6:12 pm - Pope Leo XIV during his first Christmas Day message on Thursday urged the faithful to shed indifference in the face of those who have lost everything, such as in Gaza, those who are impoverished, such as in Yemen, and the many migrants who cross the Mediterranean Sea and the American continent for a better future.
Saudi Arabia urges Yemen’s separatists to leave 2 governorates as the anti-rebel coalition strains

By JON GAMBRELL
Dec 25, 2025 5:58 pm - Saudi Arabia on Thursday called on Emirati-backed separatists in southern Yemen to withdraw from two governorates they now control, a move that has threatened to spark a confrontation within a fragile coalition that has been battling the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in the country's north.
King Charles III calls for kindness and unity in Christmas message amid global conflicts

By DANICA KIRKA
Dec 25, 2025 5:50 pm - On a Christmas Day when the war in Ukraine casts a shadow over Europe, concerns over immigration divide societies, and some politicians fan anger and resentment, Britain’s King Charles III called on people to focus on kindness instead of conflict.
Public release of Epstein records puts Maxwell under fresh scrutiny amid her claims of innocence

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER
Dec 25, 2025 4:13 pm - Days after Ghislaine Maxwell asked a judge to immediately free her from a 20-year prison sentence, the public release of grand jury transcripts from her sex trafficking case returned the spotlight to victims whose allegations helped land her behind bars.The disclosure of the transcripts as part of the Justice Department’s ongoing release of its investigative files on Maxwell and the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein exposed how an FBI agent told grand jurors about Maxwell's critical role in Epstein’s decades-long sexual abuse of girls and young women.
‘It gives me hope’: Elgin mom and her five children receive Christmas cheer from firefighters — and Santa

By Steve Zalusky
Dec 25, 2025 2:18 pm - On Christmas morning, 11-year-old Cande Rufino was at the window of his Elgin apartment on the lookout for Santa.Soon, he and his four siblings and his mom, Yvette Rufino, would receive food and gifts from Elgin firefighters.

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