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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.
In recorded message, Rob Reiner urges resiliency for Holocaust survivors at Hanukkah event

By MELANIE LIDMAN
Dec 18, 2025 5:25 pm - In a video message recorded weeks before he was killed, Hollywood icon Rob Reiner urged Holocaust survivors participating in a Hanukkah ceremony on Thursday to “be resilient” during difficult times.
Coast Guard policy on swastikas, nooses will be revised, Noem says

By Tara Copp and Marianne LeVine
Dec 18, 2025 4:42 pm - The U.S. Coast Guard will remove language from its new workplace harassment policy that downgraded the definition of swastikas and nooses from overt hate symbols to “potentially divisive,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem said Thursday, an abrupt turnaround after the more lenient interpretation took effect this week despite objections from Congress.
Trump signs executive order that could reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and BILL BARROW
Dec 18, 2025 1:34 pm - President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that could reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug and open new avenues for medical research, a major shift in federal drug policy that inches closer to what many states have done.
US says price increases eased last month but data may be distorted and Americans aren't feeling it

By PAUL WISEMAN and ANNE D'INNOCENZIO
Dec 18, 2025 10:02 am - U.S. inflation slowed unexpectedly last month according to data that was delayed, and likely distorted, by the government shutdown.
Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported on Vietnam and Gulf wars, has died

By JOHN ROGERS
Dec 17, 2025 10:15 pm - Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died. He was 91.
American Academy of Pediatrics loses HHS funding after criticizing RFK Jr.

By Lena H. Sun and Paige Winfield Cunningham
Dec 17, 2025 7:40 pm - The Department of Health and Human Services has terminated seven grants totaling millions of dollars to the American Academy of Pediatrics, including for initiatives on reducing sudden infant deaths, improving adolescent health, preventing fetal alcohol syndrome and identifying autism early, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.
Trump taps Yale doctor who pushed unproven COVID treatment to lead US cancer effort

By Ariana Eunjung Cha
Dec 17, 2025 7:33 pm - Harvey Risch, a Yale public health researcher long respected for his work in cancer research but who has faced controversy for promoting an unproven COVID-19 treatment, has been selected by President Donald Trump to lead the nation’s cancer initiative.
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino says he plans to resign next month as bureau’s No 2 official

By ERIC TUCKER
Dec 17, 2025 7:18 pm - FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said Wednesday that he will resign from the bureau next month, ending a brief and tumultuous tenure in which he clashed with the Justice Department over the handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files and was forced to reconcile the realities of his law enforcement job with provocative claims he made in his prior role as a popular podcast host.
Investigators seek older video that might show the Brown campus shooter days before the attack

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI and LEAH WILLINGHAM
Dec 17, 2025 4:43 pm - With the search for the Brown University shooter in its fifth day Wednesday, authorities were asking the public to review any security or phone footage from the week before the attack in the hopes it might help investigators identify the person, believing the attacker may have cased the scene ahead of time.

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