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The Associated Press names its Breakthrough Entertainers of 2025Dec 11, 2025 8:38 am - Owen Cooper emphatically announced himself to the world in 2025. At 15, the “Adolescence” star became the youngest male acting winner at the Emmy Awards. The actor’s rocket-fueled arrival was just one of several notable career turns that got the world of entertainment talking this year.
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Tariffs have cost U.S. households $1,200 each since Trump returned to the White House, Democrats sayDec 11, 2025 8:10 am - Sweeping taxes on imports have cost the average American household nearly $1,200 since Donald Trump returned to the White House this year, according to calculations by Democrats on Congress' Joint Economic Committee.
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Trump's handling of the economy is at its lowest point in AP-NORC pollingDec 11, 2025 8:07 am - President Donald Trump’s approval on the economy and immigration have fallen substantially since March, according to a new AP-NORC poll, the latest indication that two signature issues that got him elected barely a year ago could be turning into liabilities as his party begins to gear up for the 2026 midterms.
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US jobless benefit applications jump to 236,000, but continuing claims are lowest since AprilDec 11, 2025 8:02 am - The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits jumped last week, but the total number of those collecting benefits fell to the lowest level in eight months.
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Zelenskyy says US-led peace talks wrestling with Russian demands for Ukrainian territoryDec 11, 2025 7:59 am - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was due to hold urgent talks Thursday with leaders and officials from about 30 countries that support Kyiv’s efforts to obtain fair terms for halting nearly four years of war following Russia's full-scale invasion.
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Emma Mackey battles political scandal and wooden script in ‘Ella McCay’Dec 11, 2025 5:15 am - “I can’t trust my brain right now,” says our hero, Ella, deep into James L. Brooks’ bafflingly disjointed, uneven, unfunny and illogical “Ella McCay.” It’s your script you can’t trust, Ella! Run away from it. Now.
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Venezuela’s Machado absent from Nobel ceremony but her travel to Oslo draws mixed reactions at homeDec 10, 2025 7:06 pm - Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was absent Wednesday from the ceremony in Norway in which she was to receive this year’s Nobel Peace Prize award, but confirmation that she was traveling to Europe elicited mixed feelings in her country, where many backed her precisely because she had not left her homeland.
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Ukraine to give revised peace plans to US as Kyiv readies for more talks with its coalition partnersDec 10, 2025 6:54 pm - Ukraine was expected to give its latest peace proposals to U.S. negotiators Wednesday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, a day ahead of his urgent talks with leaders and officials from about 30 other countries supporting Kyiv's effort to end the war with Russia on acceptable terms.
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Trump says the US has seized an oil tanker off the coast of VenezuelaDec 10, 2025 5:24 pm - President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela as tensions mount with the government of President Nicolás Maduro.Using U.S. forces to seize an oil tanker is incredibly unusual and marks the Trump administration’s latest push to increase pressure on Maduro, who has been charged with narcoterrorism in the United States.
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Foreigners allowed to travel to the US without a visa could soon face new social media screeningDec 10, 2025 1:28 pm - Foreigners who are allowed to come to the United States without a visa could soon be required to submit information about their social media, email accounts and extensive family history to the Department of Homeland Security before being approved for travel.