1. Ford pivoting to hybrids and dropping all-electric F-150, sees $20B in charges  Axios
2. Ford takes $19.5B charge in hybrid pivot, cancels F-150 Lightning EV, launches new battery storage business  Yahoo Finance
3. Ford takes $19.5 billion hit as it pulls back on electric vehicle plans, halts F-150 Lightning production  CNN
4. Ford Will Take $19.5 Billion Hit as It Rolls Back E.V. Plans  The New York Times
5. Ford Follows Customers to Drive Profitable Growth; Reinvests in Trucks, Hybrids, Affordable EVs, Battery Storage; Takes EV-Related Charges  Ford From the Road

1. US military says eight killed in strikes on alleged drug vessels  BBC
2. US military strikes 3 more boats in the Pacific Ocean, killing 8  CNN
3. US military kills 8 in latest attacks on vessels in eastern Pacific  Al Jazeera
4. US military says eight killed in strikes on three boats in eastern Pacific  The Guardian
5. Remember the Torture Memos? The Boat Strike Memos May Be Worse.  Politico

1. Powerball estimated jackpot at $1.25 billion after no one won grand prize of roughly $1.14 billion  CBS News
2. Powerball climbs to estimated $1.25 billion after there were no big winners in Monday’s drawing  CNN
3. Powerball ticket worth close to $2 million sold in California  FOX 11 Los Angeles
4. Powerball winner Dec. 15 for $1.1 billion after Florida ticket wins big?  Treasure Coast News
5. Powerball winning numbers for Monday, December 15, 2025  Democrat and Chronicle

1. Trump hits BBC with lawsuit over Jan. 6 speech editing  Axios
2. Trump sues BBC for defamation over Panorama speech edit  BBC
3. Starmer urged to stand up for BBC against Trump’s ‘outrageous’ $10bn lawsuit – UK politics live  The Guardian
4. Trump Files $10 Billion Suit Against BBC Over Documentary  The New York Times
5. Trump ‘more likely to win lottery’ than his $10bn BBC lawsuit  The Telegraph

1. Asian Stocks to Fall Ahead of Key US Jobs Data: Markets Wrap  Bloomberg.com
2. South Korea stocks lead losses in Asia after Wall Street declines on tech sell-off  CNBC
3. Stocks struggle before jobs data, central bank meetings  Reuters
4. Asian shares slip after Wall Street logs its worst day in 3 weeks  ABC News
5. Asian shares, US futures sink ahead of US jobs report  AP News

1. Dave Ward's life and legacy as a newsman at ABC13  ABC13 Houston
2. Houston Mayor John Whitmire talks about Dave Ward's Legacy  ABC13 Houston
3. Longtime Houston newsman Dave Ward dies at age 86  KHOU
4. Funeral plans set for Houston broadcasting legend Dave Ward  Click2Houston
5. Public visitation and memorial set this week for ABC13 anchor Dave Ward  Houston Chronicle

1. Conservative's victory in Chile suggests a hard-right, pro-Trump surge  Politico
2. Chile’s new far-right head is latest Latin American leader to ride hardline wave to power  The Guardian
3. Kast’s Victory in Chile Is Another Win for Global Right-Wing Movement  The New York Times
4. Chile elects Kast as president, deepening regional shift to law-and-order politics  CNN
5. Chile shifts sharply right as José Antonio Kast wins the presidency  NPR

1. Trump news at a glance: US president condemned over comments about Rob Reiner  The Guardian
2. December 15, 2025: Rob and Michele Reiner’s son ‘responsible’ for their deaths, police say  CNN
3. What's next in the investigation into the deaths of Rob and Michele Reiner  NPR
4. Reiners' son made guests uneasy at party day before his parents were found dead, sources say  NBC News
5. Director Rob Reiner and wife Michele stabbed to death, son arrested for murder  ABC News

1. Monday Night Football: Steelers beat Dolphins, 28-15  NBC Sports
2. Rodgers says win made extra special by 'castoffs'  ESPN
3. Dolphins-Steelers on 'Monday Night Football': What We Learned from Pittsburgh's 28-15 win  NFL.com
4. Steelers offense wakes up in rout of Dolphins as Pittsburgh maintains edge in AFC North race  Yahoo Sports
5. Hyde10: Cold trouble, Tua’s struggles, McDaniel’s odd strategy — 10 thoughts on Dolphins’ loss to Steelers  Sun Sentinel

1. Philippines Says One Bondi Shooter Was Indian National  Bloomberg.com
2. Police investigating Bondi gunmen's trip to Philippines month before shooting  BBC
3. U.S. Jewish groups urge heightened security at public events after Hanukkah attack in Australia  NBC News
4. What we know about the man who disarmed alleged shooter at Australia's Bondi Beach  ABC News
5. What We Know About the Bondi Beach Gunmen  Bloomberg.com

1. Why does Bermuda appear to float? Scientists' discovery may be the answer  ABC News
2. Giant structure discovered deep beneath Bermuda is unlike anything else on Earth  Live Science
3. Bermuda Sits On A Strange, 20-Kilometer-Thick Structure That's Like No Other In The World  IFLScience
4. Massive rock layer beneath Bermuda may explain island's unusual elevation  Phys.org
5. Discovery Of Giant Structure Deep Beneath Bermuda Triangle Baffles Scientists  NDTV

1. Trump designates street fentanyl as WMD, escalating militarization of drug war  NPR
2. Trump signs executive order to classify illicit fentanyl as weapon of mass destruction  CNN
3. Trump brands fentanyl a ‘weapon of mass destruction’ in drug war escalation  The Guardian
4. Trump signs executive order labelling fentanyl ‘weapon of mass destruction’  Al Jazeera
5. Trump declares fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction  Politico

1. Senators talk last-minute Obamacare extension  Politico
2. House GOP moderates signal they’ll fall in line with Johnson’s health plan  Politico
3. Analysis | Rank-and-file Republicans feel heat from constituents on health care  The Washington Post
4. Democrats say they need leadership green light to back GOP bills to extend ACA tax credits  thehill.com
5. Here’s what’s in the House GOP health care bill  CNN

1. Hollow Knight: Silksong Expansion Coming 2026, Hollow Knight: Switch 2 Edition Also Announced  Nintendo Life
2. SILKSONG EXPANSION, HOLLOW KNIGHT REFRESHED, AND MORE!  Team Cherry
3. Hollow Knight: Silksong - Sea of Sorrow Expansion Revealed, Nintendo Switch 2 Edition of Original Hollow Knight Also in Development  IGN
4. Hollow Knight: Silksong is getting free DLC — and sooner than expected  Polygon
5. Hollow Knight: Silksong sells over 7m copies in three months  GamesIndustry.biz

1. FBI Director Kash Patel, Eager for Spotlight, Casts Aside Caution in Social Media Posts  The New York Times
2. Live updates: Search for Brown University shooter continues as FBI releases photos of suspect  CNN
3. Brown University shooting manhunt continues as police release new videos of person of interest  CBS News
4. Brown University mass shooting suspect new images released  The Providence Journal
5. What is a person of interest? Why police were ‘hedging their bets’ with detained man in Brown shooting  The Boston Globe

1. iOS 26.3 Beta 1 Features: What's New So Far  MacRumors
2. Apple Quietly Gave Your iPhone a Cool New Ability  Gear Patrol
3. First iOS 26.3 beta arrives as launch of new Siri nears  Macworld
4. Apple releases iOS 26.2, and new Edge Light tool. Here's how to try all the OS updates.  Mashable
5. iOS 26.2—Apple Releases Critical Update For 1 Billion iPhones  Forbes

1. Tanning beds mutate nearly your entire skin and triple melanoma risk  New Atlas
2. Tanning beds mutate skin cells far beyond the reach of ordinary sunlight, study shows  Medical Xpress
3. ‘Two lifetimes’ of UV damage: UCSF study shows what tanning beds do to young skin  San Francisco Chronicle
4. Indoor Tanning Makes Youthful Skin Much Older on a Genetic Level  UC San Francisco

1. Elon Musk’s net worth hits estimated $600bn as SpaceX prepares for IPO  The Guardian
2. SpaceX Tender Offer Pushes Musk’s Net Worth To Record $677 Billion  Forbes
3. Musk’s Fortune Soars Above $600 Billion on New SpaceX Valuation  Bloomberg.com
4. How Much Richer Elon Musk Has Gotten Over the Last 5 Years  Yahoo Finance
5. Larry Page, Jeff Bezos Net Worth as Elon Musk Makes History  Newsweek

1. U.S. Army names 2 Iowa National Guard members killed in attack in Syria  PBS
2. US identifies two soldiers killed in ambush in Syria  CNN
3. Iowa National Guard releases names of soldiers killed in Syria attack  KCRG
4. Syrian Who Killed U.S. Soldiers Was Member of Security Forces, Officials Say  The New York Times
5. Marshalltown National Guardsman killed in Syria  Times Republican

1. Patriots coach can’t accept defeat gracefully, blames refs after blowing massive lead to Bills  Syracuse.com
2. Top 3 things we learned from Bills at Patriots | Week 15  Buffalo Bills Home | Buffalo Bills - buffalobills.com
3. NFL stats and records, Week 15: Bills' Josh Allen joins elite company  NFL.com
4. Mike Vrabel: I struggle with the consistency of officiating  NBC Sports
5. Drake Maye had a chance for MVP moment, but it was Josh Allen who stole the show  The New York Times

1. Joint statement of European Leaders from the meeting in Berlin  Government.se
2. US promises Ukraine ‘Article 5-like’ security, but it's a limited time offer  Politico
3. Zelenskiy Says US Pledged Congress Will Back Security Guarantees  Bloomberg.com
4. Ukraine and U.S. divided over territory after intense negotiations  Axios
5. Ukraine and Allies Agree on Security Guarantee for Peace Proposal  The New York Times

1. Chiefs Eliminated from Playoff Contention in Loss to Chargers  Chiefs.com
2. Mahomes avoided major damage to rest of knee  ESPN
3. Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes undergoes successful surgery to repair ACL, LCL  NFL.com
4. Patrick Mahomes ACL injury: Tom Brady offers rehab advice, recovery insight  CBS Sports
5. Chris Jones Doesn’t Realize Chiefs Are Eliminated from Playoffs Until Post-Game Press Conference: ‘Are We Out?’  People.com

1. Brian Walshe convicted of first-degree murder in wife Ana's death in Cohasset, Massachusetts  CBS News
2. Jurors set to resume deliberations in the murder trial of Brian Walshe  CNN
3. Brian Walshe murder trial: Jury finds husband guilty of killing and dismembering wife  ABC News
4. Brian Walshe convicted of murdering wife after New Year's Day disappearance  Fox News
5. Brian Walshe found guilty of murder in death of wife, Ana  WCVB

1. Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong pro-democracy activist, convicted in landmark national security trial  CBS News
2. Trump urges Xi to free Hong Kong's Jimmy Lai  BBC
3. Jimmy Lai case shows how China is rewriting Hong Kong’s history  The Washington Post
4. Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai's daughter says she's "grieving" his sedition conviction  CBS News
5. Jimmy Lai’s Life, in Photos and Video  The New York Times

1. SpaceX launches Starlink satellites into orbit on 100th Falcon 9 flight from Florida in 2025 (video)  Space
2. SpaceX launch recap from Starlink mission amid Cape Canaveral wind warning  Florida Today
3. Falcon 9 launch of 29 Starlink satellites from the Kennedy Space Center delayed to Wednesday  Spaceflight Now
4. Back to back rocket launches from Florida, watch from Volusia County  Daytona Beach News-Journal
5. SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites out of Cape Canaveral  WESH

1. 'I don't think anybody was stopping No. 10 today': QB Bo Nix tosses 4 touchdowns in stellar performance vs. Packers  Denver Broncos
2. Packers-Broncos takeaways: Bo Nix’s career day powers Denver’s playoff-clinching win - The Athletic  The New York Times
3. Sean Payton: Making the playoffs was not a goal  NBC Sports
4. Surtain flips game with INT as red-hot Broncos roll  ESPN
5. Packers fall to Broncos, lose Parsons and others to injury  WLUK

1. Linux 6.19-rc1 Released From Japan  Phoronix
2. Linux 6.19 Features: LUO, PCIe Link Encryption, ASUS Armoury, DRM Color Pipeline API & More  Phoronix
3. Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.19 Release Candidate  9to5Linux
4. Linux Kernel 6.19: EXT4 Upgrades, PCIe Encryption, and Hardware Support  WebProNews
5. Early Linux 6.19 Benchmarks On AMD EPYC 9965 2P Excelling For AI & HPC Performance  Phoronix

The U.S. military said Monday that it attacked three boats accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing a total of eight people as scrutiny is intensifying in Congress.

(Image credit: Alex Brandon)

The FDA says four major retailers including Walmart, Target, Kroger and Albertsons continued to sell ByHeart baby formula products for days or weeks after the Nov. 11 recall.

(Image credit: Jenny Kane)

Anthony Geary, who rose to fame in the 1970s and '80s as half the daytime TV super couple Luke and Laura on "General Hospital," has died. He was 78.

(Image credit: Todd Williamson/AP)

The British broadcaster apologized to Trump last month, calling the edit an "error of judgment," but denies its reporting was defamatory.

(Image credit: Alex Brandon)

A mass shooting in which 15 people were killed during a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney's Bondi Beach was "a terrorist attack inspired by Islamic State," Australia's police said Tuesday.

(Image credit: Mark Baker)

1. Live Updates: Rob Reiner’s son arrested in fatal stabbings of the Hollywood legend and his wife  Los Angeles Times
2. Rob Reiner Is Said to Have Argued With His Son Nick at Conan O’Brien’s Holiday Party  The New York Times
3. Rob Reiner's son arrested on suspicion of homicide after director and his wife are found dead  Los Angeles Times
4. I Sat Down to Dinner With Rob, Michele and Nick Reiner. It Was Heartwarming and Jarring.  The Hollywood Reporter
5. Inside Rob Reiner and Billy Crystal's Five-Decade 'Bromance': ‘My Dearest Friend’  People.com