Russia slammed Ukraine overnight with deadly drone strikes, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. CBS News' Ramy Inocencio has the latest.

As number of lunar satellites soars, sites will be marked out where defunct hardware can be crash-landedPatches of the moon are destined to become spacecraft graveyards where dead lunar satellites and other defunct hardware can be crashed into the ground, far away from sites of cultural and scientif…

Abraham Morgentaler, a pioneer in testosterone therapy for men, discusses what led to decades of shunning of this hormone.

Cultural hurdles can be just as hard to get over as regulatory ones

With no winner in Monday's drawing, the Powerball jackpot on Christmas Eve will be an estimated $1.7 billion.

Concern over rural economies as distilleries left with a surplus that has forced some to pause or scale back production

Recent Fed rate cuts have made home equity loans less expensive. Here's how much a $70,000 loan costs monthly now.

Two rare Celtic gold coins were discovered in a Swiss bog, and they may have been left there as an offering to the gods.

Small businesses across Canada have lost out on sales because of the trade war, and many worry about their future.

The FDA has approved the pill version of the weight loss drug Wegovy, the first oral medication of its kind. The new pills are expected to be available in a few weeks. Chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook has more.

This dual-purpose software helps solopreneurs and small business owners track expenses, but how useful is it?

Federal agencies that used to set up guardrails for health technology have transformed into cheerleaders for new risky technologies like AI.

The national banks regulator OCC released a statement signaling a shift in rules that will have significant crypto market consequences across the United States.

The new track, exclusively available for purchase on Bandcamp, will support the gun violence prevention organization Everytown.
Gracie Abrams, Aaron Dessner, and Bon Iver Release Heartfelt New Song “Sold Out”
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The conservative provocateur said the rapper wasn't a "good role model" for young Black women in April 2024.
Charlie Kirk’s Criticism of Nicki Minaj Resurfaces After Turning Point USA Appearance
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Shakhmurat Mutalip has countered offer from Shukhrat Ibragimov for stake in miner

Traces of opium found inside an ancient alabaster vase suggest drug use was common in ancient Egypt, not rare or accidental. The discovery raises the possibility that King Tut’s famous jars once held opiates valued enough to be buried with pharaohs—and stolen by tomb raiders.

Once upon a time, a "board game" meant Monopoly or Risk. Then several brave souls dared to ask the question: "What if this was fun?" Thirty years later, we're blessed with tabletop games that challenge our minds, immerse us in other worlds and conjure good times with those we love — sometimes all th…

The Nintendo Switch 2 supports a wide range of controllers, from Nintendo’s own Pro Controller to many Bluetooth gamepads you might already have. Whether you’re setting up your new console for the first time or adding extra controllers for multiplayer games, pairing them is simple as long as you kno…

Waymo has resumed its robo-taxi service in San Francisco after a power outage stranded vehicles around the city, CNBC reported. The blackout, caused by a Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) substation fire, caused traffic light disruptions that affected Waymo's automated driving systems. 
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We tested every single pair of Celestron 10x42 binoculars so you don't have to — find out which one comes out on top.

A CBS News segment focused on stories of Venezuelan men detained in a notorious El Salvador prison after being deported by the Trump administration has sparked controversy among viewers after it was blocked from airing in the United States but was showcased in Canada and online.  CBS News Editor-in-…

The Justice Department early Tuesday released its third installment of files tied to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including some documents that mention President Trump. Survivors of the late sex offender and bipartisan lawmakers have blasted the administration's handling of the r…

Satellites in orbit would begin to collide in a matter of days if they lost manoeuvrability during a solar storm or other outage

Astronomers have discovered that 3I/ATLAS is carrying methanol and other chemicals that were probably important in the origin of life

Instacart had drawn criticism for testing an AI-based system that enabled retailers to charge different prices for the same grocery items.

Olivia Bizot has more.

Russia fired more than 650 drones and three dozen missiles at Ukraine in a large-scale attack that began during the night and stretched into daylight hours Tuesday, officials said. At least three people were killed, including a 4-year-old child, two days before Christmas.

Four Nobel laureates and several former heads of state are among the more than 400 prominent women who have signed a letter demanding the immediate release of Zahra Tabari, an Iranian engineer facing execution. The letter, organised by a London-based association, stated that Tabari faced "execution …

Selina Sykes is in Rabat, Marocco.

The experiments would cut the prices of some drugs to bring them in line with what other countries pay, saving Medicare billions.

And more health news from Morning Rounds today

The company manages a portfolio of consumer brands and holds about 2 million SOL, making it the fourth-largest solana treasury of any public company.

Most tokens that debuted this year are trading below their initial valuations.

It would be absurd to claim the UK has suddenly become a life-sciences leader thanks to the new pricing and tariffs pactThat’s gratitude, eh? It’s not even a fortnight since the government agreed to raise the prices the NHS pays for new medicines and here comes the boss of GSK, Britain’s second larg…

Three crew members left the International Space Station and landed back on Earth after 245 days in space.The cosmonaut and station commander, Sergey Ryzhikov, handed over a symbolic key  to the Nasa astronaut Mike Fincke during a change of command ceremony onboard the station.The spacecraft landed a…

Cocoa prices have not been this low in two years

The Justice Department released thousands of files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, which includes documents, recordings of phone calls and videos gathered during state and federal investigations.Why it matters: The trove includes hundreds of thousands of pages that give the most…

President Trump supported his chief of staff Susie Wiles on Tuesday, even after her candid Vanity Fair interviews offered a startling portrait of his second White House term. The big picture: Despite Wiles' unusually blunt descriptions of Trump, he told The New York Post that she has done a "fantast…

Some ants thrive by choosing numbers over strength. Instead of heavily protecting each worker, they invest fewer resources in individual armor and produce far more ants. Larger colonies then compensate with collective behaviors like group defense and coordinated foraging. The strategy has been linke…

Christmas celebrations are back in Bethlehem after two years.

The singer went silent for a few seconds at a conservative conference as the audience laughed over the awkward moment. Erika Kirk quickly consoled her.

The move comes after laws in 2022 recognised that crabs, lobsters, crayfish and squid were sentient and could feel pain.

Ancient Viking Soul? Master Builder of the Impossible? Patron poet of people who never quite fit in and don’t much care to? Moonshine Philosopher?
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DoubleLine is warning of a “brewing collision” in some developed economies as governments from France to the UK and Japan struggle to balance social demands against ballooning fiscal deficits.

The lead Democrats on the House Judiciary and Oversight committees said they are "exploring all legal options" after a top Justice Department official signaled the agency won't produce all its documents on Jeffrey Epstein by the statutory Friday deadline.Why it matters: The so-called "Epstein files"…

TikTok has signed a deal to divest its U.S. entity to a joint venture controlled by American investors, per an internal memo seen by Axios. Why it matters: A deal would end a yearslong saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation to domestic owners to allevia…

The attack appeared to be the latest targeted assassination of a senior military official inside Russia’s borders.

The health sector is working to navigate what could be the most significant changes to the U.S. vaccine program in decades.

Growth raises concerns about underwriting and risk management at fast-expanding groups

Scientists at MIT and Stanford have unveiled a promising new way to help the immune system recognize and attack cancer cells more effectively. Their strategy targets a hidden “off switch” that tumors use to stay invisible to immune defenses—special sugar molecules on the cancer cell surface that sup…

A small tweak to mitochondrial energy production led to big gains in health and longevity. Mice engineered to boost a protein that helps mitochondria work more efficiently lived longer and showed better metabolism, stronger muscles, and healthier fat tissue. Their cells produced more energy while di…

“While we believe these latest pauses will be challenged in court, we expect refreshed concerns around the projects,” other analysts say.

Paramount’s fantasy film “Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender” won’t play in movie theaters as intended and will instead debut directly on the Paramount+ streaming service. The cinematic continuation of the popular TV series, previously slated for theatrical release on Oct. 9, will land on the stream…

From dead crabs to shredded bed sheets, fraudsters are using fake photos and videos to get their money back from ecommerce sites.

These open-back headphones sound insane, but they aren't that comfortable.

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, Frankenstein, and Klaus are just a few of the movies you should watch on Netflix this month.

Your guide to the best sights the night sky has to offer from Dec. 20, 2025, to Jan. 4, 2026 — and the gear you'll need to see them.

A 2,000-year-old palace in the Republic of Georgia and a 1,500-year-old church in Iraq suggest Zoroastrians coexisted with people of other religions.

Scientists were amazed to discover a 507-year-old clam that was already 100 in Shakespeare’s day, but why did it live so long and what can we learn from it?

There is relatively little information on the long-term health effects of tattooing, but a couple of recent studies suggest the art form might trigger prolonged inflammation

Inside a tornado-hardened office in Texas, 1,700 American Airlines employees manage the carrier’s operations, responding to bad weather, plane trouble and ailing passengers.

Starting on Feb. 1, Rome will charge tourists a fee to go down into the basin of the famed 18th-century fountain. Not every one is happy (except Romans, who won’t have to pay).

The Chinese government once focused on political dissidents and exiled activists. Now, federal officials say, it is targeting artists in the United States whose creative protests test its tolerance.

Economic growth blew past forecasts in the third quarter despite ongoing concerns about jobs, tariffs and inflation.

Taking a closer look at Quicken Simplifi's budgeting tools and features can help you decide if it fits your goals.

Credit card companies may settle debts for less than the full balance, but the percentage varies widely. Here's why.

Clovis Casali gives us his analysis.

Images shared by investigators showed a white car in parking lot with heavy damage, the driver’s seat stained in blood. Moscow has blamed this and a series of other apparent assassinations on Ukraine.

One of two alleged killers has been acquitted

The Bronx rapper had been found guilty of attempted murder and racketeering charges in March

Study finds dropping an expletive can raise confidence and help people push harder during physically demanding tasksIt may not be in keeping with the festive spirit, but if you find yourself dropping the F-word while wrestling a Christmas tree up a flight of stairs, scientists say you could be on to…

The Free Birth Society was selling pregnant women a simple message: they could exit the medical system and take back their power by free birthing. But Nicole Garrison believes FBS ideology nearly cost her her life. This is episode one of a year-long investigation by the Guardian journalists Sirin Ka…

The “solution” to today’s puzzleEarlier today I set a puzzle which is extremely hard to answer if you are not a soap bubble.The four towns Continue reading...

Astrophysicist Prof Tomonori Totani says research could be crucial breakthrough in search for elusive substanceNearly a century ago, scientists proposed that a mysterious invisible substance they named dark matter clumped around galaxies and formed a cosmic web across the universe.What dark matter i…

AI’s champions keep trying to impress, but the public is still waiting for answers about jobs, costs, and who benefits. By 2026, that tension will matter.

Gold and silver rallied to fresh all-time highs on escalating geopolitical tensions and prospects for more US rate cuts.

Also in today’s newsletter: ByteDance’s AI spending spree, and private credit firms snap up consumer debt

President Trump's overnight crackdown on diversity visas is the latest use of his 2025 strategy to scale down legal immigration.Why it matters: The Trump administration is leveraging collective punishment by halting or trying to scuttle entire legal immigration programs after high-profile incidents.…

Syrian government soldiers and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces agreed to cease fire after deadly clashes.

A rare tick-borne allergy linked to red meat has now been confirmed as deadly for the first time. A healthy New Jersey man collapsed and died hours after eating beef, with later testing revealing a severe allergic reaction tied to alpha-gal, a sugar spread by Lone Star tick bites. Symptoms often app…

A missing brain molecule may be disrupting neural wiring in Down syndrome, according to new research. Replacing it in adult mice rewired brain circuits and improved brain flexibility, challenging the idea that treatment must happen before birth.

When we watch someone move, get injured, or express emotion, our brain doesn’t just see it—it partially feels it. Researchers found eight body-like maps in the visual cortex that organize what we see in the same way the brain organizes touch. These maps help us instantly understand actions, emotions…

Balanophora is a plant that abandoned photosynthesis long ago and now lives entirely as a parasite on tree roots, hidden in dark forest undergrowth. Scientists surveying rare populations across East Asian islands uncovered how its cellular machinery shrank but didn’t disappear, revealing unexpected …

After a decade of painstaking measurements, scientists have delivered a major plot twist in particle physics: a long-hypothesized “mystery particle” likely doesn’t exist. Using the MicroBooNE experiment at Fermilab, researchers analyzed neutrinos from two powerful beams and found no evidence for a s…

Researchers have uncovered that the body uses different molecular systems to sense cold in the skin versus internal organs. This explains why surface chills feel very different from cold experienced deep inside the body.

Using ultracold atoms and laser light, researchers recreated the behavior of a Josephson junction—an essential component of quantum computers and voltage standards. The appearance of Shapiro steps in this atomic system reveals a deep universality in quantum physics and makes elusive microscopic effe…

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Behold Mark Zuckerberg: man of principle. Witness the Meta CEO's dedication to the most high-minded of causes: "currying favor with whoever's in charge." In 2013, when Barack Obama was president, Zuckerberg co-founded FWD.us, a pro-immigration advocacy group. For years, he vocally supported providin…

OpenAI gave its AI chatbot a professional makeover with the latest GPT-5.2 release, and some users are already complaining about its tone. For anyone who's finding ChatGPT rude or sassy, OpenAI has some welcome news since it's letting users further customize its personality with extra warmth or enth…

In business, the power of individual leaders is an inherently hard thing to measure. It’s subjective, and it fluctuates on any given day, just like the strength of an electrical current goes up and down depending on environmental conditions. To commemorate Variety’s 120th anniversary year, we gave o…

In today’s episode of Uncanny Valley, we dive into five stories—from AI to DOGE—that encapsulate the year and give us clues as to what might unfold in 2026.

Here’s how a fake clip from 2019 wound up in the latest Justice Department Epstein files dump.

An excavation at the City of David in Jerusalem unearthed a 1,300-year-old medallion decorated with a seven-branched menorah on each side.

Controlling immune cells' internal clocks helped reduce inflammatory damage in conditions like heart attack and sickle cell disease, a mouse study found.

Gallup's Economic Confidence Index dipped to a negative 33 rating in December, the lowest level recorded in President Trump’s second term, according to new data. The index — which reflects Americans’ views of current economic conditions and their future outlook — dropped 3 points from a negative 30 …

The world’s biggest emitter of carbon dioxide is on the cusp of a turning point that could herald the beginning of a global decline in fossil fuel use

From bonobos and rats to tickling robots, research is finally cracking the secrets of why we’re ticklish, and what that reveals about our brains

New evidence suggests that alcohol was a surprisingly big motivator in our monumental transition from hunting and gathering to farming – but was beer really more important to us than bread?

In a stunning reversal, Disney has changed tack with regard to safeguarding its copyrighted characters from incorporation into AI tools – perhaps a sign that no one can stem the tide of AI