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10:36 AM on Tuesday, December 16

North Carolina officials say 11 firefighters and two people were injured in a house fire explosion in the Piedmont region of North Carolina

10:30 AM on Tuesday, December 16

Donna Summer has been posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the hall said

10:00 AM on Tuesday, December 16

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles is criticizing Attorney General Pam Bondi’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case and broadly defending Donald Trump's second presidency in a series of interviews published Tuesday

9:52 AM on Tuesday, December 16

The Philadelphia Phillies and outfielder Adolis García have agreed on a one-year contract for the 2026 season

9:33 AM on Tuesday, December 16

Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Gabby Thomas, Melissa Jefferson-Wooden and four other Olympic medalists are among those owed six-figure sums by Grand Slam Track, the racing league that filed for bankruptcy earlier this month

9:01 AM on Tuesday, December 16

The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s annual list of the biggest charitable donations from individuals or their foundations totals $5 billion in 2025

9:01 AM on Tuesday, December 16

In an underwater nursery just off the Dominican Republic coast, tiny corals born in a laboratory are slowly growing under the eye of conservationists

8:46 AM on Tuesday, December 16

Sales at U.S. retailers and restaurants were unchanged in October from September as consumers moderated their spending amid worries about higher prices and other economic uncertainties after splurging over the summer

8:34 AM on Tuesday, December 16

Retail sales were unchanged in October from September as shoppers pulled back spending amid economic uncertainty

8:24 AM on Tuesday, December 16

Additional police have been sent to Providence schools to reassure worried parents that their kids will be safe with the Brown University shooter on the loose and no indication yet that investigators have zeroed in on a specific suspect in the weekend attack

8:13 AM on Tuesday, December 16

A driver who injured more than 130 people when he plowed his car into a crowd of soccer fans celebrating Liverpool’s Premier League championship has been sentenced to over 21 years in prison

7:58 AM on Tuesday, December 16

President Donald Trump’s top Cabinet officials overseeing national security are expected back on Capitol Hill on Tuesday as questions mount over the swift escalation of U.S. military force and deadly boat strikes in international waters near Venezuela

7:04 AM on Tuesday, December 16

President Donald Trump’s top Cabinet officials overseeing national security are headed back to Capitol Hill

5:11 AM on Tuesday, December 16

A Paris labor court has ruled that Paris Saint-Germain must pay over 60 million euros to Kylian Mbappé

4:37 AM on Tuesday, December 16

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says peace proposals for U.S. officials to present to Russia could be finalized within days

12:31 AM on Tuesday, December 16

The U.S. stock market is drifting following mixed data on the economy’s strength

12:05 AM on Tuesday, December 16

The killings of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner have left their communities in Hollywood and Democratic politics stunned

10:01 PM on Monday, December 15

Australia's federal police commissioner has confirmed that a mass shooting at Sydney’s Bondi Beach was a terrorist attack inspired by the Islamic State group

9:03 PM on Monday, December 15

The United States gained a decent 64,000 jobs in November but lost 105,000 in October as federal workers departed after cutbacks by the Trump administration, the government said in delayed reports

1:39 PM on Monday, December 15

Police released new video and a description of a potential suspect and renewed their search for the gunman who killed two Brown University students and wounded nine others after they released a person of interest they had detained