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1:12 PM on Monday, December 22

Google’s corporate parent on Monday announced an agreement to buy data center energy specialist Intersect for $4.75 billion as part of its effort to secure the vast amounts of electricity needed to power artificial intelligence technology

1:05 PM on Monday, December 22

Arizona remains No. 1 in The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll, but Michigan is closing the gap

1:03 PM on Monday, December 22

No. 2 Michigan closing gap on No. 1 Arizona in AP Top 25, Duke out of top five; USC, Iowa join poll

12:58 PM on Monday, December 22

Jacob Rodriguez was sleeping on the floor of his brother’s apartment when he first got to Texas Tech as a walk-on in the spring of 2022

12:49 PM on Monday, December 22

Banksy appears to confirm a new mural in London is his latest work

12:38 PM on Monday, December 22

A new night-time holiday display in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park is delighting visitors with music, colors and over a million twinkling lights

12:28 PM on Monday, December 22

Actor Jackie Chan has carried the Olympic torch through the ruins of Pompeii during the relay for the Milan Cortina Winter Games

12:25 PM on Monday, December 22

Grupo Frontera is heading to the 2026 Grammys with two nominations

12:02 PM on Monday, December 22

UConn, Texas, South Carolina, and UCLA remain at the top of The Associated Press Top 25 women's basketball poll

12:00 PM on Monday, December 22

Top of AP women's poll unchanged as UConn, Texas lead way; Texas Tech enters Top 25 for 1st time in 13 years

11:39 AM on Monday, December 22

Paramount is sweetening its hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros

10:41 AM on Monday, December 22

Chris Rea, the singer-songwriter best known for “Driving Home for Christmas,” has died at 74

10:36 AM on Monday, December 22

From department stores to grocers, many companies across the U.S. close early on Christmas Eve and shut their doors entirely on Christmas Day — while others opt to cut back hours

9:01 AM on Monday, December 22

Decades of research show syringe programs are extremely effective at preventing infectious disease among intravenous drug users and referring them to treatment

8:18 AM on Monday, December 22

A suspected cyberattack has knocked France’s national postal service and its banking arm offline during the busy Christmas season

6:13 AM on Monday, December 22

New York City Mayor Eric Adams was once seen as a rising star in the Democratic Party

2:11 AM on Monday, December 22

A car bomb has killed a Russian general

1:01 AM on Monday, December 22

NATO-nation intelligence services believe Russia is developing a weapon to target Starlink satellites

10:55 PM on Sunday, December 21

Australian police documents reveal that a man accused of killing 15 people at Sydney’s Bondi Beach conducted firearms training with his father

6:52 PM on Sunday, December 21

The Trump administration is recalling nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial and other senior embassy posts as it moves to reshape the U.S. diplomatic posture abroad with personnel deemed fully supportive of President Donald Trump’s “America First” priorities