Month: December 2025

It’s a Christmas Eve tradition that has delighted parents and children across the U.S.for 70 years now: tracking Santa Claus as he circles the globe, with the help of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD.NORAD’s map shows Santa has completed this year’s journey from the North Pole to […]

How big and powerful will Trump’s new ‘Trump-class battleship’ be? The U.S.Navy will get two new battleships, the “largest we’ve ever built” sometime in the 2030s, President Donald Trump announced Dec.22. Construction of the ships, designated Trump-class battleships, is scheduled to begin in the early 2030s, according to the Department […]

President Donald Trump announced a new fleet of ships on Monday, known as the “Golden Fleet,” as he revealed he approved plans for two new “very large battleships.” “As you know, we’re desperately in need of ships.Our ships are some of them have gotten old and tired and obsolete,” Trump […]

TikTok has finalized a deal to spin off parts of its US business into a joint venture, but the new investors won’t be calling the shots on the app’s most profitable operations.Oracle, private equity firm Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi-based MGX will collectively own 50% of the new entity, while […]

Instagram head Adam Mosseri has revealed what Chinese rival TikTok is possibly doing right or wrong in the US.While praising TikTok’s ability to surface and “break” new content to users, Mosseri argued that Instagram maintains a distinct advantage in business operations.Meanwhile, he also claimed that Meta-owned Instagram is better at […]

New York — The Trump business empire’s expansion into nuclear fusion is alarming ethics experts, who warn it poses glaring conflicts of interest and risks the federal government playing favorites in what could be the holy grail of clean energy. Trump Media & Technology Group ( DJT ) shocked Wall […]

Media conglomerates want the president’s permission for mergers—and control of news outlets is at stake. By Franklin Foer Graeme Sloan / Bloomberg / Getty December 22, 2025, 8:43 AM ET Share Save Listen − 1.0x + 0:00 11:02 This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter.Sign […]

As 2025 wraps up, it’s another in a string of years after the 2020 pandemic in which most Americans consistently voiced negative views about the economy amid ongoing concerns about costs — a topic that looks poised to dominate 2026, too. That’s because in the eyes of many Americans today, […]

The DA had set its sights on bringing Starlink into the South African market long before communications and digital technologies minister Solly Malatsi’s directive last week to relax BEE policies in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector. The Sunday Times has seen the DA’s confidential submission to the multiparty […]

One of the main premises of my new book, “The Miracles Among Us,” is that we all experience miracles — we just have to look hard enough to find them, and that they come to us in many different forms, from direct divine intervention to great doctoring to advanced technology […]