Snopes.com

Don't fall for photo showing Trump using walker

In mid-December 2025, an image (archived) circulated online purportedly showing U.S. President Donald Trump using a walker as a mobility aid. Keith Edwards, a Democratic political strategist, posted ...
CNN

Rubio directs diplomats to return to using Times New Roman, undoing Biden-era switch to Calibri

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has directed the State Department to go back to using Times New Roman typeface as the standard for official papers, a spokesperson told CNN, in a reversal of the ...
Slate

CNN Is Using an Election Polling Tool That Anyone Can Rig

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. By mid-October, the Democrats’ chances ...
Decider

R.I.P. Peter Greene: ‘The Mask’ And ‘Pulp Fiction’ Actor Dead At 60

Peter Greene, an actor best known for playing mafia officer Dorian Tyrell in the 1994 film The Mask, has died. He was 60. Greene was found dead yesterday (December 12) inside his Lower East Side ...
CNN

Analysis: How the White House is using misleading comparisons to make inflation sound better

The year-over-year inflation rate in January, the month President Donald Trump returned to the White House, was 3.0%. The year-over-year inflation rate in September, the most recent month for which ...
Reuters

Exclusive: How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips

SINGAPORE, Dec 17 (Reuters) - In a high-security Shenzhen laboratory, Chinese scientists have built what Washington has spent years trying to prevent: a prototype of a machine capable of producing the ...
CNN

As DOJ seeks to recharge Comey, judge deprives prosecutors from accessing key evidence for now

In a major win for former FBI Director James Comey in the Justice Department’s continued attempts to prosecute him, a judge is depriving federal investigators from accessing central evidence in the ...
CNN

Australia is banning young teens from social media. Could it happen in the US?

A world-first ban on major social media platforms for children under the age of 16 goes into effect in Australia on Wednesday. And regulators, parents and teenagers around the globe are watching ...
CNN

Australia has just relieved its anxiety over teens on social media – or has it?

For parents and campaigners who’ve long argued that incessant scrolling is damaging young minds, the start of Australia’s world-first social media ban for under-16s on Wednesday is just the beginning.
CNN

The Fed just cut interest rates for the sixth time. Here’s why you’re not seeing much of a difference in your loans

Thanks to its latest decision on Wednesday – its final one for 2025 – the Federal Reserve has now reduced its key overnight lending rate by 1.75 percentage points since it began its rate-cutting cycle ...
The Economist

A crisis over using frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine

London is the setting of this week’s first important meeting in the interminable succession of summits that now attend the war in Ukraine. Volodymyr Zelensky is flying in to meet, on December 8th, ...