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Brown shooter; Epstein files; Trump Kennedy Center : NPR
Good morning. You’re reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today’s top stories The suspect in the Saturday shooting at Brown University that killed two students and injured nine others was found dead in a New Hampshire storage unit, according…
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Kennedy Center board votes to rename in honour of Trump, White House says | Donald Trump News
The administration of Republican Donald Trump has announced that the board for the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has moved to rename the institution after the sitting president. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt revealed the change on social media on Thursday, saying the Trump-appointed board had made the decision earlier in the day. Recommended Stories list…
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‘This year nearly broke me as a scientist’ – US researchers reflect on how 2025’s science cuts have changed their lives
From beginning to end, 2025 was a year of devastation for scientists in the United States. January saw the abrupt suspension of key operations across the National Institutes of Health, not only disrupting clinical trials and other in-progress studies but stalling grant reviews and other activities necessary to conduct research. Around the same time, the Trump administration issued executive orders…
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INCREASING MEDICAL MARIJUANA AND CANNABIDIOL RESEARCH – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and Policy. Americans deserve access to the best medical treatments and research infrastructure in the world. In 2023, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) completed a review of the landscape of medical use…
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Pope Leo XIV names Bishop Ronald Hicks as new archbishop of New York
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Thursday made his most important U.S. appointment to date, naming a fellow Chicagoan as the next archbishop of New York to lead one of the biggest U.S. archdioceses as it navigates relations with the Trump administration and its immigration crackdown. Bishop Ronald Hicks, the current bishop of Joliet, Illinois, replaces the retiring…
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Treasury Increases Pressure on Iran’s Sanctions-Evading Shadow Fleet
WASHINGTON—Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is placing further pressure on the Iranian shadow fleet, which exports Iranian petroleum and petroleum products through deceptive shipping practices. OFAC is targeting 29 shadow fleet vessels and their respective management firms that have transported hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of Iranian petroleum products. Today’s action…
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Trump’s address; ACA Vote; Venezuela Oil Tankers : NPR
Good morning. You’re reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today’s top stories President Trump insisted that the U.S. is poised for an economic boom during a prime-time address to the nation yesterday. He said that high prices are decreasing…
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‘We want it back’: Trump asserts U.S. claims to Venezuelan oil and land
MEXICO CITY — President Trump’s order of a partial blockade on oil tankers going to and from Venezuela and his claim that Caracas stole “oil, land and other assets” from the United States mark a significant escalation of Washington’s unrelenting campaign against the government of President Nicolás Maduro. Asked about Venezuela on Wednesday, Trump said the United States will be “getting land,…
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More than 100,000 Xcel customers still without power Wednesday night amid high winds, unclear when power will return
Updated at 6:56 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. More than 115,000 Xcel customers were without power as the sun set Wednesday night due to high winds and extreme fire conditions. Many parts of the Front Range saw heavy winds, with gusts as strong as 85 miles per hour, that knocked down power lines and trees. The state’s largest power…
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Gifts with heart: 15 thoughtful US ideas that support causes in need | Life and style
Last year, when my daughter opened her axolotl stuffed animal from her grandmother, I admit I was slightly peeved. Did we really need yet another stuffy? But this one had a purpose: it came from World Wildlife Foundation, a conservation non-profit that sends 85% of proceeds toward conservation work and has a four-star rating on Charity Navigator. My daughter loved…
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