Nature, Published online: 15 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-04049-6There were huge disruptions to the global scientific enterprise this year but immense bright spots for health, discovery, innovation and research collaboration.

On the one-month anniversary of President Donald Trumps inauguration earlier this year, a group of his appointed aides gathered to celebrate.For four weeks, they had been working overtime to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, freezing thousands of programs, including ones that provided food, water and medicine around the world. Theyd culled USAIDs staff and abandoned its former headquarters in the stately Ronald Reagan Building, shunting the remnants of the agency to what was once an overflow space in a glass-walled commercial office above Nordstrom Rack and a bank.There, the crew of newly minted political figures told the office manager to create a moat of 90 empty desks around them so no one could hear them talk. They ignored questions and advice from career staff with decades of experience in the field.Despite the steps to insulate themselves, dire warnings poured in from diplomats and government experts around the world. The cuts would cost countless lives, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the other Trump officials were told repeatedly. The team of aides pressed on, galvanized by two men who did little to hide their disdain for the agency: first Peter Marocco, a blunt-spoken Marine veteran, and then 28-year-old Jeremy Lewin, who, despite having no government or aid experience, often personally decided which programs should be axed.By the third week in February, they were on track to wipe out 90% of USAIDs work. Created in 1961 to foster global stability and help advance American interests, USAID was the largest humanitarian donor in the world. In just a months time, the small band of appointees had set in motion its destruction.In a corner conference room, it was time to party. They traded congratulatory speeches and cut into a sheet cake.Days later, on a remote patch of land in South Sudan, a 38-year-old man named Tor Top gathered with his neighbors outside the local health clinic. Surrounded by floodwaters, their hamlet of thatch and mud homes had been battling a massive outbreak of cholera, a deadly disease spread by poor sanitation. Around the country, it had infected 36,000 people in three months, killing more than 600, many of them babies. Tops family lived in the epicenter.The clinic, one of 12 in the area run by the Christian, Maryland-based humanitarian organization World Relief and funded by USAID, provided a key weapon in the fight: IV bags to stave off dehydration and death. The bags cost just 62 cents each, and in three months, the clinics had helped save more than 500 people.Now, Top, who lived with his wife, children and mother in a one-room house less than 50 feet from the clinic, listened as World Relief staff shared grim news: The Trump administration had stopped USAIDs funding to World Relief. Their clinic, their lifeline, was closing.Tops usual gentle demeanor broke down. Why would the U.S. just cut off their medical care in the middle of a deadly outbreak?By now the broad story of USAIDs ruin has been widely told: The decree handed down by Trump; Elon Musk, who led the new Department of Government Efficiency; and Russell Vought, who holds the purse strings for the administration as the head of the Office of Management and Budget, to scuttle the agency and undo decades of humanitarian work in the name of austerity. Publicly, the administration tried to temper international backlash by promising to keep or restore critical lifesaving programs.But that promise was not kept. Instead, a cast of Trumps lesser-known political appointees and DOGE operatives cut programs in ways that guaranteed widespread harm and death in some of the worlds most desperate situations, according to an examination by ProPublica based on previously unreported episodes inside the government as well on-the-ground reporting in South Sudan. In some cases, they abandoned vital operations by clicking through a spreadsheet or ignoring requests in their inboxes.The abrupt moves left aid workers and communities with no time to find other sources of funding, food or medicine. Borrowing from a phrase used to describe the U.S. overwhelming military campaign during the Iraq War, political appointee Tim Meisburger told senior USAID staff that the strategy was shock and awe. (Meisburger declined to comment.)Tibor Nagy, a veteran diplomat who was Trumps acting undersecretary of state for management until April, has long been a critic of the vast networks of nonprofit organizations funded by American taxpayers. But he told ProPublica the administration never cared to differentiate between the fluff and vital humanitarian programs. It was the most harebrained operation Id seen in my 38 years with the U.S. government, Nagy said, referring to the methods used this year. Who knows how much damage was done.In public statements and congressional testimony, Rubio has repeatedly insisted that no one died because of cuts to U.S. foreign aid and that his staff had reinstated lifesaving operations. But ProPublica found that those claims were a charade: Lifesaving programs remained on the books, but the flow of money didnt restart for months, if at all. Lewin blocked funding requests for programs like tuberculosis treatment in Tajikistan and emergency earthquake response in Myanmar, records show.This meant that dozens of supposedly active operations were dormant throughout most of the year. Rubios advisers let other critical programs, which typically run on one-year grants, expire without renewing them.Few places were hit harder than South Sudan, the youngest and poorest country in the world, as well as one of the most dependent on American aid.After Trumps inauguration, career USAID and State Department staff spent months warning top officials that the funding cuts would exacerbate a historic cholera epidemic ripping through the country. They needed less than $20 million to fund lifesaving health programs, including cholera response efforts, for three months at the beginning of the year an eighth of what Trump recently approved to buy private jets for one cabinet secretary and just 3% of USAIDs budget in South Sudan last year. But Rubio, Marocco and Lewin failed to heed their own agencies assessments, according to internal records and interviews.As a result, people in South Sudan died.By denying and delaying those funds for months, Trumps appointees incapacitated the fragile nations emergency response systems at the very moment when doctors and aid workers were scrambling to contain choleras spread. We had to start rationing lifesaving interventions, said Lanre Williams-Ayedun, the senior vice president of international programs for World Relief. To have something like this happen in a place like this, where there arent mechanisms for backup, just means people are going to die.Villages and towns that had been reining in the outbreak suddenly lost essential services. Cholera came roaring back. The trend was going down, said a former U.S. official. When we stopped the funding, it just surged.This summer, ProPublica journalists hiked and boated across Rubkona County, the epicenter of South Sudans outbreak and home to the countrys largest refugee camp, to interview families that the U.S. cut off from help. We collected medical files, diaries, meeting notes and photographs documenting choleras devastation after essential services stopped.Chris Alcantara/ProPublicaProPublica also interviewed more than 100 government and aid officials and reviewed enormous caches of previously unreported memos, correspondence and other documents from inside the Trump administration. Many were granted anonymity due to fears of reprisal.In response to a detailed list of questions, a senior State Department official said fast, drastic changes to foreign aid were necessary to reform a calcified system. The world, especially U.S. interests, will be better for it in the long run, the official said, despite some disruptions in the short term.The official also said that Rubio was the final decision-maker for all aid programs. They also contended that they had a limited budget to work with, which required some tradeoffs on what programs to continue, saying OMB has ultimate control over new humanitarian funds.The official maintained that nobody died as a result of the funding cuts. Thats a disgusting framing, the official said. There are people who are dying in horrible situations all around the world, all of the time.Who is responsible for the suffering of the people of South Sudan? the official added. The South Sudanese [government leaders] who take their oil revenues and buy private jets and fancy watches and dont see to their own people? Or the United States? Are we responsible for every poor person all around the world?Officially, the death count in South Sudan is nearly 1,600, making it the worst cholera epidemic in the countrys history. But that toll is a dramatic undercount. ProPublica found newly dug, unmarked graves alongside roads and in backyards. In one town, community leaders showed reporters an informal cemetery with at least three dozen people who they said did not make it to medical facilities in time.Tor Tops mother, Nyarietna, was one of the uncounted. In March, the clinic doors had been padlocked for two weeks when she developed vomiting and diarrhea. Top bundled her into a rented canoe and began paddling toward the nearest hospital, eight hours away. Less than halfway into the journey, long after they had stopped reassuring one another that she would be OK, Nyarietna died.Top turned the canoe around and made his way back home, where he buried his mom in their backyard. Now he alone tends the small garden where she grew corn and okra for their family. If there was medicine here, he said later, maybe her life would have been saved.Nyarietnas gardening tool was left behind when she fell ill.Aid to South SudanFor years, Sudans Arab-led central government waged a campaign of brutal violence against its Christian minority in the south. Their persecution became a cause celebre of the American Evangelical movement, which convinced President George W. Bushs administration to help broker a peace agreement that led to independence 15 years ago. Since then, the U.S. has given the fledgling nation nearly $10 billion in aid, according to federal data. That money subsidized virtually every corner of the health care system, among other institutions.Still, South Sudan remains undeveloped. Political instability, corruption and dysfunction are rampant. The transitional government hasnt paid public employees salaries for most of the last two years. U.S. officials had long been on alert to South Sudanese aid workers siphoning resources. Deadly political violence left over from the civil war and threatening a new one besets much of the country.Well before Trump took office this year, the international community had broadly agreed that it was necessary to end the nations dependence on foreign aid, and U.S. officials were working on strategies to force its leaders to take responsibility for its citizens.Some of the most vulnerable among them live in Rubkona County, an oil and cattle hub larger than Rhode Island near Sudans border. There, a refugee camp formed in 2014 during the nations civil war when thousands of people fled behind a United Nations peacekeeping mission to escape a massacre in the nearby town of Bentiu. As South Sudans political turmoil continued to spiral, tens of thousands more fled to the camp. In 2020, Rubkona was hit by a series of catastrophic floods that submerged the majority of the county. Generations of people are now essentially trapped there with nowhere else to go.Since South Sudan was hit by catastrophic floods in 2020, the Bentiu refugee camp has been an island, made habitable only through a complex drainage and dike system largely funded by the U.S. Dara Johnston/UNICEFThe Man-Made Island of Trapped RefugeesAfter the U.N. lost its U.S. funding to maintain dikes, canals and latrines, the Bentiu refugee camp turned into an open sewer that helped spread cholera. More than 110,000 displaced people live in dark, single-room homes made of corrugated metal and tarps on a square mile of land surrounded by floodwaters.Chris Alcantara/ProPublicaScores of people, including the elderly, share a single latrine, a walled-off, overflowing hole in the ground alongside drainage ditches.Rainy months last half the year, softening the camp into a slurry of mud thats nearly impossible to traverse.People survive by fishing in the polluted floodwaters.Even before the funding cuts, Bentiu was known by residents and humanitarian workers as one of the most punishing and dilapidated refugee camps in the world.Previously, USAID gave the U.N.s International Organization for Migration $36 million for work in South Sudan, which included keeping the Bentiu camp habitable and making critical repairs to the dikes that surround the camp and hold back the rising floodwaters. The group maintained the drainage system and paid people to pick up garbage and clean the latrines essentially performing sanitation services for 110,000 people.Despite those efforts, cholera began spreading late last year as new refugees poured in from neighboring Sudan. Rubkona County quickly became the outbreaks epicenter. In a matter of days, hundreds of infections turned to thousands and the death toll mounted. U.S.-funded organizations raced to set up treatment units in the camp and surrounding communities.The situation was dire, and people had few viable options to leave Bentiu, U.S. Ambassador Michael Adler reported back to Washington after USAID staff visited the camp to assess the outbreak in early December. The U.S.-funded cholera clinics and other programs were necessary given the explosivity of the illness spread, he wrote.It was the kind of routine crisis response that USAID was renowned for handling. The last cholera outbreak in Rubkona, in 2022, lasted seven months, and government statistics say that just one person died while about 420 were sickened. An aggressive sanitation campaign, largely funded by the U.S., was crucial to containing the disease.Overwhelmed clinics struggled to keep up with patients during the height of Rubkonas cholera outbreak. Obtained by ProPublicaNow faced with a new outbreak, the embassys staff rushed to get the aid organizations in Rubkona more money, according to the organizations and former officials. By early January, humanitarians were preparing to expand operations. World Relief planned to expand its mobile clinics, Williams-Ayedun said. USAID told Solidarits International, which repaired water pipes, provided sanitation services and distributed soap, to aggressively spend the money it had to combat cholera, with the understanding that the agency would immediately review a proposal for more funds, according to two former officials. An additional $30 million for the U.N.s migration office which planned to use the money to continue maintaining the refugee camps was already committed.Then Trump took office, signing an executive order on day one to freeze all foreign aid pending a review of whether it aligned with the administrations stated values.Just Throw Them in the PotDays later, Rubio issued sweeping stop-work orders to aid programs worldwide. Musk declared that his DOGE team had fed USAID into the woodchipper. After a swift backlash from aid organizations, foreign governments and U.S. ambassadors overseas, Rubio announced that lifesaving operations would continue during his review. Marocco told lawmakers as much during briefings.It wasnt true. Behind the scenes, Marocco and his lieutenants repeatedly obstructed USAIDs Africa, humanitarian aid and global health bureaus from restarting programs critical for responding to disease outbreaks, according to interviews and memos obtained by ProPublica. The money aid organizations in South Sudan were expecting by February didnt come. Meanwhile, the appointees suspended nearly all of USAIDs staff, and those remaining said their bosses blocked payments even for approved programs.Marocco was meant to be the destroyer, and then someone else would come in to rebuild, one former official said a senior political appointee had told her. I guess the one thing happened, but not the other. (Marocco did not respond to multiple requests for comment.)The cuts were so frenetic that, for a brief time, the U.S. government stopped paying for the fuel that ran the electricity for the American embassy in Juba, including the security compound, just as violence was surging throughout South Sudan, according to former senior officials.In response to questions about the episode in Juba, the senior State Department official denied it was a mistake or that Rubios review wasnt careful. Going back and looking at things again doesnt mean that youve made a mistake, the senior official said.At one point in February, Marocco tried ordering the immediate return of foreign service officers stationed abroad. Several senior USAID officials protested, citing safety and logistical concerns for staff in war zones. During one meeting that month, Lewin responded, You dont want to get to know the lobsters. Just throw them in the pot, according to an attendee and meeting notes.Lewin joined the government via Musks DOGE and later took over for Marocco. He seldom came to the USAID office or met with his own staff experts, officials said. Publicly, he called the agency an unaccountable independent institution where secrets leak so quickly we have to hand-walk memos around like were in the 40s.In the weeks that followed, DOGE and Trump appointees forbade those who remained at USAID from communicating with aid groups and discouraged discussion internally, telling staff abroad not to approach ambassadors to advocate for programs, emails show.Senior staffers said they were prohibited from meeting with congressional delegations to share basic information, which was critical to Congress oversight capabilities. The governments health experts feared that taking any action to save lives could be a fireable offense.Still, some spoke out.The consequences on lives lost and funding squandered will grow exponentially and irreversibly in many cases, Nicholas Enrich, then an acting assistant administrator at USAID, warned in a Feb. 8 email to agency leaders, including Joel Borkert, the chief of staff, and Meisburger, who led the humanitarian affairs bureau. They did not respond to his plea, and Enrich was later put on administrative leave.Crucially, even when USAIDs new bosses did approve organizations to resume lifesaving work, they at times denied requests for the money that would allow them to do so, internal records show. Other proposals to fund existing grants or reverse terminations languished in limbo.The official responding on behalf of the State Department said Trumps OMB ultimately has more control over approving new grants and extensions, but that it was never the administrations intention to keep all of the lifesaving programs forever.When ProPublica asked about the funding delays and the State Departments explanation, OMB communications director Rachel Cauley said in an email, Thats absolutely false. And thats not even how this process works. She did not clarify what was false, and the State Department did not address when Lewin sought funds from OMB for South Sudans cholera response.In early February, embassy staff in South Sudan provided Adler, the ambassador, with a list of the most critical operations there, warning that funds had not been released and lifesaving programs would cease when their money ran out.Soccer games are one of the few pastimes in the camp.A career foreign service officer appointed to his post by the Biden administration, Adler had long been critical of the government of South Sudan for ongoing violence and deserting its own people, according to embassy cables and interviews with people familiar with his thinking.Still, early on he appeared to recognize that without U.S. intervention, the most vulnerable people in the country did not stand a chance against cholera. In a Feb. 14 memo addressed to the leadership of the State Departments Africa bureau, Adler asked the administration to release money to keep people alive.Lifesaving medicine and medical care, as well as emergency water and sanitation services, play a critical role in controlling disease outbreaks, the embassy wrote, notably a severe cholera outbreak in South Sudans border regions hosting the greatest number of refugees.Adler declined to meet with ProPublica in South Sudan and did not respond to a detailed list of questions.Death by SpreadsheetAs humanitarian groups racked up unpaid bills, they began to file lawsuits challenging the foreign aid freeze. A federal judge ordered the administration to reimburse the organizations. But on Feb. 26, the Supreme Court temporarily paused the lower courts order.In a meeting with senior agency staff the next day, Lewin, who at that time was not yet in charge of USAID programs, indicated that he interpreted the recent legal decisions as a potential license to dispense with one of the key review processes for unfreezing operations, according to two attendees and meeting notes. One of those attendees took Lewins remarks to mean that he had no intention to review contracts or implement lifesaving programs.In response, the senior State Department official told ProPublica, No one meant that or said that.The next night, a Friday, staff at the Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance, the division of USAID that dealt with emergencies and ran nearly all of the programs in South Sudan, were working late, scrambling to keep emergency programs operational. Suddenly, they noticed Borkert making changes to a key spreadsheet.To create the spreadsheet, DOGE had sidestepped career staff, pulling information from databases made for project management. It was so rudimentary that it was often impossible to tell what a program did from descriptions as vague as extension No. 4 or allocation of funds, according to people who saw the spreadsheet.Rubio and his aides had already terminated hundreds of programs in preceding days. Staff were bracing for another round of cuts, but many of the line items remaining in the file were for programs that provided food, clean water or essential medicines.Veteran USAID officials watched as Borkert scrolled down the spreadsheet, turning rows red, yellow or green every few seconds, never asking a single question. Realizing the red programs were slated to be cut, they frantically started editing descriptions so that Borkert would at least know what those programs did. Within minutes, hed flagged dozens of them for termination. (Borkert declined to comment.)A senior staff member in the group raced upstairs and begged Borkert to reinstate them, according to two officials familiar with the episode. He relented on several. But the next day, Marocco and Lewin told the group theyd kept far too many programs, emails show. Lewin ordered 151 additional awards terminated, writing that he would have strong objections to these awards being turned on. Marocco followed up by email at 11:30 p.m. saying the reactivations were far too broad, indicating several more line numbers and writing sound like terminations, next to them, ultimately canceling even more programs.Peter Marocco U.S. Department of DefenseJeremy Lewin Dartmouth Rauner Special Collections LibraryJoel Borkert U.S. Department of StateTim Meisburger USAIDOn March 10, Rubio announced on X that the review was over. In response to lawsuits, Trump officials told the courts that the review was a careful examination of USAIDs operations.More than 5,000 programs had been canceled, and fewer than 1,000 remained a figure that many officials told ProPublica was arbitrary but binding. In reality, the administration still wasnt releasing money and many of the surviving programs had no funds, according to interviews with humanitarian groups and government officials, as well as memos and spreadsheets documenting those decisions.When asked about the current status of the 1,000, the senior State Department official criticized USAIDs former vetting procedures and said the administration is in the process of creating new programs.Soon after the review ended, the cholera response in South Sudan came crashing down.Nyataba Gai, center, a nurse at Bentiu State Hospital, cares for Wicliak Tutdel, who arrived on the edge of death from cholera. Hospital staff revived him with two IV bags of fluids.God Is With UsRebecca Nyariaka and Koang Kai were shrouded in grief throughout the upheaval in Washington. Their only child, 4-year-old son Geer, had been one of the first victims when cholera inundated the Bentiu camp in December.The couple met in secondary school at a refugee camp in Kenya and got married after theyd both returned to their homeland in 2013. After violence broke out, they fled to Bentiu, finding occasional jobs working with health clinics.Now, in early March, they prodded one another to stay hopeful: 28-year-old Nyariaka was once again pregnant.In the refugee camp, the couple could see the signs of the funding cuts everywhere. Uncollected garbage barricaded the drainage ditches that encased their neighborhood. Human waste spilled out of the overflowing communal latrines near Nyariakas house and into the fetid water filling the culverts. Toilets crawling with rats, maggots and flies became so noxious that neighbors began defecating on the surrounding dirt roads. The stench was overwhelming. Those who washed the latrines have gone, Kai said. And we are left here all alone.Latrines across the Bentiu camp are in a dilapidated state, filled with garbage and crawling with rats, maggots and flies.The U.N.s new sanitation contract had been committed before Trump took office, but it hadnt received any money since last year. On March 12, USAID staff in the region sent Washington field notes about the conditions in the camp, where health services faced closure or severe cutbacks because of the funding shortfall. Officials at the organization pleaded behind the scenes as well. They repeatedly called and met with embassy leaders to request help, to no avail. What we have now is survival of the fittest, one U.N. official told ProPublica.When Nyariaka gave birth to a healthy baby boy, cholera was rampant throughout the camp. Neighbors were dying around them, and Kai was worried for his wife and new baby. When cholera enters your home, you know the chances of survival are very low. Very few people survive it, he said later.Nyariaka named the baby Kuothethin, God is with us. In her first days back from the hospital, her body still healing, the new mom used the bathroom frequently, teetering back and forth to the overflowing latrines close to her house. She soon developed violent vomiting and diarrhea, the hallmark symptoms of cholera.Kai, tall and muscular, picked her up in his arms and raced to the camp hospital, but it was too late. Nyariaka died just after they arrived.Koang Kais wife, Rebecca, died from cholera she contracted in the camp.She had been nowhere except her house and the latrines since coming home from the hospital, Kai said. Hes certain the toilets are to blame for her death. Depressed and unable to care for their newborn, he sent the baby across the floodwaters to live with his mother-in-law on another side of the state.Kai and Nyariaka had been best friends for years before they started dating, their lives intertwined for nearly two decades. Her whole way of life was good. She loved our children and cared for them, Kai said. I am heartbroken.As the disease ripped through the camp, more services shut down, including transportation for the dead. Kais neighbor, John Gai, lost his father to cholera. Gai had to take him to the cemetery himself in a wheelbarrow, his fathers head bobbing at his knees. Nobody should have to carry a dead body among the living, Gai said.John Gai believes his father contracted cholera from the overflowing latrines outside their home in the Bentiu refugee camp.Gross NeglectOn March 28, Rubio notified Congress that he was officially shuttering most USAID operations and transferring programs that survived his review, including several in South Sudan, to the State Department.Staffers spent the next weeks repeatedly appealing to Lewin who by then had replaced Marocco as Rubios top foreign aid official for authority to perform the mundane tasks needed to keep the programs operating. In late April, the agencys humanitarian bureau submitted a blanket request to fund grants that Lewin had already approved. Lewin refused, records show, and the humanitarian bureau had to submit country-specific proposals for consideration. That process dragged on for months.In June, just before USAID was shut down for good, Lewin finally approved some of the funding the staff had advocated for. But by then it was too late. The officials had run out of time to transfer money already appropriated by Congress to remaining programs.On June 26, R. Clark Pearson, a supervisory contracting officer at USAID, sent a scathing email to USAID offices around the world in response to an email from the top procurement officer for the agency listing the hundreds of programs that were meant to be active. He said there was no one who could manage the awards, which he called gross neglect on an astonishing level.In a time of unimaginable hubris, gross incompetence and failures of leadership across the Agency, this has to be one of the most delusional emails I have seen to date, Pearson wrote. Lives depend on these awards and for the [U.S. government] to simply not manage them because of an arbitrary deadline is inexcusable.That same day, a senior humanitarian adviser informed Adler that payment extensions for several programs, with the exception of food aid, werent processed because the approval was received late.In September, the Supreme Court issued another emergency ruling that let the administration withhold nearly $4 billion that Congress earmarked for foreign aid.Later that month, OMB released some new foreign aid funds. Thats when World Relief finally began to receive funding, allowing the clinic in Tor Tops community to reopen, even though the administration claimed the program had been active for almost seven months.The U.N.s migration program has not received a new South Sudan grant. The organization will run out of money for dike maintenance in Bentiu by February, after months of some of the most severe flooding in years.Some of the heaviest floodwaters in years crashed along Bentius dikes in November. The Trump administration stopped funding the U.N.s efforts to repair and maintain them. Obtained by ProPublicaA spokesperson for the U.N.s migration program said the organization was still in discussion with the State Department and continues to engage with donors about the critical humanitarian needs in South Sudan.The UncountedDuring the first months of the cholera outbreak, a mobile health team run by the International Rescue Committee, a U.S.-based nonprofit that works in crisis zones around the world, visited Nyajime Duops remote village on the edges of Rubkona County twice weekly. The team brought soap and transported sick people to IRCs nearby clinic for care.At 27, Duops youthful face belied a life marked by war and poverty. She had arrived just a few months earlier, fleeing violence in Khartoum, Sudan, with an infant and toddler in tow, when Trump officials terminated IRCs $5.5 million grant.The IRC suspended its operations in the village in the spring. When Duops 1-year-old baby, Nyagoa, fell ill with cholera in July, on a day IRC would have visited, there was no one to help her. By the morning, Nyagoa was unconscious. She died that day, the Fourth of July.Nyajime Duop, left, and her mother, Mary Nyapuoka. Duops 1-year-old daughter died from cholera on the Fourth of July.Cholera has spread to nearly every corner of South Sudan, infected at least 100,000 people and killed 1,600, though cases began abating this fall. The true death toll is impossible to know, in part because clinics that would have cared for people and counted the dead were shuttered. The Trump administration also cut funding to the World Health Organization, which helped the South Sudanese government gather accurate data on the outbreak.In a pasture a short walk from IRCs clinic, ProPublica found at least three dozen mounds covered in sticks the makeshift graves, village leaders said, of those who died of cholera before reaching the clinic. The clinics security guard told reporters he saw one man collapse and die just yards from the front gate.There are many more cases, said Kray Ndong, then acting minister of health for the area, many more deaths.The Trump administration recently announced a new era of foreign aid, where the U.S. will prioritize trade over aid. South Sudan, with a gross domestic product one-tenth the size of Vermonts, has little to offer.The administration says they are committed to humanitarian needs, one aid official in South Sudan said. But we dont know what that means, only that it will be transactional.The dirt road from Bentiu camp to the heart of Rubkona County is often washed out and thick with mud. Refugees walk on the embankments. The post Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera. appeared first on ProPublica.

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Honoree Rob Reiner, second left, poses with his wife Michele, left, and children Nick, center, Romy, and Jake at the 41st Annual Chaplin Award Gala at Avery Fisher Hall, April 28, 2014, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)2025-12-15T13:23:15Z LOS ANGELES (AP) Investigators were questioning a family member of director-actor Rob Reiner Rob Reiner and his wife Michele after they were found dead at their home in Los Angeles, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation.Investigators believe they suffered stab wounds, said the official, who could not publicly discuss details of the investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.Los Angeles Police had not identified a suspect, Deputy Chief Alan Hamilton, the chief of detectives, said at a briefing on Sunday night.We are going to try to speak to every family member that we can to get to the facts of this investigation, Hamilton said. The Los Angeles Fire Department said it responded to a medical aid request shortly after 3:30 p.m. and found a 78-year-old man and 68-year-old woman dead inside. Reiner turned 78 in March. Detectives with the Robbery Homicide Division were investigating an apparent homicide at Reiners home, said Capt. Mike Bland with the Los Angeles Police Department.Los Angeles authorities have not confirmed the identities of the people found dead at the residence in the upscale Brentwood neighborhood on the citys west side thats home to many celebrities. Reiner was long one of the most prolific directors in Hollywood, and his work included some of the most memorable movies of the 1980s and 90s, including This is Spinal Tap, A Few Good Men, When Harry Met Sally and The Princess Bride. His role as Meathead in Norman Lears 1970s TV classic All in the Family, as a liberal foil to OConnors Archie Bunker, catapulted him to fame and won him two Emmy Awards.Relatives of Lear, the legendary producer who died in 2023, said the deaths left them bereft. Norman often referred to Rob as a son, and their close relationship was extraordinary, to us and the world, said a Lear family statement. Norman would have wanted to remind us that Rob and Michele spent every breath trying to make this country a better place, and they pursued that through their art, their activism, their philanthropy, and their love for family and friends. Messages to Reiners representatives were not immediately returned Sunday night.Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass called it a devastating loss for the city. Rob Reiners contributions reverberate throughout American culture and society, and he has improved countless lives through his creative work and advocacy fighting for social and economic justice, Bass said in a statement. An acclaimed actor, director, producer, writer, and engaged political activist, he always used his gifts in service of others.The son of comedy legend Carl Reiner, Rob Reiner was married to photographer Michele Singer Reiner since 1989. The two met while he was directing When Harry Met Sally and have three children together.Reiner was previously married to actor-director Penny Marshall from 1971 to 1981. He adopted her daughter, Tracy Reiner. Carl Reiner died in 2020 at age 98 and Marshall died in 2018.Killings are rare in the Brentwood neighborhood. The scene is about a mile from the home where O.J. Simpsons wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman were killed in 1994.__Balsamo reported from Washington. Associated Press Entertainment Writer Andrew Dalton in Los Angeles contributed. MIKE BALSAMO Balsamo is the national law enforcement editor for The Associated Press. He oversees coverage of the Justice Department, federal courts and criminal justice. twitter mailto

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Former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and pop star Katy Perry confirmed their status as a couple after a number of public sightings sparked rumors of a romance. The Onion presents a timeline of the pairs relationship.A.D. 1100 The couples common ancestor establishes two distinct bloodlines.2008A trembling 37-year-old Trudeau lies awake all night with strange and frightening feelings after hearing I Kissed A Girl.2012Katy Perry and Toronto Mayor Rob Ford file for divorce.2019Perry sees the photos of Trudeau in brownface and cant help but notice his kind eyes.May 2025Matched on GlutenFreeSingles.com.July 2025Trudeau is spotted leaving Perrys apartment in a cupcake bra.August 2025Perry and Trudeau discover they have a mutual love of having their picture taken.September 2025Trudeau tearfully confides in Perry that he used to be the prime minister of Canada.The post Timeline Of Katy Perry And Justin Trudeaus Relationship appeared first on The Onion.

With the holiday season getting longer every year, Americans nationwide are searching for methods to ensure the focal point of their decor remains healthy and vibrant through Dec. 25 and beyond. Here are tips on how to keep your Christmas tree fresh.Choose A Genetically Pure Tree Of Noble Heritage: Often the reason a Christmas tree sheds its needles when brought home is because its been tainted by foreign pollen from contemptible stock.Replicate Its Natural Environment: Add a razor wire fence, 600 gallons of asphalt concrete, and a chain-smoking Russian man to your living room, and your Christmas tree will feel at home in no time.Forgo Buying Your Children Presents: Fewer presents under the tree will allow it more growing room.Play The Song Of The Forest On Your Pan Flute: The mystical melody of merriment and glee is sure to perk your Christmas tree right up as it sways to your folk instruments hypnotic tune.Cut Down Adjacent Trees In Your House: Overcrowding can deprive smaller Christmas trees of sunlight, so thin out all existing growth in your home within 8 feet of your trees base.Appoint A Shadow Christmas Tree: In its unofficial parliamentary role, it can scrutinize the work of the acting Christmas tree and keep it on its toes.Let It Roam Around In The Woods For At Least 30 Minutes A Day: Allowing your tree to get outdoors will keep its mind sharp and its trunk strong.Perform Sap Infusions From Younger Trees: Regular infusions of sap from a more youthful spruce can reverse your trees biological age to that of a seedling.Dont Cut It Down In The First Place: You took an ax to its trunk, and now youre confused as to why its not perfectly healthy?Make It Someone Elses Responsibility: Let the housekeeper know that if a single pine needle turns brown, she can find employment at a different chalet.The post How To Keep Your Christmas Tree Fresh appeared first on The Onion.

LOS ANGELESEmphasizing her ability to meet the film industrys evolving needs, actress Gal Gadot reportedly assured a casting agent Monday that she was more than capable of playing AI roles. Ive been told for years I bring a certain lifelessness to my characters, said Gadot, who emphasized that she had been honing her ability to deliver an uncanny performance complete with stilted speech, unnatural arm movements, and a total lack of chemistry with other co-stars for her entire career. Honestly, when I heard that studios were starting to cast AI actors, I immediately thought, Gal, its your time to shine. I genuinely believe no one in this town is better equipped to play a role designed for a non-sentient digital entity than I am, and if you want proof, check out Death On The Nile, Snow White, or Wonder Woman 1984. I was awful in not just one, but all of those movies. Gadot added that she was also open to AI voice work, noting that her natural cadence already resembled that of text-to-speech software.The post Gal Gadot Assures Casting Agent She Can Play AI Roles appeared first on The Onion.

SPRINGFIELD, MAFacing intense backlash and scrutiny from critics who say the reference book publisher had failed to take all words into consideration, Merriam-Webster was accused of bias Monday after officially selecting dictionary as its 2025 word of the year. Merriam-Webster clearly has a pro-dictionary bias thats preventing it from considering all words equally, lexicographer Alison Nielsen wrote in a widely shared social media post that lambasted the Merriam-Webster editorial team, claiming its members had allowed a personal affinity for looking up words to cloud their judgment. I was willing to overlook it last year when their word of the year was definition, but I cant allow myself to turn a blind eye to this. The Merriam-Webster editorial board is stuck in its own media bubble. They need to look around and read a thesaurus once in a while. At press time, reports confirmed Merriam-Webster appeared to have doubled down by changing the 2025 word of the year to dictionaries.The post Merriam-Webster Accused Of Bias After Dictionary Named Word Of The Year appeared first on The Onion.

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Jim Troupis reads a statement after his court appearance outside a Dane County courtroom Dec. 12, 2024, in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)2025-12-15T04:39:03Z MADISON, Wis. (AP) Two attorneys and an aide who all worked on President Donald Trumps 2020 campaign appeared in court Monday for a preliminary hearing in Wisconsin on felony forgery charges related to a fake elector scheme.The Wisconsin case is moving forward even as others in the battleground states of Michigan and Georgia have faltered. A special prosecutor last year dropped a federal case alleging Trump conspired to overturn the 2020 election. Another case in Nevada is still alive.The Wisconsin case was filed a year ago but has been tied up as the Trump aides have fought, unsuccessfully so far, to have the charges dismissed.The hearing on Monday comes a week after Trump attorney Jim Troupis, one of the three who were charged, tried unsuccessfully to get the judge to step down in the case and have it moved to another county. Troupis, who the other two defendants joined in his motion, alleged that the judge did not write a previous order issued in August declining to dismiss the case. Instead, he accused the father of the judges law clerk, a retired judge, of actually writing the opinion. Troupis, who served one year as a judge in the same county where he was charged, also alleged that all of the judges in Dane County are biased against him and he cant get a fair trial. Dane County Circuit Judge John Hyland said he and a staff attorney alone wrote the order. Hyland also said Troupis presented no evidence to back up his claims of bias and refused to step down or delay the hearing. Stay up to date with the news and the best of AP by following our WhatsApp channel. Follow on Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the allegations. The same judge will determine at Mondays hearing whether theres enough evidence to proceed with the charges against the three.The former Trump aides face 11 felony charges each related to their roles in the 2020 fake elector scheme. In addition to Troupis, the other defendants are Kenneth Chesebro, an attorney who advised Trumps campaign, and Mike Roman, Trumps director of Election Day operations in 2020. The Wisconsin Department of Justice, headed by Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul, brought the felony forgery charges in 2024, alleging that the three defrauded the 10 Republican electors who cast their ballots for Trump in 2020.Prosecutors contend the three lied to the Republicans about how the certificate they signed would be used as part of a plan to submit paperwork to then-Vice President Mike Pence, falsely claiming that Trump had won the battleground state that year. The complaint said a majority of the 10 Republicans told investigators that they were needed to sign the elector certificate indicating Trump had won only to preserve his legal options if a court changed the outcome of the election in Wisconsin. A majority of the electors told investigators that they did not believe their signatures on the elector certificate would be submitted to Congress without a court ruling, the complaint said. Also, a majority said they did not consent to having their signatures presented as if Trump had won without such a court ruling, the complaint said. Federal prosecutors who investigated Trumps conduct related to the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot said the fake electors scheme originated in Wisconsin. The Trump associates have argued that no crime took place. But the judge in August rejected their arguments in allowing the case to proceed to Mondays preliminary hearing.Trump lost Wisconsin in 2020 but fought to have the defeat overturned. He won the state in both 2016 and 2024.The state charges against the Trump attorneys and aide are the only ones in Wisconsin. None of the electors have been charged. The 10 Wisconsin electors, Chesebro and Troupis all settled a lawsuit that was brought against them seeking damages.___This story has been corrected to show that the attorneys who are charged formerly worked on Trumps campaign, but are still practicing attorneys. SCOTT BAUER Bauer is the APs Statehouse reporter covering politics and state government in Madison, Wisconsin. He also writes music reviews. twitter mailto

(AP Illustration / Peter Hamlin)2025-12-15T13:38:11Z TOKYO (AP) I speak decent Spanish, picked up working several decades ago as a news and sports reporter in Spain, Mexico and Argentina.Now I report from Tokyo. After seven years, I still cant grasp Japanese. My weekly language classes have taught me humility more than anything else.Ayaka Ono, my current Japanese teacher, estimates shes tutored about 600 students over 15 years. Theyve been mostly between 20 and 50. Im more than a decade beyond her eldest. I find older students take tiny, tiny steps and then they fall back, Ono-san san is an honorific in Japanese to show respect tells me. They cant focus as long. I teach something one minute and they forget the next.Its well established that children have an easier time learning second languages. In recent years, scientists have studied whether being bilingual may help ward off the memory lapses and reduced mental sharpness that come with an aging brain. Much of the research on the potential benefit involved people who spoke two or more languages for most of their lives, not older adult learners. The science shows that managing two languages in your brain over a lifetime makes your brain more efficient, more resilient and more protected against cognitive decline, said Ellen Bialystok, a distinguished research professor emeritus at York University in Toronto who is credited with advancing the idea of a possible bilingual advantage in the late 1980s. Theres good news for older adults like me: Attempting to acquire a new language is worthwhile, and not just because it makes reading a menu easier while traveling abroad. Bialystok, a cognitive neuroscientist, recommends studying a new language at any age, comparing the challenge to word puzzles and brain-training games that are promoted to slow the onset of dementia. This article is part of APs Be Well coverage, focusing on wellness, fitness, diet and mental health. Read more Be Well. Trying to learn a language late in life is a great idea, but understand it wont make you bilingual and is probably too late to provide the protective effects of cognitive aging that come from early bilingualism, she told The Associated Press. However, learning a new language is a stimulating and engaging activity that uses all of your brain, so it is like a whole-body exercise. The latest researchA large study published by the science journal Nature Aging in November suggests that speaking multiple languages protects against more rapid brain aging, and that the effect increases with the number of languages. The findings, based on research involving 87,149 healthy people ages 51 to 90, underscore the key role of multilingualism in fostering healthier aging trajectories, the authors wrote.Researchers acknowledged the studys limitations, including a sample population drawn only from 27 European countries with diverse linguistic and sociopolitical contexts.Bialystok was not involved in the project but has researched second-language acquisition in children and adults, including whether being bilingual delays the progression of Alzheimers disease or aids in multi-tasking and problem-solving. She said the new study ties all the pieces together. Over the lifespan, people who have managed and used two languages end up with brains that are in better shape and more resilient, she said. Judith Kroll, a cognitive psychologist who heads the Bilingualism, Mind and Brain Lab at the University of California, Irvine, used the expressions mental athletics and mental somersaults to describe how the brain juggles more than one language. She said there have been several efforts to examine language learning in older adults and the ramifications.I would say there are probably not enough studies to date to be absolutely definitive about this, she told The AP. But the evidence we have is very promising, suggesting both that older adults are certainly able to learn new languages and benefit from that learning.More studies are needed on whether language lessons help people in midlife and beyond maintain some cognitive abilities. Kroll compared the state of the field to the late 20th century, when the dominant thinking was that exposing infants and young children to two or more languages put them at a educational disadvantage. What we know now is the opposite, she said. Learning a language later in life I visited Spains Mediterranean coast in the 1990s when I worked in Madrid. I was shocked by how many non-Spaniards there had lived in the country for years and could say only a few words in Spanish. Now I get it. When I attempt Japanese, the reaction is often an incredulous, And youve been here how long?I have workarounds to navigate my hostile linguistic environment. One is saying itsumono. It means the same as always, or the usual. Its enough to order morning coffee at a neighborhood cafe or lunch at several regular stops.As an aside, Japanese is one of the most difficult languages for English speakers to master, along with Arabic, Cantonese, Korean and Mandarin. Romance languages such as French, Italian or Spanish are easier. My once-a-week class is grueling, and one hour is my limit. I use this analogy: my brain is a closet without enough empty hangers, and Japanese doesnt go with anything in my wardrobe. The writing system is intimidating for an English speaker, the word order is flipped, and politeness is valued more than clarity.During the 4 1/2 years I spent reporting from Rio de Janeiro, I got by with Portuol an improvised blend of Spanish and Portuguese and the patience of Brazilians. There is no such halfway house for Japanese. You either speak it or you dont.Ill never progress beyond preschool level in Japanese, but overloading my brain with lessons might work in the same way that my regular weight-training sessions help maintain physical strength.Ono-san, my Japanese teacher, called language-learning apps better than nothing. Bialystok said technology can be a useful learning tool, but progress of course requires using the language in real situations with other people.If old folks try to learn a new language, you are not going to be very successful. You are not going to become bilingual, Bialystok said. But the experience of trying to learn the language is good for your brain. So what I say is this. Whats hard for your brain is good for your brain. And learning a language, especially in later life, is hard but good for your brain. STEPHEN WADE Wade has written about sports and the politics of sports around the globe for The Associated Press. He has covered nine Olympics and five soccer World Cups and has been based for AP in Madrid, London, Beijing, Mexico City, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, before moving to Tokyo. twitter mailto

This photo provided by Doug Sovern shows him during his last KCBS-AM broadcast in San Francisco, on April 30, 2025. (Sara Newmann via AP)2025-12-15T13:29:56Z Before Jimmy Kimmel, there was KCBS.Just six days into President Donald Trumps new administration, the San Francisco Bay-area radio station KCBS-AM reported that immigration agents were in the area driving unmarked vehicles including a black Dodge Durango, a gray Nissan Maxima and white Nissan truck.The brief story also reported by other outlets quickly drew the ire of conservative influencers who attacked KCBS report as endangering agents lives, sparking a deluge of complaints from listeners and callers.That was just the start of KCBS troubles. The Trump administrations top broadcast regulator, Brendan Carr, soon accused KCBS of failing to operate in the public interest and said he was opening an investigation.By targeting KCBS, Carr revealed his willingness to expand the Republican administrations offensive on perceived media foes beyond major broadcasters like ABC, CBS and NPR. In KCBS case, the radio station took steps to mitigate the potential of drawing further attention from conservative influencers or Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, according to eight current and former station employees who insisted on anonymity out of fear of reprisal. KCBS demoted a well-liked anchor and dialed back on political programming, people said. For months, reporters were dissuaded from pursuing political or controversial topics and instead encouraged to focus on human interest stories, according to the current and former staffers. When journalists were given permission to pursue politics or Trump administration policies, some of the staffers said, the tone of the stories was heavily scrutinized. Doug Sovern, a veteran political journalist at the station, said he was sidelined after Carr announced his investigation. Chilling effect does not begin to describe the neutering of our political coverage, said Sovern, who retired in April. He said his retirement was not related to the controversy. FCC scrutiny has eased in recent months, and the station has been increasingly willing to tackle more topics that might draw attention from the administration and conservative critics, the staffers said. The station, for example, assigned a reporter in October to cover the No Kings Day protests of the Trump administration, which the staffers described as a welcome change. In a statement, KCBS said it would not comment on internal personnel matters.There has been no change in policy or editorial direction at KCBS, the station added. We remain committed to providing our Bay Area listeners with trusted news, including our political coverage, that is balanced and objective.The FCC did not respond to a request for comment. Trumps enforcerIn Trumps second term, Carr has emerged as a top enforcer of Trumps agenda, using his perch to take on one of the presidents favorite targets: media outlets.His threat to ABC in September that we can do this the easy way or the hard way led to Kimmel, a late-night host and comedian, being briefly pulled off the air by parent company Disney over statements in one of his monologues about the political reaction to the slaying of Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist. ABC and CBS settled what some experts said were long-shot libel lawsuits by Trump at the same time their parent companies had significant interests before the FCC. NPR and PBS affiliates came under scrutiny over whether they were crossing the line into commercial advertising. When the FCC later approved a merger involving CBS parent company, the networks new owners committed to making significant changes at the broadcast network a move the FCC chairman praised in his statement approving the deal. And in November, Carr reshared a Trump social media post that called for comedian Seth Meyers to be fired from NBC. Have a news tip?Contact APs global investigative team at [emailprotected]. For secure and confidential communications, use the free Signal app +1 (202) 281-8604. Al Sikes, a Republican former FCC chairman who served under President George H.W. Bush, said Carr was using mobster tactics.What were seeing right now is new boundaries that are being set on the exercise of authority: punishing those that you dont like and ensconcing those that you do, Sikes said in an interview. ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS and NPR did not respond to requests for comment. Since February, the White House has blocked The Associated Press access to events after the wire service said it would continue referring to the Gulf of Mexico in some of its copy. Trump had signed an executive order renaming the body of water the Gulf of America. The AP filed suit over the restrictions, and a federal judge ordered the White House in April to restore the APs full access to cover presidential events as part of the press pool. The judges order was put on hold while the White House appeals it. KCBS in the crosshairsKCBS has a storied history. It was one of the earliest radio stations ever licensed. Owned by CBS for nearly 70 years, it helped pioneer the 24-hour news radio format. CBS sold its radio properties in 2017 to Entercom, which later renamed itself Audacy. KCBS remains a broadcast affiliate of CBS News Radio. The proliferation of digital content has hit the radio industry hard. Audacy recently survived Chapter 11 bankruptcy and had only been saved by a major investment from a firm owned by George Soros, a liberal donor and frequent Republican target. That investment was approved by the FCC under President Joe Bidens Democratic administration. Some conservatives, including Carr, had criticized the previous FCC leadership for failing to scrutinize the deal more closely.In going after KCBS, Carr relied on a letter of inquiry, the first formal step in opening an FCC investigation. Broadcasters are regulated by the agency, and it has the authority to issue admonitions, or fines. In rare cases, it can revoke broadcast licenses.After Carrs threat, staffers involved in the story were summoned to meetings with lawyers hired by Audacy. The attorneys scoured employee social media posts and grilled some on whether they had any political bias, current and former staff said.The stations news director, Jennifer Seelig, sits on the board of the Radio Television Digital News Association, which gives out a prominent First Amendment award. She told people that business considerations required the station to avoid angering the FCC, current and former staffers said.Seelig did not respond to requests for an interview.Veteran reporter demotedBret Burkhart, who first read the report on the immigration action over the air, was demoted from his anchor position to a less prestigious reporting gig. After a few months, he left the station for a new job, according to current and former staffers. Burkhart was a well-regarded Bay Area radio personality, with more than a dozen top journalism awards over the course of his long career.Burkharts colleagues were perplexed that the station would discipline anyone for reporting on the raids, especially because the federal agents were not operating undercover and the information they based the report on came from several local politicians.The description of immigration agents in unmarked cars is newsworthy, particularly since Trumps administration has a history of sending in federal agents while disguising what agencies theyre with, said Mark Feldstein, a journalism professor at the University of Maryland and former on-air correspondent at CNN and ABC.Sovern, an award-winning political reporter who worked for The New York Times and the AP, said he struggled to get stories published.In the weeks after the immigration story, Seelig asked Sovern to cancel an interview he had set up with California gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter out of fear she would say something negative about Trump, he said. Im disappointed that a news organization once renowned and acclaimed for its diligent pursuit of the truth, no matter where it led and no matter whose feathers it ruffled, backed away from its core mission out of fear and economic insecurity, Sovern said. Thats not the KCBS I knew, and gave 35 years of my professional life to, and its a shame the last months had to end in such ignoble fashion.___AP writers Brian Slodysko and Michael Biesecker contributed reporting. BYRON TAU Tau is an investigative reporter in the Washington, D.C. bureau of the Associated Press. He focuses on reporting stories about national security, law enforcement, technology and government accountability. He can be reached on Signal at byrontau.01 twitter mailto

People hold candles during a vigil, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025, in Providence, R.I., for those injured or killed during the Saturday shooting on Brown University campus. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)2025-12-15T14:58:52Z PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) Police renewed their search Monday for the gunman who killed two Brown University students and wounded nine others, a day after they released a person of interest after determining the evidence pointed in a different direction.Authorities announced the mans release at news conference late Sunday, marking a setback in the investigation into Saturdays attack on the Ivy League schools campus. It unraveled progress authorities thought they had made at the start of the day when they announced they had detained him at a Rhode Island hotel in connection with the attack and lifted a campus lockdown.Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said he understands that the community is anxious, but that there have been no credible threats of further violence since the shooting. No current suspect in deadly shootingThe release of the person of interest left law enforcement without any known suspect, with officials pledging to redouble their efforts by canvassing for video surveillance that could help pinpoint the killers identity.We have a murderer out there, said Attorney General Peter Neronha.On Sunday morning, officials took into custody a person of interest at a Hampton Inn in Coventry, Rhode Island, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) from Providence. Two people familiar with the matter identified that individual as a 24-year-old man from Wisconsin, though authorities never released his name. Ive been around long enough to know that sometimes you head in one direction and then you have to regroup and go in another, and thats exactly what has happened over the last 24 hours or so, Neronha said. Stay up to date with the news and the best of AP by following our WhatsApp channel. Follow on He said there was some evidence that pointed to the man authorities detained, but that evidence needed to be corroborated and confirmed. And over the last 24 hours leading into just very, very recently, that evidence now points in a different direction. Authorities believe they are looking for a person shown in a small, short clip of video footage walking away, the mayor said. The persons back is to the camera. Right now, we dont have any evidence to suggest that it was more than that individual, Smiley said Monday on ABCs Good Morning America. Despite an enhanced police presence at Brown, officials are not recommending another shelter-in-place order like the one that followed the Saturday afternoon shooting, when hundreds of officers searched for the attacker and urged students and staff to remain indoors.Shooting happened at a busy time on campusThe shooting occurred as final exams were underway. The gunman opened fire inside a classroom in the engineering building, getting off more than 40 rounds from a 9 mm handgun, a law enforcement official told AP. Two handguns were recovered when the person of interest was taken into custody and authorities also found two loaded 30-round magazines, said the official, who was not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly and spoke to AP on the condition of anonymity.Investigators were not immediately sure how the shooter got inside the first-floor classroom in a seven-story complex that houses the School of Engineering and physics department. The attack set off hours of chaos on campus and in the surrounding neighborhoods, as hundreds of officers searched for the shooter. One video showed students in a library shaking and wincing as they heard loud bangs just before police entered the room to clear the building.During the lockdown, which wasnt lifted until Sunday, after the person of interest was taken into custody, many students remained barricaded in rooms while others hid behind furniture and bookshelves as police searched for the shooter. One of the nine wounded students has been released from the hospital, Paxson said Sunday. Seven others were in critical but stable condition, and one was in critical condition.On Sunday evening, city leaders, residents and others gathered at a park to honor the victims. The event originally was scheduled as a Christmas tree and Hanukkah menorah lighting.Smiley said he visited some wounded students and was inspired by their courage, hope and gratitude. The resilience that these survivors showed and shared with me, is frankly pretty overwhelming, he said. Brown, the seventh-oldest higher education institution in the U.S., is one of the nations most prestigious colleges, with roughly 7,300 undergraduates and more than 3,000 graduate students. The school canceled all remaining classes and exams for the semester. ___Contributing were Associated Press journalists Holly Ramer in Concord, New Hampshire; Jennifer McDermott in Providence; Christopher Weber in Los Angeles; and Alanna Durkin Richer, Mike Balsamo and Eric Tucker in Washington AMANDA SWINHART Swinhart is a video journalist for The Associated Press based in Vermont. instagram mailto RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

FILE -California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at a session at the We Mean Business Pavilion during the COP30 U.N. Climate Summit, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025, in Belem, Brazil. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)2025-12-15T13:58:28Z LOS ANGELES (AP) The fight over Californias new congressional map designed to help Democrats flip congressional House seats will go to court Monday as a panel of federal judges considers whether the district boundaries approved by voters last month can be used in elections. The hearing in Los Angeles sets the stage for a high-stakes legal and political fight between the Trump administration and Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, whos been eyeing a 2028 presidential run. The lawsuit asks a three-judge panel to grant a temporary restraining order by Dec. 19 the date candidates can take the first official steps to run in the 2026 election.Voters approved Californias new U.S. House map in November through Proposition 50. Its designed to help Democrats flip as many as five congressional House seats in the midterm elections next year. It was Newsoms response to a Republican-led effort in Texas backed by President Donald Trump. The redistricting showdown between the nations two most populous states has spread nationally, with efforts aiming to determine which party controls Congress for the second half of Trumps term. Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio have adopted new district lines that could provide a partisan advantage. Some plans are facing legal challenges, but the Supreme Court ruled earlier this month to allow Texas to use its new map for the 2026 election. The Justice Department has only sued California. Stay up to date with the news and the best of AP by following our WhatsApp channel. Follow on The U.S. Justice Department, joining a case brought by the California Republican Party, has accused California of gerrymandering its map in violation of the Constitution by using race as a factor to favor Hispanic voters. Republicans want the court to prohibit California from using the new map. Voters approved the map for the 2026, 2028 and 2030 elections. State Democrats said theyre confident the lawsuit will fail. In letting Texas use its gerrymandered maps, the Supreme Court noted that Californias maps, like Texass, were drawn for lawful reasons, Newsoms spokesperson Brandon Richards said in a statement. That should be the beginning and the end of this Republican effort to silence the voters of California. New U.S. House maps are drawn across the country after the Census every 10 years. Some states like California rely on an independent commission to draw maps, while others like Texas let politicians draw them. The effort to create new maps in the middle of the decade is highly unusual.Paul Mitchell, a redistricting consultant who drew the map for Democrats, is expected to offer testimony. The Justice Department alleges that Mitchell and state leaders admitted that they redrew some districts to have a Latino majority. The lawsuit cites a news release from state Democrats that says the new map retains and expands Voting Rights Act districts that empower Latino voters while making no changes to Black majority districts in the Oakland and Los Angeles areas. The federal Voting Rights Act, passed in the 1960s, sets rules for drawing districts to ensure minority groups have adequate political power. The lawsuit also cites a Cal Poly Pomona and Caltech study that concludes the new map would increase Latino voting power. Race cannot be used as a proxy to advance political interests, but that is precisely what the California General Assembly did with Proposition 50 the recent ballot initiative that junked Californias pre-existing electoral map in favor of a rush-job rejiggering of Californias congressional district lines, the lawsuit said.House Democrats need to gain just a handful of seats next year to take control of the chamber, which would imperil Trumps agenda for the remainder of his term and open the way for congressional investigations into his administration. Republicans hold 219 seats, to Democrats 214._____Nguyn reported from Sacramento. MICHAEL R. BLOOD Blood is a political writer for The AP. Over the years he has filed stories under datelines from Wasilla, Alaska, to Tel Aviv, but he has spent most of his career anchored in AP bureaus in Washington, D.C., New York City and - for the last two decades - Los Angeles. twitter mailto TRN NGUYN Nguyn is an Associated Press reporter covering California government and politics. mailto

The woman who helped coerce other women into the clutches of sex trafficking ring GirlsDoPorn will spend two years in prison, a federal judge ordered on Friday.GirlsDoPorn operated for almost a decade; its owners and co-conspirators were indicted on federal sex trafficking charges in October 2019. Over the years, its content became wildly popular on some of the worlds biggest porn tube sites, including PornHub, where the videos generated millions of views.Valorie Moser was the bookkeeper for GirlsDoPorn and met victims as they arrived in San Diego to be filmedand in many cases, brutally abusedby sex traffickers Michael Pratt, Matthew Wolfe, and their co-conspirators. More than 500 women were coerced into filming sex scenes in hotel rooms across the city after responding to modeling ads online. When they arrived, many testified, they were pressured into signing convoluted contracts, given drugs and alcohol, told the content they were filming would never appear online or reach their home communities, and were sexually abused for hours while the camera rolled.GirlsDoPorn edited those hours of footage into clips of the women seeming to enjoy themselves, according to court documents. Many of the women were college agedone celebrated her 18th birthday on camera as part of her GirlsDoPorn appearanceand nervous or inexperienced.During Mosers sentencing, U.S. District Judge Janis Sammartino told Moser, You provided them assurances and comfort, Courthouse News reported from the courtroom. Much of that comfort was false assurances, and assurances you knew to be false. The court does believe you were involved in the fraud and took part in the fraud.Michael Pratt, GirlsDoPorn Ringleader, Sentenced to 27 Years in PrisonMichael James Pratt was sentenced to federal prison on charges of sex trafficking connected to the GirlsDoPorn crime ring. He turned my pain into profit, my life into currency, said one victim.404 MediaSamantha ColeMoser was charged with federal sex trafficking counts in 2019 alongside Pratt, Wolfe, and several other co-conspirators. According to prosecutors, Pratt instructed Moser to deceive women about the scheme and how she was involved. Moser worked for GirlsDoPorn from 2015 to 2018. Pratt instructed Moser not to tell the women the truth about their videos distribution as she drove the young women to and from the video shoots, prosecutors wrote in 2021 after she pleaded guilty to charges of sex trafficking. Moser was to tell the women that she was just an Uber driver. Later, Pratt told Moser to tell the women that she was bound by a non-disclosure agreement and could not discuss it. After the videos were posted on-line and widely available, many women contacted Moser to ask that their videos be taken down. Pratt, Wolfe and co-defendant Ruben Garcia all told Moser to block any calls from these women.Moser wept during the sentencing and was unable to read her own statement to the victims, according to Courthouse News; her attorney Anthony Columbo read it on her behalf. I want you to know that I hurt you, she wrote. I want you to know that I listened and I learned so much. I feel disgusted, shameful and foolish [] I failed and I am truly sorry.US Attorney Alexandra Foster read impact statements from victims, according to the report. Valorie Moser was the one who picked me up and drove me to the hotel where I was trafficked, an anonymous victim wrote, as read by Foster. Her role was to make me feel more comfortable because women trust other women. She reassured me on the way to the hotel that everything would be OK... She wasnt just a bookkeeper, she was a willing participant. She deserves to be sentenced to jail.She Turned Ghost White: How a Ragtag Group of Friends Tracked Down a Sex Trafficking RingleaderMichael Pratt hid a massive sex trafficking ring in plain sight on PornHub. On the run from the FBI, an unexpected crew of ex-military, ex-intelligence officers and a lawyer tracked him down using his love of rare sneakers and crypto. For the first time, the group tells their story.404 MediaSamantha ColeMoser is ordered to self surrender to start her sentence at noon on January 30.Judge Sammartino sentenced Pratt to 27 years in prison in September; Andre Garcia, the main actor in GirlsDoPorn videos, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on June 14, 2021; Theodore Gyi, the primary cameraman for the ring, was sentenced to four years on November 9, 2022 and ordered to pay victims $100,000; Wolfe was sentenced to 14 years on March 20, 2024; Douglas James Wiederhold, who performed in videos before Garcia and was the co-owner of MomPOV.com with Pratt, is set to be sentenced in January.

Nature, Published online: 15 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03078-5Olivier Chastel travels to Svalbard in northern Norway to study the impact of contaminants such as mercury on black-legged kittiwakes.

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The new head of Britain's MI6 Blaise Metreweli makes her first public speech in London, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth,pool)2025-12-15T08:17:30Z LONDON (AP) President Vladimir Putin is stalling efforts to end Russias war on Ukraine, and is testing the West with tactics that fall just below the threshold of war, the head of Britains MI6 spy agency said Monday.Blaise Metreweli said Putin is dragging out negotiations on stopping the conflict, and remains determined to subjugate Ukraine and harass NATO members.We are now operating in a space between peace and war, Metreweli said in her first public speech since becoming chief of Britains foreign intelligence agency two months ago, Russia accused of exporting chaosMetreweli accused Moscow of sponsoring cyberattacks on other countries critical infrastructure, drone incursions around European airports, campaigns of arson, sabotage and disinformation, and aggressive activities in our seas, above and below the waves.The export of chaos is a feature, not a bug, in this Russian approach to international engagement, and we should be ready for this to continue until Putin is forced to change his calculus, she said.Metreweli is the first woman to head the U.K.s 116-year-old foreign intelligence service. She gave reporters a rare glimpse inside MI6 headquarters in London, which she noted was familiar to movie fans everywhere from the James Bond spy thrillers. Speaking inside the spy chiefs wood-paneled dining room overlooking the River Thames, she said rapidly evolving technology is rewriting the rules of conflict, while hybrid threats from states and extremist groups mean the front line is everywhere. The speech made a brief reference to Chinas implications for national security, but Metreweli focused on the threat from an aggressive, expansionist and revisionist Russia.Russia is testing us in the gray zone with tactics that are just below the threshold of war, she said. Warning comes amid Ukraine peace talksThe warning came amid a flurry of diplomatic meetings aimed at ending the almost four-year war sparked by Russias invasion of its neighbor.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was in Berlin Monday to meet U.S. envoys, and will meet later with the leaders of Germany, France and Britain. Kyivs allies are trying to bolster support for Ukraine amid Washingtons pressure to swiftly accept a U.S.-brokered peace deal.The MI6 chief, known as C, is the only employee of the secretive agency whose name is made public. In a speech that, unusually, touched on her personal backstory, Metreweli said that coming from a family shaped by devastating conflict, I grew up with a deep sense of gratitude for the U.K.s precious democracy and freedom.After Metrewelis appointment was announced in June, media reported that her grandfather, Constantine Dobrowolski, had been a Nazi spy in Ukraine during World War II.MI6 said Metreweli never met her grandfather. Spies must master technologyMetreweli, who has almost three decades of clandestine service and a background in anthropology, psychology and AI, was previously the MI6 director of technology and innovation the real-world equivalent of the fictional Bond gadget-master Q.She said technological savvy and human intelligence are both key to combating an interlocking web of security threats, and MI6 officers must be as comfortable with lines of code as we are with human sources, as fluent in Python as we are in multiple languages.Our world is more dangerous and contested now than it has been for decades, she said, adding that we are being contested from sea to space, from the battlefield to the boardroom and even our brains, as disinformation manipulates our understanding of each other and ourselves.The foundations of trust in our societies are eroding. Information, once a unifying force, is increasingly weaponized, she added.We are now operating in a space between peace and war, Metreweli saidAnd in a warning to Britains adversaries, she said MI6 will sharpen our edge and impact and take calculated risks.We will never stoop to the tactics of our opponents. But we must seek to outplay them, she said. A series of security warningsThe speech is the latest in a series of warnings by Western defense and security authorities about the growing hybrid threat from states such as Russia, Iran and to an extent China, whose use of cyber tools, espionage and influence operations they say threatens global stability.Last week, the U.K. imposed sanctions on several Russian media outlets for alleged information warfare and two Chinese tech firms for vast and indiscriminate cyberactivities.In a separate speech, the head of the British military, Air Chief Marshal Richard Knighton, will say Monday that Putins aim is to challenge, limit, divide and ultimately destroy NATO.The war in Ukraine shows Putins willingness to target neighboring states, including their civilian populations ... threatens the whole of NATO, including the U.K., Knighton plans to say, arguing that Britain needs both a stronger military and more resilient infrastructure to meet the evolving threat. JILL LAWLESS Lawless is an Associated Press reporter covering U.K. politics and more. She is based in London. twitter mailto

2025-12-15T15:57:47Z LOS ANGELES (AP) Federal authorities on Monday announced the arrests of four alleged members of an extremist group who are suspected of planning coordinated bombing attacks on New Years Eve across Southern California.The suspects were arrested last week in Lucerne Valley, a desert city east of Los Angeles, where they were suspected of preparing to test improvised explosive devices ahead of the planned bombings, according to the federal criminal complaint filed Saturday. They are members of an offshoot of a pro-Palestinian group dubbed the Turtle Island Liberation Front, the complaint said.They each face charges including conspiracy and possession of a destructive device, court documents show.The group is alleged to have been plotting to set off a series of bombings at multiple targets in California beginning on New Years Eve and also planned to target Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and vehicles Attorney General Pam Bondi said on social media. Evidence photos included in the court documents show a desert campsite with what investigators said were bomb-making materials strewn across plastic folding tables. The suspects all brought bomb-making components to the campsite, including various sizes of PVC pipes, suspected potassium nitrate, charcoal, charcoal powder, sulfur powder, and material to be used as fuses, among others, the complaint states.Federal authorities planned a Monday morning news conference to discuss the arrests.

Specialists Alex Weitzman, left, and Meric Greenbaum work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)2025-12-15T04:16:33Z NEW YORK (AP) Wall Street is drifting in mixed trading on Monday at the start of a week full of economic reports that could drive where interest rates, and thus stock prices, go.The S&P 500 was virtually unchanged in morning trading, coming off its first losing week in the last three. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 5 points, or less than 0.1%, as of 10 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.2% lower. Helping to keep the overall market in check were stocks in the artificial-intelligence industry, which were mixed following their scary swings last week. Nvidia, the chip company thats become the face of the AI boom, rose 1.1%. It was one of the strongest forces pushing upward on the S&P 500 Monday after dropping 4.1% last week. But Oracle sank another 4.3% following its 12.7% tumble last week, which was its worst in more than seven years. Broadcom fell 2.7%. AI stocks have been shaky on worries that all the billions of dollars flowing into chips and data centers may not produce a big-enough payoff of profits and productivity to make it worth it. The doubts are causing cracks for the industry, whose earlier surges was the main driver for the U.S. markets rally to records. Besides AI, the main focus on Wall Street this week will be what several big updates on the U.S. economys health say. On Tuesday will come the jobs report for November, and economists expect it to show employers added 40,000 more jobs than they cut during the month. Thursday will bring an update on the inflation that U.S. consumers are feeling, and economists expect it to show inflation was at 3.1% last month, still higher than households and policymakers would like. Such data is under the microscope because the Federal Reserve is trying to figure out if a slowing job market or high inflation is the bigger problem for the economy. The Fed is in a potentially tough spot because fixing one of those problems by moving interest rates would likely worsen the other in the short term. The hope on Wall Street is that the job market weakens, but only by a little: enough to get the Fed to lower interest rates but not so much that a recession swamps the economy. Wall Street loves lower rates because they can give the economy and prices for investments a boost, even if they also may worsen inflation.With the Fed still appearing to be more focused on labor-market weakness than inflation, were likely facing a bad news is good scenario for the jobs report, according to Chris Larkin, managing director, trading and investing, at E-Trade from Morgan Stanley.As long as the numbers dont suggest employment is falling off a cliff, that would mean the market would likely welcome soft numbers, he said. The spotlight will be brightest on the unemployment rate, not the overall job growth numbers, because the latter is feeling downward pressure from a drop-off in immigrant workers. Economists expect Tuesdays report to show the unemployment rate at 4.4%, which would keep it near its highest and worst level since 2021. Treasury yields eased in the bond market ahead of the updates. A report earlier on Monday morning also said that a measure of manufacturing strength in New York state unexpectedly weakened, when economists expected to see continued growth. The yield on the 10-year Treasury fell to 4.15% from 4.19% late Friday.Elsewhere on Wall Street, shares of iRobot tumbled 66.8% after the maker of Roomba vacuums said holders of its stock will likely face a total loss after it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection over the weekend. The company has reached an agreement with its primary contract manufacturer, Picea, to buy it through a court-supervised process. In stock markets abroad, indexes rose in Europe following weaker finishes in Asia. Indexes fell 1.3% in Hong Kong and 0.6% in Shanghai after the Chinese government reported a drop in investment in factory equipment, infrastructure and other fixed assets. Its the latest signal that demand in the worlds second-largest economy remains weak. Japans Nikkei 225 sank 1.3% after a quarterly survey of big manufacturers by the central bank showed a slight improvement in sentiment. That could encourage the Bank of Japan to go ahead with a hike to interest rates. ___AP Business Writer Elaine Kurtenbach contributed. RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

Video of Ahmed el Ahmed disarming one of the gunmen has gone viral, and officials around the world have hailed his bravery.

He and his father, the director Rob Reiner, also worked together on a film that was loosely inspired by the sons early life.

In her first public speech as head of MI6, Blaise Metreweli said Russia was attempting to export chaos to Europe through hybrid attacks and disinformation.

The shooting attack in Palmyra, Syria, on Saturday struck troops deployed as part of an antiterrorism mission. Two were killed, along with an American civilian interpreter; three others were wounded.

The data centers used for work on artificial intelligence can cost tens of billions to build. Tech giants are finding ways to avoid being on the hook for some of those costs.

PROVIDENCE, RIIn the hours following a violent rampage in Rhode Island in which a lone attacker killed at least two individuals and injured several others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Monday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place. This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and theres nothing anyone can do to stop them, said Idaho resident Kathy Miller, echoing sentiments expressed by tens of millions of individuals who reside in a nation where over half of the worlds deadliest mass shootings have occurred in the past 50 years and whose citizens are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of other developed nations. Its a shame, but what can we do? There really wasnt anything that was going to keep this individual from snapping and killing a lot of people if thats what they really wanted. At press time, residents of the only economically advanced nation in the world where roughly two mass shootings have occurred every month for the past eight years were referring to themselves and their situation as helpless.The post No Way To Prevent This, Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens appeared first on The Onion.

In-N-Out Burger quietly removed 67 from its order call-out system nationwide, apparently to deter youths from erupting into cheers when the number was announced. What do you think?Im proud of the younger generation for forcing company higher-ups to have a conversation that stupid.Adam Thach, Lunch OrdererBut that was my order.Zach Cabralda, Holiday DesignatorA shrewd marketer would take the opportunity to embrace the meme and ruin it forever.Kara Ripner, Jar SealerThe post In-N-Out Removes 67 From Ordering System appeared first on The Onion.