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Nature, Published online: 17 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-04134-wMuch of the National Center for Atmospheric Researchs non-climate portfolio will be dispersed, the White House says.

The comment from Brendan Carr, a Republican, raised concerns from lawmakers about how President Trump might use the agency.

The Venezuelan government was said to have ordered the escort, according to two people familiar with the matter. It was not immediately clear whether the vessels were subject to U.S. sanctions.

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A surge of ICE agents has led to 670 arrests and chaotic standoffs in subzero weather.

A group of young conservatives feel that the pressures they face as 20-something women have been made worse by the liberal feminism that defined their youth.

Fundraising website GoFundMe reported a sharp uptick in the number of people using the platform to help cover the cost of basic necessities, including housing, food, and other day-to-day expenses. What do you think?Its always a bad sign when people start helping their neighbors.Jason Vaught, Cheese StrainerThis is a scathing indictment of our nations lottery system.Gwen Mireault, Intervention PromoterBegging is better than ever under President Trump.Vernon Stegeman, Cactus PrunerThe post Report Finds More Americans Using GoFundMe For Basic Necessities appeared first on The Onion.

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Nature, Published online: 17 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09806-1Trends in global H2 sources and sinks are analysed from 1990 to 2020, and a comprehensive budget for the decade 20102020 is presented.

Nature, Published online: 17 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09858-3Scanning tunnelling microscopy is used to image pristine electrostatically defined quantum Hall edge states in graphene with high spatial resolution and demonstrate their interaction-driven restructuring.

Nature, Published online: 17 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09841-yThe prevalence of Alzheimers disease neuropathological changes is reported based on blood-based biomarkers in a Norwegian population-based cohort.

Nature, Published online: 17 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09818-xReanalysis of radiometric data from Cassini indicates that Titan does not contain a subsurface ocean, as strong tidal dissipation observed in its gravity field is not consistent with the presence of a liquid layer.

Nature, Published online: 17 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09884-1Hepatocyte organoids derived directly from human tissue enable long-term hepatocyte expansion and can be combined with portal mesenchyme and cholangiocyte organoids to form a donor-specific periportal liver assembloid system.

A dispute on a Brooklyn street appeared to explode after the perpetrator accosted the victim with antisemitic statements, the police said.

The region has faced significant flooding in the last week. Powerful winds from another storm have compounded the misery.

After viewing video of a follow-up strike, Republicans largely had confidence in the Pentagons legal rationale while Democrats questioned its legality.

The main dark-money group backing Kamala Harris and Joe Biden raised a staggering $613 million last year, while its pro-Trump counterpart brought in $275 million, new filings show.

After the speaker denied them a vote on extending the subsidies, four Republicans from competitive districts joined Democrats bid to go around G.O.P. leaders and force action.

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Nature, Published online: 17 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09875-2A detailed spatiotemporal roadmap of the human female and male reproductive tracts during key periods of sexual differentiation provides new cellular and molecular insights into how early axial gradients lead to specific cell lineages and tissue structures.

Nature, Published online: 17 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09887-yAfter spinal cord injury, lesion-remote astrocytes acquire heterogeneous, spatially restricted reactivity states that shape neuroinflammation, neural repair and neurological recovery.

Nature, Published online: 17 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09814-1Gas-phase actinium monofluoride (AcF) has been produced and spectroscopically studied at the CERN-ISOLDE radioactive ion beam facility; the results highlight the potential of 227AcF for exceptionally sensitive searches of CP violation.

Nature, Published online: 17 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-04044-xA high-performance silicon-based quantum processor has been developed in which the spins of nine phosphorus nuclei divided into two groups, or registers and two shared electrons act as quantum bits (qubits). The modular design of this 11-qubit processor opens the door to a scalable approach to building large, reliable quantum-computing processors.

Nature, Published online: 17 December 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-10031-zMazdutide versus dulaglutide in Chinese adults with type 2 diabetes

An official with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said it would prioritize those whove unlawfully obtained U.S. citizenship.

We must do far more to address the national crisis of addiction that leaves so many households in despair as well as danger.

Mr. Reiner was filmed entering a gas stations store in South Los Angeles to buy a sports drink roughly an hour before he was arrested by the police across the street.

Scientists have expressed alarm about the dominant version of the virus thats circulating now.

An unrelenting gloom has blanketed much of the states Central Valley since late November.

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The departure of Dan Bongino had seemed inevitable since August, when the White House hired Missouris attorney general, Andrew Bailey, to share his job as deputy director.

Even adversaries of Jack Smith, the former special counsel, conceded that his tight-lipped, painstaking approach made tripping him up particularly difficult.

The district attorney in Atlanta addressed a Republican-led committee created to investigate her conduct during her prosecution of President Trump last year.

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After finding the slain couple, investigators focused on their younger son, Nick, as a suspect. He was formally charged with murder on Tuesday.

The Democratic measure was defeated mostly along party lines, along with another resolution that would have halted the militarys escalating campaign of boat attacks.

Also, New York will allow the terminally ill to end their lives. Heres the latest at the end of Wednesday.

The government has greatly restricted the number of work and study permits issued to foreigners following an unpopular immigration boom during the pandemic.

Her film Who Killed Vincent Chin? earned an Oscar nomination in 1988 and was inducted into the National Film Registry for its cultural significance.

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Ms. Maxwell, who conspired with Jeffrey Epstein in a sex-trafficking scheme, argued that she had been denied a fair trial.

Judge Jia M. Cobb wrote that two policies announced in June appeared to unlawfully bar members of Congress from making unannounced visits at immigration detention facilities.

Officials said that they were working with physical evidence, including DNA, and that they were seeking a second man who appeared to have crossed paths with the possible suspect.

For more than three and a half years, officials said, the men used the Johnson Houses as an open drug market to sell crack cocaine and fentanyl.

The New York Times is looking to talk to New Yorkers about how they budget, splurge and save in one of the most expensive cities in the world.