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Israeli police and officials hang an Israeli flag on the compound of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees in East Jerusalem, after Israel police forcibly entered the compound, Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)2025-12-08T11:12:11Z JERUSALEM (AP) Israeli police forcibly entered the compound of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees in east Jerusalem early Monday, escalating a campaign against the organization that has been banned from operating on Israeli territory.The U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees, or UNRWA, said in a statement that sizable numbers of Israeli forces, including police on motorcycles, trucks and forklifts, entered the compound in the Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.The unauthorized and forceful entry by Israeli security forces is an unacceptable violation of UNRWAs privileges and immunities as a U.N. agency, the statement said.Meanwhile, officials said President Donald Trump will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Dec. 29 as U.S. officials meet with Netanyahu to move ahead with a U.S.-brokered plan on the future of Gaza. It was not immediately clear where the leaders will meet. Israels long campaign against UNRWA The raid was the latest in Israels campaign against the agency, which provides aid and services to some 2.5 million Palestinian refugees in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem, as well as 3 million more refugees in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon.Photos taken by an Associated Press photographer show police erecting an Israeli flag on the compound, and police cars on the street. Photos provided by UNRWA staff show a group of Israeli police officers in the compound.Police said in a statement they entered for a debt-collection procedure initiated by Jerusalems municipal government, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.The agency was established to help the estimated 700,000 Palestinians who fled or were driven out of what is now Israel during the 1948 war surrounding the creation of the Israeli state. UNRWA supporters say Israel hopes to erase the Palestinian refugee issue by dismantling the agency. Israel says the refugees should be permanently resettled outside its borders. For months following the start of the Israel-Hamas war began on Oct. 7, 2023, UNRWA was the main lifeline for Gazas population during Israels offensive there.Throughout the war, Israel has accused the agency of being infiltrated by Hamas, using its facilities and taking aid claims for which it has provided little evidence. The U.N. has denied it. Israel also has claimed that hundreds of Palestinian militants work for UNRWA. UNRWA has denied knowingly aiding armed groups and says it acts quickly to purge any suspected militants.After months of attacks from Netanyahu and his far-right allies, Israel banned it from operating on its territory in January. The U.S., formerly the largest donor to UNRWA, halted funding to the agency in early 2024.UNRWA has since struggled to continue its work in Gaza, with other U.N. agencies, including the World Food Program and UNICEF, stepping in. Tamara Alrifai, UNRWAs director of external relations and communications, said UNRWA has been excluded from ceasefire talks.If you squeeze UNRWA out, what other agency can fill that void? Alrifai said. US officials meet NetanyahuNetanyahu met with the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., Mike Waltz, and other officials on Monday in a visit the Trump administration said was aimed at pushing forward the U.S.-drafted 20-point plan for Gaza that includes the current ceasefire and following stages.Israels government later said Trump and Netanyahu would meet on Dec. 29 to discuss the future steps and phases and the international stabilization force of the ceasefire plan.With the remains of one hostage in Gaza yet to be handed over to Israel, Arab and Western officials have said they expect an international governing body in Gaza to be announced in the coming weeks. A search was underway on Monday for the hostages remains, Hamas said.On Sunday, a senior Hamas official told the AP the group is ready to discuss freezing or storing or laying down its arsenal of weapons as part of the ceasefire, offering a possible formula to resolve one of the thorniest issues in the U.S.-brokered agreement. The war started when Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel, leaving around 1,200 people dead and abducting 251 others.Israels retaliatory offensive has killed at least 70,360 Palestinians, according to Gazas Health Ministry, which operates under the Hamas-run government. The ministry does not differentiate between civilians and combatants, but says nearly half the dead have been women and children. The ministrys numbers are considered reliable by the U.N. and other international bodies.The ministry also says over 370 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes since the ceasefire took effect.Violence has also risen in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where Israels military shot and killed one man Sunday night. Officials said he was throwing rocks at soldiers with two others, one of whom was arrested. Palestinian health officials said the third man was wounded. The military said no soldiers were injured.Palestinian authorities identified the man killed as a 19-year-old from the northern city of Qalqilya. Construction of barrier along Israel-Jordan borderIsrael began construction of a 50-mile (80-kilometer) barrier along its border with Jordan, Israels defense minister said Monday.Israel Katz said the construction was aimed at preventing efforts of Iran and its proxies to establish an eastern front against the state of Israel.The final project will include increased security along 310 miles (500 kilometers) of border areas in eastern Israel, and would cost the government around $1.7 billion, according to Israeli government figures.___Associated Press writer Josef Federman in Doha, Qatar, contributed to this report.___This version corrects the last name of the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations to Waltz.___Find more of APs Israel-Hamas coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war MEGAN JANETSKY Megan Janetsky covers migration, conflict, human rights and politics in Mexico and Central America for The AP based in Mexico City. 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Thai residents who fled homes as Thailand and Cambodia clash over border, rest at an evacuation center in Buriram province, Thailand, Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Sopa Saelee)2025-12-08T12:15:43Z BANGKOK (AP) A history of enmity between Thailand and Cambodia over competing territorial claims has broken into open combat again, just a few months after the two sides agreed to a ceasefire promoted by U.S. President Donald Trump to end their border fighting. The two Southeast Asian nations fought in July for five days in and around disputed frontier territory, causing dozens of civilian and military deaths and the evacuation to safety of tens of thousands of villagers on both sides. On Monday, the heaviest fighting since the ceasefire erupted. While it is unclear who took the first shot, Thailand launched airstrikes along the border as ground combat also broke out.The dispute goes back to the early 20th centuryThailand and Cambodia have a history of enmity over centuries and experience periodic tensions along their land border of more than 800 kilometers (500 miles). The competing territorial claims largely stem from a 1907 map created while Cambodia was under French colonial rule, which Thailand contends is inaccurate. Many Thais are still angered by a 1962 ruling by the International Court of Justice, which awarded sovereignty of disputed land to Cambodia a decision reaffirmed in 2013. The disagreement fueled several armed clashes between 2008 and 2011. Stay up to date with the news and the best of AP by following our WhatsApp channel. Follow on The Trump-backed ceasefire was fragileAn uneasy peace was reached in late July, when Malaysia pushed for peace talks and President Trump brought the contending sides to the negotiating table by leveraging the importance of the U.S. market for both nations exports, threatening to withhold crucial trade privileges.Trump afterward claimed this intervention as one example among several from around the world where his actions led to peace between warring nations. The preliminary pact was followed by a more detailed October agreement. Its terms called for coordination of de-mining operations, removal of heavy weapons and equipment from the border, implementation of measures to restore mutual trust, and desisting from harmful rhetoric and the dissemination of false information. None of these actions were implemented in full, if at all. Both nations continued fighting a bitter propaganda war and there have been occasional minor outbreaks of cross-border violence. A major Cambodian complaint has been that Thailand continues to hold 18 troops taken prisoner. Thailand accuses Cambodia of laying new land mines in the areas under dispute that maimed Thai soldiers. Cambodia says the mines are left over from decades of civil war that ended in 1999. The failure to implement the ceasefire terms was used by the Thai side as an excuse not to promptly release the Cambodian prisoners, even though the October agreement urged it to do so as a demonstration of Thailands desire to promote mutual confidence and trust. The conflict impacts diplomacy, trade and tourismThailand is one of Washingtons closest and most longstanding allies. The country also holds a huge military advantage, best demonstrated by its mostly unchallenged ability to use air power. But Cambodia has also been trying to strengthen its hand diplomatically. It was among the first countries to strongly support a Nobel Peace Prize nomination for Trump, even bringing out crowds to demonstrate in favor of that.Cambodia has also employed an intensive propaganda campaign on social media portraying itself as the underdog and issuing frequent unverifiable accusations about Thai actions. Nationalistic saber-rattling has been ubiquitous on both sides. Washington for its part appears to be trying to actively build better relations with Cambodia to woo it away from its close relationship with China, but that in turn has bred resentment in Thailand. Cambodia has made further progress toward finalizing a trade deal with Washington than has Thailand, whose economy is much bigger and more complex. Potential economic consequences go beyond trade.The renewed fighting comes just as the winter tourism season is hitting its peak, and risks deterring tourists. Tourism is a major earner for both nations, which are still trying to recover from the battering the industry took during the coronavirus pandemic. Cultural competition is also a factorThe ill feeling between the two neighbors is not just about overlapping border claims, but also deep-seated cultural enmity that has its roots from centuries ago, when they were large and competing empires.In more modern times, bad feelings have lingered, as Cambodias development, hindered by French colonialism and, in the 1970s, the brutal rule of the communist Khmer Rouge, has fallen well behind Thailand.Both have fought over claims on cultural products ranging from boxing, mask dancing, traditional clothing and food.

President Donald Trump arrives for a signing ceremony with Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix-Antoine Tshisekedi at the U.S. Institute of Peace, Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)2025-12-08T14:37:11Z GOMA, Congo (AP) A bomb explosion killed more than 30 people and wounded 20 others in eastern Congo following a dispute between the Congolese army and a pro-government militia, despite a deal signed in Washington and touted as a major step toward peace in the country.Residents and civil society leaders told The Associated Press that the FARDC, the Congolese armys acronym, and Wazalendo, which has been helping the army combat the insurgents, clashed before they felt the blast in the town of Sange in South Kivu Sunday evening.More than 100 armed groups vie for a foothold in mineral-rich eastern Congo near the border with Rwanda, most prominently the Rwanda-backed M23 group. The conflict has created one of the worlds most significant humanitarian crises with more than 7 million people displaced, officials say.The explosion came less than a week after a U.S.-brokered peace agreement was finalized in an attempt to stop the ongoing war between the Congolese armed forces and the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group in the eastern part of Congo. But the fighting continues, according to residents, civil society and analysts. FARDC soldiers were coming from the front lines and wanted to reach the city of Uvira, said Faraja Mahano Robert, a civil society leader in Sange. Once in Sange, they were ordered not to proceed, but some disagreed. Thats when they started shooting at each other, and then a bomb exploded, killing many people. Many residents have fled for safety, mainly in the direction of Burundi, eyewitnesses said Monday. This morning, we woke up a little better, but people are still leaving the Sange area, said Amani Safari, a resident. To the east of the town, there were clashes between the Wazalendo and the FARDC; two FARDC soldiers were killed around 7:30 AM.Another resident, David Kaserore, said: Its difficult to distinguish between the enemy and the FARDC, as they are killing all the civilians. We demand that the government end this war. We are tired. The army did not immediately reply to a request for comment.Meanwhile, Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi accused Rwanda in a speech in parliament on Monday of violating the peace agreement and organizing the plundering of our natural resources and destabilizing our institutions.Tshisekedi and his Rwandan counterpart, Paul Kagame, met U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington last week to sign the peace deal. Lauded by the White House as a historic agreement, the pact followed monthslong peace efforts. The agreement finalized a deal signed in June.The very next day after the signing, units of the Rwandan Defence Forces conducted and supported heavy weapons attacks launched from the Rwandan town of Bugarama, causing significant human and material damage, he said, calling the incident an aggression by proxy and refuting claims of internal rebellionLast week, residents said the fighting had intensified in South Kivu despite the deal. M23 and Congolese forces have repeatedly accused each other of violating the terms of the ceasefire agreed on earlier this year. Earlier this year, M23 seized Goma and Bukavu, two key cities in eastern Congo, in a major escalation of the conflict.The rebels in Congo are supported by about 4,000 troops from neighboring Rwanda, according to U.N. experts, and at times have vowed to march as far as Congos capital, Kinshasa, about 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) to the east.__Associated Press writers Saleh Mwanamilongo in Bonn, Germany, and Jean-Yves Kamale in Kinshasa, Congo contributed to this report. MONIKA PRONCZUK Pronczuk covers 22 countries across Central and West Africa for The Associated Press. She is based in Dakar, Senegal. twitter mailto

Jani Silva, 63, sails in a boat on the Putumayo River, on the outskirts of Puerto Asis, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)2025-12-08T14:00:48Z PUERTO ASIS, Colombia (AP) Jani Silva sits inside the wooden house she built on the banks of Colombias Putumayo River a home she hasnt slept in for more than eight years.The longtime environmental activist has been threatened for work that includes protecting part of the Amazon from oil and mining exploitation. She describes a tense escape one night through a back window after community members tipped her that armed men were outside.Since leaving because of the threats, Im afraid ... its not safe to live here, she told The Associated Press. She only comes now for brief daytime visits when accompanied by others. The two times Ive tried to come back and stay, Ive had to run away. Activists like Silva face steep risks in Colombia, the deadliest country in the world for people protecting land and forests. Global Witness, an international watchdog monitoring attacks on activists, recorded 48 killings in Colombia in 2024, nearly a third of all cases worldwide. Jani Silva, 63, gets off a boat, on the outskirts of Puerto Asis, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia) Jani Silva, 63, gets off a boat, on the outskirts of Puerto Asis, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Colombia says it protects activists through its National Protection Unit, which provides bodyguards and other security measures. Officials also point to recent court rulings recognizing the rights of nature and stronger environmental oversight as signs of progress.Silva, 63, now lives under guard in Puerto Asis, a river town near the Ecuador border. She has had four full-time bodyguards for 12 years provided by the National Protection Unit. Yet the threats have not pushed her from her role at ADISPA, the farming association that manages the Amazon Pearl reserve she previously lived on and has worked to protect. I have a calling to serve, Silva said. I feel like I am needed there is still so much to do.Colombias ministries of Interior, National Defense and Environment did not respond to requests for comment. About 15,000 people nationwide receive protection from the NPU, the Interior Ministry said in a 2024 report. They include environmental and human rights defenders, journalists, local officials, union leaders and others facing threats, though watchdog groups say protections often fall short in rural conflict zones. Rainbows cross the Putumayo River on the outskirts of Puerto Asis, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia) Rainbows cross the Putumayo River on the outskirts of Puerto Asis, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Community buffer stands in a violent corridorThe Amazon Pearl is home to roughly 800 families who have spent decades trying to keep out oil drilling, deforestation, illicit crops and the armed groups that enforce them. Silva describes the community-run reserve, about 30 minutes by boat down the Putumayo from Puerto Asis, as a beautiful land almost blessed, for its biodiversity, forests and rivers.The preserves 227 square kilometers (87 square miles) host reforestation projects, programs to protect wetlands and forest threatened by oil exploration and efforts to promote agroecology. The farming association has community beekeeping projects to support pollination and generate income, organizes community patrols, supports small sustainable farming and has carried out major restoration, including cultivating more than 120,000 native seedlings to rebuild degraded riverbanks and forest corridors.Silva has been a main voice challenging oil operations inside the reserve. As president of ADISPA, she documented spills, deforestation and road-building tied to Bogota-based oil company GeoParks Platanillo block and pushed environmental regulators to investigate. Advocates say those complaints, along with ADISPAs efforts to keep new drilling and mining out, have angered armed groups that profit from mining and oil activity in the region.GeoPark said it complies with Colombian environmental and human-rights regulations and has not received environmental sanctions since operations began in 2009. The company maintains formal dialogue with local communities, including Silva, and categorically rejects threats or links to armed groups and its activities require environmental licenses and undergo regular inspections, GeoPark said in a written statement to the AP. Community members open an apiary on the outskirts of Puerto Asis, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia) Community members open an apiary on the outskirts of Puerto Asis, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More A person extracts honey from bees on the outskirts of Puerto Asis, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia) A person extracts honey from bees on the outskirts of Puerto Asis, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More A bee approaches an aloe vera flower, part of the crops of one of the community's sustainable projects, on the outskirts of Puerto Asis, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia) A bee approaches an aloe vera flower, part of the crops of one of the community's sustainable projects, on the outskirts of Puerto Asis, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Ruben Pastrana poses for a photo on the outskirts of Puerto Asis, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia) Ruben Pastrana poses for a photo on the outskirts of Puerto Asis, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Rubn Pastrana, 32, runs one of the Pearls beekeeping projects in the riverbank community of San Salvador, where ADISPA works with children using native stingless bees to teach biodiversity and forest conservation. Theyre very gentle, he said of the bees, and their calm nature lets children learn without fear.More than 600 families now take part in conservation and agroecology projects, many launched through community initiative.The first project was started on our own initiative, Silva said. We started setting up nurseries at our homes and reforesting the riverbank. Women exchanged native seeds and organized replanting drives, and the community agreed to temporary hunting bans after seeing pregnant armadillos killed a move Silva said allowed wildlife to recover. Families now map their plots to balance production with conservation. A girl looks out the window at the Amazon Pearl community farming project on the outskirts of Puerto Asis, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia) A girl looks out the window at the Amazon Pearl community farming project on the outskirts of Puerto Asis, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Border Commandos control the territoryArmed groups known locally as Comandos de la Frontera, or Border Commandos, operate throughout this stretch of Putumayo, controlling territory, river traffic and parts of the local economy. The Commandos emerged after Colombias 2016 peace accord with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, the Marxist guerrilla army whose demobilization ended a half-century conflict but left power vacuums across the Amazon and Pacific regions. In places like Putumayo, those gaps were quickly filled by FARC dissidents, former paramilitaries and other criminal networks.The Commandos enforce control through extortion, illegal taxation and by regulating, or profiting from, coca cultivation, clandestine mining and key river routes. Residents say the group forces some communities to perform unpaid labor or face fines, further eroding livelihoods in an area where most families rely on tending their farms. A small coca crop is visible on the outskirts of Puerto Asis, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia) A small coca crop is visible on the outskirts of Puerto Asis, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More The AP saw illegal coca growing near the beekeeping project via drone imagery.Human Rights Watch on Friday said armed groups in Putumayo have tightened their control over daily life and committed serious abuses against civilians including forced displacement, restricting movement and targeting local leaders. Andrew Miller, head of advocacy at the U.S.-based advocacy group Amazon Watch, said Colombian authorities must go beyond providing bodyguards and prosecute those behind threats and attacks on defenders. Ruben Pastrana explains to the group about sustainable projects on the outskirts of Puerto Asis, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia) Ruben Pastrana explains to the group about sustainable projects on the outskirts of Puerto Asis, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Developing the next generationPastrana, from the beekeeping project, said Silvas long-term vision has nurtured new leaders and guided young people, helping them develop the grounding to resist recruitment by armed groups.Silvas daughter, Anggie Miramar Silva, is part of ADISPAs technical team. The 27-year-old grew up inside the reserves community process and watched her mother move constantly between meetings, workshops and patrols, pushing others to defend the land. Anggie Miramar poses for a photo on the outskirts of Puerto Asis, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia) Anggie Miramar poses for a photo on the outskirts of Puerto Asis, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More She admires that resolve, even as she lives with the same fear that trails her mother. While people often suggest she might one day take her mothers place, she is not convinced. My mothers work is extremely hard, Miramar said. I dont know if I would be willing to sacrifice everything she has.Jani Silva knows the risks. But stopping doesnt feel like an option.We have to continue defending the future, she said, and we need more and more people to join this cause. A woman organizes the crops of one of the communitys sustainable projects on the outskirts of Puerto Asis, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia) A woman organizes the crops of one of the communitys sustainable projects on the outskirts of Puerto Asis, Colombia, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More ___The Associated Press climate and environmental coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. The AP is solely responsible for all content. Find the APs standards for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at AP.org. STEVEN GRATTAN Grattan reports on the Amazon rainforest and deforestation around Latin America for The Associated Press. He is based in Bogota, Colombia. twitter instagram mailto RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Leonardo DiCaprio in a scene from "One Battle After Another." (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP)2025-12-08T05:00:56Z Paul Thomas Andersons One Battle After Another scored a leading nine nominations to the 83rd Golden Globe Awards on Monday, adding to the Oscar favorites momentum and handing Warner Bros. a victory amid its deal to be acquired by Netflix.One Battle After Another landed nominations for its cast Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Sean Penn and Chase Infiniti along with nods for Andersons screenplay and direction. Its competing in the Globes category for comedy and musicals.Close on its heels was Joachim Triers Sentimental Value, a Norwegian family drama about a filmmaking family. The Neon releases eight nominations included nods for four of its actors: Stellan Skarsgrd, Renate Reinsve, Elle Fanning and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas.The Globe nominations, a tattered but persistent rite in Hollywood, are coming on the heels of the a potentially seismic shift in entertainment. On Friday, Netflix struck a deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery for $72 billion. If approved, the deal would reshape Hollywood and put one of its most storied movie studios in the hands of the streaming giant. Both companies are prominent in this years awards season. Along with One Battle After Another, Warner Bros. has Sinners, Ryan Cooglers acclaimed vampire hit. It was nominated for seven awards by the Globes, including box office achievement. Netflixs contenders include Noah Baumbachs Jay Kelly, Guillermo del Toros Frankenstein and the streaming smash hit, KPop Demon Hunters. Nominations were read by Marlon Wayans and Skye P. Marshall, from Beverly Hills, California. As the Globes continue to transition out of their scandal-plagued past, theres one notable change this year. For the first time, the Globes are giving a best podcast trophy. The inaugural nominees are Armchair Expert With Dax Shepard, Call Her Daddy, Good Hang With Amy Poehler, The Mel Robbins Podcast, SmartLess and NPRs Up First. After a series of controversies for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the group that previously put on the ceremony, the Globes were sold in 2023 to Todd Boehlys Eldridge Industries and Dick Clark Productions, a part of Penske Media. A new, larger voting body of more than 300 people now vote on the awards, which moved from NBC to CBS on a shorter, less expensive deal.Nikki Glaser is returning as host to the Jan. 11 Globes, airing on CBS and streaming on Paramount+. This past January, Glaser won good reviews for her first time emceeing the ceremony. Ratings were essentially unchanged, slightly dipping to 9.3 million viewers, according to Nielsen, from 9.4 million in 2024.In the early going in Hollywoods awards season, Andersons One Battle After Another has dominated and is seen as the Oscar best picture front-runner. Also in the mix are Chlo Zhaos Hamnet, Triers Sentimental Value and Josh Safdies Marty Supreme.Helen Mirren will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award in a separate prime-time special airing Jan. 8. Sarah Jessica Parker will be honored with the Carol Burnett Award. JAKE COYLE Coyle has been a film critic and covered the movie industry for The Associated Press since 2013. He is based in New York City. twitter mailto

404 Media is making a print zine about the surveillance tactics used by ICE, and the ways people are resisting this technology. It will be 16 pages and printed on a risograph printer by a printshop in Los Angeles. It contains both reworked versions of our best reporting on ICE and some new articles for the zine. It will be available at the beginning of January.I have been somewhat obsessed with making a print product for the last year or so, and were really excited to try this experiment. If it goes well, we hope to make more of our journalism available in print. We are doing this in part because we were invited to help throw a benefit concert by our friends at heaven2nite in Los Angeles on January 4, with the proceeds going to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), an LA-based nonprofit providing support to Dreamers, immigrant families, and low-wage workers in California. We are going to be giving away copies of the zine at that concert and are selling copies on our Shopify page to ship in early January.Presale: ICE Surveillance Zine**THIS WILL SHIP IN EARLY JANUARY** We are making a print zine about the surveillance tactics used by ICE, and the ways people are resisting this technology. It is 16 pages and printed on a risograph printer by Punch Kiss Press in Los Angeles. It contains both reworked versions of our best reporting on ICE and some new404 Media404 MediaWhy are we doing this? Well, zines are cool, and print media is cool. We have joked about wanting to print out our blogs and hand them out door-to-door or staple them to lamp posts. Handing out zines at a concert or sending them to you in the mail will get the job done, too.We have spent the last two-and-a-half years trying to build something more sustainable and more human in a world and on an internet that feels more automated and more artificial than ever. We have shown that its possible for a small team of dedicated reporters to do impactful, groundbreaking accountability journalism on the companies and powers that are pushing us to a more inhumane world without overwhelmingly focusing on appeasing social media and search algorithms. Nevertheless, we still spend a lot of our time trying to figure out how to reach new audiences using social media and search, without making ourselves feel totally beholden to it. Alongside that, we put a huge amount of effort into convincing people who find our stuff on Instagram or TikTok or YouTube or Reddit (and Bluesky and Mastodon) to follow our work on platforms where we can directly reach them without an algorithmic intermediary. Thats why we focus so much on building our own website, our own direct email newsletters, our own full-text RSS feeds, and RSS-based podcast feeds.This has gone well, but we have seen our colleagues at The Onion and other independent media outlets bring back the printed word, which, again, is cool, but also comes with other benefits. Print can totally sidestep Big Techs distribution mechanisms. It can be mailed, sold in stores, and handed out at concerts. It can be read and passed to a friend, donated to a thrift store and discovered by someone killing time on a weekend, or tossed in a recycling bin and rescued by a random passerby. It is a piece of physical media that can be organically discovered in the real world.Print does come with some complications, most notably it is significantly more expensive to make and distribute a print product than it is to make a website, and its also a slower medium (duh). Ghost, our website and email infrastructure, also doesnt have a native way to integrate a print subscription into a membership. This is a long way of saying that the only way this first print experiment makes sense is if we sell it as a separate product. Subscribers at the Supporter level will get a discount; we cant yet include print in your existing subscription for all sorts of logistical and financial reasons, but we will eventually make a PDF of the zine available to subscribers.If you're a subscriber, your code is at the bottom of this post.Some other details: Our cover art was made by Veri Alvarez, a super talented LA-based artist whose work you can find here. The interior of the magazine was designed and laid out by our old friend Ernie Smith, who runs the amazing Tedium newsletter and who was willing to unretire from his days of laying out newspapers to help us with this. We are printing it at Punch Kiss Press, a DIY risograph studio here in Los Angeles. For those unfamiliar, risograph printing is sort of like silkscreening on paper, where you print one color at a time and layer them on top of each other to get very cool color mixing effects.We did not originally set out to spend most of the last year reporting on ICE. But we have watched the agency grow from an already horrifying organization into a deportation force that is better funded than most militaries. We have seen full-scale occupations of Los Angeles and Chicago, daily raids playing out in cities, towns, and workplaces across the country, and people getting abducted while they are at work, shopping, or walking down the street.As this has played out, we have focused on highlighting the ways that the Trump administration has used the considerable power of the federal government and the vast amounts of information it has to empower ICEs surveillance machine. Technologies and databases created during earlier administrations for one governmental purpose (collecting taxes, for example) have been repurposed as huge caches of data now used to track and detain undocumented immigrants. Privacy protections and data sharing walls between federal agencies have been knocked down. Technologies that were designed for local law enforcement or were created to make rich people feel safer, like license plate tracking cameras, have grown into huge surveillance dragnets that can be accessed by ICE. Surveillance tools that have always been concerningphone hacking malware, social media surveillance software, facial recognition algorithms, and AI-powered smart glassesare being used against some of societys most vulnerable people. There is not a ton of reason for optimism, but in the face of an oppressive force, people are fighting back, and we tried to highlight their work in the zine, too.Again, this is an experiment, so we cant commit at the moment to a print subscription, future zines, future magazines, or anything like that. But we are hopeful that people like it and that we can figure out how to do more print products and to do them more often.If you have a connection at a newspaper printing press, a place that prints magazines or catalogs, or otherwise have expertise in printmaking, design, layout, or other things that deal with the printed word, please get in touch, it will help us as we explore the feasibility of doing future print products (jason@404media.co).We are also hoping that groups who work with immigrants throughout the United States will be interested in this; if thats you please email me (jason@404media.co). We are also exploring translating the zine into Spanish.If you are a subscriber, your discount code is below this:.....

This week Sam is in conversation with Noelle Perdue. Noelle is a writer, producer, and internet porn historian whose works has been published in Wired, the Washington Post, Slate, and more, and youre probably familiar with her work if youve been paying attention to the plot in your favorite pornographic films. Shes writing on Stubstack so look her up there!Noelle and Sam discuss everything from sexbots and AI porn to censorship, age verification legislation, and their favorite parody porn flicks.Listen to the weekly podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Become a paid subscriber for access to this episode's bonus content and to power our journalism. If you become a paid subscriber, check your inbox for an email from our podcast host Transistor for a link to the subscribers-only version! You can also add that subscribers feed to your podcast app of choice and never miss an episode that way. The email should also contain the subscribers-only unlisted YouTube link for the extended video version too. It will also be in the show notes in your podcast player.Noelle Perdue on SubstackMichigan Lawmakers Are Attempting to Ban Porn EntirelyNew Bill Would Make All Pornography a Federal Crime in the U.S.OpenAI Catches Up to AI Market Reality: People Are HornyChatGPTs Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can FuckThe Egg Yolk Principle: Human Sexuality Will Always Outsmart Prudish Algorithms and Hateful Politicians

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Nature, Published online: 08 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03839-2Achal Agrawal is part of Natures 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025.

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Luigi Mangione appears in Manhattan Criminal Court, Monday, Dec. 8, 2025, in New York. (Sarah Yenesel/Pool Photo via AP)2025-12-08T18:27:13Z NEW YORK (AP) Moments after Luigi Mangione was put in handcuffs at a Pennsylvania McDonalds, a police officer searching his backpack found a loaded gun magazine wrapped in a pair of underwear.The discovery, recounted in court Monday as Mangione fights to exclude evidence from his New York murder case, convinced police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, that he was the man wanted for killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan five days earlier.Its him, dude. Its him, 100%, an officer was heard saying on body-worn camera video from Mangiones Dec. 9, 2024 arrest, punctuating the remark with expletives as the officer combing the bag, Christy Wasser, held up the magazine.Wasser, a 19-year Altoona police veteran, testified on the fourth day of a pretrial hearing as Mangione seeks to bar prosecutors from using the magazine and other evidence against him, including a 9 mm handgun and a notebook that were found during a subsequent search of the bag. Mangione, 27, has pleaded not guilty to state and federal murder charges. He appeared in good health on Monday, intently watching the video and occasionally jotting notes. The hearing, which began Dec. 1 and was postponed Friday because of his apparent illness, applies only to the state case. His lawyers are making a similar push to exclude the evidence from his federal case, where prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. Prosecutors have said the handgun found in the backpack matches the firearm used in the killing and that writings in the notebook showed Mangiones disdain for health insurers and ideas about killing a CEO at an investor conference. Stay up to date with the news and the best of AP by following our WhatsApp channel. Follow on Mangiones lawyers contend the items should be excluded because police didnt have a search warrant for the backpack. Prosecutors contend the search was legal and that officers eventually obtained a warrant. Wasser, testifying in full uniform, said she was following Altoona police protocols that require promptly searching a suspects property at the time of an arrest, in part to check for potentially dangerous items. She was heard on body-worn camera footage played in court that she wanted to check the bag for bombs before removing it from the McDonalds. Wasser told another officer she didnt want to repeat an incident in which another Altoona officer had inadvertently brought a bomb to the police station.Thompson, 50, was killed as he walked to a Manhattan hotel for his companys investor conference on Dec. 4, 2024. Surveillance video showed a masked gunman shooting him from behind. Police say delay, deny and depose were written on the ammunition, mimicking a phrase used to describe how insurers avoid paying claims.Mangione was arrested in Altoona, about 230 miles (about 370 kilometers) west of Manhattan, after police there received a 911 call about a McDonalds customer who appeared to resemble the suspect.Wasser said that prior to responding to the McDonalds she had seen some coverage of Thompsons killing on Fox News, including the surveillance video of the shooting and images of the suspected shooter. Wasser began searching his bag as officers took him into custody on initial charges of forgery and false identification, after he acknowledged giving them a bogus driving license, police said. The same fake name was used by the alleged gunman used at a Manhattan hostel days before the shooting.By then, a handcuffed Mangione had been informed of his right to remain silent and invoked it when asked if there was anything in the bag that officers should be concerned about.According to body-worn camera video, the first few items Wasser found were innocuous: a hoagie, a loaf of bread and a smaller bag containing a passport, cellphone and computer chip.Then she pulled out the underwear, unwrapping the gray pair to reveal the magazine.Satisfied there was no bomb, she suspended her search and placed some of the items back in the bag. She resumed her search at the police station, almost immediately finding the gun and silencer. Later, while cataloging everything in the bag in whats known as an inventory search, she found the notebook. A Blair County, Pennsylvania, prosecutor testified that a judge later signed off on a search warrant for the bag, a few hours after the searches were completed. The warrant, she said, provided a legal mechanism for Altoona police to turn the evidence over to New York City detectives investigating Thompsons killing.As he has through the case, Assistant District Attorney Joel Seidemann described Thompsons killing as an execution and referred to his notebook as a manifesto terms that Mangiones lawyers said were prejudicial and inappropriate.Judge Gregory Carro said the wording had no bearing on him, but warned Seidemann that hes certainly not going to do that at trial when jurors are present. MICHAEL R. SISAK Sisak is an Associated Press reporter covering law enforcement, courts and prisons. He is based in New York. twitter mailto

Arizona guard Brayden Burries (5) reacts after scoring against Auburn during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025, in Tucson, Ariz. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)2025-12-08T18:02:42Z Arizona took over the top spot in the AP Top 25 mens college basketball poll on Monday, a reward for a perfect start to the season that includes a quartet of wins against ranked foes, including a lopsided victory over Auburn last weekend.Purdue, which had spent the past three weeks at No. 1, slid to sixth following its 81-58 home loss to Iowa State and the entire poll got a shakeup as only two teams remained in the same spots from last week.The Wildcats received 33 of 60 first-place votes from a national media panel to claim No. 1 for the first time since Dec. 11, 2023, and only the third time since the 2013-14 season. They edged No. 2 Michigan, which earned 19 first-place votes, thanks in part to wins over Florida, UConn and UCLA, along with their 97-68 romp over the then-No. 20 Tigers on Saturday night.Obviously its nothing you shy away from, Wildcats coach Tommy Lloyd said of being No. 1. You know, youre at Arizona. The big stage. Its part of being at a program like this. But we have bigger things on our mind. The Wolverines also moved up one spot for their best ranking since March 2021. Duke claimed six first-place votes and moved up to No. 3. And the Cyclones parlayed their big win in West Lafayette, Indiana, into a six-spot climb to No. 4 and a first-place vote. Iowa State has never been ranked No. 1 in the AP poll era, which began with the 1948-49 season. They stole our spirit, said Purdue coach Matt Painter, whose team tied a record for largest margin of defeat at home as the nations No. 1 team. Our reason for having a high frustration level was them. Theyre damn good. They took us to the woodshed. UConn remained ahead of Purdue at No. 5 after beating Kansas inside Allen Fieldhouse last week.Houston was seventh, Gonzaga climbed three spots to eighth, Michigan State was ninth and BYU rounded the top 10 following a week of high-profile matchups across college basketball. Louisville dropped five spots to No. 11 after losing to Arkansas. Alabama remained at No. 12, followed by Illinois, North Carolina and Vanderbilt, the only unbeaten team left in the SEC and one of just eight left in Division I mens basketball.Texas Tech was next, followed by the Razorbacks, who jumped eight spots after also beating Fresno State last week. Florida fell to No. 18 following its 67-66 loss to the Blue Devils, while Kansas moved up to No. 19 and Tennessee finished out the top 20.The last five in the poll were Auburn, St. Johns, Nebraska, Virginia and UCLA.The No. 23 Huskers are 9-0 for only the third time in school history, and they have won 13 straight dating to last season, the third-longest run in school history. The ranking is their best since they were 21st the second week of the 2014-15 season.Rising and fallingArkansas was No. 14 in the preseason poll, nearly dropped out entirely, but made a big jump this week back to No. 17 following its two wins. Iowa States climb to No. 4 has been a steady one since it was ranked 16th in the preseason poll.Tennessee tumbled seven spots to No. 20 this week following losses to Syracuse and Illinois. Purdue and Louisville each fell five spots. In and outNebraska and Virginia both made their poll debuts, replacing Indiana and USC. The Cavaliers did not receive a single vote last week but earned enough to join the rankings at No. 24. UCLA also returned to the rankings while Kentucky dropped out.Conference watchThe Big 12, Big Ten and SEC lead the way with six ranked teams apiece, but the Big 12 has the nations No. 1 team. It also has four in the top 10, while the Big Ten has three and the SEC none. The ACC has four ranked teams, the Big East two and the West Coast one.___Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here and here (AP News mobile app). AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball DAVE SKRETTA Skretta is a Kansas City-based sports writer for The Associated Press. He covers the Royals, the Chiefs and college sports along with auto racing, the Olympics and other sports.

Nature, Published online: 08 December 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-03846-3Yifat Merbl is part of Natures 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025.