Interviewed as he prepares to leave office, Mayor Eric Adams said that he hadnt gotten the credit he deserved and that certain forces had always been arrayed against him.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia waits to enter the building for a mandatory check at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Baltimore, Friday, Dec. 12, 2025, after he was released from detention on Thursday under a judge's order. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)2025-12-13T05:02:42Z BALTIMORE (AP) Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose mistaken deportation helped galvanize opposition to President Donald Trumps immigration policies, was released from immigration detention on Thursday, and a judge has temporarily blocked any further efforts to detain him. Abrego Garcia currently cant be deported to his home country of El Salvador thanks to a 2019 immigration court order that found he had a well founded fear of danger there. However, the Trump administration has said he cannot stay in the U.S. Over the past few months, government officials have said they would deport him to Uganda, Eswatini, Ghana and, most recently, Liberia.Abrego Garcia is fighting his deportation in federal court in Maryland, where his attorneys claim the administration is manipulating the immigration system to punish him for successfully challenging his earlier deportation.Heres what to know about the latest developments in the case: Who is Kilmar Abrego Garcia?Abrego Garcia is a Salvadoran citizen with an American wife and child who has lived in Maryland for years. He immigrated to the U.S. illegally as a teenager to join his brother, who had become a U.S. citizen. In 2019, an immigration judge granted him protection from being deported back to his home country.While he was allowed to live and work in the U.S. under Immigration and Customs Enforcement supervision, he was not given residency status. Earlier this year, he was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, despite the earlier court ruling. In custody since MarchWhen Abrego Garcia was deported in March, he was held in a notoriously brutal Salvadoran prison despite having no criminal record.The Trump administration initially fought efforts to bring him back to the U.S. but eventually complied after the U.S. Supreme Court weighed in. He returned to the U.S. in June, only to face an arrest warrant on human smuggling charges in Tennessee. Abrego Garcia was held in a Tennessee jail for more than two months before he was released on Friday, Aug. 22, to await trial in Maryland under home detention. His freedom lasted a weekend. On the following Monday, he reported to the Baltimore immigration office for a check-in and was immediately taken into immigration custody. Officials announced plans to deport him to a series of African countries, but they were blocked by an order from U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in Maryland.No deportation orderOn Thursday, after months of legal filings and hearings, Xinis ruled that Abrego Garcia should be released immediately. Her ruling hinged on what was likely a procedural error by the immigration judge who heard his case in 2019.Normally, in a case like this, an immigration judge will first issue an order of removal. Then the judge will essentially freeze that order by issuing a withholding of removal order, according to Memphis immigration attorney Andrew Rankin.In Abrego Garcias case, the judge granted withholding of removal to El Salvador because he found Abrego Garcias life could be in danger there. However, the judge never took the first step of issuing the order of removal. The government argued in Xinis court that the order of removal could be inferred, but the judge disagreed.Without a final order of removal, Abrego Garcia cant be deported, Xinis ruled. Possible next stepsThe only way to get an order of removal is to go back to immigration court and ask for one, Rankin said. But reopening the immigration case is a gamble because Abrego Garcias attorneys would likely seek protection from deportation in the form of asylum or some other type of relief.One wrinkle is that immigration courts are officially part of the executive branch, and the judges there are not generally viewed as being as independent as federal judges.There might be independence in some areas, but if the administration wants a certain result, by all accounts it seems theyre going to exert the pressure on the individuals to get that result, Rankin said. I hope he gets a fair shake, and two lawyers make arguments somebody wins, somebody loses instead of giving it to an immigration judge with a 95% denial rate, where everybody in the world knows how its gonna go down.Alternatively, the government could appeal Xinis order to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and try to get her ruling overturned, Rankin said. If the appeals court agreed with the government that the final order of removal was implied, there could be no need to reopen the immigration case. Free for nowIn compliance with Xinis order, Abrego Garcia was released from immigration detention in Pennsylvania on Thursday evening and allowed to return home for the first time in months. However, he was also told to report to an immigration officer in Baltimore early the next morning.Fearing that he would be detained again, his attorneys asked Xinis for a temporary restraining order. Xinis filed that order early Friday morning. It prohibits immigration officials from taking Abrego Garcia back into custody, at least for the time being. A hearing on the issue could happen as early as next week. The criminal case continuesMeanwhile, in Tennessee, Abrego Garcia has pleaded not guilty in the criminal case where he is charged with human smuggling and conspiracy to commit human smuggling. Prosecutors claim he accepted money to transport, within the United States, people who were in the country illegally. The charges stem from a 2022 traffic stop in Tennessee for speeding. Body camera footage from a Tennessee Highway Patrol officer shows a calm exchange with Abrego Garcia. There were nine passengers in the car, and the officers discussed among themselves their suspicions of smuggling. However, Abrego Garcia was eventually allowed to continue driving with only a warning.Abrego Garcia has asked U.S. District Court Judge Waverly Crenshaw to dismiss the smuggling charges on the grounds of selective or vindictive prosecution.Crenshaw earlier found some evidence that the prosecution against him may be vindictive and said many statements by Trump administration officials raise cause for concern. Crenshaw specifically cited a statement by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche on a Fox News Channel program that seemed to suggest the Justice Department charged Abrego Garcia because he won his wrongful-deportation case.The two sides have been sparring over whether senior Justice Department officials, including Blanche, can be required to testify in the case. RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

Britain's King Charles III attends an Advent Service at Westminster Abbey, in London, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (Chris Jackson/Pool Photo via AP)2025-12-13T11:53:44Z LONDON (AP) Medics and health charities on Saturday praised King Charles III for giving a public update on his cancer treatment, saying his call for people to get tested for the disease could save lives.In a strikingly personal video statement, the British monarch acknowledged that a cancer diagnosis can feel overwhelming, but said catching the disease early brings the precious gift of hope.Heres what to know about the kings condition and his message.A royal health updateThe 77-year-old king said in a statement broadcast Friday that his treatment schedule will be reduced in the new year, thanks to early diagnosis, effective intervention and adherence to doctors orders.He encouraged others to take advantage of screening programs such as those for breast, bowel and cervical cancer offered by Britains public health service.Early diagnosis quite simply saves lives, the king said in the statement aired during a Stand Up to Cancer telethon on TV station Channel 4. He said catching the disease early had allowed him to continue leading a full and active life even while undergoing treatment.Charles has received outpatient treatment for almost two years. Buckingham Palace did not say the king is in remission, but that his treatment is moving to a precautionary phase and his condition will be monitored to ensure his continued recovery. Diagnosed in 2024Charles announced in February 2024 that he had been diagnosed with cancer, and, in a break from centuries of secrecy about royal health, he has since spoken about the illness, using his story to promote cancer awareness and treatment.The openness has limits, though. The king has not disclosed what type of cancer he has or what kind of treatment he is receiving. The palace said it was an intentional decision designed to ensure his message reaches the widest possible audience.The kings cancer was discovered after treatment for an enlarged prostate. While doctors ruled out prostate cancer, tests revealed a separate issue of concern, palace officials said last year.Charles suspended his public appearances for about two months after his diagnosis. Since returning to the public eye, he has visited cancer treatment centers across the country and shared stories with fellow patients. Setting an exampleBritish cancer charities said the number of people seeking information about cancer jumped after the king revealed he was undergoing treatment.I know from my own experience that a cancer diagnosis can feel overwhelming, he said in his video statement. Yet I also know that early detection is the key that can transform treatment journeys, giving invaluable time to medical teams and, to their patients, the precious gift of hope.Gemma Peters, chief executive at the charity Macmillan Cancer Support, said: We are incredibly grateful to His Majesty the King for continuing to share his experience of cancer with such openness and honesty.Michelle Mitchell, chief executive of the charity Cancer Research UK, wished the king well and said that when public figures speak openly about their cancer diagnosis, it can prompt others to check in on their health. Broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby, the kings authorized biographer, said the statement was a remarkable thing for a monarch to do.It takes guts, and the fact that he came out and did that will save lives, Dimbleby said.The Princess of Wales, who announced her own cancer diagnosis six weeks after her father-in-law, has also given updates on her treatment. Kate, 43, announced in January that her cancer is in remission.____Find more of APs coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/royalty JILL LAWLESS Lawless is an Associated Press reporter covering U.K. politics and more. She is based in London. twitter mailto RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

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Pages from the U.S. Affordable Care Act health insurance website healthcare.gov are seen on a computer screen in New York, Aug. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)2025-12-13T13:34:28Z NEW YORK (AP) For one Wisconsin couple, the loss of government-sponsored health subsidies next year means choosing a lower-quality insurance plan with a higher deductible. For a Michigan family, it means going without insurance altogether.For a single mom in Nevada, the spiking costs mean fewer Christmas gifts this year. She is stretching her budget already while she waits to see if Congress will act.Less than three weeks remain until the expiration of COVID-era enhanced tax credits that have helped millions of Americans pay their monthly fees for Affordable Care Act coverage for the past four years.The Senate on Thursday rejected two proposals to address the problem and an emerging health care package from House Republicans does not include an extension, all but guaranteeing that many Americans will see much higher insurance costs in 2026.Here are a few of their stories. From a gold plan to a bronze plan, a couple spends more on less Chad Bruns comes from a family of savers. That came in handy when the 58-year-old military veteran had to leave his firefighting career early because of arm and back injuries he incurred on the job. He and his wife, Kelley, 60, both retirees, cut their own firewood to reduce their electricity costs in their home in Sawyer County, Wisconsin. They rarely eat out and hardly ever buy groceries unless they are on sale.But to the extent that they have always been frugal, they will be forced to be even more so now, Bruns said. That is because their coverage under the health law enacted under former President Barack Obama is getting more expensive - and for worse coverage. This year, the Brunses were paying $2 per month for a top-tier gold-level plan with less than a $4,000 deductible. Their income was low enough to help them qualify for a lot of financial assistance.But in 2026, that same plan is rising to an unattainable $1,600 per month, forcing them to downgrade to a bronze plan with a $15,000 deductible. Kelley Bruns said she is concerned that if something happens to their health in the next year, they could go bankrupt. While their monthly fees are low at about $25, their new out-of-pocket maximum at $21,000 amounts to nearly half their joint income.We have to pray that we dont have to have surgery or dont have to have some medical procedure done that were not aware of, she said. It would be very devastating.Family facing higher costs prepares to go without insuranceDave Roofs family of four has been on ACA insurance since the program started in 2014. Back then, the accessibility of insurance on the marketplace helped him feel comfortable taking the leap to start a small music production and performance company in his hometown of Grand Blanc, Michigan. His wife, Kristin, is also self-employed as a top seller on Etsy.The coverage has worked for them so far, even when emergencies come up, such as an ATV accident their 21-year-old daughter had last year.But now, with the expiration of subsidies that kept their premiums down, the 53-year-old Roof said their $500 per month insurance plan is jumping to at least $700 a month, along with spiking deductibles and out-of-pocket costs. With their joint income of about $75,000 a year, that increase is not manageable, he said. So, they are planning to go without health insurance next year, paying cash for prescriptions, checkups and anything else that arises.Roof said his family is already living cheaply and has not taken a vacation together since 2021. As it is, they do not save money or add it to their retirement accounts. So even though forgoing insurance is stressful, it is what they must do.The fear and anxiety that its going to put on my wife and I is really hard to measure, Roof said. But we cant pay for what we cant pay for. Single mom strains her January budget in hopes Congress acts soonIf you ask Katelin Provost, the American middle class has gone from experiencing a squeeze to a full suffocation.The 37-year-old social worker in Henderson, Nevada, counts herself in that category. As a single mom, she already keeps a tight budget to cover housing, groceries and day care for her 4-year-old daughter.Next year, that is going to be even tougher. The monthly fee on her plan is going up from $85 to nearly $750. She decided she is going to pay that higher cost for January and reevaluate afterward, depending on whether lawmakers extends the subsidies, which as of now appears unlikely. She hopes they will.If Congress does not act, she will drop herself off the health insurance and keep it only for her daughter because she cannot afford the higher fee for the two of them over the long term.The strain of one month alone is enough to have an impact.Im going to have to reprioritize the next couple of months to rebalance that budget, Provost said. Christmas will be much smaller. ALI SWENSON Swenson covers politics and the information landscape for The Associated Press. She is based in New York. twitter

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, walks from the Senate chamber as Senate Republicans vote on President Donald Trump's request to cancel about $9 billion in foreign aid and public broadcasting spending, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr., File)2025-12-13T13:03:57Z WASHINGTON (AP) As President Donald Trumps top law enforcement officials were firing and forcing out waves of Justice Department veterans, Sen. Chuck Grassley denounced a political infection that had poisoned FBI leadership.The Iowa Republican was not criticizing FBI Director Kash Patel or Attorney General Pam Bondi. In a July statement, he directed his ire at the FBIs extreme lack of effort in investigating Democrat Hillary Clintons use of a private email server as secretary of state a decade ago.Trump loyalists have roiled the Justice Department, shattering norms and leading to a mass exodus of veteran officials, but the 92-year-old chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee has remained focused on the past.Critics say Grassleys reluctance to challenge the Trump administration has even extended to a defining issue: His support for whistleblowers making claims of fraud, waste and abuse. In an interview, Grassley insisted he has not abandoned his oversight role. He said he has felt compelled to investigate issues under earlier presidents to avoid a repeat of what he described as politically motivated prosecutions carried out against Trump and his allies. Political weaponization is being brought to the surface and being made more transparent because this administration is the most cooperative of any administration Republican or Democrat, Grassley said. Grassley has acknowledged that Congress has ceded a great deal of power to the current administration, a concession he says makes his own oversight more crucial.Its going to enhance the necessity for it, he said. Grassley is known for his focus on oversightGrassley, upon entering Congress in 1975, quickly developed a reputation for exposing corruption and waste. He once drove to the Pentagon in his orange Chevy Chevette to demand answers from officials about their purchase of $450 hammers and $7,600 coffee pots.He was among the chief proponents in Congress of laws to shield employees who revealed such waste and sponsored the landmark 1989 Whistleblower Protection Act. He also has played a key role in empowering inspectors general, internal watchdogs tasked with rooting out misconduct.He has been the conscience of the Senate on whistleblower protection rights for decades, said Tom Devine, legal director for the Government Accountability Project. In the current Congress, he has co-sponsored legislation boosting protections for whistleblowers in the FBI and CIA.No one is close to having his impact, Devine said. That hardly means that we always agree with his judgment calls about policy.Criticized for not taking on Trump administrationTrump and Grassley are not always in alignment. This past week, for example, they tussled over the pace of confirmation of administration nominees.Even so, Democrats and good government advocates say Grassley has been conspicuously silent as the administration has investigated Trumps perceived enemies, fired agents who worked on politically sensitive cases and upended the Justice Departments longstanding post-Watergate independence.Some whistleblowers have been loath to trust him with revelations that might harm the administration, according to interviews with more than a dozen current and former U.S. officials, or their attorneys, several of whom spoke on condition of anonymity because they feared retaliation. There are a lot of people concerned hes not the same old Chuck Grassley, said Eric Woolson, author of a 1995 biography of Grassley who once served as a Grassley campaign spokesman. 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. Grassley rejected that criticism, saying whistleblowers call him regardless of who is in the White House. His offices online portal has received more than 5,300 complaints in 2025, about the same level as past years, staffers reported.His entire career, hes the guy people will trust, said Jason Foster, a former chief investigative counsel to Grassley who founded Empower Oversight, a group that has advocated on behalf of FBI agents disciplined under the Biden administration. Staunch Trump allyMany of Grassleys recent actions, however, suggest he has evolved from being a fiercely independent moderate eager to sniff out fraud to being a stalwart Trump ally, according to Democrats and whistleblower advocates.Some were particularly alarmed at Grassleys dismissal of witnesses who raised concerns about the June nomination of Emil Bove, a high-ranking Justice Department official and former Trump lawyer, to a lifetime federal appeals court seat.Among several officials who came forward was Justice Department lawyer Erez Reuveni, who said he was fired for refusing to go along with Boves plans to defy court orders and withhold information from judges to advance the administrations aggressive deportation goals.Grassley said his staff tried to investigate some of the claims but that lawyers for one whistleblower would not give his staff all the materials they requested in time. Instead of delaying the hearing to dig further, Grassley circled the wagons behind Trumps nominee. The vicious rhetoric, unfair accusations and abuse directed at Mr. Bove, Grassley said in a speech, have crossed the line.Stacey Young, a former Justice Department lawyer who founded Justice Connection, a network of department alumni mobilized to uphold the departments traditionally apolitical workforce, said she was disappointed Grassley has not used his influence to condemn firings at the department. How is the congressional majority not screaming bloody murder? We are watching the near decimation of DOJ in real-time, and Congress is sitting by doing nothing, she said. Does Sen. Grassley think its OK that people get fired for doing their jobs?At a September oversight hearing, Grassley passed up a chance to grill Patel on a series of terminations of line agents and high-level supervisors, including five whose abrupt and still-unexplained dismissals had generated headlines weeks earlier.When Democrats pressed Patel about his use of the bureaus plane for personal reasons, Grassley chided Senate colleagues for their disinterest in the travel practices of previous directors.Grassley has also been an eager conduit for an FBI leadership seeking to expose what it insists was misconduct and overreach in an investigation during the Biden administration into Trumps efforts to overturn the 2020 election.He has released batches of sensitive documents from that investigation, known as Arctic Frost, that he says have been furnished by FBI whistleblowers or that have been labeled as Produced by FBI Director Kash Patel. The records are not the type of documents federal law enforcement would typically make public on its own.Advocates dismayed over Grassley response to IG firingsWhistleblower advocates said they were dismayed when Grassley failed to take a robust stance when Trump, within days of taking office, fired without cause some inspectors general.Even some Republican-appointed inspectors general accused Trump of violating a law requiring the White House to provide 30-day notice and rationale to Congress. If any Republican were going to stand up for them, some of the fired inspectors general said, they expected it to be Grassley.He has been uncharacteristically silent, said Mark Greenblatt, a Trump appointee at the Interior Department who was among those fired. It is unimaginable that the Grassley of a few years ago, the man who held nominees and fired off blistering threats at the smallest provocation to protect inspectors general, would be so silent in the face of these assaults.Grassley responded to the purge by sending Trump a letter requesting officials immediately spell out their case-by-case specific reasons for the dismissals.It took the White House eight months to respond. In a two-page letter, it reasserted presidential authority to fire inspectors general at will and made no attempt to explain its rationale other than to cite changed priorities.___Associated Press writer Ryan J. Foley in Iowa City, Iowa, contributed to this report. JOSHUA GOODMAN Goodman is a Miami-based investigative reporter who writes about the intersection of crime, corruption, drug trafficking and politics in Latin America. 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Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia (2) celebrates a touchdown during the second half of an NCAA college football game against LSU, Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)2025-12-13T13:10:07Z Get the AP Top 25 college football poll delivered straight to your inbox every week with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here. NEW YORK (AP) Three quarterbacks Indianas Fernando Mendoza, Vanderbilts Diego Pavia and Julian Sayin of Ohio State joined Notre Dame running back Jeremiyah Love in New York on Saturday for the awarding of the Heisman Trophy given to the top player in college football.Quarterbacks have won the Heisman three of last four years, with two-way player Travis Hunter of Colorado ending the run last season. The award presentation Saturday night comes after a number of accolades awarded already. Mendoza was named The Associated Press player of the year earlier this week and picked up the Maxwell and Davey OBrien awards Friday night while Love won the Doak Walker Award. Hoosier starMendoza guided the Hoosiers to their first No. 1 ranking and the top seed in the 12-team College Football bracket, throwing for 2,980 yards and a national-best 33 touchdown passes while also running for six scores. Indiana, the last unbeaten team in major college football, will play a College Football Playoff quarterfinal game in the Rose Bowl on Jan. 1.Mendoza, the Hoosiers first-year starter after transferring from California, is the triggerman for an offense that surpassed program records for touchdowns and points set during last seasons surprise run to the CFP.A redshirt junior, the once lightly recruited Miami native is the second Heisman finalist in school history, joining 1989 runner-up Anthony Thompson. Mendoza is the seventh Indiana player to earn a top-10 finish in Heisman balloting and it marks another first in program history having back-to-back players in the top 10. Hoosiers quarterback Kurtis Rourke was ninth last year. Confident CommodorePavia threw for a school-record 3,192 yards and 27 touchdowns for the Commodores, who were pushing for a CFP berth all the way to the bracket annoucement. He is the first Heisman finalist in Vanderbilt history.Generously listed as 6 feet tall, Pavia led Vanderbilt to its first 10-win season along with six wins against Southeastern Conference foes. That includes four wins over ranked programs as Vandy reached No. 9, its highest ranking in The Associated Press Top 25 since 1937.Pavia went from being unrecruited out of high school to junior college, New Mexico State and finally Vanderbilt in 2024 through the transfer portal. Brash and confident, the graduate student from Albuquerque, New Mexico, calls himself a chip on the shoulder guy and he was feisty off the field, too: He played his fourth Division I season under a preliminary injunction as he challenges NCAA eligibility rules; he contends his junior college years should not count against his eligibility, citing the potential losses in earnings from name, image and likeness deals as an illegal restraint on free trade. Vandy next plays in the ReliaQuest Bowl against Iowa on Dec. 31.Buckeyes leaderSayin led the Buckeyes to a No. 1 ranking for most of the season, throwing for 3,329 yards while tying for second in the country with 31 TD passes ahead of their CFP quarterfinal at the Cotton Bowl on Dec. 31.The sophomore from Carlsbad, California, arrived at Ohio State after initially committing to Alabama and entering the transfer portal following a coaching change. He played four games last season before winning the starting job. He led the Buckeyes to a 14-7 win in the opener against preseason No. 1 Texas and kept the team atop the AP Top 25 for 13 straight weeks, tying its second-longest run. Sayin was only the second Bowl Subdivision quarterback in the last 40 years to have three games in a season with at least 300 yards passing, three touchdowns, no interceptions, and a completion rate of at least 80%. West Virginias Geno Smith was the other in 2012.Sayin follows a strong lineage of Ohio State quarterbacks since coach Ryan Day arrived in 2017. Dwayne Haskins (2018), Justin Fields (2019), C.J. Stroud (2021), and Kyle McCord (2023) averaged 3,927 passing yards, 40 TDs, and six interceptions, along with a 68.9% completion rate during their first seasons. Irish LoveThe last running back to win the Heisman was Alabamas Derrick Henry in 2015. Love put himself in the mix with an outstanding season for Notre Dame.The junior from St. Louis was fourth in the Bowl Subdivision in yards rushing (1,372), fifth in per-game average (114.3) and third with 18 rushing touchdowns for the Fighting Irish, who missed out on a CFP bid and opted not to play in a bowl game.He was the first player in Notre Dames storied history to produce multiple TD runs of 90 or more yards, a 98-yarder against Indiana in the first round of last years playoffs and a 94-yarder against Boston College earlier this season.He padded his Heisman resume with a series of highlights displaying an uncanny ability to maintain his balance while hurdling defenders, spinning out of tackles or rolling off opponents. He teamed with Jadarian Price to create one of the seasons top running back duos, a combination that helped first-time starter CJ Carr emerge as one of the nations best young quarterbacks.___Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. 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Welcome back to the Abstract! These are the studies this week that got hosed with star spray, mounted a failed invasion, declined to comment, and achieved previously unknown levels of adorability.First, a study about how the solar system wasnt destroyed 4.5 billion years ago (phew!). Then: a human touch on an ancient boat, the duality of posters and lurkers, and an important update on toadlets.As always, for more of my work, check out my book First Contact: The Story of Our Obsession with Aliens or subscribe to my personal newsletter the BeX Files.Sink into a warm cosmic-ray bathSawada, Ryo et al. Cosmic-ray bath in a past supernova gives birth to Earth-like planets. Science Advances.Earth was cosmically conceived in part by a massive shockwave from a nearby supernova, which seeded our home world and neighboring rocky planets with telltale radioactive signatures, according to a new study.The solar systems rocky planets contain short-lived radionuclides (SLRs), which are ancient elements that were likely barfed out from exploding stars. For this reason, scientists have long suspected that stars mustve detonated next to the gassy disk that gave rise to the solar system. The heat generated from these radioactive elements helped the building blocks of the rocky planetsMercury, Venus, Earth, and Marsmelt together so they could become whole worlds, which means we owe our existence to these ancient supernovas.Now, a team has developed a new model to explain how the primordial pyrotechnics didnt just blow up the nascent solar system. The results suggest that rocky Earth-like worlds may be common in the universe, with potential implications for the search for extraterrestrial life.A key question in astronomy is how ubiquitous Earth-like rocky planets are, said researchers led by Ryo Sawada of the University of Tokyo. The formation of terrestrial planets in our Solar System was strongly influenced by the radioactive decay heat of SLRs, particularly aluminum-26, likely delivered from nearby supernovae.However, the supernova injection scenario faces an unresolved problem in that existing supernova models could not reproduce both the relative and absolute abundances of SLRs without disrupting the protosolar disk, an event that would likely prevent the Solar System formation altogether, the team added.In other words, its hard to explain how the solar system got its high abundance of SLRs without killing it in the cradle. Sawada and his colleagues propose a solution that involves at least one star exploding about three light years of the disk, sparking a shockwave that created a cosmic-ray bath.Schematic picture of the system assumed in this study. Image: Sawada et al., Sci. Adv. 11, eadx7892In this immersion mechanism, energetic cosmic rays trapped in the bath triggered SLR-producing reactions directly within the disk. This contrasts with the hypothesis that the SLRs were largely injected and then mixed up in the disk through some unknown process. This new solution can account both for the high abundance of certain SLRs, like aluminum-26, and the fact that the solar system was not destroyed, as evidenced by its apparent continued existence.Our results suggest that Earth-like, water-poor rocky planets may be more prevalent in theGalaxy than previously thought, the team said, noting that many disks are rocked by similar supernova-shockwaves. This challenges previous interpretations that classified the Solar System as an outlier with a particularly high [aluminum-26] abundance.In addition to offering a new hypothesis for an old astronomical problem, the study gets bonus points for its extremely poetic title: Cosmic-ray bath in a past supernova gives birth to Earth-like planets. If you say this enchanted phrase three times, somewhere an Earth-like world will be born.In other newsThe biometrics of a Baltic boatsmanFauvelle, Mikael et al. New investigations of the Hjortspring boat: Dating and analysis of the cordage and caulking materials used in a pre-Roman iron age plank boat. PLOS OneStars arent the only things leaving their dirty fingerprints in unexpected places this week. Archeologists working on the mysterious Hjortspring boat, a 2,400-year-old Scandinavian vessel, discovered a tantalizing partial human fingerprint in its caulking, providing a direct link to the ancient seafarers who used this boat, according to the study.Photo of caulking fragment showing fingerprint on the left and high-resolution x-ray tomography scan of fingerprint region on the right. Image: Photography by Erik Johansson, 3D model by Sahel GanjiThe ridges of the fingerprint fall within average distributions for both adult male and females as well as for juvenile adults, making it difficult to say much about the individual who produced the print, said researchers led by Mikael Fauvelle of Lund University. The most likely interpretation, however, is that it was made during repairs by one of the crew members on the boat itself, providing a direct link to the seafarers of the ancient vessel.Regardless of this persons identity, their voyage didnt end well. Researchers think the crew of the Hjortspring boat probably sailed from the eastern Baltic Sea to attack the Danish island of Als, where they were defeated. The victors [deposited] the weapons of their vanquished foes together with one of their boats into the bog, where they remained for millennia until they were rediscovered in the 1880s, the team said.Its a timeless reminder for would-be invaders: Dont get caulky.Long-time lurker, first-time posterOswald, Lisa et al. Disentangling participation in online political discussions with a collective field experiment. Science Advances.At last, scientists have investigated the most elusive online demographic: the humble lurker. A team recruited 520 Redditors in the U.S. to participate in small subreddits focused on a variety of political topics during the summer of 2024. The aim was to probe why some people became prolific power-users that post with voluminous confidence, while others remained wallflowers.Online political discussions are often dominated by a small group of active users, while most remain silent, said researchers led by Lisa Oswalt of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. This visibility gap can distort perceptions of public opinion and fuel polarization.The team found that lurking (posting nothing) was most common among users who perceived discussions as toxic, disrespectful, or unconstructive. Lurkers were offered small payments to post in the experiment, which succeeded in motivating some to contribute to discussions. As a result, the study concluded that future interventions may be able to make online political discussions more representative by offering more positive social rewards for lurkers to post.At last, an opportunity to unionize the lurkers of the world. Solidarity (in silence) forever.Its the great pumpkin toadlet, Charlie BrownBornschein, Marcos R. et al. A new species of Brachycephalus (Anura: Brachycephalidae) from Serra do Quiriri, northeastern Santa Catarina state, southern Brazil, with a review of the diagnosis among species of the B. pernix group and proposed conservation measures. PLOS One.We will close, as we have before, with an impossibly cute toadlet. Scientists have discovered this new species of pumpkin toadlet in the cloud forests of Brazil, a sentence so twee that its practically its own fairy tale. The tiny toad Brachycephalus lulai, pictured below on a pencil tip, belongs to a family of flea toads that are among the smallest vertebrates on Earth.Basically it is very smol: Brachycephalus lulai is a tiny pumpkin toadlet measuring less than 14 mm in length. Photo: Luiz Fernando Ribeiro. Image credit 1: Luiz Fernando Ribeiro, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)Our team sought to better document the individual variation of all Brachycephalus species in southern Brazil, looking for them in the field over the past seven years, said researchers led by Marcos R. Bornschein of So Paulo State University. As a result of this work, we discovered and herein described a population collected on the eastern slope of Serra do Quiriri as a new species.The team also reported that the toads are actively colonizing newly formed cloud forests, which are high-altitude woods shrouded in mist. The researchers propose making these unique habitats into refuges for the adorable anurans.Thanks for reading! See you next week.

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In this photo released by Belarusian presidential press service, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, right, and U.S. Presidential envoy John Coale shake hands during their meeting in Minsk, Belarus, Friday, Dec. 12, 2025. (Belarusian Presidential Press Service via AP)2025-12-13T11:46:58Z VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) Belarusian authorities on Saturday freed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski and key opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova from prison, a human rights advocate confirmed to The Associated Press. Their release comes as authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko seeks to improve relations with Washington. In exchange for sanctions relief, Lukashenko pardoned 123 prisoners, the Belta state news agency reported. The U.S. earlier on Saturday announced lifting sanctions on the countrys potash sector.A close ally of Russia, Minsk has faced Western isolation and sanctions for years. Lukashenko has ruled the nation of 9.5 million with an iron fist for more than three decades, and the country has been repeatedly sanctioned by Western countries both for its crackdown on human rights and for allowing Moscow to use its territory in the invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Belarus has released hundreds of prisoners since July 2024. John Coale, the U.S. special envoy for Belarus, announced the lifting of sanctions on potash after meeting Lukashenko in Minsk on Friday and Saturday. Speaking with journalists, Coale described the two-day talks as very productive, Belarus state news agency Belta reported Saturday. He said that normalizing relations between Washington and Minsk was our goal. Were lifting sanctions, releasing prisoners. Were constantly talking to each other, he said, according to Belta. He also said that the relationship between the countries was moving from baby steps to more confident steps as they increased dialogue. Bialiatski and Kolesnikova among those releasedLater Saturday, Bialiatski and Kolesnikova were released from prison, according to Pavel Sapelka, human rights advocate with the Viasna rights group. Human rights advocate Bialiatski won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022, along with the prominent Russian rights group Memorial and Ukraines Center for Civil Liberties.Bialiatski, awarded the prize while in jail awaiting trial, was later convicted of smuggling as well as financing actions that violate public order charges widely denounced as politically motivated and sentenced to 10 years in 2023.Authorities said Bialiatski, who founded Viasna, Belarus oldest and most prominent human rights group, was seen as especially dangerous because of what the authorities alleged were his extremist tendencies. The 63-year-old has been imprisoned at a penal colony in Gorki in a facility that is notorious for beatings and hard labor. Bialiatskis wife said his health was deteriorating and he has multiple chronic illnesses.A U.N. panel of human rights experts has called on Belarus to release him.Kolesnikova was a key figure in the mass protests that rocked Belarus in 2020, and is a close ally of an opposition leader in exile, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. Kolesnikova, known for her close-cropped hair and trademark gesture of forming a heart with her hands, became an even greater symbol of resistance when Belarusian authorities tried to deport her in September 2020. Driven to the Ukrainian border, she briefly broke away from security forces at the frontier, tore up her passport and walked back into Belarus.The 43-year-old professional flautist was convicted in 2021 on charges including conspiracy to seize power and sentenced to 11 years in prison. She fell seriously ill behind bars and underwent surgery. The release of prisoners is part of a deal The last time U.S. officials met with Lukashenko in September 2025, Washington announced easing some of the sanctions against Belarus while Mink released more than 50 political prisoners into Lithuania. Overall, Belarus freed more than 430 political prisoners since July 2024, in what was widely seen as an effort at a rapprochement with the West.The freeing of political prisoners means that Lukashenko understands the pain of Western sanctions and is seeking to ease them, Tsikhanouskaya told the AP on Saturday. She added: But lets not be naive: Lukashenko hasnt changed his policies, his crackdown continues and he keeps on supporting Russias war against Ukraine. Thats why we need to be extremely cautious with any talk of sanctions relief, so that we dont reinforce Russias war machine and encourage continued repressions. Tsikhnouskaya also described European Union sanctions against Belarusian potash fertilizers as far more painful for Minsk that those imposed by the U.S, saying that while easing U.S. sanctions could lead to the release of political prisoners, European sanctions should push for longterm, systemic changes in Belarus and the end of Russias war in Ukraine. The latest round discussions also touched on Venezuela, as well as Russias ongoing invasion of Ukraine, Belta said. Coale told reporters that Lukashenko had given good advice on how to address the conflict, saying that Lukashenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin were longtime friends with the necessary level of relationship to discuss such issues.Naturally, President Putin may accept some advice and not others, Coale said. YURAS KARMANAU Karmanau is an Associated Press journalist covering Belarus and the CIS countries. He has worked in Belarus and Ukraine, as well as other countries in the region, for more than 20 years. 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Dick Van Dyke accepts the award for outstanding guest performance in a daytime drama series for "Days of our Lives" during the 51st Daytime Emmy Awards on Friday, June 7, 2024, at the Westin Bonaventure in Los Angeles.(AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)2025-12-13T15:10:49Z Comedy icon Dick Van Dyke celebrated his 100th birthday on Saturday, hitting the century mark some six decades after he sang and danced with Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins and starred in his self-titled sitcom.The funniest thing is, its not enough, Van Dyke said in an interview with ABC News at his Malibu, California home. A hundred years is not enough. You want to live more, which I plan to.Van Dyke became one of the biggest actors of his era with The Dick Van Dyke Show, which ran from 1961-66 on CBS; appeared with Andrews as a chimney sweep with a Cockney accent in the 1964 Disney classic Mary Poppins and, in his 70s, played a physician-sleuth on Diagnosis: Murder.Also a Broadway star, Van Dyke won a Tony Award for Bye Bye Birdie to go with a Grammy and four Primetime Emmys. In 1963, he starred in the film version of Bye Bye Birdie. Just last year, he became the oldest winner of a Daytime Emmy, for a guest role on the soap Days of Our Lives.In the 1970s, he found sobriety after battling alcoholism, and spoke out about it at a time when that was uncommon to do.Now that he has hit triple digits, Van Dyke said hes gotten some perspective on how he used to play older characters. You know, I played old men a lot, and I always played them as angry and cantankerous, he told ABC News. Its not really that way. I dont know any other 100-year-olds, but I can speak for myself. He recently imparted wisdom about reaching the century mark in his book, 100 Rules for Living to 100: An Optimists Guide to a Happy Life. He credited his wife, 54-year-old makeup artist and producer Arlene Silver, with keeping him young.She gives me energy. She gives me humor, and all kinds of support, he told ABC News.Van Dyke was born in West Plains, Missouri, in 1925, and grew up the class clown in Danville, Illinois, while admiring and imitating the silent film comedians. He told ABC News he started acting when he was about 4 or 5 years old in a Christmas pageant. He said he was the baby Jesus.I made some kind of crack, I dont know what I said, but it broke the congregation up, he said. And I liked the sound of that laughter.And whats hard about being 100?I miss movement, he told ABC News. Ive got one game leg from I dont know what. I still try to dance, he said with a laugh.

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Emergency crews, including National Guard soldiers, wort in a neighborhood flooded by the Skagit River on Friday, Dec. 12, 2025, in Burlington, Wash. (AP Photo/Stephen Brashear)2025-12-13T17:08:07Z A blast of arctic air is plunging south from Canada and spreading into parts of the northern U.S., while residents of the Pacific Northwest brace for possible mudslides and levee failures from floodwaters that are expected to be slow to recede.The catastrophic flooding has forced thousands of people to evacuate, including Eddie Wicks and his wife, who live amid sunflowers and Christmas trees on a Washington state farm next to the Snoqualmie River. As they moved their two donkeys to higher ground and their eight goats to their outdoor kitchen, the water began to rise much quicker than anything theyd experienced before.As the water engulfed their home Thursday afternoon, deputies from the King County Sheriffs Office marine rescue dive unit were able to rescue them and their dog, taking them on a boat the half-mile (800 meters) across their field, which had been transformed into a lake. Stay up to date with the news and the best of AP by following our WhatsApp channel. Follow on Big cities like Chicago, Minneapolis brace for Arctic airAs the Pacific Northwest begins to recover from the deluge, a separate weather system is already bringing dangerous wind chill values the combination of cold air temperatures and wind to parts of the Upper Midwest.Shortly before noon Saturday, it was minus 12 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 24 degrees Celsius) in Grand Forks, North Dakota, where the wind chill value meant that it felt like minus 33 F (minus 36 C), the National Weather Service said.For big cities like Minneapolis and Chicago, the coldest temperatures were expected late Saturday night into Sunday morning. In the Minneapolis area, low temperatures were expected to drop to around minus 15 F (minus 26 C), by early Sunday morning. Lows in the Chicago area are projected to be around 1 F(minus 17 C) by early Sunday, the weather service said. The Arctic air mass was expected to continue pushing south and east over the weekend, expanding into Southern states by Sunday.The National Weather Service on Saturday issued cold weather advisories that stretched as far south as the Alabama state capital city of Montgomery, where temperatures late Sunday night into Monday morning were expected to plummet to around 22 F (minus 6 C). To the east, lows in Savannah, Georgia, were expected to drop to around 24 F (minus 4 C) during the same time period. Danger of mudslides, levee failures continues in Pacific NorthwestThe cold weather freezing much of the country comes as residents in the Pacific Northwest endure more misery after several days of flooding. Thousands of people have been forced to evacuate towns in the region as an unusually strong atmospheric river dumped a foot (30 centimeters) or more of rain in parts of western and central Washington over several days and swelled rivers, inundating communities and prompting dramatic rescues from rooftops and vehicles.The record floodwaters were expected to continue to slowly recede Saturday, but authorities warn that waters will remain high for days, and that there is still danger from potential levee failures or mudslides. There is also the threat of more rain forecast for Sunday. Officials have conducted dozens of water rescues as debris and mudslides have closed highways and raging torrents have washed out roads and bridges.

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