December 2025 Archives

AP-NORC poll: Americans’ priorities for government in 2026

December 29, 2025 The Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Julia Dvorak is worried her 83-year-old mother’s emergency room trips for seizures are depleting her retirement savings and will soon force her to go on Medicaid. At the same time, Dvorak, who’s […]

Oscars move to YouTube in 2029, leaving longtime home ABC

December 29, 2025 Jake Coyle

In a seismic shift for one of television’s marquee events, the Academy Awards will depart ABC and begin streaming on YouTube beginning in 2029, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced last week. […]

ELDER: What Rob Reiner said about and did to Donald Trump

December 29, 2025 Larry Elder

Yes, President Donald Trump could have taken the high ground rather than excoriating Rob Reiner, the actor, director and producer found stabbed to death, along with his wife. The Reiners’ son, Nick, has been arrested […]

The Word: Today with me

December 28, 2025 George Everard

Few words ever spoken by Christ have carried greater comfort to a dying sinner than these: “Verily I say unto thee, today shalt thou be with me in paradise.” They were spoken from the cross, […]

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NCInnovation announces funding for more university research projects

December 28, 2025 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — NCInnovation, the university research accelerator nonprofit, has announced the approval of $10 million in funding for 13 projects spanning 11 schools in the UNC System. “NCInnovation’s December 2025 slate represents some of the […]

Southern sleuth Benoit Blanc charms in ‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’

December 28, 2025 Bob Garver

Since this weekend’s highest-grossing-as-yet-unreviewed theatrical film, 205-minute Indian actioner “Dhurandhar,” is playing on only 377 screens in the entire country, I thought I’d take this opportunity to review something a little more accessible. “Wake Up […]