Scott Olson
/
Getty Images
Crime rates dropped across much of the U.S. in 2025. That was true for both property and violent crime. And it declined nearly everywhere: In big cities and small towns, and in red and blue states.
Jennie McKeon
/
WUWF Public Media
Hulton Archive
/
Hulton Archive
Erin Baiano
/
Getty Images
Nearly half of the revenue for large American ballet companies each year comes from the cozy seasonal favorite The Nutcracker. Since COVID, they have become even more dependent on those sugarplum fairies.
Christina Andrews
/
WUWF Public Media
Health and Hope Clinic offers care and dignity to neighbors with nowhere else to go.
MC1 Russell Lindsey (SW/AW)/MC1 Russell Lindsey (SW/AW)
/
NMOTC Office of Public Affairs
Helen Acevedo
/
WLRN
"Such a pause would show a decent regard for the humanity of these families," they said. "Now is not the time to be callous toward the suffering caused by immigration enforcement."
Carl Lisciandrello
/
WUSF
Pratchaya/Getty Images/
/
iStockphoto
Mark Schreiner
/
WUSF
-
North Korea's state media released photos Thursday of what it said was the hull of a nuclear submarine. Its leader denounced South Korea's plans to build its own subs as "an offensive act." -
In an "alternative" message to the king's annual Christmas speech, Kimmel told British viewers that "from a fascism perspective, this has been a really great year," for the United States. -
President Trump made the announcement late Thursday on social media, saying the strike was in response to the Islamic State targeting Christians in Nigeria. -
Russia's ghost fleet of sanctions-busting oil tankers are using the Turkish-controlled Bosphorus to reach the Black Sea, causing headaches for Turkey.
-
The Trump administration has hit farmers hard by shattering their export markets with trade wars, gutting USAID, squeezing the farm labor market, and demonizing oil seed crops and a farm herbicide.
