Day: December 20, 2025
Taco Bell fans declare ‘Christmas miracle’ as beloved menu item returns nationwide
Taco Bell fans call it “a Christmas miracle” as the beloved Quesarito returns nationwide Dec. 18 for a limited time, while the fast-food chain makes a plea to one NBA star.
Sen Murphy warns ‘people are going to die’ as Congress punts on expiring Obamacare subsidies
Lawmakers blame each other for looming Obamacare subsidy expiration as Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., warns premium spikes will have life-or-death consequences for families.
Gisele Bündchen secretly marries jiu-jitsu instructor Joaquim Valente
Gisele Bündchen marries jiu-jitsu instructor Joaquim Valente in an intimate Miami ceremony just months after welcoming their baby boy together.
Mega-fans swarm quaint New England towns, chasing Christmas movie charm
Connecticut has become a holiday movie destination as Hallmark fans flock to filming locations. The state’s Christmas Movie Trail maps 22-plus film sites.
Pennsylvania bill would recognize pets as family members in divorce cases
Pennsylvania passed groundbreaking House Bill 97 recognizing pets as family members in divorce cases, creating new custody arrangements for animals.
The Foreign Policy Winners and Losers of 2025
The first year of the second Donald Trump presidential term has been a carnival of outrages and delights. Historians will struggle to make sense of the whirlwind of activity around the Oval Office, but some big events are already clear. The year has had some big winners, including:
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High school student allegedly kills classmate with scissors outside science class
Students of a high school in Texas are protesting against the district’s actions after a student was killed by another with scissors right outside their science class.
Aundre Matthews, 18, was arrested for allegedly stabbing 16-year-old Andrew Meismer to death at Ross S. Sterling High School in Baytown on Wednesday.
‘We are not safe. We are not safe here.’
Prosecutors said the two were excused to go to the bathroom and got into a fight over a vape pen.
The stabbing happened during a fight between the two at about 10:40 a.m. The victim was airlifted to Texas Medical Center in Houston but was later pronounced dead.
The school said that it went into lockdown briefly after the incident.
“I need to see that surveillance video. I need to see what happened in terms of all the claims that were read in that probable cause affidavit,” said Matthews’ attorney, Gianpaolo Macerola.
The horrendous incident shocked the community and spurred many students to protest against the district for not taking action to protect Meismer. They alleged that signs of the threat from the suspect were ignored.
“This could have been prevented,” said Maria Blanco, a 10th grade student, to the Baytown Sun. “Now somebody’s life is lost, and when they had the time to do something about it, they did not do anything.”
“We are not safe. We are not safe here,” said sophomore Lilly Williams, who described the victim as “very kind.”
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One of the protest signs read, “How many warnings are enough?” and another read, “Our voices matter.”
Matthews was given a $3.3 million bond in court on Friday.
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Glenn Beck praises Trump as ‘disciplined’ for baiting media into reporting on his wins
President Trump addressed the nation this week about his administration’s many accomplishments over its first year — and shockingly, in a move very unlike the president, the speech was only 20 minutes.
“Eleven months ago, I inherited a mess, and I’m fixing it. When I took office, inflation was the worst in 48 years, and some would say in the history of our country, which caused prices to be higher than ever before, making life unaffordable for millions and millions of Americans,” Trump began.
“Over the past 11 months, we have brought more positive change to Washington than any administration in American history. There has never been anything like it. And I think most would agree,” he continued.
Some successes Trump pointed out were that “drugs brought in by ocean and by sea” are down 94% and the “grip of sinister woke radicals in our schools” has been broken.
He also touted that he has “settled eight wars in 10 months, destroyed the Iran nuclear threat, and ended the war in Gaza, bringing for the first time in 3,000 years peace to the Middle East, and secured the release of the hostages, both living and dead.”
Trump recalled the rising inflation under Biden, which he happily reported has declined since he took office.
But one thing the president didn’t say is that we’re going to war with Venezuela — and BlazeTV host Glenn Beck believes he might have tricked the media into covering all his successes.
“Everybody was speculating, ‘He’s going to say we’re going to war.’ … I don’t think we’re going to war with Venezuela. I think he’s making it look like we’re going to war to freak Venezuela out and to get Maduro out, but I don’t think we’re going into war,” Glenn says.
“I saw this as the kickoff of the campaign. I saw this as, okay, this is the message for 2026 for the Republicans. And it was so disciplined and so tight,” he continues, pointing out that sometimes the media won’t cover a speech like that.
“I wonder if the war thing wasn’t a way to get them to cover this,” he adds.
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Philippines at the 2025 SEA Games: List of gold medalists
The 2025 Southeast Asian Games wrapped up on Saturday in Thailand, with the Philippines winning 50 gold medals at the biennial meet.
