This is the fourth of five reflections of the year 2025’s top stories. Others will be published daily through Jan. 1, 2026.

The U.S. military says nearly 25 operatives of the Islamic State group were killed or captured in Syria this month. That ...

Meta is buying artificial intelligence startup Manus, as the owner of Facebook and Instagram continues a push to amp-up AI ...

A dozen new laws take effect Jan. 1, including one designed to provide more consistency in sentencing of felony crimes.

The Cotton Bowl has certainly gotten much more significant for Ohio State during three trips in a row to the game.

The father of NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin died and his mother was critically injured after a weekend fire heavily damaged the ...

Dozens of places across the U.S. will ring in 2026 by dropping a quirky assortment of fruits, vegetables, sea creatures and ...

A federal court ruling issued two weeks ago in the state’s 20-year fight against several of the country’s largest poultry ...

Indiana’s Tyrese Haliburton is going to miss the entire season because of the torn Achilles he suffered in Game 7 of the NBA ...

Major Asian stock markets, including Tokyo and Seoul, are closed for the yearend and New Year's holidays, while trading was ...

The 2025 Zillow Zeitgeist, an annual review on how Americans search for homes, shows that home shoppers are gravitating ...

A rural Stephens County resident is charged with first-degree manslaughter in the Christmas Day death of a woman from an ...