Friday, December 19, 2025

Good Morning! On this day in 1843, A Christmas Carol was first published. The first edition sold out by Christmas Eve, and by 1844, the novella had gone through 13 printings and remains a robust seller more than 175 years later.

Late-breaking news: The suspect in the Dec. 13 Brown University mass shooting has been found dead in a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire, police said last night. He was identified as 48-year-old Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a former Brown student who may have previously attended the same school in Portugal as an MIT professor who was fatally shot Dec. 15 in Massachusetts. The investigation is continuing. Here are updates.

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TikTok Signs US Sale Deal

Chinese TikTok owner ByteDance signed binding agreements Thursday to sell over 80% of TikTok’s U.S. assets to American investors, ending years of fighting over China’s influence on the popular social media platform.

Under the agreements, Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi’s MGX will collectively own 45% of the new TikTok joint venture, with existing ByteDance investors keeping about 30% and ByteDance retaining nearly 20%.

The deal, set to close Jan. 22, requires the U.S. owners to retrain TikTok’s algorithm using only American user data to prevent outside manipulation by China.

The sale allows 170 million U.S. users to continue scrolling while addressing concerns that first emerged when President Trump attempted to ban the app in 2020.

‘Patriot Games’ Announced For America 250

The Trump administration on Thursday announced plans for a new national high school sports competition called the “Patriot Games” as part of the country’s 250th anniversary celebration in 2026.

The four-day event, expected in the fall, would bring one male and one female student-athlete from every state and U.S. territory to Washington, D.C. Watch President Trump’s announcement here.

The Patriot Games are part of a broader America 250 slate of commemorative events that also includes a UFC fight at the White House on Flag Day, a multi-week Great American State Fair on the National Mall, and expanded July 4 celebrations with military flyovers and fireworks.

The administration says more details on events and scheduling will be released as planning continues. Visit the official website here.

College Football Playoffs Start Tonight

The 12-team College Football Playoff kicks off this weekend with four first-round, win-or-go-home games, starting with tonight’s matchup between No. 9 Alabama and No. 8 Oklahoma and rolling through to a tripleheader tomorrow.

Tomorrow’s midday slate opens with No. 10 Miami taking on No. 7 Texas A&M. The Aggies have been monitoring the health of superstar running back Le’Veon Moss all week as he pushes to return after missing the last six games with an ankle injury.

The TNT cable network then takes over with a double feature full of upset potential: No. 11 Tulane visits No. 6 Ole Miss in the afternoon, then No. 12 James Madison heads to No. 5 Oregon in the evening. That’s two Group-of-Five champions walking into two of the loudest stadiums in the sport with a shot to flip the bracket in one night.

Tonight’s opening game between Alabama and Oklahoma is a rematch of the nailbiter from Nov. 15, which the Sooners won 23-21. Kickoff is set for 8 p.m. ET on ABC and ESPN.

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➤ This year’s holiday season could shatter domestic travel records. (Hear Episode)

➤ Ex-NASCAR star Greg Biffle and family members were killed in a North Carolina plane crash. (Listen Now)

➤ A new defense bill will ban student cellphone use at K–12 schools on U.S. military bases. (Hear Details)

➤ The Trump administration proposed new funding rules that would block Medicare and Medicaid funding for hospitals and doctors who perform sex-change treatments on minors. (See Details)

➤ President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday directing agencies to move toward reclassifying marijuana from a Schedule 1 drug, on a level with heroin, to a less restrictive Schedule 3 drug, similar to Tylenol with codeine. The drug remains illegal under federal law, but it lessens financial restrictions on marijuana businesses. (More)

➤ Medicare enrollees could save roughly half of what they usually pay for certain drugs next year, according to a study from the AARP. The drugs include those used to treat conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, autoimmune diseases, cancer, and chronic kidney disease. (See Details)

➤ The Kennedy Center’s Board of Trustees voted to formally rename the performing arts institution as The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, or the Trump-Kennedy Center for short. (More)

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➤ The Pittsburgh Penguins were sold to the Chicago-based Hoffmann family for $1.7 billion on Wednesday, the second time the franchise has changed ownership in the last five years. (More)

➤ The Chicago Bears announced they’re expanding their search for a new stadium outside of Illinois, even exploring the possibility of playing games in northwest Indiana. (More)

➤ Prediction market company Kalshi announced it had halted plans to offer a betting market on college transfer portal decisions after NCAA president Charlie Baker publicly chastised their intent to do so. (More)

➤ The Florida Gators’ 7-foot-9 center Olivier Rioux became the tallest player to ever score a college basket this week, barely jumping off the ground to dunk the ball. (See Highlight)

President Trump is planning an executive order to close federal agencies on Christmas Eve and December 26, giving government workers a three-day break. (See Details)

Zooey Deschanel revealed that Katie Holmes was initially offered her beloved Elf role as Jovie before a scheduling conflict changed everything. Deschanel said that at the audition, she wasn’t nervous since she figured she wouldn’t get the part. (See Details)

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Daily Market Report 12/18/2025

▲	NASDAQ National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations	23,006.36	1.38%
▲	SPX S&P 500	6,774.76	0.79%
▲	DJI Dow Jones Industrial Average	47,951.85	0.14%
▼	BTC Bitcoin	$85,397.23	-0.87%
▲	GOLD Per Ounce	$4,365.10	0.40%
▼	INSP Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	$95.27	-19.45%

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➤ Big Stock Move: Inspire Medical Systems stock fell over 19% on Thursday after Medicare made a reimbursement code change impacting the company’s revenue stream. (More)

➤ Trump Media & Technology Group agreed to merge with TAE Technologies, a fusion energy company, in a merger valued at $6 billion. Under the deal, President Trump’s media company and TAE would split ownership of the combined company about evenly. Shares in Trump Media, the parent of Truth Social, rose 66% on Thursday. (More)

➤ Inflation rose less than expected in November, according to a delayed report from the government, with prices rising at a 2.7% annualized rate, lower than the 3.1% economists had forecast. (More)

➤ American Airlines on Thursday flew the first customers on the new Airbus A321XLR, a narrow-body, one-aisle long-range plane that it hopes will change air travel. The XLR stands for extra-long range and offers the ability to fly as far as 4,700 nautical miles. (See Photos)

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➤ President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday establishing goals for American space superiority, including returning Americans to the moon by 2028, establishing a lunar outpost by 2030, and deploying nuclear reactors on the Moon by 2030. (See Details)

➤ Amazon launched a web-based version of Alexa+ this week, allowing users to access the AI assistant through browsers at Alexa.com. The $19.99 monthly service is included with Prime membership, positioning Amazon to compete directly with ChatGPT. (See Details)

➤ Swearing during exercise can boost physical performance, according to new research. Participants who cursed while doing chair push-ups lasted significantly longer than those who repeated neutral words. (See Details)

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➤ Hugh Jackman stars as a shepherd in The Sheep Detectives, a murder mystery in which sheep use lessons from detective novels to solve his murder. (See Preview)

➤ Tom Cruise teamed up with The Revenant director Alejandro G. Iñárritu on Digger, a new film teased as a “comedy of catastrophic proportions” with Cruise dancing with a shovel. (See Teaser)

➤ ABC announced the return of The Muppet Show as a TV special airing Feb. 4, marking 50 years since the beloved series debuted. (See Muppets)

➤ The first footage from Steven Spielberg’s anticipated sci-fi thriller Disclosure Day, starring Emily Blunt, was released, depicting a meteorologist and whistleblower seeking to expose alien life and alleged government cover-ups. (See Trailer)

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➤ Kate Middleton and Prince William released their 2025 Christmas card photo featuring Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis. The family photo was taken in April in a field of daffodils. (See Christmas Card)

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➤ Russia’s mysterious Cold War-era radio station UVB-76, known as “The Buzzer,” transmitted 15 coded messages in one week in early December. The surge in activity mirrors patterns seen before Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, drawing attention amid heightened NATO-Russia tensions. (See Details)

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