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Dan Bongino announced on Wednesday that he is stepping down as deputy director of the FBI, ending a nine-month stint that was frequently overshadowed by conflict with Justice Department leaders and resistance
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After months of political turbulence and scrutiny in Washington, tech billionaire and private astronaut Jared Isaacman has been confirmed as the next administrator of NASA, placing a leading advocate of commercial spaceflight
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Upon its release in December 2025, Dhurandhar was readily accepted as another commercial success in the profitable Bollywood spy genre, and box office collections saw its revenue soaring well past 350 crores
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India’s capital, Delhi, has been suffering from poor Air Quality Index (AQI) levels during certain periods every year. On 15 December 2025, the AQI was recorded as high as 452. An AQI
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On December 16, 2025, Japan’s Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi reiterated serious concern over a China-Russia joint bomber flights near the Shikoku region in western Japan. Koizumi’s remarks came in response to a
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On 14 December, the predictable happened: José Antonio Kast, the candidate of the far-right Republican Party, prevailed over Jeannette Jara of the Communist Party of Chile by 58.16 percent to 41.84 percent.
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On 10 December 2025, U.S. forces seized the oil tanker Skipper off the coast of Venezuela, carrying over a million barrels of crude. “Well, we keep [the oil],” President Trump told reporters. Venezuela’s foreign
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JPMorgan Chase has withdrawn almost $350 billion in cash from its account at the Federal Reserve since 2023, redirecting much of the money into US government debt as it prepares for an
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Bangladesh’s deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has accused the country’s Chief Adviser, Muhammad Yunus, of sponsoring extremist elements and has called for his departure ahead of the forthcoming national elections. Speaking in
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