, Entertainment, & Culture> NFL regular season wraps up this weekend with Week 18; see latest playoff picture (More) | Rosters announced for 2025 NFL Pro Bowl Games (Feb. 2) (More) | Notre Dame tops Georgia 23-10 to advance to College Football Playoff semifinals (More)
> Agnes Keleti, oldest living Olympic gold medalist and Holocaust survivor, dies at age 103 (More) | Wayne Osmond, original member of the Osmond Brothers and sibling to Donny and Marie Osmond, dies at age 73 (More)
> The 82nd Golden Globe Awards to be presented Sunday (8 pm ET, CBS); see predictions for each category (More) | Billie Eilish's "Birds of a Feather" is Spotify's most-streamed song of 2024 (More)
Science & Technology
> Meta to introduce AI-generated characters with their own profiles that will share content, interact with users across Facebook and Instagram; release date to be determined (More)
> Volcanic activity under the Yellowstone caldera is shifting toward the northeast, according to new geological survey; one of the world's biggest supervolcanoes, Yellowstone has experienced three massive eruptions over the past 2 million years (More) | Everything you need to know about the National Parks (More, w/video)
> Federal appeals court strikes down Biden administration net neutrality rules, finding regulators lack authority to restore requirements internet service providers treat all data on their networks equally (More) | Net neutrality 101 (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close lower (S&P 500 -0.2%, Dow -0.4%, Nasdaq -0.2%) in choppy first trading session of 2025 (More)
> Tesla shares drop 6% after quarterly results show first-ever annual drop in delivery numbers amid EV competition in China, Europe, and the US; Tesla delivered more than 1.7 million electric vehicles in 2024, down from more than 1.8 million in 2023 (More)
> US weekly jobless claims drop to 211,000 for week ending Dec. 28; figure is the lowest level since March 2024 (More) | US average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rises to 6.9%, the highest since July 2024 (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> The 119th Congress convenes today, with US House to vote on a speaker; current speaker Rep. Mike Johnson (R, LA-4) needs 218 votes to win—at least 14 of 219 Republicans remain undecided while one GOP lawmaker plans to vote "no" (More)
> Twenty people honored with the Presidential Citizens Medal, including former Rep. Liz Cheney (R, WY-At large) and Rep. Bennie Thompson (D, MS-2), who led House probe into Jan. 6, 2021, US Capitol storming (More) | See full list of honorees (More)
> Winter storm to bring snowfall and ice from Central Plains to mid-Atlantic regions this weekend; between 6 and 12 inches of snow expected in some areas (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
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