Sports, Entertainment, & Culture
> College Football Playoff begins tonight, with Alabama versus Oklahoma at 8 pm ET (More) | YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul to fight two-time heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua at 8 pm ET on Netflix (More)
> Former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, his wife, and their two children are among those killed in a North Carolina business jet plane crash (More)
> Tennessee governor pardons Jelly Roll, whose convictions include robbery and drug felonies; country star says pardon will make it easier for him to travel internationally for concerts and Christian missionary work (More)
Science & Technology
> Federal regulators unanimously agree to let data centers siphon energy directly from power plants—a decision celebrated by several technology companies but criticized by some consumer advocates (More)
> Experimental drug successfully fights toxic peptides that appear to drive several of the earliest brain changes associated with Alzheimer's disease in a mouse model, suggesting a new strategy to prevent—significantly delay—the disease (More)
> Researchers create first scientifically validated personality test framework for AI chatbots, supporting the notion that models display human-like traits and that these traits can be manipulated with prompting (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close higher (S&P 500 +0.8%, Dow +0.1%, Nasdaq +1.4%) (More) | Consumer price index rose 2.7% year over year in November, down from 3% rise in September—the last month of available data (More)
> TikTok signs deal to sell US entity to joint US venture controlled by investor group including Oracle, private equity firm Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi’s MGX; agreement to close Jan. 22 (More)
> Trump Media to merge with Alphabet-backed fusion energy company TAE Technologies in an over $6B all-stock deal (More) | Explore the Trump family business empire (More) | Hogan Lovells to merge with Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, creating fifth-largest global law firm by revenue at $3.6B (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announces proposed rules to cut Medicaid and Medicare funding to hospitals providing gender-related medical care to minors (More) | President Donald Trump orders the Justice Department to fast-track reclassifying marijuana as a Schedule III substance (More)
> Pope Leo XIV appoints little-known Bishop Ronald Hicks from his Illinois hometown to succeed Cardinal Timothy Dolan in leading the New York diocese, the US' second-largest by population after Los Angeles (More)
> Kennedy Center board, including members selected by President Donald Trump, votes to rename the center the "Trump-Kennedy Center" (More) | White House installs plaques in the complex mocking former Presidents Joe Biden, Barack Obama (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
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