The ‘Trump Effect’ on Global ElectionsPresident Trump has become a common theme in races around the world. Our Canada bureau chief, Matina Stevis-Gridneff, gives a rundown of some of the results. By Matina Stevis-Gridneff, Melanie Bencosme, Karen Hanley, Laura Salaberry and James SurdamDecember 30, 2025
The Social Security Administration — the sprawling federal agency that delivers retirement, disability and survivor benefits to 74 million Americans — began the second Trump administration with a hostile takeover. Social Security officials declined to make Bisignano available for an interview, though he did respond to written questions. He has a provisional driver’s license from Maryland and needs to clear up his name with Social Security by mid-January, he said. That former analyst, Leland Dudek, insists that he saved Social Security from a worse fate under Musk’s cost-cutting team. He’d also had to switch banks and, as a result, hadn’t received Social Security checks for the last two or three months.
Reporting from The New York Times and Reuters confirms the company’s new emphasis on AR glasses and a delayed Phoenix release to 2027. Why Meta’s 2025 pivot to wearables suddenly matters for AR buyers and buildersMeta announced a shift to focus investment on wearable AR glasses; impact: 2025 strategic change. announced a shift to focus investment on wearable AR glasses; impact: 2025 strategic change. Snap is planning a consumer glasses push in 2026, creating immediate competition for developers. If you build AR experiences, will your app be ready for consumer glasses in 2026-2027?
Bijan Robinson’s Career Night Leads Falcons to Upset Win Over RamsA 229-yard game from the Atlanta Falcons running back Bijan Robinson helped the team upset the Los Angeles Rams and brought his season total to an N.F.L.-high 2,255 yards. By The AthleticDecember 30, 2025
France's Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Noel Barrot, left, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi shake hands before their meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025. (Pedro Pardo/Pool Photo via AP)BEIJING -- China’s foreign minister on Tuesday slammed a record U.S. arms sale to Taiwan as Beijing conducted the second day of military drills around the island it has long claimed as its own. China responded to the sale by launching two days of military drills around Taiwan on Monday. Beijing says it is impartial in the war but in practice signals support for Moscow through frequent state visits and joint military drills. The meetings represented China’s latest efforts to strengthen its role as an international mediator and particularly its influence in Asian regional crises.
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Ronaldo says he's confident he'll meet career goalsFootball legend Cristiano Ronaldo said his passion for the game remains “high” and that he is still motivated to reach his target of 1,000 career goals. The Portuguese forward is less than 50 goals away from the milestone mark. The 40-year-old was named Best Middle East Player at the Globe Soccer Awards in Dubai on Sunday.
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“Will the reconstruction of Gaza will begin even before Hamas is disarmed?” “I think it’s going to begin pretty soon here.” “Well, President Trump has broken so many conventions to the surprise of people. And that is to award the Israel Prize, which in almost our 80 years, we’ve never awarded it to a non-Israeli. And we’re going to award it this year to President Trump. This was announced formally over lunch by our minister of education, who is responsible for the Israel Prize. It’s going to be awarded to President Donald J. Trump for his tremendous contributions to Israel and the Jewish people.”
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We already knew that San Francisco is headed for its lowest murder rate since 1954, a year that we will point out was 71 years ago. KRON4 gets its numbers straight from the SF Police Department, via their SF Crime Dashboard seen above. 2025 crime stats are represented by the brown-orange bars, last year’s 2024 crime stats are represented with the blue bars. The only category in SF crime that showed an increase was human trafficking for sex acts, which was reported only 11 times in 2024, but 22 times in 2025. San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie announced his appointment of San Francisco Deputy Chief Derrick Lew as Chief of the San Francisco Police Department.
Reporting is important to help protect the public from stores that sell us food when they cannot seem to be unable to do the basics. Looking up, I saw something that made me double back: at least one can of ByHeart powdered infant formula on the shelf of my local Kroger, with its recall notice from November taped underneath . I quickly sent it to my editor and several experts I work with on food safety stories, thinking I’d missed some development, but they all had the same reaction. “This is nuts,” responded food safety attorney Bill Marler, who is representing several families of babies who developed infant botulism after drinking ByHeart formula. Coincidentally, that same day, he was amending the complaints he had filed to include the retailers where his clients purchased the formula, saying they hadn’t acted fast enough to get it off shelves.
(AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)Shamans hold photos of U.S. President Donald Trump and Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro during their annual ritual to predict political and social issues for the new year in Lima, Peru, Monday, Dec. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)Shamans hold photos of U.S. President Donald Trump and Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro during their annual ritual to predict political and social issues for the new year in Lima, Peru, Monday, Dec. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo)Shamans hold photos of U.S. President Donald Trump and Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro during their annual ritual to predict political and social issues for the new year in Lima, Peru, Monday, Dec. 29, 2025. In this year’s event, the shamans said that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro will be removed from office, and added that global conflicts, like the war in Ukraine will continue. After dancing in circles and playing ancestral instruments, the shamans asked for peace in the Middle East, an end to the conflict between Ukraine and Russia and the fall of President Maduro.
