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US tech enabled China���s surveillance empire. Now Tibetan refugees in Nepal are paying the price 12/21/2025 08:33am • KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) ��� The white dome of Boudhanath rises like a silent guardian over the chaotic sprawl of Nepal���s capital, Kathmandu, crowned by a golden spire that pierces the sky. Painted on each of the spire���s four sides are the benevolent eyes of the Buddha ��� wide, calm, and unblinkin Saudi Arabia quietly expands access to its only alcohol store for non-Muslim residents 12/21/2025 01:13am • RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) ��� Saudi Arabia has quietly expanded access to its only store that sells alcohol, allowing wealthy foreign residents to buy booze in the latest step in the once-ultraconservative kingdom���s experiment in liberalization. There���s been no official announcement of the decis Missing 79-year-old Herndon man found dead 12/21/2025 12:02am • A 79-year-old Herndon, Virginia, man who had been missing since Monday was found dead on Saturday. Authorities said that they found the body of Leonard Hugh Thompson in Troutville.�� He had been missing since Monday evening, where surveillance video captured him pumping gas at an Exxon on Paci Prince George���s County fire and police departments team up for Toys for Tots 12/20/2025 08:23pm • One of the country���s largest annual Toys for Tots distribution events took place in Landover, Maryland, on Saturday, a couple of days before Christmas. A line of people stretching out more than a half mile waited for their turn to collect toys for their children, grandchildren, nieces and n Alijah Arenas returns to practice with USC after car crash and knee injury 12/20/2025 06:10pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Alijah Arenas has practiced for the first time with Southern California's basketball team as he continues recovering from a knee injury he sustained last summer. ���It feels great to be back,��� Arenas said. ���I���ve been longing for it. I���m not getting off the court now.��� Russian strike on Odesa kills 8 as US hosts a Kremlin envoy for talks on peace plan 12/20/2025 02:45pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� A Russian missile strike on port infrastructure in Odesa in southern Ukraine killed eight people and wounded 27, Ukraine���s emergency service said Saturday, as a Kremlin envoy was set to travel to Florida for talks on a U.S.-proposed plan to end the nearly four-year war, T 3 officers wounded, suspect killed and another man wounded after New York domestic dispute call 12/20/2025 08:50am • ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) ��� Three police officers were hospitalized with gunshot wounds Saturday, the gunman was dead and another man was wounded after a domestic dispute turned into a volatile confrontation across multiple blocks in Rochester, New York, police said. One officer was in critical condit How surveillance technology and the 'Reddit Detective Agency' helped search for a killer 12/20/2025 08:48am • PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) ��� More than a decade ago, a frenzied 5-day search for the Boston Marathon bombers left some lessons in its aftermath. One was that increasingly pervasive surveillance technology could help catch the culprits. Another was that amateur online sleuths on Reddit could not. But th Walmart and other US companies want to build a pipeline of skilled tradespeople 12/20/2025 05:10am • BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) ��� As the number of skilled tradespeople dwindles in the United States, Walmart is trying to build up its own workforce to keep conveyor belts moving, refrigerated grocery cases cold, and drains and parking lots flowing. The nation���s largest retailer and private employer Today in History: December 20, the Louisiana Purchase is completed 12/20/2025 04:10am • Today is Saturday, Dec. 20, the 354th day of 2025. There are 11 days left in the year. Today in history: On Dec. 20, 1803, the Louisiana Purchase was completed as ownership of the territory was formally transferred from France to the United States. Also on this date: In 1860, South Carolina became t Taiwan attacker planned assault that killed 3 and injured 11, authorities say 12/20/2025 01:44am • TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) ��� Taiwanese authorities said Saturday the suspect who killed three people and injured 11 others in knife and smoke-grenade attacks in the island's capital had planned the assaults and set fires at other locations earlier in the day. The suspect, identified as a 27-year-old man Suspect in Brown University shooting and MIT professor���s killing was once a physics student 12/20/2025 12:12am • PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) ��� Thirty years ago, Claudio Neves Valente and Nuno F.G. Loureiro were classmates with bright futures. Both excelled in physics and made their way from their home country of Portugal to the U.S., settling on the campuses of prestigious East Coast universities. But Neves Valent Brown University attack suspect died 2 days before his body was found, autopsy finds 12/19/2025 08:32pm • An autopsy determined that the man suspected in last weekend's attack at Brown University and the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor days later had been dead for two days when his body was found, New Hampshire's attorney general's office said Friday Authorities found Forecasters issue rare weather warning as strong gusts fuel wildfire threats in Colorado 12/19/2025 07:47pm • The National Weather Service on Friday issued a rare warning for part of Colorado's Front Range as hurricane-force winds and tinder dry conditions boosted the threat of wildfire across several counties, while flood warnings were issued in Oregon as rivers there swelled from heavy rain. It marked ano A brief encounter, two attacks and then a break in investigations into the Brown and MIT shootings 12/19/2025 07:19pm • PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) ��� Just before Thanksgiving, Claudio Neves Valente checked into a Boston hotel and traveled to Brown University, where he had studied physics 25 years earlier. The drive to Providence was short, and in the days that followed, the 48-year-old Portuguese national returned to the