News for December 26, 2025

UT Southwestern Medical Center will run North Texas’ first state-run psychiatric hospital, which is set to open next summer in Dallas.

The Kennedy Center criticized musician Chuck Redd after he canceled a holiday show in protest of the building adding President Donald Trump’s name.

Wild hogs are causing heavy damage to Mississippi farms, and John Parker Campbell says his family has had to spend time and money fighting a problem that keeps getting worse.

Two police officers were injured and a suspect was killed after a gunfight during a child custody exchange at a shopping center in Mint Hill, North Carolina.

Ashlee Buzzard pleaded not guilty to murder after police found her 9-year-old daughter, Melodee Buzzard, dead in Utah.

Andrea Merrell, a hospital security guard at M Health Fairview Lakes Medical Center in Wyoming, Minnesota, died after police say she was attacked by a patient on Christmas Day.

The death toll from the UPS plane crash in Kentucky has risen to 15 after Louisville officials confirmed that injured victim Alain Rodriguez Colina died.

Ghislaine Maxwell is under fresh scrutiny as newly released grand jury records and victim accounts highlight her role in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse case while she seeks to overturn her prison sentence.

Nigeria cooperated with the United States on airstrikes against suspected Islamic State militants after President Donald Trump had threatened unilateral action.

China sanctioned 20 U.S. defense companies and 10 executives after a new U.S. arms deal for Taiwan, raising tensions between the United States and Taiwan on one side and China on the other.

Titan Mining is trying to restart U.S. graphite production as demand rises and officials seek to reduce reliance on China.

The death toll from the UPS cargo plane crash in Louisville has risen to 15 after a severely injured man, Alain Rodriguez Colina, died more than seven weeks after the accident.