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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a national firearms buyback plan to “take more guns off our streets” in the wake of the Bondi Beach shooting. Mr Albanese told a news conference in Canberra on Friday that the plan would involve purchasing surplus firearms and newly banned illegal firearms. He said the government would introduce legislation to help fund the scheme and share the cost with states and territories. Mr Albanese also announced a day of remembrance for the victims on December 21, flags to be flown at half-staff at all government buildings in New South Wales and Australia,…

A much-transformed Crystal Palace were forced to settle for a 2-2 draw with a 10-man KuPS side at Selhurst Park in the UEFA Conference League knockout stage play-offs.Palace finished 10th in the Conference League table, with two more games in February for Oliver Glasner’s side after the Austrian manager had already complained about an “irresponsible” fixture schedule during the festival period. Who will Palace face in the play-offs? Palace will announce their opponents for the Conference League play-off round on Friday 16 January 2026. The draw in Nyon includes teams that finished between ninth and 24th in the league stage.…

During her career in technology, Cat Goetze says she has made an effort to reduce the amount of time she spends looking at her phone screen.The 100-year LA-based technology entrepreneur said she found herself using her phone too much early in her career and decided to make a concerted effort to curb that habit. She ended up taking “an almost complete break from social media for five years.””I was sober while watching the movie, so to speak,” Goetze told CNBC Make It.Her quest to reduce screen time led her to create a physical phone, a landline-style phone that connects to…

President Donald Trump’s administration has proposed a new set of rules that would prohibit hospitals across the country from providing gender-affirming medical care to transgender youth under 18.On Thursday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that one of its proposed rules would block hospitals and clinics from accessing the program if they choose to continue providing gender-affirming care.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listThe second rule would prohibit federal Medicaid funds from providing gender-affirming procedures.Medicare and Medicaid are both types of government-provided health insurance that are offered to vulnerable groups. Medicaid primarily covers low-income households, and…

Michael van Gerwen overcame a huge scare to beat Japan’s Mitsuhiko Tasunami 3-1 in the first round of the World Darts Championship at Alexandra Palace. In a nervy match, it appeared that Van Gerwen could have been sent home, which would have meant his first first-round exit since 2011, when he lost to Mensur Suljovic. After performing a smooth dance as a walk-on, Tatsunami had the crowd firmly on his side as he shouted his name, and what was even more impressive was the fact that the hero of the afternoon, Sanmo Sakai, was among the crowd cheering him on.…

A worker stocks Angus beef top sirloin fillets in the meat section of a Washington, D.C., grocery store.Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call Inc. | Getty ImagesInflation unexpectedly slowed in November as a slowdown in various consumer products outweighed price pressures in categories such as gasoline, but economists said the numbers should be interpreted with caution due to uneven data collection during the government shutdown. The Consumer Price Index, a key barometer of inflation, rose 2.7% in November from a year earlier, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Thursday. This was slower than expected and slowed from the 3% inflation rate…

Samuel Boivin | Null Photo | Getty ImagesTikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew told employees Thursday that the company’s U.S. operations will be set up in a new joint venture.The entity is called TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, according to a memo sent by Chew and obtained by CNBC. As part of the joint venture, Chu said the company has signed agreements with three management investors: oracleMGX based in Silver Lake, Abu Dhabi. He said the “completion date” for the deal was Jan. 22.Under a national security law upheld by the Supreme Court in January, China-based ByteDance must sell TikTok’s U.S.…

Lawmakers are releasing photos related to convicted sex offenders as the Justice Department meets Friday’s deadline for more releases.Published December 18, 2025December 18, 2025Click here to share on social mediaShare 2shareUS House Democrats have released dozens more photos from the estate of financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.Thursday’s release came a day before the Justice Department is set to release a more comprehensive set of files related to Epstein, who died in a New York prison in 2019 while awaiting sex trafficking charges.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of list”We will continue to release photos and documents to provide…

milan AP — A wildlife photographer stumbled upon one of the oldest and largest known collections of dinosaur footprints, dating back some 210 million years to the Triassic period, in the highlands of an Italian national park near Bormio, site of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, officials announced Tuesday. Experts said the discovery in Stelvio National Park was shocking because of the sheer number of footprints – an estimated 20,000 footprints spread over about 5 kilometers (3 miles) – and because dinosaur footprints had never been found before in a former prehistoric coastal region near the Swiss border. “In this…

As of this week, ChatGPT has reached a new milestone of $3 billion in global consumer spending on mobile, according to estimates from app intelligence provider Appfigures. This figure represents total spending on iOS and Android devices since the app was first released in May 2023, and then only on iOS. Image credit: Appfigures Notably, most of that spending was done this year. Globally, consumers spent an estimated $2.48 billion on ChatGPT mobile apps in 2025. This is a 408% year-over-year increase from $487 million in 2024. In 2023, the app’s first year of availability, it earned $42.9 million, before…