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Yahoo SportsLeBron James to miss second straight game for Lakers; JJ Redick doesn't know when star will return
James "is taking some time" from the team after missing practice this week due to "personal reasons."
- Reuters
MicroStrategy secures Nasdaq-100 inclusion after bitcoin-fueled stock surge
The change comes into effect prior to market open on Dec. 23, Nasdaq added. An inclusion in the index typically boosts stock prices, as exchange-traded funds looking to replicate the index's performance buy shares of the included firm. MicroStrategy, an aggressive investor in the world's largest crypto asset, has seen its shares soar more than six-fold so far this year, taking its market value to almost $94 billion.
- BBC
UK 'doesn't have enough builders' for Rayner's 1.5m homes
Builders and developers say reforms are needed to recruit more tradespeople to build the homes being promised.
- MMA Junkie
Cage Warriors champ Kennedy Freeman announces second generation UFC signing
Kennedy Freeman is headed to the UFC, the same banner under which her father made history. On Friday, Freeman (6-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC) announced her UFC signing. She will join her father, pioneering U.K. fighter Ian Freeman, in the UFC history books. Details about when or vs. whom…
- KGTV - San Diego Scripps
Senior Gleaners win award for harvesting fruit to help San Diego's needy
The Grandquists are blessed with more than two acres of beautiful orchards on their property in Encinitas, but they have no way to use the thousands of lemons their trees produce twice a year.
- USA TODAY
Supreme Court to hear challenge to California's pace-setting vehicle emissions rules
California wants to move away from gas-powered cars. But fuel producers argue the state is acting as a "quasi-federal regulator on global climate change."
- People
Randy Moss Reveals He Has Cancer After Multiple Surgeries, Says He’s a ‘Survivor’
The Hall of Famer revealed he underwent surgery on Thanksgiving and was hospitalized for a week, and is now set to undergo chemotherapy
- BBC
Comedian McCausland tipped to be Strictly's first blind winner
Chris McCausland, JB Gill, Sarah Hadland and Tasha Ghouri are competing for the glitterball trophy.
- Yahoo Life Shopping
Best nontoxic cookware: Audit your kitchen and switch out potentially dangerous aluminum pots and pans
Some aluminum pots and pans could cause lead poisoning — these are the safest nontoxic cookware options.
- The Weather Network
Record-breaking pressure will be over Ontario, Quebec this weekend
Records for highest atmospheric pressure will be under threat this weekend
- PA Media: Entertainment
Jude Law postponed Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony after death of mother
The actor said his mother ‘showed me the great silent movies and the comedies and musicals and dramas of the Hollywood Golden Era’.
- The Guardian
Body of woman found wrapped in plastic near Sydney airport identified
Police searching for husband of Zhuojun ‘Sally’ Li after Monday discovery in Botany, with ‘grave concerns’ for his welfare
- Reuters
Consulting firm McKinsey to pay $650 million to resolve US opioid charges
McKinsey & Co has agreed to pay $650 million to resolve charges over advice it provided Purdue Pharma on how to "turbocharge" sales of its addictive painkiller OxyContin, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Friday. The consulting firm entered into a five-year deferred prosecution agreement filed in federal court in Abingdon, Virginia, to resolve criminal charges brought as part of the latest corporate prosecution concerning the marketing of addictive painkillers that helped fuel the deadly U.S. opioid epidemic. A former senior McKinsey partner, Martin Elling, has also agreed to plead guilty to obstructing justice by destroying records concerning McKinsey's work for Purdue.
- Sky News
Nancy Pelosi in hospital in Luxembourg after suffering injury during trip
Former speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has been taken to hospital in Luxembourg after suffering an injury during an "official engagement". The AP news agency reported Ms Pelosi tripped and fell while with a congressional delegation in Luxembourg marking the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during the Second World War. Ms Pelosi's office said she would be unable to attend the remainder of events on her trip and "looks forward to returning home to the US soon" but added that "she continues to work".
- KGTV - San Diego Scripps
Popular Coronado coffee cart to possibly close
A coffee cart that's been in the community for more than eight years is possibly coming to a close.
- The Canadian Press
Court denies TikTok's request to halt enforcement of potential US ban until Supreme Court review
A federal appeals court on Friday left in place a mid-January deadline in a federal law requiring TikTok to be sold or face a ban in the United States, rejecting a request made by the company to halt enforcement until the Supreme Court reviews its challenge of the statute.
- Variety
‘Dexter: Original Sin’ Is Guilty of Beating a Dead Horse: TV Review
It is seemingly not possible for “Dexter,” as a franchise, to move forward. In the final moments of the sequel series “New Blood,” which aired eight years after the original series finale in 2013, Michael C. Hall’s serial killer was fatally shot. (Or at least, he appeared to be — more on that in a …
- WGAL - Lancaster/Harrisburg
Wake Up Call: The Lititz Academy of Dance
Wake Up Call: The Lititz Academy of Dance
- Good Housekeeping
Jared Padalecki Breaks Silence on Instagram With Important Fan Message
'Fire Country' alum Jared Padalecki broke his Instagram silence with a hopeful message referencing his 'Supernatural' character.
- CBC
Calls for safety improvements to crosswalk at Elbow Drive and 61st Avenue S.W.
A community in southwest Calgary wants the city to put up flashing lights at a crosswalk. It's where a pedestrian was killed a few weeks ago while crossing the road near Chinook Centre.