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President-elect Trump is rumored to be considering replacing his Defense Secretary pick, former Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R). According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Trump is mulling another Cabinet pick switch-up as Republican Senators have concerns about sexual assault allegations against Hegseth. If he were to choose DeSantis, it would be a shocking turn for the president-elect. The Florida Governor ran a GOP presidential primary bid against Trump, and the two traded insults during the campaign. Still, the Journal noted that DeSantis was a well-known conservative who served in the military.…

The 2024-25 cyclocross season is in full swing with the top series including the Superprestige, X2O Trofee and Exact Cross getting underway last month.Star riders including Eli Iserbyt, Fem van Empel, Thibau Nys and Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado have all resumed racing and winning in recent weeks, though the two superstars of the ‘cross world, Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert, haven’t yet returned to action.Both men have been training in Spain recently following the end of their 2024 road seasons. Van der Poel ended his campaign with a bronze at the Road Worlds and the rainbow jersey…

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsSign up to our free breaking news emailsA large-scale Russian missile and drone attack targeting Ukraine’s energy system on Christmas Day has been condemned as “inhumane” by president Volodymyr Zelensky.Half a million people were left without heating in Kharkiv in temperatures just a few degrees above freezing, as blackouts were reported in Kyiv and other regions. At least one person was killed and six others wounded in the attack, described by one Ukrainian energy chief…

Ukraine has been exchanging captured Russian troops for Ukrainian POWs and following procedures and mechanisms for bringing back civilians, but the return of Ukrainian children is currently an extremely challenging matter as they cannot be exchanged. President Volodymyr Zelensky said this in an interview with CBN, Ukrinform reports. “It’s a challenge with children… See, we cannot exchange children for children. Our forcibly deported Ukrainian kids are there. We don’t hold Russian kids. We didn’t abduct anyone, we didn’t deport anyone. This never happened. And even our raid into Kursk region proves this… Not a single person was abducted, we didn’t…

The busy Christmas cyclocross schedule is in full swing and another round of the UCI’s flagship series, the UCI World Cup, is on the way in Gavere on Thursday, December 26.The event is the sixth round of the 2024-25 World Cup and takes place in the Belgian town of Gavere, where Mathieu van der Poel and Puck Pieterse took victory last season.This season, all the UCI World Cup action will be streamed for free live on the UCI YouTube page, so read on for information on how to watch the races.Mathieu van der Poel will be headlining a packed men’s…

Toyota has been offering a hybrid powertrain for the Alphard shortly after the minivan was launched in the early 2000s. Currently in its fourth generation, the people hauler doubles down on electrification by getting a charging port. It’s Japan’s first PHEV minivan and is joined by the Vellfire sister model, now in its third generation. Both were fully redesigned last year and now their lineups are growing to include a PHEV as the range-topper. The plug-in hybrid minivans, offered only with six seats, share a lithium-ion battery mounted under the floor. Toyota doesn’t disclose the pack’s capacity but estimates it…

Este artículo también está disponible en español. Bitcoin price started a recovery wave above the $95,000 level. BTC might continue to rise if it clears the $100,00 resistance zone. Bitcoin started a decent upward move above the $95,000 zone. The price is trading above $95,000 and the 100 hourly Simple moving average. There was a break above a key bearish trend line with resistance at $95,000 on the hourly chart of the BTC/USD pair (data feed from Kraken). The pair could start another increase if it stays above the $96,000 support zone. Bitcoin Price Starts Recovery Bitcoin price remained supported…

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekdayYour briefing on the latest headlines from across the USYour briefing on the latest headlines from across the US A majority of Supreme Court justices didn’t seem convinced Monday that federal regulators misled companies before refusing to allow them to sell sweet-flavored vaping products following a surge in teen e-cigarette use.The conservative-majority court did raise questions about the Food and Drug Administration crackdown that included denials of more than a million nicotine products formulated to taste like fruit, dessert or candy. Teen vaping use has…

A Mexican congressman who was a member of the ruling coalition was shot dead in coastal Veracruz state on Monday, officials said, marking yet another politician being targeted by violence in the country.”Benito Aguas Atlahua has passed away as a result of wounds caused by an aggression with a firearm,” the state prosecutor’s office said in a statement.The body of a man identified as Agustin Linares was also found at the scene of the attack in Zongolica municipality, the statement added. Authorities did not say how Linares, who was an engineer, died.Authorities have not provided further information as to the…

Deploying a telescope in space is one thing. Making two of them deep under the sea is a task in a league of its own. On a ship bobbing in the Mediterranean Sea, physicists — not typically known for their sea legs — brave weeklong voyages and rough waters, working around the clock to deploy the telescopes’ detectors. The telescopes are designed to detect not light, but neutrinos. These subatomic particles are spewed at high energies from mysterious, unidentified realms of space. But such high-energy neutrinos are so rare, and so stealthy, that the detectors that study them must be…