Top news headlines of 2025 month-by-month

Here’s a look back at the year that was… January Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th President of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts, as Melania…

1,000-pound U.S.-made WWII bomb found in Belgrade construction site

A 1,000-pound aerial bomb used by the United States and Allied forces during World War II was safely removed from a construction site in a central district of Serbia’s capital,…

US economy grew strongly in third quarter, GDP report says

The US economy surged over the summer, the commerce department announced on Tuesday in one of the final snapshots of the nation’s finances to be released in 2025. Gross domestic…

Planning to return unwanted Christmas gifts? You may be charged fees.

Hassle-free returns may be a thing of the past, and if you’re staring at a stack of unwanted Christmas gifts, you may have to think twice before mailing them back.…

Larry Ellison gives personal guarantee for Paramount takeover of Warner Bros Discovery

The tech billionaire Larry Ellison has agreed to provide a personal guarantee of more than $40bn for Paramount Skydance’s fight to gain control of Warner Bros Discovery, amid an extraordinary…

Pentagon will cough up summaries of three years of safety investigations, per NDAA

The Pentagon will have to provide summaries of nearly three years’ worth of internal safety investigations under the annual defense policy bill, a provision inserted to force transparency amid a rise…

As beef prices rise, small butcher shops adapt to changing demand

Tolland, Connecticut — Stephen Boyer has owned The Country Butcher in Tolland, Connecticut, for nearly 40 years. He says the holidays are one of their busiest times of the year.…

Dad uses cellphone data to rescue missing daughter, police say

A Texas teenager was rescued by her father after she was forced into a truck at knifepoint on Christmas Day, police said.  Patrol deputies with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office…

Good news you may have missed in 2025

Good news you may have missed in 2025 – CBS News Watch CBS News The bad news from the past year (and there was a lot of it) drowned out…

Brigitte Bardot, 1960s cinema icon and animal rights activist, dies at 91

Brigitte Bardot, the French 1960s sex symbol who became one of the greatest screen sirens of the 20th century and later a militant animal rights activist and far-right supporter, has…

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