The Latest: 12/14/2025 08:59pm ET

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is your twenty four to seven Use update the
latest use this hour in just four minutes. Australian Prime
Minister Anthony Albanizi says the shooting at a Jewish event
in Australia was an act of pure evil. At least
fifteen people are dead and forty others remain hospitalized after
gunden opened fire in a terror attack on a crowded

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Bondi beach in Sydney. The victims range in age from
ten to eighty seven years old. Officials say the shooters
involved were a father and son. The father was shot
and killed by officers, while the son remains in the hospital.
Today is the first day of the Jewish festival Hanukkah,
and authority say Jewish families were celebrating on the beach.
Flags are flying at half staff in Australia to honor

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the victims. President Trump is offering his condolences after the
series of mass shootings over the weekend. During an event
at the White House today, Trump paid tribute to the
families of the victims killed in Syrium, Australia and Providence,
Rhode Island Down University.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Nine injured and two are looking down on US right
now from heaven. And likewise in Australia, as.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
You know, there was a terrible attack. The President called
it a rough day. Another blast of dangerously cold air
is spreading across the central United States. Millions living in
the Central Plains, Midwest, and Great Lakes region were coping
with temperatures thirty degrees below average this morning. Forecasters say
the Arctic air mass could spread as far south as
Louisiana today and could keep high temperatures well below freezing

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from Indiana to Minnesota. Record cold daily high temperatures are
possible in Midwestern cities, including Indianapolis and Cincinnati. Forecasters warned
that wind chills could make the weather even more dangerous
to exposed skin. For the first time since twenty fourteen,
the Kansas City Chiefs will miss the playoffs and their
star QB as a torn acl The Chiefs last sixteen

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to thirteen to the Los Angeles Chargers today, with Patrick
Mahomes leaving the game late in the fourth quarter after
the injury. Kansas City went undefeated in twelve one score
games last season, falling to just one and seven in
those same games this year. I'm Rob Bartier. Nobody won
the Billion dollar Powerball Jim Forbes as the latest Saturday.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Night's powerball drawing was worth a billion dollars, making it
the seventh largest and lottery game's history. The powerball website says, however,
that nobody matched all six numbers and Saturdays drawing, so
the jackpot will roll over to Monday's drawing, when it
will be worth one point one billion dollars. But don't
throw your ticket out just yet. There were seven tickets

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sold that matched five to the six numbers and could
be worth up to two million dollars each. I'm Jim Forbes.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Indiana Hoosiers quarterback Fernando Mendoza has won the Heisman Trophy.
Mendoza is the first Indiana player to win the award.
The redshert junior transferred last offseason from the University of California,
Berkeley and accounted for thirty nine touchdowns in thirteen games,
leading the Hoosiers to a perfect thirteen to zero regular
season record and a Big Ten Conference championship. The u

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is the top ranked school heading into the college football playoffs.
They're followed by Ohio State, Georgia and Texas Tech. All
four teams get a first round by Frank Sinatra. He
is scoring his first number one song on the Billboard's
Adult Contemporary chart since nineteen sixty seven. Sinatra's cover of
I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm with Pentatonics
this week leaped four spots to reach number one on

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the AC charts.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
What Do I Care? How much it may start?

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Guy?

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Why Love to Keep Me Warm?

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Securing the top spot on the charts is a first
four Pentatonics, but it marks the seventh time for the
late crooner. An estimated three million volunteers took part in
wreaths across America Day this weekend. They placed holiday wreaths
at more than fifty six hundred military cemeteries nationwide in
a tribute to veterans. Hundreds turned out at Arlington National
Cemetery in DC on Saturday as volunteers placed a wreath

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on all two hundred and sixty five thousand headstones. I'm Robartier.