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The Latest: 12/23/2025 01:59pm ET

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This is your twenty four to seven use update.

The latest use this hour in just four minutes.

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Triple A says more than one hundred and twenty two million Americans are set to travel this holiday period, and roughly ninety percent of them will be driving fueled by cheaper gas prices.

Drivers in the Northeast should be prepared for snowy roads out west, winds and heavy rain are in the forecast for tonight.

Mentions that President Trump and the latest batch of Epstein files comes with a warning from the Justice Department.

The DOJ released more than eleven thousand files in its latest release, including court records, emails, videos, and news clippings.

The DOJ said some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right.

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Before the twenty twenty election.

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At least five people are dead after a small Mexican Navy plane crashed yesterday in the waters near Galveston, Texas.

The plane was carrying a burn patient who was among those killed.

The aircraft took off in Mexico and crashed into Galveston Bay after three pm local time.

Two people serve I have the crash, while another is missing and presumed dead.

Ukrainian President Zelenski is acknowledging that American security guarantees are a key point of disagreement.

NBC's Molly Hunter reports the remark comes as Russia launched new drone attacks across Ukraine.

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The Ukrainian militaries has Russia fired more than six hundred and thirty drones three dozen missiles overnight.

The attack lasted into the daylight hours of this morning.

At least three people were killed, including a four year old child, according to Ukrainian officials.

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In a post on x Yesterday's Eelenski cited key security guarantees as the fundamental difference in arrangements, noting that any guarantees will need to be approved by Congress and will be binding meantime.

At top a to Russian President Putin is contradicting US claims of productive meetings in Miami this past weekend, a memorial service is being planned for late Hollywood icon Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle.

That's according to a new statement from their children, Romey and Jake.

They also thank the public for its outpouring of love and support.

Rob and Michelle Reiner were found stabbed to death in their Brentwood home on December fourteenth.

Their son, Nick, has been charged with two counts of first degree murder.

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I'm Chris Krasio.

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The FDAs recalling eighty three thousand bags of potentially radioactive frozen shrimp sold its stores in the Northeast.

The raw shrimp, sold in one pound bags with April twenty twenty seven best buy dates, was available at Safeway, Price Chopper, Jewelasco, and Lucky Supermarkets.

No illnesses have been reported, but the FDA warns repeated exposure could raise cancer risk.

Consumers are urged not to eat the shrimp and return it to stores for a full refund.

Most Americans say they'd rather stay a hotel for the holidays than in homes of family and friends.

Roy O'Neil reports.

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The report from the Hotel Tonight booking app says sixty one percent of Americans would choose a hotel over couch surfing because of privacy concerns.

Some just like having hotel amenities like a bar or a pool.

Amenities are also a key reason cited in another survey from Reward's Point Maximizer Guide upgraded points.

That survey found more than sixty percent of travelers prefer hotels to short term rentals.

I'm Murray O'Neil fast, that.

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Says back, I'll get the poll out of the crawl space.

Today's Festivus a holiday popularized by the hit ninety sitcom Seinfeld.

The origins of the holiday can be traced back to Seinfeld writer Dan O'Keefe's father, who celebrated something similar starting back in the nineteen sixties.

Some bits were changed for the episode that aired in nineteen ninety seven, and today some still celebrate.

It involves an aluminum pole instead of a Christmas tree, an airing of grievances where people share how others disappointed them this year, and feats of strength.

A life ring from the SS Edmund Fitzgerald and a wooden plank from one of the ship's lifeboats sold at auction in Detroit late last week for one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

The orange life ring was found a week after the doomed ships sank in Lake Superior in November of nineteen seventy five, killing all twenty nine on board.

Seventy seven year old Larry Orr found both the life ring and plank back on his twenty seventh birthday and hopes the new owner returns the items to public display for people to appreciate to learn about Great Lakes shipwrecks.

I'm Chris Karagio.

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