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Nuggets forward Cameron Johnson avoids major knee injury but will miss a few games, AP source says
Tabelog, o maior (*1) serviço de busca e reserva de restaurantes do Japão, lança um aplicativo multilíngue para visitantes internacionais
TÓQUIO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–dez 24, 2025–O Tabelog ( https://tabelog.com/en/ ), o maior serviço de busca e reserva de restaurantes do Japão, administrado pela Kakaku.com, Inc., disponibilizou seu aplicativo multilíngue para smartphones (iOS/Android) destinado a viajantes internacionais na segunda-feira, 17 de novembro de 2025.Este comunicado de imprensa inclui multimédia. Veja o comunicado completo aqui: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251221164657/pt/O aplicativo multilíngue Tabelog para viajantes internacionais, é o…
After missing deadline, DOJ says it may need a ‘few more weeks’ to finish releasing Epstein files
Phison Wins Two Awards at Taiwan MOHW’s First International FHIR Server Performance Competition
TAIPEI, Taiwan–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dec 24, 2025–Phison Electronics (8299TT), a leading provider of NAND controllers and NAND storage solutions, today (December 24, 2025) announced its participation in the inaugural International FHIR Server Performance Competition hosted by Taiwan’s Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW). Leveraging its self-developed, on-premises high-performance storage server solution, Phison received two major awards — the Best Real-Time Application Award…
Faithful return to Bethlehem and Pope Leo XIV celebrates his first Christmas Eve Mass at St. Peter’s
Ravens’ Lamar Jackson absent from practice Wednesday following last weekend’s back injury
‘The best gift ever’: Baby is born after the rarest of pregnancies, defying all odds
Rescuers rushed into flames to save nursing home residents after deadly explosion
The top photos of the day by AP’s photojournalists
From front-page news to powerful moments you may have missed, this gallery showcases today’s top photos chosen by Associated Press photo editors. Categories: US & World News
DOJ says it may need a ‘few more weeks’ to finish release of Epstein files despite Dec. 19 deadline
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Wednesday that finishing the release of all of the Jeffrey Epstein files could take a “few more weeks,” further delaying compliance with a Dec. 19 deadline set by Congress. The department said the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, as well as the FBI, found more than a million…
El Banco de Desarrollo Social destaca alianzas estratégicas e iniciativas globales en DeveGo 2025
RIAD, Arabia Saudita–(BUSINESS WIRE)–dic. 24, 2025–El Banco de Desarrollo Social (SDB, por sus siglas en inglés) fue anfitrión de la segunda edición del Foro de Emprendimiento y Prácticas Comerciales Modernas, “DeveGo 2025”, que se llevó a cabo del 21 al 23 de diciembre en Riad. Celebrado bajo el patrocinio de Su Excelencia el ing. Ahmed bin Sulaiman Al Rajhi, ministro…
Social Development Bank hebt strategische Partnerschaften und globale Initiativen auf der DeveGo 2025 hervor
RIYADH, Saudi-Arabien–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dez 24, 2025–Die Social Development Bank (SDB) veranstaltete vom 21. bis 23. Dezember in Riad die zweite Ausgabe des Forums für Unternehmertum und moderne Geschäftspraktiken „DeveGo 2025“. Unter der Schirmherrschaft Seiner Exzellenz Eng. Ahmed bin Sulaiman Al Rajhi, Minister für Humanressourcen und soziale Entwicklung und Vorsitzender des Verwaltungsrats der SDB, bringt das Forum Regierungsvertreter, globale Experten, Investoren und…
US stocks drift to more records on a holiday-shortened day of trading
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Zelenskyy says he’s open to creating demilitarized zone in Ukraine’s industrial heartland
DOJ says it may need a ‘few more weeks’ to finish release of Epstein files despite Dec. 19 deadline
O Banco de Desenvolvimento Social destaca parcerias estratégicas e iniciativas globais no DeveGo 2025
RIAD, Arábia Saudita–(BUSINESS WIRE)–dez 24, 2025–O Banco de Desenvolvimento Social (SDB) sediou a segunda edição do Fórum de Empreendedorismo e Práticas Empresariais Modernas, “DeveGo 2025”, de 21 a 23 de dezembro em Riad. Realizado sob o patrocínio de Sua Excelência o engenheiro Ahmed bin Sulaiman Al Rajhi, ministro de Recursos Humanos e Desenvolvimento Social e presidente do Conselho de Administração…
Why SMX’s Execution Phase Favors Upside More Than Downside
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 24, 2025 / Once technology is validated and network effects begin to take hold, the next question investors should ask is simple: how efficiently can this platform scale? This is where SMX’s valuation profile diverges sharply from how the market still tends to frame it.SMX (NASDAQ: SMX ) is not building a…
Explosion in Moscow kills 3 people. Official says Ukrainian intelligence was behind it
SMX Is Being Valued By Monetizing Certainty, Not Sustainability Narratives
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 24, 2025 / SMX’s valuation story is one that the markets are finally coming to understand: monetization. Not revenue in the narrow, quarterly sense, but how proof converts into economic leverage once verification is embedded at scale.SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is not monetizing a promise. It is monetizing certainty. That distinction matters because markets…
Z.ai Open-Sources GLM-4.7, a New Generation Large Language Model Built for Real Development Workflows
SINGAPORE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dec 24, 2025–Z.ai released GLM-4.7 ahead of Christmas, marking the latest iteration of its GLM large language model family. As open-source models move beyond chat-based applications and into production environments, they are increasingly expected to handle long-running tasks. GLM-4.7 has been developed with these requirements in mind.This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251223393714/en/GLM-4.7 ranks #6…
Investigators sift through wreckage after a deadly Pennsylvania nursing home explosion
Explosion at a Pennsylvania nursing home traps people inside, authorities say (credit: Parkland Fire Company) BRISTOL, Pa. (AP) — Construction crews and drones searched the rubble of a Pennsylvania nursing home Wednesday, a day after a powerful explosion killed at least two people, collapsed part of the building and left several residents unaccounted for. Emergency responders from across the region had evacuated…
2026 Payer IT Outsourcing Outlook: Outcome-Based Managed Services, Production-Grade GenAI Governance, and Vendor-Risk Enforcement
Black Book Research Q4 flash survey shows health plans shifting from effort-based sourcing to KPI-backed operating models, tightening third- and fourth-party controls while accelerating platform and cloud contract rationalization.NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / December 24, 2025 / Black Book Research today released early 2026 findings from a December 2025 flash survey of 264 healthcare payer organization…
SMX’s Valuation Is Anchored in Fixing a Structural Supply-Chain Failure Markets Learned to Ignore
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 24, 2025 / One of the most misunderstood aspects of SMX’s (NASDAQ: SMX ) valuation is the nature of the problem it is addressing. This is not a feature layered onto existing systems, and it is not a workflow improvement designed to shave costs at the margins. It is a response to…
Turkey recovers black boxes from jet crash that killed top Libyan military officials
Gold’s Quiet Molecular-Level Reckoning Is Happening Outside the Spotlight
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 24, 2025 / Gold rarely makes headlines for how it moves. Markets track prices, not pathways. Once refined, metal tends to lose its story. Where it came from, who handled it, and how it crossed borders have historically mattered less than what it weighed and where it settled.That indifference is disappearing.Across global…
AHF Rose Parade® Float Honors ‘Food for Health’ Wildfire and Hunger Relief Efforts
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dec 24, 2025–AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) continues its decade-long tradition of participating in the Rose Parade ® presented by Honda, this year, with a Jack and the Beanstalk-themed float entry celebrating AHF’s “Food for Health” program to alleviate hunger and food insecurity nationwide. By the end of 2025, AHF’s Food for Health program will have served over half…
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SMX Is Transitioning From Single Deployments to Supply-Chain Infrastructure
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 24, 2025 / Once industrial validation is achieved, the next inflection point is not linear growth. It is compounding leverage. This is where SMX’s (NASDAQ:SMX) valuation story becomes far more interesting than any single contract or pilot.The last several initiatives did more than prove the technology works. They quietly began stitching together…
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Each SMX Partnership Opens a Market, the Portfolio Multiplies the Value
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 24, 2025 / One of the most overlooked aspects of SMX’s recent execution is how efficiently it is opening entire markets through partnerships rather than direct market entry. This is not expansion by brute force. It is expansion by design.SMX (NASDAQ: SMX ) is using partnerships to bypass the slowest and most…
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See the world in vertical: Top photos by AP photojournalists
Dec. 17–23, 2025 AP mobile scroll: a selection of standout vertical images published by The Associated Press in the past week. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors. Categories: US & World News
Cosmos Health Is Building a Platform, and Tariffs Are Accelerating the Strategy
CHICAGO, IL / ACCESS Newswire / December 24, 2025 / Healthcare investors have seen this movie before. A company leans hard on a single product, rides momentum while it lasts, then scrambles when conditions change. Cosmos Health (NASDAQ:COSM) chose a different path. Instead of betting the business on one asset or one trend, it focused on assembling infrastructure designed to…
SMX’s Integrated Value Proposition: One System, Many Markets, Compounding Leverage
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 24, 2025 / At its core, the SMX value proposition is not fragmented, even though it touches multiple industries. It is unified. What appears on the surface as plastics, textiles, metals, partnerships, and verification tools is, in reality, a single system designed to solve one foundational problem: the absence of persistent truth…
Cizzle Brands Corporation Announces Closing of Transformative Transaction with the Acquisition of Flow Water Inc.’s Co-Manufacturing Business
TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dec 24, 2025–Cizzle Brands Corporation (Cboe Canada: CZZL ) (the “ Company ” or “ Cizzle ”) is pleased to announce that it has completed the acquisition (the “ Acquisition ”) of all of the issued and outstanding shares of Flow Water Inc. (the “ Target ”) from RI Flow Sub LLC (the “ Vendor ”).This press release features…
Dermata Therapeutics Announces up to $12.4 Million Private Placement Priced At-The-Market Under Nasdaq Rules
$4.1 million upfront with up to approximately $8.3 million of potential additional gross proceeds upon the exercise in full of warrantsSAN DIEGO, CA / ACCESS Newswire / December 24, 2025 / Dermata Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:DRMA)(NASDAQ:DRMAW) (“Dermata,” or the “Company”), a science-driven leader in dermatologic solutions, today announced that it has entered into definitive agreements for the issuance and sale of…
Pantheon Resources PLC Announces TR-1: Notification of Major Holdings
LONDON, UK / ACCESS Newswire / December 24, 2025 / TR-1: Standard form for notification of major holdings1. Issuer DetailsISINGB00B125SX82Issuer NamePANTHEON RESOURCES PLCUK or Non-UK IssuerUK2. Reason for NotificationAn event changing the breakdown of voting rights3. Details of person subject to the notification obligationNameMichael SpencerCity of registered office (if applicable)LondonCountry of registered office (if applicable)United Kingdom4. Details of the shareholderNameCity…
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Bridgeline Expands Footprint with Closeout Retailer Choosing HawkSearch for Its On-Site Search Experience and Personalization
WOBURN, MASSACHUSETTS / ACCESS Newswire / December 24, 2025 / Bridgeline Digital, Inc. (NASDAQ:BLIN), a leader in AI-powered marketing technology, announced today that HawkSearch has been selected to power the on-site search experience for a national closeout retailer, with over 170 locations and a rapidly expanding eCommerce presence.The closeout retailer turned to HawkSearch to overcome their limitations of native search,…
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Siren obtient un investissement pour faire progresser les enquêtes basées sur l’IA pour la sécurité nationale
GALWAY, Irlande–(BUSINESS WIRE)–déc. 24, 2025–Siren, la société d’enquête tout-en-un, a annoncé aujourd’hui un investissement stratégique de la part d’ Elastic (NYSE : ESTC), la société à l’origine d’Elasticsearch. Cet investissement consolide un partenariat de dix ans entre les deux sociétés et accélère le développement de la plateforme basée sur l’IA de Siren, notamment le tout nouveau K9 AI Companion, utilisé…
Siren sichert sich Investition, um KI-gestützte Ermittlungen für die nationale Sicherheit voranzutreiben
GALWAY, Irland–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Dez 24, 2025–Siren, das All-in-One-Ermittlungsunternehmen, hat heute eine strategische Investition von Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), dem Unternehmen hinter Elasticsearch, bekannt gegeben. Mit der Investition wird die jahrzehntelange Partnerschaft zwischen den beiden Unternehmen vertieft und die Entwicklung der KI-gestützten Plattform von Siren vorangetrieben, einschließlich des neu eingeführten K9 AI Companion von Siren, der bei nationalen Sicherheits-, Strafverfolgungs- und Finanzkriminalitätsbehörden weltweit…
AEON Bank通过应用程序提供便捷的Personal Financing-i 助力缓解佳节期间预算压力
吉隆坡，马来西亚 – Media OutReach Newswire – 2025年12月24日 – 随着马来西亚人民在未来数周乃至数月内的多项财务支出做准备，包括年终假期、开学季及双佳节期间，马来西亚首家数码伊斯兰银行——AEON Bank (M) Berhad，通过提供便捷的Personal Financing-i（简称 PF-i），进一步强化其对金融普惠的承诺。 KV 从 2025年12月至2026年3月，多个高消费季节陆续来到令许多家庭面临多重支出需求。对此，AEON Bank认识到市场对灵活流动资金的需求，因而推出 PF-i 作为解决预算压力的方案。这是一项包容性强、手续简便的融资服务，可通过其数码银行应用程序轻松申请。 AEON Bank采用基于风险的定价（RBP）框架来确定具有竞争力且个性化的利润率，确保符合条件的客户能够在线无缝申请PF-i。申请人需为18至55岁的马来西亚公民，月总收入至少2500令吉，无论是受薪雇员、自雇人士还是零工经济工作者均可申请。 符合伊斯兰教法银行原则的PF-i，提供1000令吉至10万令吉的融资额度，还款期限灵活可选，从3个月至84个月不等，允许根据个人预算需求定制还款计划。接受融资后，适用的固定利润率低至年化3.88%起，另加象征性的1令吉代理费。 从申请到资金发放的整个流程均可通过AEON Bank应用程序在线完成，无需实体文件或前往分行，大幅简化手续。申请 PF-i 只需按照以下步骤操作： 步骤1：先开储蓄账户-i 在申请PF-i之前，请先下载AEON Bank应用程序并激活Savings Account-i。步骤2：资格审核与就业资料 申请人须为18岁及以上的马来西亚公民，月总收入至少2500令吉，可以是受薪雇员、自雇人士或零工工作者。步骤3：选择融资方案 选择所需的融资额度，范围从1000令吉至10万令吉，并选择灵活的还款期限，可选3至84个月。步骤4：提交证明文件 上传最新的雇员公积金（KWSP）结单，显示最近连续6个月的缴纳记录（受薪人士），或最近连续6个月的银行对账单（自雇人士/零工工作者）。步骤5：审批与资金发放 申请将即时处理，一旦获批，资金将直接存入申请人的AEON Bank Savings Account-i。还款将通过每月自动扣款方式进行。 PF-i使马来西亚民众能够获得符合伊斯兰教法的融资服务，以应对各种需求，无论是紧急财务支援、家庭预算紧张、小型装修、车辆维修，还是弥合临时现金流缺口所需的财务援助。 有关Personal Financing-i (PF-i) 的的完整详情及条款与细则， 请点击此处浏览官方网站 ，并扫描二维码下载AEON Bank应用程序: https://www.aeonbank.com.my/api/qr-handler Hashtag: #AEONBank #DigitalBanking #IslamicDigitalBank #ShariahCompliant #FinancialInclusion #IslamicFintech #PersonalFinancing https://www.aeonbank.com.my/https://www.linkedin.com/company/aeonbankmy/?viewAsMember=truehttps://x.com/aeonbankmyhttps://www.facebook.com/aeonbankmalaysiahttps://www.instagram.com/aeonbankmyThe issuer is solely responsible…
AEON Bank Bantu Ringankan Kekangan Bajet Musim Perayaan Melalui Pembiayaan Peribadi-i
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – Media OutReach Newswire – 24 Disember 2025 – Menjelang musim cuti hujung tahun, sesi persekolahan baharu dan perayaan berganda tahun hadapan, ramai rakyat Malaysia mungkin berhadapan dengan komitmen kewangan yang agak mencabar. Demi membantu meringankan tekanan kewangan tersebut, AEON Bank (M) Berhad, bank digital Islamik pertama di Malaysia tampil menawarkan penyelesaian pembiayaan yang mudah diakses menerusi…
AEON Bank Helps Ease Festive Season’s Budget Constraints with No-Hassle Personal Financing-i
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – Media OutReach Newswire – 24 December 2025 – As Malaysians gear up for multiple financial commitments in the upcoming weeks and months, especially during the year-end holidays, back-to-school and double festive season, AEON Bank (M) Berhad, Malaysia’s first digital Islamic bank, strengthens its commitment to financial inclusion by offering accessible support through its Personal Financing-i (PF-i)….
