3 Catalysts That Can Spark a Stock Market Crash in 2026

By Sean Williams
Dec 6, 2025 at 5:06AM

Key Points

• The stock market is historically pricey, and that's typically bad news for investors.
• The music might stop for one or more of Wall Street's hyped technologies and trends in the new year.
• There's the potential for upheaval and dissent within the nation's central bank in 2026.

Have Trump’s Tariffs Hit the ‘High-Water Mark’?

A wave of companies are petitioning for exemptions from the Trump administration’s high levies on foreign-made goods, saying they are hurting business and raising prices.

By Ana Swanson

Dec. 6, 2025

Before President Trump’s tariffs took effect this year, the Chicken of the Sea factory in Lyons, Ga., was running its production lines full speed, canning enough imported tuna to build up four to six months of inventory in warehouses around the United States.

Treasure trove found in Egyptian tomb solves long-standing mystery of who was buried there

December 5, 2025 / 12:38 PM EST / CBS/AFP

A treasure trove of 225 funerary figurines has been discovered inside a tomb in the ancient Egyptian capital of Tanis in the Nile Delta, a rare find that experts say has also solved a "long-standing archaeological mystery."

EU hits Elon Musk’s X with 120 million euro fine for breaching bloc’s social media law

By  KELVIN CHAN

December 5, 2025

LONDON (AP) — European Union regulators on Friday fined X, Elon Musk’s social media platform, 120 million euros ($140 million) for breaches of the bloc’s digital regulations, in a move that risks rekindling tensions with Washington over free speech.

National parks fee-free calendar drops MLK Day, Juneteenth and adds Trump's birthday

npr December 6, 2025

By Alana Wise

The Trump administration has removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from next year's calendar of entrance fee-free days for national parks and added President Trump's birthday to the list, according to the National Park Service, as the administration continues to push back against a reckoning of the country's racist history on federal lands.

The Supreme Court takes up the most unconstitutional thing Trump has done

There is no plausible argument that Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship is constitutional.

by Ian Millhiser 

Dec 5, 2025

Last January, when Reagan-appointed Judge John Coughenour became the first federal judge to block President Donald Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship, he did not mince words. “I’ve been on the bench for over four decades,” Coughenour said. “I can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one is.”

Trump’s Security Strategy Focuses on Profit, Not Spreading Democracy

President Trump’s new National Security Strategy describes a country that is focused on doing business and reducing migration while avoiding passing judgment on authoritarians.

By Anton Troianovski

Reporting from Washington

Dec. 5, 2025

Latin American countries must grant no-bid contracts to U.S. companies. Taiwan’s significance boils down to semiconductors and shipping lanes. Washington’s “hectoring” of the wealthy Gulf monarchies needs to stop.

Build Shelters

By Tasos Pappas
04.12.25 

"If Europe wants war, we are ready," declared Russian President Putin, spreading utter chaos. "As Putin is using provocative, warmongering rhetoric, we must take our measures", the European governments replied. But Putin answered the Europeans with their own words. Last week, many officials from various European countries started this verbal dance. Do we have a short memory? One said that perhaps we had passed our last peaceful summer, another predicted war with Russia by 2028, another spoke of a pre-war era, another announced that we are already at war with Russia, another urged citizens to prepare for the inevitable, another called on Europeans to reconcile with the idea that they might see their children in coffins, another asked societies not to complain if they saw social spending cut to save resources for armaments, another spoke of building shelters.

Supreme Court revives pro-Republican Texas voting map sought by Trump

By John Kruzel and Andrew Chung

December 4, 2025

Summary

• Map at issue sets boundaries of Texas US House districts
• Redesigned map aimed to help Republicans in the 2026 elections
• The lower court blocked the map as likely racially discriminatory

WASHINGTON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court revived on Thursday a redrawn Texas electoral map designed to add more Republicans to the U.S. House of Representatives, boosting President Donald Trump's quest for his party to keep control of Congress in the 2026 midterm elections.

Exclusive: Survivors clinging to capsized boat didn’t radio for backup, admiral overseeing double-tap strike tells lawmakers

This screengrab of a video posted to Donald Trump’s Truth Social account on Tuesday, September 2, 2025, shows what Trump described as a Tren de Aragua boat carrying drugs from Venezuela, against which Trump ordered a strike. Donald Trump/Truth Social
By Katie Bo Lillis, Natasha Bertrand, Haley Britzky

The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel in early September did not appear to have radio or other communications devices, the top military official overseeing the strike told lawmakers on Thursday, according to three sources with direct knowledge of his congressional briefings.

UK and Norway form naval alliance to hunt Russian submarines

Tinshui Yeung

Reuters

The UK and Norway have signed a defence pact that will see them operate a combined fleet to hunt Russian submarines in the North Atlantic. The deal is designed to protect undersea cables - which British officials say are increasingly under threat from Moscow, with a 30% rise in Russian vessels spotted in UK waters over the past two years, according to the Ministry of Defence (MoD).

‘One of the most troubling things I’ve seen’: lawmakers briefed on double-tap strike

By Katie Bo Lillis, 

Ellis Kim, 

Morgan Rimmer, 

Annie Grayer

Two top House lawmakers emerged divided along party lines after a private briefing with the military official who oversaw September’s attack on an alleged drug vessel that included a so-called double-tap strike that killed surviving crew members, with a top Democrat calling video of the incident that was shared as part of the briefing “one of the most troubling things” he has seen as a lawmaker.

Why Greece is now the world’s best place to retire

By Maureen O'Hare

Dec 1, 2025

Humans are living 20 years longer than they did in 1950 and a growing number of people are choosing to spend their later decades abroad.

Selling up your home and leaving friends and family behind for a new life overseas is a major move that requires serious research before taking the plunge.

Democrat announces articles of impeachment against Hegseth

Andrew Solender
Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-Mich.) announced Wednesday he plans to introduce articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

Doc Rivers: “Giannis has never asked to be traded. Ever.”

The Greek Courier 

Doc Rivers Responds to Report that Giannis Asked to be Traded from the Bucks
Source: Sports Illustrated

Before the Bucks' matchup against the Pistons on Wednesday night, head coach Doc Rivers was asked about Giannis' trade rumors. He provided a firm response: “Giannis has never asked to be traded. Ever. I can’t make that more clear.”

Confirmed—SpaceX’s Starlink V2-mini satellites emit 32 times more interference and threaten global radio astronomy

by Sandra V
November 27, 2025

It's official—SpaceX's Starlink V2-mini satellites emit 32 times more interference and threaten global radio astronomy

Starlink has become a very popular name thanks to its satellites that promise faster internet connection in the entire world. However, now, scientists from several countries are concerned about these satellites causing an invisible issue that can affect global astronomy. This issue is not easy to see nor feel, but it can change the way in which we study the universe. So, let’s see a bit more about what’s going on over there.

Judge Rips Stephen Miller as “Ignorant or Incompetent, or Both”

The judge said Miller had made erroneous claims about warrantless arrests

Edith Olmsted

December 3, 2025

A federal judge on Wednesday shredded the Trump administration’s shallow defense for bragging about its rampant, warrantless immigration arrests.

EU proposes using frozen Russian assets or borrowing to give Ukraine 90 bln euros

By Julia Payne, Lili Bayer and Andrew Gray

December 3, 2025

Summary

• Von der Leyen says EU can 'dial up' pressure on Putin
• Belgium still wary of using Russian assets for Ukraine loan
• Plan was positively received by US, von der Leyen says
• Moscow has said use of its frozen assets would be theft