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YouTube said in a blog post today (Dec. 17) that it intended to withdraw its streaming data from all of Billboard’s charts, effective Jan. 16 (for the charts dated Jan. 31). The blog post comes in the wake of Billboard’s announcement yesterday (Dec. 16) of a change to chart methodology that will continue to weigh subscription streams more favorably than ad-supported streams, in a bid to better reflect changing consumer behaviors and the increased revenue derived from streaming in the industry. The change means that paid/subscription streams will be weighted against ad-supported streams at a 1:2.5 ratio, narrowed from the…

SportsLine NFL expert Jeff Hochman’s system paid off in Week 14, with the New Orleans Saints and Las Vegas Raiders covering the spread, and he hit one of two in Week 15. The Houston Texans blew out the Arizona Cardinals, who were giving 9.5 points, but the Washington Commanders beat the New York Giants as 2.5-point underdogs. Hochman has lined up another system for Week 16 of the 2025 NFL season and identified two spots bettors can target.NFL teams bouncing back after shutout lossesWin Rate: 31-12-4 ATS (72.1%)Sample Size: Since 2011Criteria: Teams scoring zero points in the prior weekEdge: Non-Division…

Billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the next administrator of NASA. The private astronaut and founder of the Shift4 payments processing platform will now be in charge of an agency that faces great uncertainty under President Trump. Isaacman’s confirmation comes a little over a year after Trump nominated him. It was a volatile year for Isaacman, though, as Trump pulled his nomination in June after becoming concerned about the billionaire’s “prior associations.” (Isaacman had previously donated to Democrats, something Trump was reportedly aware of when he first nominated the entrepreneur.) That led to months…

We’re running out of snappy ledes about how the labor market has roiled from economic challenges…and it seems we’re going to need to get creative. While slightly more employers plan to hire in Q1 2026 than in Q4 2025, many anticipate continuing to hold off, citing economic uncertainty, a new ManpowerGroup survey found. Forty-three percent of employers plan to increase their staff in Q1 2026, while 16% are planning reductions, according to the survey, which tracked responses from 6,000-plus employers in the US. Another 37% said they don’t anticipate changes. By comparison, 41% of employers planned to hire in Q4 2025, while…

Members of the National Guard patrol along Constitution Ave. on December 01, 2025 in Washington, DC. Heather Diehl/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Heather Diehl/Getty Images North America National Guard troops can remain in Washington, D.C. while a panel of judges examines whether the deployment ordered by President Trump is legal, according to a Federal Appeals Court for Washington, D.C. ruling. More than 2,000 troops have been deployed in the city since August, both from the District and at least 11 Republican-led states. Hundreds more were added after a targeted attack on National Guard troops killed one and…

A screenshot from a 2021 video taken by Guan Heng shows what he said was a detention center in the Xinjiang region of China. Guan Heng/Screenshot by NPR hide caption toggle caption Guan Heng/Screenshot by NPR Guan Heng, a native of landlocked north-central China, was so desperate to reach the United States in October 2021 that he decided to buy a small inflatable boat, and set sail from the Bahamas. He had just published a roughly 20-minute video drawn from footage he had filmed in China’s Xinjiang region where people were reportedly being detained. Guan believed the film would lead…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Gil Gerard, best known for starring in “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century,” has died. He was 82. Gerard’s manager, Tina Presley Borek, confirmed the Hollywood actor’s death to Fox News Digital. He died Tuesday in hospice care as a result of a rare, aggressive form of cancer, according to the Associated Press.TERENCE STAMP, GENERAL ZOD IN ‘SUPERMAN’ AND ‘BILLY BUDD,’ DEAD AT 87 Gil Gerard died Tuesday after a battle with cancer. (Walt Disney Television Photo Archives/Walt Disney Television via Getty Images)Following his death, Gerard’s wife, Janet, shared a message he left behind…

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the awards season’s most talked-about movies continues with Wicked: For Good, the second film in the Jon M. Chu-directed adaptation of the beloved Broadway musical. Written by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox, Wicked: For Good picks up with a time jump following Elphaba’s (Cynthia Erivo) show-stealing “Defying Gravity” as the Wicked Witch of the West torments Yellow Brick Road construction and hides in the woods beyond Oz. Jonathan Bailey’s Fiyero leads the soldiers that search for her, while Glinda (Ariana Grande) has become a popular public figure under the thumb of Madame Morrible (Michelle Yeoh). Two new songs…

Josh WeinfussDec 17, 2025, 02:34 PM ETCloseJosh Weinfuss is a staff writer who covers the Arizona Cardinals and the NFL at ESPN. Josh has covered the Cardinals since 2012, joining ESPN in 2013. He is a member of the Pro Football Writers of America and a graduate of Indiana University.TEMPE, Ariz. — Arizona Cardinals coach Jonathan Gannon shared his displeasure with how he thinks the NFL’s collectively bargained rules prevent defensive players from becoming better tacklers.With a number of missed tackles playing a factor in Sunday’s 40-20 loss to the Houston Texans, Gannon was asked Wednesday how Arizona practices tackling…

If you, like ZDNET editor Kayla Solino, have a habit of snacking while working, you, too, may have some crumbs and splatters across your laptop’s keyboard. This keyboard protector helps keep things clean. “I bought it on a whim after accidentally spilling coffee on half my keyboard. It’s really thin, and I don’t even notice it’s there, but it makes it easy to keep my keys clean. I can just shake it off and put it back on, and it’s washable if I need to rinse it down,” she tells me. This Uppercase Ghostcover made Solino a keyboard protector believer.