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President Trump has announced a new class of battleships to build out what he has dubbed the Navy's "Golden Fleet" that he says will be "the fastest, the biggest, and by far — 100 times — more powerful than any battleship ever built."

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Singer Barry Manilow announced Monday that he was diagnosed with cancer, saying it was "pure luck" that his doctors caught it early.

He took to Instagram on Monday morning to share news of his diagnosis, describing how his doctors first discovered the illness.

The "Copacabana" singer said he would be postponing some January concerts as a result of his diagnosis.

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The Powerball jackpot has soared to one of the largest in the lottery game's history.

The current jackpot is estimated to be $1.6 billion ahead of Monday night's drawing. That would make it the fourth-largest in Powerball history and the fifth-largest among U.S. lottery jackpots.

The estimated cash value of the current jackpot is $735.3 million.

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Nude images of a 13-year-old girl and her friends, generated by artificial intelligence, were circulating on social media and had become the talk of a Louisiana middle school.

When the girl stepped onto her school bus at the end of the day, a classmate was showing the fake images to a friend.

Fed up, she attacked the classmate, a boy on the bus. The girl had no past disciplinary problems, but she was assigned to an alternative school as the district expelled her for a full semester — before ultimately reversing course.

The 13-year-old girl’s attorneys allege the boy avoided school discipline altogether.

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Pope Leo XIV urged Vatican cardinals to put their ambitions of power and personal interests aside as he followed in Pope Francis’ footsteps and used a Christmas greeting to gently criticize his closest collaborators.

Leo, who was very close to Francis and worked in the Vatican for two years before his election, didn’t shy away from Francis’ tradition of using the Christmas occasion to urge Vatican bureaucrats to examine their consciences and change their ways for the good of the church. abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/pope-offers…

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JUST IN: ICE is barred from re-detaining Salvadoran native Kilmar Abrego Garcia through the Christmas holiday, the federal judge in his immigration case said.

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Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest serving National Park Service ranger in the country, has died at 104 years old.

Born in 1921, Soskin joined the National Park Service in 2007 as a docent at the Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Park Museum in Richmond, Calif., which highlights the contributions of women during the war.

Soskin retired in 2022 at age 100. Among those who sang Soskin's praises upon her retirement was former President Obama, whom she introduced in 2015 at the National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony, which she took part in at age 94.

Meeting the nation's only Black president, Soskin told ABC News, was one of the highlights of her life.

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Thousands of people cheered and danced around Stonehenge as the sun rose over the prehistoric stone circle on Sunday, the winter solstice.

The crowds, many in costume, had gathered before dawn, waiting patiently in the cold, dark field in southwest England.

Many make the pilgrimage to the stone circle every summer and winter, considering it a spiritual experience. Sunday was the shortest day of the year north of the equator, where the solstice marks the start of astronomical winter.

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James Ransone, the actor who played Ziggy Sobotka in the HBO series “The Wire” and appeared in many other TV shows and movies, has died. He was 46. abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/actor-james…

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A group of alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein accused the Department of Justice of missteps, including violations of the law, in its partial release of files related to the disgraced financier's abuse of young women and girls.

"The public received a fraction of the files, and what we received was riddled with abnormal and extreme redactions with no explanation," a group of 19 women, including two Jane Does, said in a statement. "At the same time, numerous victim identities were left unredacted, causing real and immediate harm."

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