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Texas's Woman and Child Protection Act takes effect, letting private citizens sue anyone who makes, mails or provides abortion pills into Texas for at least $100,000 per violation, while barring suits against the woman.

The presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda signed the Washington Accords for Peace and Prosperity at a ceremony hosted by Donald Trump, recommitting to the June 2025 peace agreement and a regional minerals-and-economy framework; the M23 rebels were not party to it.

Germany's parliament voted 323 to 272 for the Military Service Modernisation Act: service stays voluntary, but 18-year-old men must fill in a questionnaire, medical screening becomes compulsory again for men born from 2008, and conscription can follow if recruiting falls short.

The nearly 8-mile extension runs south from Angle Lake along I-5 and adds Kent Des Moines, Star Lake and Federal Way Downtown stations. Sound Transit moved the $2.5 billion project's opening up from an earlier target of March 2026.

Babcock & Wilcox received a limited notice to proceed on engineering and long-lead purchasing for a SolveBright CO2-capture system at an unnamed existing US power plant, sized to capture more than 550,000 tons a year. The full contract, expected by March 2026, is worth an estimated $80 million; the plant is not named, so the pin sits at B&W's Akron headquarters.

OpenAI hired Slack chief executive Denise Dresser, a Salesforce executive for more than 14 years, as chief revenue officer; Slack product chief Rob Seaman stepped in as interim CEO.

Routine checks after new equipment went into a line at Nestlé's Dutch infant-formula plant found traces of the toxin cereulide, so Nestlé recalled every batch made since - 25 batches, including NAN formula, in 16 European countries.

Judge Charles Breyer granted California a preliminary injunction ending the continued federalization of the California National Guard troops still in and around Los Angeles, more than five months after they were sent.

After seven years, Calvin McDonald will leave as CEO on 31 January 2026; CFO Meghan Frank and president André Maestrini become interim co-CEOs and chair Marti Morfitt becomes executive chair while the board searches for a successor.

International revenue jumped 33% while the Americas slipped 2%; Lululemon raised its full-year outlook and added $1.0 billion to its buyback, and the shares rose more than 9% the next day.

Mayor Daniel Lurie signed the Family Zoning Plan, which allows taller, denser housing along transit and commercial corridors, mostly in the north and west of the city, to plan for about 36,000 more homes ahead of a 31 January 2026 state deadline.

Disney+ premiered The End of an Era, a six-episode docuseries on the making of the Eras Tour, alongside The Final Show, a concert film of the tour's last night in Vancouver with the full Tortured Poets Department set.

EU fisheries ministers set 2026 catch limits for the Atlantic, North Sea, Mediterranean and Black Sea, raising anchovy and Norway lobster but cutting sole in the Skagerrak-Kattegat by 44%, while mackerel was left without an agreed total catch.

Chubby Group brought its all-you-can-eat wagyu shabu-shabu chain to San Diego's Convoy District, taking over the former Shancheng Lameizi Hot Pot space. Four tiers run about $45 to $98 a head across 90-minute seatings.

The two sections of the International Boundary and Water Commission committed Mexico to a new Tijuana treatment plant by December 2028 and a Smuggler’s Gulch sediment basin before the 2026-27 rains, on top of the Minute 328 projects.

Oregon opened its commercial Dungeness crab season on 16 December 2025 from Cape Falcon to the California border, 15 days after its 1 December target, while the north coast waited for Washington crab to fill out.

California's DMV adopted a judge's finding that Tesla broke state law by marketing its driver-assist features as 'Autopilot' and 'Full Self-Driving Capability', staying the factory-licence suspension and giving Tesla 60 days to fix its marketing or lose its dealer licence for 30 days.

Penfolds owner Treasury Wine Estates forecast first-half EBITS of A$225-235 million, cancelled its A$200 million buyback and launched a A$100 million-a-year cost programme as weaker US and China demand left distributors overstocked.

A 6-1 vote shuts the Lee Academy Pilot School, Another Course to College and the Community Academy of Science and Health after 2026-27, affecting about 800 students.