CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCEAbbott's release is datelined "ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Nov. 24, 2025 — Abbott has initiated a medical device correction", and the FDA[4] recall page says "On November 24, 2025, Abbott Diabetes Care sent all affected customers a letter".
Abbott began a medical device correction for about 3 million FreeStyle Libre 3 and Libre 3 Plus sensors in the U.S. after internal testing found some give incorrect low glucose readings, an issue it linked to 736 severe adverse events and seven deaths worldwide. The FDA later made it a Class I recall.
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEThe report is headlined "Work on long-delayed Yongsan International Business District to begin on Nov. 27", and the groundbreaking was held on that day in 2025.[1]
Work started on the 456,100 sq m site of the former Yongsan train depot in central Seoul, to be built out as a cluster of skyscrapers including towers of more than 100 storeys on land held 7 to 3 by Korail and the Seoul Housing and Urban Development Corporation. Foundational roads, parks and parking are due by 2028, with the first move-ins from 2030.
Federal Way Downtown station, Federal Way, WA 98003Sound Transit
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCESound Transit's[1] opening-day release, dated 6 December 2025, says riders can board the extension "starting today".
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.
1200, East Market Street, East End, Goodyear Heights, Akron, Summit County, Ohio, 44305, United StatesBabcock & Wilcox·…
CONFIRMED82% CONFIDENCEStated as done, per B&W's release "(AKRON, Ohio – December 8, 2025)": "announced today that it has received limited notice to proceed"; the Business Wire copy on Yahoo Finance is timestamped 2025-12-08T11:30:00Z (6:30 a.m. ET).[1]
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.
Bar Panisse, 1515, Shattuck Avenue, Gourmet Ghetto, Berkeley, Alameda County, California, 94709, United StatesChez Panisse
CONFIRMED78% CONFIDENCEBerkeleyside's[3][4] January 2026 round-up of December openings says Chez Panisse[2] "launched offshoot, Bar Panisse, on Thursday, Dec. 11", repeating the day its 10 December preview announced. 11 December 2025 was a Thursday.
Alice Waters and Chez Panisse open a neighbourhood wine bar right beside the Berkeley restaurant, with chef Amelia Telč cooking a short, simple menu.
Texas Instruments Sherman site, US-75 at Shepherd Road, Sherman, TX 75090, United StatesTexas Instruments·…
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCETI's news release is dated "17 DEC 2025" and announces that it "begins production at its newest 300mm semiconductor manufacturing facility in Sherman, Texas".[1]
TI began production at SM1, the first 300mm wafer fab on its site off US-75 at Shepherd Road in Sherman, three and a half years after breaking ground. The site is laid out for up to four connected fabs and is meant to support as many as 3,000 direct jobs; TI is spending more than $60 billion across seven fabs in Texas and Utah.
Long Thanh International Airport, Dong Nai Province, Vietnam
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCEThe 19 December 2025 ceremony itself is confirmed, but it was a technical opening rather than the completion of Phase 1: Wikipedia[2] records it as a ceremonial 'technical opening' with full commercial operations scheduled for December 2026, and the government's own report counted only three of 15 construction packages finished, with 12 still under way.
Vietnam marked a ceremonial 'technical opening' of its US$4.6 billion first phase at Long Thanh International Airport near Ho Chi Minh City with the first landings, while most of Phase 1 was still under construction.
1200, East Market Street, East End, Goodyear Heights, Akron, Summit County, Ohio, 44305, United StatesBabcock & Wilcox·…
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCEStated as done in the release datelined "AKRON, Ohio – December 19, 2025": B&W "announced today that it has been awarded a $40 million contract".[1]
B&W will supply low-pressure wet gas scrubbing, ExxonMobil technology it licenses, to cut sulfur dioxide from a major Canadian petroleum refinery's catalytic cracker and coker units. The $40 million contract adds $30 million to a $10 million first order from September.
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCEThe announcement day comes from Wikipedia[3], which dates the Hana to Yume announcement to December 19, 2025, matching MyAnimeList's[1][2] news report.
A sequel to Studio Pierrot's 2014 Yona of the Dawn TV anime was announced in the same Hana to Yume issue that carried the final chapter of Mizuho Kusanagi's 16-year fantasy manga.
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEWikipedia's[2] Chainsaw Man article dates the sequel's reveal to the Jump Festa '26 event on December 21, 2025.
MAPPA's follow-up to the Reze Arc film was unveiled at Jump Festa '26, confirming that Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man would continue on screen with an adaptation of the manga's Assassins arc.
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEThe Highways Department's project page states the "Central Kowloon Bypass (Yau Ma Tei Section) was opened to the public on 21 December 2025".[1]
The Central Kowloon Route opens to traffic as the Central Kowloon Bypass (Yau Ma Tei Section), a 4.7 km dual three-lane trunk road that is about 3.9 km tunnel, running beneath densely built Kowloon from the Yau Ma Tei Interchange in West Kowloon to the Kai Tak Development Area and Kowloon Bay in the east. It forms the western half of Route 6.
CONFIRMED86% CONFIDENCE61%37 episodes so farPremiere date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
Monster's Egg's bite-sized web anime brings the mofusand cat illustrations to life, following Shark Meow, a clumsy tabby in a shark costume, and friends through cozy seasonal moments.
CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCEThe release is datelined "ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Dec. 22, 2025" and says Abbott "today announced" the FDA[5] has approved the Volt PFA System (the FDA's own record gives a decision date of 12/19/2025).
The FDA approved Abbott's Volt pulsed field ablation system, a balloon-in-basket catheter that maps, paces and ablates, to treat paroxysmal and persistent atrial fibrillation. The approval rested on the 392-patient VOLT-AF IDE study at 40 centers.
CONFIRMED81% CONFIDENCEThe Baltimore Banner's report of Tuesday 23 December 2025 says "The jury returned the verdict in favor of Cherie Craft ... on Monday in Baltimore Circuit Court", i.e. Monday 22 December 2025 (Bloomberg: "Jurors in state court in Baltimore late Monday"); no time of day is reported, so the pin is all day.[1]
A Baltimore City jury awarded Cherie Craft $59.84 million in compensatory and $1.5 billion in punitive damages, finding J&J's talc baby powder exposed her to the asbestos behind her peritoneal mesothelioma - the largest talc verdict for a single plaintiff. J&J said it would appeal.
CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCEStated as a completed action, per sableoffshore.com[1]: "on December 23, 2025, the U.S. Department of Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety Administration ... issued an emergency special permit".
The U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration issued an emergency special permit for segments 324 and 325 of the interstate Santa Ynez Pipeline System, approving Sable Offshore's enhanced integrity management practices and setting operational conditions. It is a step toward restarting the onshore transportation that has kept Sable's restarted Santa Ynez Unit oil in storage rather than on sale.
Navi Mumbai International Airport, Maharashtra, IndiaAdani Group
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "the first phase of the airport opened on Christmas Day 2025."
Built on flattened hills and stabilised mangrove swamp across the harbour from central Mumbai, Adani Group's Navi Mumbai International Airport began commercial flights on Christmas Day 2025.
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCEThe second season was announced on the night the Winter Arc special aired (December 25, 2025 UTC / early December 26 JST), per Crunchyroll and MyAnimeList[1][2] News.
The Undead Unluck anime confirmed a second season the same night its Winter Arc special aired, with a new illustration from creator Yoshifumi Tozuka.
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE70%27 episodesStreaming start date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
Cloud Art streams Sword of Coming 2nd Season, continuing the donghua about an ordinary boy who splits the sky with a single sword and becomes a legendary swordsman after felling a peerless rival.
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE77%26 episodesRelease start date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
Pure Arts' Beyond Time's Gaze begins release, a Chinese donghua following Xu Qing, the sole survivor of the ruined Nanhuang Continent, as a mysterious purple crystal starts him on a cultivation journey and into the Thunder Squad's ranks.
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEThe English Wikipedia[1] article states that the station "opened on 30 December 2025".
The integrated transport hub at the Beijing City Sub-centre, under Tongyun Subdistrict in Tongzhou District, took its first passengers on the Beijing-Tangshan and Beijing-Binhai intercity railways, with an interchange to Subway Line 6 at Beiyunhedong. Construction of the hub started on 30 November 2019.
A-1 Pictures' Kaguya-sama: Love is War -Stairway to Adulthood- premieres as a TV special, revisiting Kaguya Shinomiya's memories of her Shuchiin Academy student council days with Miyuki Shirogane.
708, Bush Street, Lower Nob Hill, Nob Hill, San Francisco, California, 94108, United StatesRestaurant Naides
ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCE1/3The New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as December 2025, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.[1]
A small Filipino tasting-menu restaurant on Nob Hill, with chef Patrick Gabon in an open kitchen and Celine Wuu running wine and the room.
CONFIRMED86% CONFIDENCEMyAnimeList[1][2] News reports the official website announced the finale movie on Wednesday, December 31, 2025, following the TV special's broadcast.
Right after the Stairway to Adulthood TV special aired, the Kaguya-sama: Love Is War anime announced a theatrical finale built on a new original story by creator Aka Akasaka.
Tin Tin, 2555, Southwest 8th Street, Little Havana, Silver Court Trailer Park, Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida, 33135, United StatesTin Tin
ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCEThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as December 2025, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.[1]
Co-chefs Sachi Statz and Victor Santos, from the family's Tinta y Café, open a Cuban-French bistro in Miami's Little Havana.
SCHEDULED76% CONFIDENCEGiven as scheduled, per the source[1]: "Phase 1 of the Al Faw Grand Port... is scheduled to be commissioned before the end of 2025."
Iraq's Al Faw Grand Port, a deep-water container port on its only stretch of coastline, is aiming to commission its first phase, positioning the country as a new global shipping hub.
ESTIMATED73% CONFIDENCETSMC's[1][2] 2nm page says N2 "has started volume production in 4Q25 as planned" and its 2025 annual report that it "entered high volume manufacturing in 4Q'25"; neither names the day, so the quarter's last day stands in.
TSMC's first nanosheet-transistor node, N2, entered volume production in the fourth quarter of 2025 as planned, starting at Fab 22 in Kaohsiung, with Fab 20 in Hsinchu as its second 2nm fab.
7620, North Milwaukee Avenue, Niles, Maine Township, Cook County, Illinois, 60714, United StatesKouklas Greek Eatery
ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCEThe New York Times' Restaurant List 2026 (15 September 2026) gives the opening only as December 2025, with no day. The pin sits on the last day of that month by this vertical's month-only convention, so the real opening day may be earlier in the month.[1]
Jimmy Bannos Jr. and chef-partner Kevin Stack open a large, lively Greek restaurant in the Chicago suburb of Niles, with a wood-fire grill.
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCEStated as an accomplished fact, per independent.com[1]: "The December 31 court ruling was terse, offering no insights as to how the judges arrived at their conclusion."
A two-judge Ninth Circuit panel turned down an emergency appeal by the Environmental Defense Center and Center for Biological Diversity seeking to block the federal restart permit granted to Sable Offshore's Santa Ynez Unit pipelines, sending the company's stock surging. The terse December 31 order is not the end: the court put the case on an expedited schedule, with its first deadline on January 26.
One Times Square, Manhattan, New York, United StatesJamestown
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "the renovation was finished by January 2026."
Jamestown's $500 million overhaul of the long-vacant One Times Square, home of the New Year's Eve ball drop, wrapped up with a new glass facade, museum and observation deck.
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE79%5 episodesBroadcast start date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
There's No Freaking Way I'll Be Your Lover! Unless… ~Next Shine~ premieres on Japanese television, continuing studio MOTHER's light-novel adaptation about a reinvented high schooler juggling confessions from two of her school's most popular students.
CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCEWikipedia[2] dates the film's announcement to the GA Fes 2026 livestream on January 4, 2026; no release date has been set.
A new theatrical anime film of Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina is announced, bringing Jougi Shiraishi's traveling witch Elaina back to the screen for the first time since C2C's 2020 TV series.
CONFIRMED86% CONFIDENCEAnime News Network[2] reported the announcement from the GA FES 2026 livestream on Sunday, January 4, 2026.
A second season of The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows, about an exiled slum-born healer who opens an underground clinic, was announced during the GA FES 2026 livestream.
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE87%13 episodesBroadcast start date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
Ikoku Nikki premieres, a Shuka-animated drama adapting Akane Torikai's manga about a reclusive novelist who unexpectedly becomes guardian to her orphaned teenage niece.
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per bostondynamics.com[1]: "LAS VEGAS (Jan. 5, 2026) - Boston Dynamics, the global leader in mobile robotics, unveiled the product version of its new Atlas robot at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas today."
Boston Dynamics revealed the product version of its fully electric Atlas humanoid at Hyundai's CES media day and began building it at its Boston headquarters immediately. Every 2026 Atlas is already committed, with fleets going to Hyundai's Robotics Metaplant Application Center and to Google DeepMind.
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEMiami-Dade[1] County's own release dates the groundbreaking, led by Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and Royal Caribbean Group CEO Jason Liberty, to January 8, 2026.
Miami-Dade County and Royal Caribbean Group broke ground on a $345 million single-berth cruise terminal able to process about 7,000 passengers per ship call, with a multi-level garage and a ground-level intermodal hub, sized for Icon-class ships. Demolition of the terminal that stood on the site began in July 2025 and the new complex is slated for completion in late 2027.
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCEStated as done, per babcock.com[1][6]: "(AKRON, Ohio - January 8, 2026) - Babcock & Wilcox ... announced today that it has selected Siemens Energy"; the Business Wire copy on Yahoo[2][5] Finance is timestamped 11:11 UTC.
Babcock & Wilcox chose Siemens Energy to supply the steam turbine generator sets for its one-gigawatt Applied Digital power project, under a limited notice to proceed it said would let it deliver power by the end of 2028.
Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters, 1 Johnson and Johnson Plaza, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08933, United StatesJohnson & Johnson·…
CONFIRMED86% CONFIDENCEJ&J's release is datelined "New Brunswick, N.J. – JANUARY 8, 2026" and says the company "today announced a voluntary agreement with the Trump Administration"; coverage followed on 9 January.[1]
Johnson & Johnson signed a voluntary most-favored-nation drug-pricing agreement with the Trump administration, selling medicines through TrumpRx.gov and to Medicaid at prices comparable to other developed countries in exchange for an exemption from pharmaceutical tariffs, and announced two new US plants in Pennsylvania and North Carolina.
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE86%12 episodesBroadcast start date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
MAPPA's third season of Jujutsu Kaisen begins airing, opening the Culling Game arc as Yuji Itadori, wary of returning to Jujutsu High, teams with Choso against cursed spirits unleashed by Noritoshi Kamo across Japan.
Wilson, Wilson County, North Carolina, United StatesJohnson & Johnson·…
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCEThe governor's release is dated "Friday, January 9, 2026" and begins "Today Governor Josh Stein announced Johnson & Johnson ... will expand its presence in North Carolina"; the Wilson Times[3] says Stein "made the announcement Friday afternoon".
North Carolina Governor Josh Stein announced that Johnson & Johnson will build a second multibillion-dollar plant in Wilson, a drug product manufacturing facility for cancer and neurology medicines expected to create up to 500 jobs, beside the $2 billion biologics campus it is already building there.
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCE66%52 episodes plannedStreaming start date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
Covering episodes 53 through 104 of the story, this installment continues Da Zhuzai (The Great Ruler), a Chinese cultivation-fantasy donghua from Motion Magic. It picks up leads Li Luo and Chen Mu on their climb through the setting's warring sects and hidden immortal factions after the ground laid in the first season.
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEVPRA's notice says the work windows "begin January 12, 2026, and will continue until the project's completion in 2030".[1]
The Virginia Passenger Rail Authority moved the Long Bridge Project into full construction, opening daytime work windows through the Washington, D.C. construction zone because the District's noise and vibration rules bar the work at night. A new two-track bridge beside the century-old Long Bridge will give a continuous four-track corridor between Arlington and L'Enfant Plaza, relieving the worst passenger-rail bottleneck on the East Coast.
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE86%11 episodesBroadcast start date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
Doga Kobo's third season of [Oshi No Ko] begins airing, continuing idol Aqua Hoshino's push into show business as he investigates who was behind his mother's murder.
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE84%20 episodes so farStreaming premiere date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
The Netflix original anime Love Through A Prism (Prism Rondo) begins streaming, a Wit Studio-produced coming-of-age drama set at a London art academy in the early 1900s.
CONFIRMED86% CONFIDENCECNBC[1], published 15 January 2026: 'The U.S. and Taiwan have reached a trade agreement ... the Department of Commerce announced Thursday'; USTR's[2] February fact sheet dates the 'Memorandum of Understanding signed by AIT and TECRO on January 15, 2026'. No signing time is given, so it is an all-day date.
A memorandum signed in Washington commits Taiwanese chipmakers such as TSMC to at least $250 billion of new US investment plus $250 billion in Taiwan credit guarantees, in return for a 15% tariff cap and Section 232 chip-tariff exemptions for companies building US fabs.
CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCEAnime News Network[2] reported the fourth season's five-cour structure, which splits off this second part, on January 15, 2026.
The fourth season of That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime was revealed as a five-cour run, with 8-bit's continuation beyond the opening two cours listed separately as Part 2.
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE88%10 episodesBroadcast start date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
Madhouse returns with a second season of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, following the elf mage Frieren and her party through the perilous Northern Plateau on their way to the ancient capital of Aureole.
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