CNN, by Brad Lendon and Gawon Bae: North Korea launched a possible intercontinental ballistic missile on Monday morning in what analysts said indicated the growing reliability of the reclusive state’s illegal weapons program. The missile launched Monday exhibited the range…

News Busters, by Alex Christy: On Monday, The Daily Show proclaimed that Christmas was the “queerest holiday of all,” on Tuesday it was ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel’s turn as he “interviewed” Sean Hayes, who was playing the role of a gay…

AP News: Israel says it’s prepared to fight for months or longer to defeat Gaza’s Hamas rulers, as its ground offense intensifies with more airstrikes and artillery fire. Israel faces international outrage after its military offensive has killed more than…

AP News, by Emmanuel Igunza: At least 47 people are dead and 85 others injured following heavy flooding and landslides in northern Tanzania, authorities said Monday. The government has deployed the military to help rescue hundreds of people trapped by…

AP News, by Justin Kabumba: Armed rebels seized a town in eastern Congo on Thursday after violently clashing with the army, which has taken on an expanded role as peacekeeping forces withdraw from the mineral-rich, conflict-stricken region. Military officials and…

New York Post, by Kevin Sheehan, Joe Marino, and Isabel Keane: An unhinged man used a steak knife to butcher four of his relatives — including an 11-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy — and set their Queens house ablaze…

Business Insider, by Beatrice Nolan: It’s been a year since OpenAI launched ChatGPT and people are still marveling at the chatbot’s popularity. Yann LeCun, Meta’s chief scientist, told Forbes ChatGPT was treated like the “second coming of the messiah” when…

CNN, by Nouran Salahieh, Andy Rose, Sarah Dewberry and Chris Boyette: Tennessee officials are assessing the damage after tornadoes and strong thunderstorms roared across the state Saturday, leaving at least six people dead, more than 50 injured, multiple buildings destroyed…

The Blaze, by Joseph Mackinnon: A German court delivered its verdict Tuesday concerning those responsible for the barbaric September 2020 gang-rape of a 15-year-old German girl in the northern city of Hamburg. Of the eleven men initially charged in relation…

Faithwire, by Tré Goins-Phillips: Close to a quarter of young British people said recently they would be open to banning the Bible if they believed its pages contained “hate speech.” Whitestone Insights, a polling group, surveyed 2,088 adults in the…

The Tablet, by Kimberley Heatherington: A group of delegates, including three U.S. Catholic bishops and the head of a conference of women religious, met with Biden administration officials Nov. 17 to discuss the Catholic Church’s priorities for what Pope Francis…

The Tablet, by Tom Woolford: I used to teach a church history course to adult learners in the Diocese of Blackburn. The course began with the Church in the New Testament, before a second session on the Fathers and the…