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Joe Biden's Family Christmas Photo Is So Awkward And Wrong Authored by Matt Margolis via PJMedia.com,Yet another Biden family photo has become a punch line on social media, and trust me, this one is a doozy.Biden shared the image around 9 p.m. on December 24, accompanied by a fairly boilerplate message: “Wishing you a peaceful and joyful Christmas Eve filled with love.The strange part? You kinda had to play a game of Where's Waldo just to spot him.Wishing you a peaceful and joyful Christmas Eve filled with love. pic.twitter.com/OB5GouvxTJ— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) December 25, 2025Hunter Biden and his adult daughter, Maisy, grabbed the prime spots front and center in front of the Christmas tree, whereas Biden is shoved to the back, his face partially hidden behind his wife, Jill Biden. Seven family members made it into the shot, including Joe’s daughter and former showering partner, Ashley—I had to say it—and Hunter’s current wife, Melissa.Now, one thing is clear from this photo: there was ample room for them to spread out. There was simply no reason for Biden to be pushed to the background. Frankly, it’s bizarre that the supposed patriarch of the family, and, you know, the former president-ish of the United States, ended up tucked in a corner like an afterthought, or like he was being deliberately hidden.At least Hunter is fully clothed in this photo.Social media users had a field day with the awkward composition.I think it’s disrespectful to put the eldest family member in the back of a photo taken for the former president’s social media.— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) December 25, 2025Where’s Joe?— Gunther EaglemanTM (@GuntherEagleman) December 25, 2025Took me a while to find ya, champ. pic.twitter.com/bRoP2dBeFP— Apple Lamps (@lamps_apple) December 25, 2025Why are you in the back, blocked by jill— Official Ohio State DG (@DylanEveryday) December 25, 2025This Christmas photo follows an unfortunate pattern of Biden appearing lost or hidden in group settings. Back in April 2022, Barack Obama visited the White House when Biden signed yet another Obamacare fix. After the signing, Biden found himself standing alone on stage, practically invisible as Democrats swarmed Obama as if he, not Biden, were the star of the event. Video showed Biden raising his hands in apparent frustration as the crowd ignored him completely.Then came the April 2025 Easter family photo that sparked its own controversy. Biden appeared awkwardly positioned and formally dressed in a navy suit while everyone else wore casual clothing. His stiff pose and mismatched lighting prompted widespread speculation that he'd been photoshopped into the image.We wish everyone celebrating today a peaceful and joyful Easter. pic.twitter.com/GQNsdZNaw1— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) April 20, 2025Hunter was notably absent from that particular family portrait.But, back to the Christmas photo.As Andy Ngo noted, setting aside Biden’s status as the former sort-of president, putting the eldest member of the family in the back of a photo like this is quite disrespectful. I mean, this is the guy whose influence in Washington, D.C. helped enrich the Biden family for years. Put the guy in a chair and have everyone stand around him for crying out loud. That said, Biden has never seemed to command respect from people, whether it’s his own party or, now, apparently, his own family. It’s sad, really.If this is how Joe Biden is treated for a photo meant to be posted on social media, how badly is he treated in private? Tyler DurdenFri, 12/26/2025 - 09:40
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John Daly declared his desire to be U.S. Ryder Cup captain in a recent interview, but he also admitted he's not getting his hopes up.The post ‘Always dreamed of doing’: John Daly ‘would love’ to be U.S. Ryder Cup captain appeared first on Golf.
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At a Trader Joe’s in Pikesville, Maryland, there’s a surrealist mural above the Creamy Garlic Cucumber Tzatziki Dip and Unexpected Cheddar Cheese.It features a pear wearing a sweater depicting a house in the same picture, and it’s dedicated to a local talent — a knitter named Sam Barsky.Barsky, who has been a longtime customer at that Trader Joe’s, is known on social media for creating sweaters for himself based on landmarks, Jewish holidays, landscapes and other points of interest, often traveling to those locations for a very meta photo opp.Trader Joe’s did not immediately respond to TODAY.com’s request for comment on the mural, and the Pikesville store manager couldn’t reveal who painted it or when it was painted, but an associate says it’s been there for at least a year.Previously, a representative for the grocery chain told TODAY.com that every neighborhood store chooses its own artwork. For one location that opened in Harlem, New York, in 2024, nearly all of the art in-store was created by crew members, which is also likely the case with the one dedicated to Barsky.“There are some people who work at that Trader Joe’s and they’re fans of mine, so they know me personally,” Barsky, who has been knitting for over 26 years, tells TODAY.com. “After they were done, I got tipped off about it.”The Pikesville location is covered in art depicting local historical figures like Babe Ruth, Billie Holiday and Edgar Allen Poe, as well as Baltimore landmarks like the Inner Harbor. And with this mural, Barsky has now been cemented in Trader Joe’s history as a living legend.Barsky appreciates the attention on his craft, which has led him to show at the American Visionary Museum and the Renwick Gallery. He says he “never imagined” something like a mural would be created in his honor.“I’ve enjoyed all the travels that I’ve done over the years,” Barksy says, adding that knitting has opened so many doors for him. “I had no idea when I started it would define my life.”This story first appeared on TODAY.com. More from TODAY:Girl, 3, Goes Rogue During a Choir Concert and Has the Audience CheeringCalifornia Couple Has 4 Daughters ... And Named Them All MaryWhoever You’re Gifting For, We Found Gifts That Will Arrive Overnight or Same DayThis story uses functionality that may not work in our app. Click here to open the story in your web browser.
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The withdrawal by Hong Kong's largest health and beauty chain comes as parent DFI trims its money-losing assets, and follows a similar departure this year by peer Sa Sa InternationalKey Takeaways:Mannings is closing all of its Mainland Chinese online and offline stores, ending a 21-year foray in the marketA similar move by rival Sa Sa International in June leaves CK Hutchison's AS Watson as the sole major Hong Kong retailer still operating in China's health and beauty segmentMore than a century after its founding as a dairy farm operator in Hong Kong, DFI Retail Group Holdings Ltd. (D01.SI) has been busy trimming assets across its 10,000-strong retail network in Asia as it tries to make its sprawling empire more efficient. But it was the company's recent decision to call it quits in Mainland China that caught everyone's attention, making it the latest foreign retailer to withdraw from the market.The decision wasn't a huge surprise for company watchers. Between 2023 and 2024 the company closed 92 of its Mainland outlets, leaving only 16 at the start of the year. Even so, the Dec. 17 announcement on the Mannings China WeChat channel still came as a surprise. The post said Mannings would shutter its remaining Mainland operations by mid-January, leaving only an asset-light cross-border business allowing Mainland customers to buy from its Hong Kong stores.The move made Mannings the second of Hong Kong's "big three" personal care and beauty retailers to call it quits in China, following a similar shuttering of its Mainland brick-and-mortar presence by Sa Sa International (0178.HK), operator of the Sasa chain, in April. That leaves just Watsons as the sole representative of that trio still operating offline stores on the Mainland.Mannings opened its first Mainland Chinese store in Guangzhou in October 2004, and had over 200 stores in the market at its height in 2011. But its expansion slowed after 2015, and its parent said it was reassessing the business as early as 2018. DFI hinted at the China exit in its annual report for 2024, saying declining revenues of Mannings China as more local consumers shopped online would involve the closure ...Full story available on Benzinga.com
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Rarely a week went by in 2025 without some newsworthy development related to rare earth elements, magnets, and electric motors. IEEE Spectrum was on top of the big ones, starting with the production of industrial quantities of the rare-earth oxides of neodymium and praseodymium at the Mountain Pass mine and processing facilities in California’s Mojave desert.Between 1965 and the mid 1980s, the Mountain Pass mine produced as much as 70 percent of the world’s annual supply of rare earths, which are used in nearly all powerful permanent magnets. But following a string of reversals and environmental mishaps, the facilities began going into a decline in the 1990s and 2000s. At the same time, Chinese producers, which were much less confined by environmental regulations, began their astonishingly rapid ascendence.Today, China controls between about 85 and 99 percent of the global market for key rare earth oxides and metals, on which huge and vital tech-based industries depend. The United States and its allies find themselves at China’s mercy for certain rare earths, including ones that are essential for motors, semiconductors, electroluminescent compounds, optoelectronics, and catalysis. They’re in critical components of countless military systems, such as ones in aircraft, submarines, weapons, and night-vision gear.For these reasons, the resumption of mass production of rare earths at Mountain Pass, which was greatly scaled up during 2025, was a major development in geopolitics. The total output of the mine and its associated processing facilities, where the rare earth ore is turned into industrially useful oxides, is small, however, compared to China’s output.The Trump administration invested a lot of time during 2025 trying to set up deals to establish rare-earth supply chains that do not depend on China. This effort started puzzlingly, with some high-profile arm twisting of Ukraine, whose deposits are dismissed by mining experts. And also with overtures about annexing Greenland, a district of Denmark whose rare-earth deposits are enormous but, like Ukraine’s, are not attractive from a mining standpoint. As the year wore on, the administration eventually settled on a strategy similar to that of the Biden administration, which emphasized investing in domestic production and working with allies, such as Australia, to strengthen and expand existing mining, refining, and magnet-making operations outside of the United States.Mostly overlooked by the administration so far has been Canada (also one of Trump’s annexation targets). Canada has some exceptionally large reserves of rare earth elements, and it operates one of only about four sizable rare-earth-oxide refining plants outside of Asia. That Canadian plant, owned by Toronto-based Neo Performance Materials, is in Sillamäe, Estonia.Here are eight of 2025’s most popular Spectrum articles on rare earth elements, magnets, and motors, ranked by the amount of time people spent reading them.1. Rare Earths Reality Check: Ukraine Doesn’t Have Minable Deposits Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Images The Trump administration’s first public move in its long-awaited rare-earths strategy was a head-scratcher. At a White House press conference on 28 February, 2025, where observers were expecting to hear about a Ukraine-U.S. deal involving critical minerals, including rare earths, Trump instead got into a heated argument with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. When the deal was finally signed, two months later, it made no sense to mining and rare-earths experts. Ukraine’s four substantial rare-earth deposits, they noted, were all in or near areas of active conflict with Russia. And two of them are a type of ore for which there are no existing processing technologies.2. Inside an American Rare-Earth Boomtown Michael Tessler/MP Materials In 2024, the Mountain Pass mine and refining plant, in the northeastern Mojave Desert, became the only producer of rare-earth oxides anywhere in the Americas after it began producing neodymium and praseodymium oxides. The mine and plant had been essentially inactive since the early 2000s, but were rebuilt and rehabilitated starting in 2017 by a new company, MP Materials. In July 2025, MP Materials announced that the U.S. Department of Defense (now the Department of War) was investing $400 million to take a 15 percent stake in MP, and also guaranteeing a price “floor” of US $110 per kilogram for certain rare earth oxides. That price was roughly twice what China was charging at the time for those oxides.3. Advanced Magnet Manufacturing Begins in the United States Business Wire Early in 2025, there was a flurry of announcements from companies touting plans to manufacture rare-earth magnets in the United States. The most interesting of these was from MP Materials, which operates the Mountain Pass mine and processing plants in California. MP announced it had begun producing neodymium-iron-boron magnets on a “trial” basis, at a plant in Texas that it would eventually scale up to 2,000 to 3,000 tonnes per year.In mid-July, MP Materials announced a $500 million agreement with Apple to begin supplying NdFeB magnets to the computer giant, starting in 2027. Apple uses magnets in the speakers and haptic (vibrating) components of its phones and tablets, as well as in charging connectors such as its MagSafe cable.4. Electric Propulsion Magnets Ready for Space Tests Randy Pollock The mathematics of using chemical rockets for space travel is grim. They’re inefficient, slow, and require enormous amounts of fuel. They’re not really up to the task of colonizing Mars, let alone visiting the outer planets. So researchers have long investigated alternative means of propulsion, some involving the use of intense magnetic fields to accelerate and direct ions to produce thrust. At Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, researchers have demonstrated one such system, which is based on applied-field magnetoplasmadynamic thrusters. Their twist is using high-temperature superconducting tape to greatly reduce the power required to energize the electromagnets to achieve a given magnetic-field strength. Hēki, a technology demonstration comprised of the novel superconducting components of the system, minus the thruster itself, was launched to the International Space Station in September. It was installed on the exterior of the station and has been operated continuously since then, said Betina Pavri, senior principal engineer at the Robinson Research Institute at Victoria University, in an email exchange in late November.5. Superconducting Motor Could Propel Electric Aircraft Hinetics The electrification of passenger aircraft faces several very steep technological challenges, one of which is the need for motors with extremely high specific power. Of the various ways of achieving that, one of the most interesting is through the use of high-temperature superconducting (HTS) materials in the coils of the motor. That’s the approach of startup Hinetics, which was spun out of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and has received funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E). In its motors, designed with passenger aviation in mind, Hinetics is using HTS tape originally designed for winding the high-power electromagnets used in experimental Tokamak fusion reactors. Based on the performance of prototypes, the company believes it will soon achieve a specific power of 40 kW/kg, much higher than that of the radial-flux motors that now dominate commercial applications in vehicles and industrial machinery.6. Airbus Is Working on a Superconducting Electric Aircraft Airbus For years, Airbus has had a high-profile corporate goal of building a large, zero-emission, single-aisle passenger airliner. The centerpiece of that effort was a project to build an ultraefficient, high-specific-power motor with superconducting coils. The motor would be powered by fuel cells running on liquid hydrogen. It’s a breathtakingly ambitious initiative, called ZEROe, and it’s far ahead of anything Airbus’s rival Boeing is doing. As recently as late March, 2025, at a symposium for the press, Airbus’s CEO, Guillaume Faury, reaffirmed the company’s support for the blue-sky project. But he also cautioned that Airbus doesn’t see hydrogen-powered planes making substantial inroads into the passenger aviation market before the 2040s, which was interpreted as meaning before the late 2040s.7. Donut Lab’s New Motor Brings Power to the Wheel Hub Donut Lab In-wheel hub motors are one of the perennial grails of the electric-vehicle industry. They’d unleash remarkable opportunities, including torque-vectoring: the ability to finely adjust the power and torque at each wheel to deliver ultra responsive handling. But fundamental problems have long precluded their widespread use. One of these is the need to deal with unsprung weight, which refers (in this case) to the mass of the wheels, which are not supported by the vehicle’s suspension and can therefore bounce around on rough terrain and make it really hard to provide a smooth ride. With its latest, highest-power motor, however, Donut Lab claimed a weight of just 40 kg, and a power rating of 650 kW, figures that it claimed rendered the unsprung-weight problem “insignificant.”8. Can Geopolitics Unlock Greenland’s Critical Materials Treasure Chest? Hannibal Hanschke/Reuters/Redux During 2025, Greenland, another resource-rich, sparsely populated country, was repeatedly identified as an annexation target by President Trump and other members of his administration. In an interview on 9 January, 2025, Michael Waltz, then Trump’s national security advisor, explicitly linked Trump’s interest in Greenland to critical minerals, including rare earths. However, mining Greenland’s rare earths on an industrial scale would require surmounting staggering challenges. To explain them in detail, we called on Flemming Getreuer Christiansen, a Danish mining and geology consultant with expertise in research and exploration projects in Greenland.
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Ready for another amazing year of skywatching? 2025 was a wild year, with a steady parade of comets knocking on naked eye visibility, and one extra special interstellar comet, 3I/ATLAS. The sky just keeps on turning into 2026. Watch for mutual eclipse season for the major moons of Jupiter, as the moons pass one if front of the other. The ongoing solar cycle is also still expected to be active into 2026, producing sunspots space weather and more. And (finally!) we’ll see the return of total solar eclipses on August 12th, as umbral shadow of the Moon crosses Greenland, Iceland and northern Spain.
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It was a Merry Christmas for the Packers, who clinched a playoff berth with the Vikings’ victory over the Lions knocking Detroit out of contention. With a place in the postseason secure, how should the Packers handle Saturday night’s game vs. the Ravens?
Associated Press PITTSBURGH — T.J. Watt is back. Sort of. The Pittsburgh Steelers outside linebacker returned to practice on Wednesday, two weeks after he had surgery to repair a partially collapsed lung following a dry needle treatment. Watt was a limited participant on Wednesday. While coach Mike Tomlin said he’s hopeful that Watt will be [...]
Thursday afternoon saw the Minnesota Vikings give the Detroit Lions a giant lump of coal in a 23-10 win on Christmas Day. The number one element of the Vikings' win was the performance from Brian Flores' defense, as they forced six turnovers on the day, including five from Lions quarterback Jared Goff.
Klay Thompson played his first game back in the Bay Area, which led to people recalling a lot of Splash Brothers moments.
Barkley gave his vision for Dallas’ future on the ESPN broadcast of the Mavericks’ Christmas Day game against the Warriors.
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Luka Doncic and Rui Hachimura return from injuries to join Austin Reaves, LeBron James and Deandre Ayton on Thursday for just the seventh time all season.
After more than 20 members of the Arkansas Senate released a statement last week weighing in on the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's discipline of the erstwhile director of the King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies, the former director's attorney is raising alarm about the impact of "political pressure" applied to the university in the case.