Marty Reisman was nicknamed "The Needle" for his slender physique. He dressed well and put on a show.

Writer and humorist David Sedaris reads from his holiday essay "The Santaland Diaries."

Morning Edition hosts Michel Martin and Leila Fadel answer holiday trivia questions compiled by Southern Living Magazine.

The Justice Department said Wednesday that it may need a "few more weeks" to release its records on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after discovering more than a million potentially relevant documents.

Wednesday's Christmas Eve drawing ended the lottery game's three-month stretch without a top-prize winner. Final ticket sales pushed the jackpot higher, making it the second-largest in U.S. history.

Asfura won Honduras' presidential election, electoral authorities said Wednesday afternoon, ending a weeks-long count that has whittled away at the credibility of the nation's electoral system.

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.

Blue spotted salamanders have been seen walking across snow and new research suggests how they get by in the cold.

Mail theft can happen around the holidays, but sometimes, instead of getting a new iPad, the thief swipes a mail order medicine. Here's what to do about it.

The DOJ released tens of thousands of new documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. And, the Supreme Court ruled that the National Guard must stay out of Chicago.

The US Department of Justice says reviewing the material could delay the full release of Epstein documents by a "few more weeks".

The pair will oversee the Strictly Christmas Special on Thursday, before bowing out from the show.

An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.

Many of the big issues which troubled Justin Welby’s time in office remain unresolved.

Organisers of some Christmas Day and Boxing Day swims have cancelled events due to the weather.

Test your memory of 2025 in the first part of our quiz. What happened from January to March?

The pre-recorded performance aired on ITV1 on Christmas Eve and saw the pair play a piece by Scottish composer Erland Cooper.

Fictional gems, debut thillers, cracking biographies and everything in between.

Turkish authorities say firearms were seized and efforts to trace further suspected members are continuing.

Tributes have been paid to the boy who has been named by a local basketball club as Alfie Hallett.

Alternative apps to empower older versions of macOS or Windows

Part 2 There's a wealth of highly usable free software for the big proprietary desktop OSes. You can escape paying subscriptions and switch to free software without changing your OS.…

Execs say DIY OpenAI connections risked pushing CRM data past the ‘trust boundary’

Salesforce users running Agentforce with ChatGPT Enterprise or Edu can now update CRM data directly from the bot, a move aimed at curbing home-built integrations that risk spilling data outside the company's controls.…

Will businesses continue to invest in something that's shown so little return?

opinion It is the season of overindulgence, and no one has overindulged like the tech industry: this year, it has burned through roughly $1.5 trillion in AI, a level of spending usually reserved for wartime.…

AI goes off the rails … because of shoddy guardrails

Researchers at Pen Test Partners found four flaws in Eurostar's public AI chatbot that, among other security issues, could allow an attacker to inject malicious HTML content or trick the bot into leaking system prompts. Their thank you from the company: being accused of "blackmail."…

ATC: 'I don't know if you can hear me but cleared to land'

In what looks to be the first successful use of Garmin's Autoland product outside of testing, the FAA has confirmed a small plane made a safe emergency landing completely guided by automation at Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Colorado.…

Crooks used platform to scoop up and store banking credentials for big-money thefts

The US says it has shut down a platform used by cybercriminals to break into Americans' bank accounts.…

Meanwhile, new outages, linked to storms, are pelting the area

Waymo says it is rolling out updates to its US fleet to counter future disruption caused by power outages like the one that hit San Francisco last week.…

Reg reader introduces newborn to Microsoft ugly sweater. Child not amused

Microsoft's latest line of festive knitwear has been frightening babies, if the experience of the winner of The Register's 2025 Christmas competition is anything to go by.…

Stuck in pilot purgatory? Confused about returns? You're not alone

Feature Every company today is doing AI. From boardrooms to marketing campaigns, companies proudly showcase new generative AI pilots and chatbot integrations. Enterprise investments in GenAI are growing to about $30-40 billion, yet research indicates 95 percent of organizations report zero measurable returns on these efforts.…

A newspaper misprint began a Christmas Eve tradition joining holiday cheer with military technology

Seventy years ago, a child phoned the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) looking for Santa Claus – and found him, or at least some kindly military personnel who were willing to play along by helping the youngster to track Santa's location as he zipped around the globe.…

"You're Santa Claus 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year." Acting out may shatter "the magic."

The bill would significantly curtail scope of the federal environmental review process.

Netflix and Apple TV dominate this year's list with thrillers, fantasy, sci-fi, and murder.

From compression tricks to multi-agent teamwork, here's what makes them tick.

The launch laid "an important foundation for subsequent launches and reliable recovery."

It's purportedly the first of four planned teasers, one per week, showing before Avatar: Fire and Ash.

US drone makers are happy—US drone hobbyists, not so much.

Incident reports spiked during the first six months of 2025.

Redditor jokes LimeWire is now a "champion against the darkness."

A loophole in the rules might have given Mercedes and Red Bull a big advantage.