Arden Cho says “KPop Demon Hunters” brought the joy back to her Hollywood journey. She voices Rumi in the animated Netflix hit and is one of AP’s Breakthrough Entertainers of 2025. #ArdenCho #KPopDemonHunters | AP

President Donald Trump said in a White House speech Wednesday night that he was sending a $1,776 bonus check to U.S. troops for Christmas, indicating that tariffs were funding the payments as he tried to reassure a worried public about the health of the economy. | AP

Video from the Mexico City Congress session showed legislators shoving, yelling and pulling each other’s hair on the podium at the front of the chamber. The dispute broke out during discussion of a proposal to eliminate the city’s transparency agency and replace it with a new oversight body. | AP

President Donald Trump doubled down on his attacks against Rob Reiner, who was found dead in his home with his wife Michele Singer Reiner. Speaking to reporters Monday afternoon, Trump said he wasn’t a fan of Reiner's and called him "a deranged person." | AP

The showdown between Fani Willis and a Republican-led Georgia state Senate committee over her conduct while prosecuting Donald Trump had loomed for months, and when it finally arrived Wednesday, Fulton County’s Democratic district attorney was ready to fight. | AP