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Brigitte Bardot, the French actress whose sultry performances seduced viewers and who became an emblem of women’s sexual liberation in the 1950s and 1960s, has died. She was 91 years old.  The Foundation Brigitte Bardot confirmed her death on Sunday morning.

“Brigitte Bardot embodied a life of freedom,” French President Emmanuel Macron wrote on X. “We’re mourning a legend of the century.” Click here for more on this story.

Click here to read about how Iran's president says his country is in a 'full-scale war' with the US, Israel and Europe as the hostile nation looks to rebuild its nuclear capabilities. President Masoud Pezeshkian issued the chilling proclamation in an interview with the state-controlled media on Saturday, saying that he believes Iran is already at war with the West. 'We are in a full-scale war with the US, Israel and Europe; they don’t want our country to remain stable,' Pezeshkian said. 

As 2025 wraps up, it's another in a string of years after the 2020 pandemic in which most Americans consistently voiced negative views about the economy amid ongoing concerns about costs — a topic that looks poised to dominate 2026, too.   That's because in the eyes of many Americans today, the U.S. is an expensive place to live.  Click here for more on this story.  

Click here to read about how Republican Sen. Rand Paul on Sunday criticized President Donald Trump's military mission off Venezuela's coast, calling the seizures of multiple oil tankers in the Caribbean Sea "a provocation and a prelude to war."  "I'm not for confiscating these liners. I'm not for blowing up these boats of unarmed people that are suspected of being drug dealers. I'm not for any of this," Paul told ABC News' "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl. 

Click here to read about how Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Monday that the FBI disrupted a "massive and horrific terror plot" by an anti-government extremist group allegedly planning a series of bombings against multiple targets in Orange County and Los Angeles, California, beginning on New Year's Eve.  

Construction of the White House's planned $300 million ballroom is expected to be completed in the summer of 2028, just months before President Trump leaves office, according to an environmental assessment prepared by the National Park Service in late August.  Click here for more.