Top lawmakers in Congress released three bipartisan spending bills on Monday that they're aiming to pass before the end of the month to avoid another government shutdown. On the heels of the record-breaking fiscal crisis last year, there's not much appetite on Capitol Hill to allow funding to lapse past a looming Jan. 30 deadline.

As the year 2025 came to an end, many online claimed that MTV — a decades-old cable television channel known for airing music videos — was shutting down completely. Numerous clips spread online stating that the music channel's last played video was the 1979 song, "Video Killed the Radio Star."

The fact that most of those channels happened to still play music videos was a warning sign, both to fans who grew up with MTV since its inception and to those who work in the music industry. Having very little music-themed programming on a channel that's called "Music Television" is a sign of how much corporate mergers and shifts in culture have changed MTV,

Confused fans took to social media. “Wait. MTV shut down all their channels or just music videos?” wrote one. A meme showing an MTV tombstone also flew around X indicating that MTV had shut down after 44 years. However, it’s not true. Variety confirmed that MTV has not shut down for good. So what caused the confusion?

The Large Hadron Collider will be shut down, paving the way for a major upgrade, and perhaps its eventual, even bigger sucessor.

One person was killed in the shooting that shut down a section of a Horry County highway for hours as police responded.

Huntsville Police SWAT executed a raid early Tuesday morning, shutting down what authorities say was an illegal gambling operation in the 3600 block of 7th Avenue. Officers took 59-year-old Robert Lorenzo Gray,

The last of the three operable units at the Bilibino Nuclear Power Plant in Chukotka, Russia, was permanently shut down on 30 December.  ;

Snow and freezing conditions have shut down rail and air travel, led to long motorway tailbacks and closed schools across Europe as a cold wave that struck the continent over the weekend persisted into Tuesday.