WELCOME TO THE TOP STORIES OF 2025. I'M TOM YAMAS, COMING TO YOU FROM TIMES SQUARE IN THE HEART OF NEW YORK CITY. THIS IS THE HOME OF THE ICONIC BALL DROP, AS YOU KNOW, WHERE EVERY DECEMBER 31ST, WE SAY GOODBYE TO THE OLD YEAR AND RING IN THE YEAR AHEAD.FOR THE NEXT HOUR, WE'RE GOING TO LOOK BACK AT THE TOP 10 STORIES OF WHAT HAS BEEN A REMARKABLE YEAR FULL OF MAJOR EVENTS AND UNEXPECTED HEADLINES. WE BEGIN WITH A LOOK BACK AT THE YEAR THAT WAS. IT IS A GRIM NEW YEAR'S MORNING HERE TO BEGIN 2025.THE GUY IN ...

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Breaking tonight, the US launching massive retaliatory strikes inside of Syria, targeting ISIS. The military action in response to the deadly attacks on American soldiers. New video of American fighter jets launching before striking dozens of targets at multiple sites under the darkness of night after the president vowed revenge. Our new reporting on what targets were hit and what happens next. Also breaking tonight, hundreds of thousands of Epstein files just released. Some documents and images never made ...

Does this type of redaction, this is over 90 pages, every page redacted, does this, in your view, uh, satisfy the law's requirements or violate them. >> It essentially violates the the the order of the court and the spirit of the legislation that was was sponsored by uh, Roana and Tom Massie, as well as the subpoena that was uh, put together by Robert Garcia and Summer Lee, who were the ranking members on on the committee and and and the uh, subcommittee that that got this done. So, uh, we clearly said in t ...

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In their extensive redactions to portions of the Epstein files released today, which themselves are partial, and their choice of which material to release, the DOJ appears to be doing what it has been doing all year, protecting Donald Trump while going after his political enemies and also trampling the law. Eric Holder served as attorney general of the United States under President Obama. And he joins me now.Um, Mr. . Holder, you you had that position uh at the Department of Justice, of course, as attorney ...

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And let's go over to NBC News chief Capitol Hill correspondent Ryan Nobles who's following all this for us. Ryan, I know this is a ton to go through, but so far what are the big toplines here. Like what have we seen.>> Well, it's a lot of photos uh Gotti uh and a lot of photos of very famous men who we knew had interacted with Jeffrey Epste in the past. These are the first time we've seen some of these images. There's a whole lot of pictures of Bill Clinton, who of course has repeatedly said uh that he had ...

Tonight, a horrifying rampage in the heart of Taiwan's capital. Video show a man dressed in black running through a crowded shopping district in Taipei, yielding a massive night, indiscriminately slashing bystanders before entering a popular mall, sending terrified shoppers running. Authorities say the asalent began his deadly Friday night attack at this nearby metro station where he threw five or six smoke grenades.Video show heavy smoke filling part of the station and commuters just feet from the attacker ...

has been a very emotional day uh for me and for my family. I think there was a lot of trepidation coming into today. Um, you know, concern about what would actually come out and what would, you know, what would continue to be um, held back. But one, there was a big victory today for us in that we finally saw my sister's 1996 FBI report. Maria uh, Farmer, you know, she has been so so um, come forward so often and said, "Why was nothing done. I reported this in 1996 and just to see that um in writing it it wa ...