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As the year culminates, it's once again time for the ArchDaily team of curators to reflect on the best-performing projects of 2025 and consider what readers were most interested in. Through this ...

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College Football Playoff structure allows 7-5 Duke to remain in the hunt for a bid, while better teams are out. Conference expansion makes you wonder whether automatic bids should be part of CFP.

Demonstrators used a new and symbolic measure to denounce the ongoing immigration actions across Los Angeles County over the weekend at a Home Depot store in Monrovia. The activists each purchased an ...

President Donald Trump speaks during an address to the nation from the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025, in Washington. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, ...