Nobel Prizes 2025: What to Know

The awards are being announced this week.

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West Point Alumni Group Cancels Award Honoring Tom Hanks

The group was to bestow the Sylvanus Thayer Award on the actor, but it said it was canceling the event to focus on preparing academy cadets for the future.

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What is Maria Sharapova’s Superpower?

Hint: it’s not the tennis dress. But as she is inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame, the former star athlete is ready to use it.

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​North Korea Honors Its Soldiers Who Fought in Ukraine

The North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, publicly consoled bereaved families, as well as awarding medals to soldiers returning from the force he has sent to aid Russia.

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At the Kennedy Center, Trump Puts His Pop Culture Obsession on Display

President Trump held forth about the nature of show business and his own tortured relationship with celebrity.

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Cambodia Nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize

The gesture comes after a U.S.-brokered cease-fire with Thailand, and a trade deal with Washington that blunted a threat of heavy tariffs.

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Debate Ignites at U.S. School Over Netanyahu’s Hall of Fame Status

Recent comments by the Israeli prime minister and a Fox News commentator about Cheltenham High School, their alma mater in suburban Philadelphia, have inflamed a debate.

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Netanyahu Releases Letter Nominating Trump for Nobel Peace Prize

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel praised President Trump’s role in his country’s establishment of diplomatic relations with some Arab states. But Mr. Trump has supported Israeli actions that have strained those ties.

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Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Is Stripped of Dutch Citizenship

Thirteen years ago, Andre Geim took British citizenship to accept a knighthood. He has just learned he can no longer be a citizen of the Netherlands as a result.

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Doechii Criticizes Trump While Accepting BET Award

The rapper drew attention to the president deploying the military against protesters in Los Angeles and said it was her responsibility as an artist to speak up for all oppressed people.

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