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What Happened Today – December 31, 2025

Goddard Space Flight Center library reference desk with globe and bookshelves

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center library, home to 100,000 volumes including irreplaceable Soviet-era space documents, closes Friday as the administration shrinks the campus from 10,000 to 6,600 employees. (Photo: NASA Goddard/Facebook)

Trump announced plans to build a Triumphal Arch in Washington, his fourth effort to remake the city into a shrine to himself. His name now adorns the Kennedy Center and US Institute of Peace, and construction continues on his 90,000 square foot ballroom to be paid for with $400 million in private donations after he … Read more