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Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article The U.S. House Oversight Committee Democrats has received 95,000 photos from the Epstein estate, with two tranches posted online Friday said newly released photos showing he and Jeffrey Epstein mingling with several women were "no big deal," but later claimed he had not seen them. ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
Op-Ed: Favors for the rich kids — US executive order against state AI regulation is an incredibly stupid mistake The world is tired of trying to tolerate this insanity. The last thing anyone expects from the US is realism or competence on any level. Total trade, diplomatic, and socioeconomic failure apparently isn't enough, though. Trump's much-hyped executive order is to pre-empt and "target" states that ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
LONDON (AP) — Medics and health charities on Saturday praised King Charles III for giving a public update on his cancer treatment, saying his call for people to get tested for the disease could save lives. In a strikingly personal video statement, the British monarch acknowledged that a cancer diagnosis can feel "overwhelming," but said catching the disease early brings "the precious gift of hope." Here's ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
4 min read President Donald Trump said Saturday that there will be "very serious retaliation" after two US soldiers and one civilian interpreter were killed in an ambush in Syria on Saturday. Three others were wounded in the attack, which was carried out by a single ISIS gunman, US Central Command and the Department of Defense said in statements Saturday. "We will retaliate," Trump told reporters at the White ...
Source: edition.cnn.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
The Senate on Thursday rejected legislation to extend enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits, all but ensuring that millions of Americans will face sharply higher health insurance costs at the start of the year. Lawmakers voted down both a Democratic proposal to extend the subsidies for three years and a Republican alternative that would have created new health savings accounts. The votes marked an abrupt end to ...
Source: bradenton.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A shooter dressed in black killed at least two people and wounded eight others at Brown University on Saturday during final exams on the Ivy League campus, authorities said, as police searched for the suspect. Officers were hunting through campus buildings and sifting through trash cans more than three hours after the shooting erupted. The suspect was a male in dark clothing who was ...
Source: pbs.org
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — The United States will lift sanctions on Belarusian potash in the latest sign of a thaw between Washington and the isolated autocracy. John Coale, the U.S. special envoy for Belarus, made the announcement after meeting the country's authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko in the Belarusian capital of Minsk on Friday and Saturday. A close ally of Russia, Minsk has faced Western ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
BALTIMORE (AP) — Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose mistaken deportation helped galvanize opposition to President Donald Trump's , was released from immigration detention on Thursday, and a judge has any further efforts to detain him. Abrego Garcia currently can't be deported to his home country of El Salvador thanks to a 2019 immigration court order that found he had a "well founded fear" of danger there. However, ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
Fighting raged Saturday morning along the border of Thailand and Cambodia, even after U.S. President Trump, acting as a mediator, declared that he had won agreement from both countries for a ceasefire. Thai officials have said they did not agree to a ceasefire, and Cambodia has not commented on Mr. Trump's claim. Its defense ministry instead said Thai jets carried out airstrikes Saturday morning. Cambodian media ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
The activist was detained in the city of Mashhad during a memorial ceremony for another activist, raising concern from the Norwegian Nobel Committee and human rights groups about her safety and health. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, who was awarded the prestigious honour in 2023 for her work defending women's rights and human rights in Iran, has been "violently" detained, according to her ...
Source: news.sky.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
At 41, Lindsey Vonn is no longer defying expectations so much as resetting them. One day after becoming the oldest woman to win a World Cup race , the American came within a quarter-second of doing it again, finishing second in Saturday's downhill at St Moritz behind Germany's Emma Aicher. Less than 24 hours after rewriting the World Cup age record, Vonn briefly looked on course for another victory as she surged ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
BURLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — When Eddie Wicks and his wife went to bed in their house next to the Snoqualmie River on a Washington state farm known for its sunflower mazes and Christmas trees, they weren't too worried about the flooding heading their way. After 30 years living in the city of Duvall northeast of Seattle, their family had plenty of experience with floods and always made it through largely ...
Source: military.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
Follow Earth on Google Indoor tanning remains common in many places, even as new warnings keep appearing. Many people focus on getting a quick tan and don't think much about what happens under the surface. A new study reveals clear genetic damage from indoor tanning that natural sunlight does not usually create. The tan fades quickly, yet mutations remain inside the skin. Rising danger of tanning beds Researchers ...
Source: earth.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Fired University of Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore "barged his way" into the apartment of a woman with whom he had been having an affair and threatened to kill himself after she reported the relationship to the school and he lost his job, prosecutors said Friday. Moore was charged with three crimes, including felony home invasion and stalking. As he watched by video from jail, ...
Source: npr.org
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump's pledge to pardon Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk convicted of tampering with voting machines, touched off a new battle Friday over the fate of perhaps the last high-profile 2020 election denier still behind bars. Democratic leaders in Colorado dismissed the pardon as an empty attempt to bully a Democratic state into freeing one of the president's political allies. They argued ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
Covid Shots May Get FDA's Strongest Warning The agency's black-box label is meant to flag serious threats to life and health. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. The Food and Drug Administration is considering whether to place a "black-box" warning —a high-danger label only used to flag risk of death, severe harm, or incapacitation—on Covid vaccines, CNN has ...
Source: motherjones.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
Raed Saad's death is the highest-profile killing of a senior Hamas figure since the ceasefire came into effect in October. A senior Hamas commander who was one of the architects of the 7 October 2023 attacks on Israel has been killed in a strike on Gaza City, according to the country's military. Raed Saad was targeted in response to an attack by Hamas in which an explosive device injured two soldiers on Saturday, ...
Source: news.sky.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said that Kevin Hassett and Kevin Warsh are his top choices to lead the US Federal Reserve and that he expects the next chair of the central bank to consult with him on interest rates. Trump, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Friday, indicated that Warsh, a former Fed governor, has climbed up the short list of contenders to challenge Hassett, the White House ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
Lionel Messi's tour of India kicked off chaotically on Saturday as fans threw objects, ripped up seats, invaded the pitch and broke the stage after the soccer great made only a brief stadium appearance, shielded from view by a large entourage. Fans in the Salt Lake stadium in Kolkata threw ripped-up stadium seats and other objects onto the field and track, while several people climbed a fence around the field and ...
Source: nypost.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
South Carolina health officials say a measles outbreak is growing amid holiday travel and low vaccination rates, and they warn the spread could continue for weeks. As of Dec. 10, the state's Department of Public Health has confirmed 114 cases, nearly all in the state's upstate region. Of 111 cases recorded there, 105 were in people who were unvaccinated, and three had received only one shot of the two-dose measles ...
Source: upi.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
Reading time 3 minutes Scientists have discovered the strongest evidence yet of a rocky planet with an atmosphere outside the solar system, challenging previous notions that small planets that orbit closely to their stars are unable to sustain a thick blanket of gases. TOI-561 b orbits a 10-billion-year-old star located about 280 light-years from Earth and has a vast magma ocean. Using NASA's Webb Space Telescope, ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
A skydiver in Australia made it through an intense situation when their reserve parachute deployed and got entangled with the plane's tail. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau on Dec. 11 released a video as part of an investigation report about the incident, which occurred Sept. 20 over Tully Airport in Queensland on the country's northeastern coast. The skydiver was one of 17 freefall skydivers on board the ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
Kevin Rodriguez Zavala died from blunt-impact trauma on ride at Universal's Epic Universe theme park A Florida sheriff's office has concluded that the death of a 32-year-old man while riding a high-speed roller coaster at Universal's Epic Universe theme park was accidental. According to a report released Friday by the local medical examiner, Kevin Rodriguez Zavala suffered a deep cut on the left side of his ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
In addition to his supporting roles, Greene starred in the 1993 film Clean, Shaven in which he played a man with schizophrenia who is suspected in a murder. Peter Greene, the actor known for roles in Pulp Fiction and The Mask, has died aged 60. He was found dead at his New York City apartment on Friday, his manager confirmed. A cause of death has not been disclosed. Greene drew praise for the various villains and ...
Source: news.sky.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
Dec. 12 (UPI) -- The National Trust for Historic Preservation has filed a lawsuit against the President Donald Trump administration to block construction of a ballroom on White House grounds. The suit claims the ballroom construction is unlawful and asks the court to stop further construction until the plans go through a review process, as required by law. Former White House attorney under presidents Bill Clinton ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
OpenAI is focused on assessing when AI models are sufficiently capable to either help or hinder defenders, and on safeguarding its own models against cybercriminal abuse. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways OpenAI is warning that the rapid evolution of cyber capabilities in artificial intelligence (AI) models could result in "high" levels of risk for the ...
Source: zdnet.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
DORAL, FL – In a sunny courtyard on a stage framed by palm trees, the U.S. military commander who has overseen strikes on nearly two dozen boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific relinquished his position in a Friday, Dec. 12, ceremony, amid rumors he clashed with the Trump administration and its deadly counternarcotics operations. The after barely a year on a job that most stay in for several years has ...
Source: aol.com
US sanctions Maduro family members and ships it says move Venezuelan oil, a day after seizing tanker
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
The United States has announced new sanctions on shipping companies and vessels it says help move Venezuelan oil, putting more pressure on a major prop of President Nicolas Maduro's regime a day after it seized a sanctioned tanker likely carrying millions of dollars' worth of oil off the country's coast. Three nephews of Maduro's wife, Cilia Flores, as well as another Maduro-affiliated businessman were also named ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
European Union governments have agreed to immobilise indefinitely Russian assets of up to €210bn (£185bn) that have been frozen in the EU since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Most of Moscow's cash is held in Belgian bank Euroclear, and European leaders are hoping to agree a deal at next week's crunch EU summit that would use the money for a loan to help Kyiv fund its military and ...
Source: bbc.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
Topics More from TechCrunch Google is rolling out a beta experience that lets you hear real-time translations in your headphones, the company announced on Friday. The tech giant is also bringing advanced Gemini capabilities to Google Translate and expanding its language-learning tools in the Translate app. The new real-time headphone translations experience keeps each speaker's tone, emphasis, and cadence intact, ...
Source: techcrunch.com