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Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
Pediatricians say panel's decision will create confusion and access issues, and condemn 'parody of public health' The entire US childhood vaccine schedule is now open for scrutiny, experts say, after government vaccine advisers took up discussions of the safety and efficacy of the vaccines and their components and changed its recommendations on one crucial prevention. Several of the vaccine advisers are longtime ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
With the White House's push for states to draw new maps ahead of the midterms not going as smoothly as planned, the Sunshine State is now entering the fray. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida could be the final state the White House can count on to pick up additional seats as part of the rare mid-decade redistricting cycle it has pushed ahead of the midterm elections. The Republican-controlled state officially ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
This year, the holidays don't feel celebratory for many Americans who've been negatively affected by the Trump administration's decisions. We're here to make sure those people do not go unheard. Help us hold the administration accountable. Already a member? WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military opened fire on two people clinging to the wreckage of a boat allegedly carrying drugs, congressional lawmakers learned ...
Source: huffpost.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
Netflix won the business version of the Squid Game on Friday, beating out Paramount Skydance , Comcast , and possibly others in a bidding war for the Warner Bros. streaming and studios assets of Warner Bros. Discovery . Netflix is now the biggest entertainment company in the world by far, with a market cap of more than $400 billion, and the company that was dismissed by a former Warner Bros. boss as the "Albanian ...
Source: fool.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
Friday's World Cup draw couldn't have gone much better for U.S. coach Mauricio Pochettino . In a star-studded two-hour ceremony held at the Kennedy Center, Americans were grouped with Paraguay and Australia, teams they beat in the last two months, along with the winner of a European playoff featuring Turkey, Romania, Slovakia and Kosovo. "We've already done the homework because it's fresh," Pochettino said. "We ...
Source: latimes.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
The expansion would build on a travel ban already announced in June by the Republican administration. That barred travel to the U.S. for citizens from 12 countries and restricted access to the U.S. for people from seven others. In a social media post earlier this week, Noem had suggested more countries would be included. U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem holds a press conference, in Los Angeles, ...
Source: cnbc.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
The more persuasive a model is trained to be, the higher the likelihood that it'll hallucinate, researchers find. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Most of us feel a sense of personal ownership over our opinions: "I believe what I believe, not because I've been told to do so, but as the result of careful consideration." "I have full control over how, when, and why I ...
Source: zdnet.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — Many of the voices were frantic and desperate. A few were steady and calm amid mounting, frightening danger, and in some cases, inescapable doom. They came from families huddled on rooftops to escape rising, swirling waters, mothers panicked for the wellbeing of their children and onlookers who heard people yell for help through the dark as they clung to treetops. One man, stuck high ...
Source: apnews.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
For babies born in the next few years, "Trump accounts" could be a financial game changer. And for the policymakers and advocates who conceived of the idea, the accounts have another potential benefit: Improving capitalism's reputation, especially among young people. "What I'm really excited about is, we are creating a new generation of capitalists," Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said at the White House on ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Welcome to the online version of , a newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team's latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. In today's edition, we break down the findings from our focus groups with voters who backed President Donald Trump in 2024, but went for Democrats in last month's gubernatorial elections. Plus, Kristen Welker explores how the health ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Home » » WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court agreed this week to decide on the constitutionality of President Donald Trump 's executive order on birthright citizenship . The executive order declared that U.S.-born children of illegal or temporary status immigrants are not American citizens. "The Fourteenth Amendment's Citizenship Clause was adopted to grant citizenship to newly freed slaves and their ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Trump has signed a bill requiring release of all government records involving the convicted sex offender Reading Time: 2 minutes A US federal judge on Friday ordered the release of the grand jury transcripts from the investigation in Florida of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The Justice Department requested the unsealing of the transcripts after US President Donald Trump signed a bill last month requiring ...
Source: scmp.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Dec. 5 (UPI) -- A federal grand jury has rejected the Justice Department's bid to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James , according to reports, dealing a blow to President Donald Trump 's effort to prosecute political opponents. The Norfolk, Va., grand jury decision comes less than two weeks after a federal judge threw out criminal cases against James and FBI Director James Comey . "The grand jury's ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
LONDON (AP) — European Union regulators on Friday fined Elon Musk's social media platform X 120 million euros ($140 million) for breaches of the bloc's digital regulations that they said could leave users exposed to scams and manipulation. The European Commission issued its decision following an investigation it opened two years ago into X under the 27-nation bloc's Digital Services Act, also ...
Source: mysuncoast.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article James McCrery II will remain on the project in a 'consulting' role, the White House has said President Donald Trump replaced the original architect tapped to oversee his $300 million ballroom due to the massive size of the president's project, according to a report. James McCrery ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
New Delhi, India – Under a thick blanket of smog in the world's most polluted city, the leaders of Russia and India put on a display of diplomatic resilience, projecting a message that their bilateral partnership remains insulated from widening global fractures. At the Russia-India annual bilateral summit in New Delhi – against a backdrop of intensifying Western pressure, punctuated by recent United ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Four countries have announced that they are boycotting the Eurovision Song Contest in 2026 because of the organizers' much-criticized decision to allow Israel to continue participating in the competition, despite its genocide. Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands are pulling out of the competition for next year, after the body behind the competition, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), refused to hold a ...
Source: truthout.org
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva of Arizona said she was pepper-sprayed and "pushed around" by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during a raid at a Tucson restaurant on Friday. In a video statement posted on X , Grijalva said it happened as local Tucsonans gathered to stop a group of roughly 40 ICE agents, many of them masked and in several vehicles, stationed in the middle of a street near a restaurant ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
The web infrastructure company said at around 9am that it was "investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard" after reports of "a large number of empty pages". Several websites, including Linkedin, Zoom and Canva, went down after new issues with internet provider Cloudflare. The web infrastructure company said at around 9am that it was "investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs (application ...
Source: news.sky.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
This week was all about AWS re:Invent, the biggest cloud conference of the year — which also makes it by definition, these days, one of the biggest AI conferences of the year. The headlines from our 20 or so stories plus more interviews from theCUBE tell the story. But the gist is that if CEO Matt Garman (pictured) didn't knock everyone's socks off, he made a pretty good case that Amazon's in solid shape for ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a 2-to-1 ruling that President Trump acted lawfully in firing two members of independent agencies, despite federal laws that hold they can only be fired for cause, because they wield significant executive power. The ruling comes as the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments in a similar case on Monday. The case decided by the appeals court was brought by Cathy Harris, a ...
Source: npr.org
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
▶ Follow live updates on President Donald Trump and his administration WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was awarded the new FIFA peace prize on Friday at the 2026 World Cup draw — giving the spectacle to set matchups for the quadrennial soccer tournament even more of a Trumpian flair. Trump, who had openly campaigned for the Nobel Peace Prize, had been heavily expected to receive the newly ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Topics More from TechCrunch Waymo plans to voluntarily issue a software recall with federal safety regulators related to how its robotaxis operate around school buses, the Alphabet-owned company told TechCrunch. The voluntary software recall will be filed early next week, according to the company. Waymo said as soon as the issue was identified it updated its software on November 17. The company contends ...
Source: techcrunch.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
The quiet calm of a weekday morning in a Woodbridge, Virginia, neighborhood was suddenly interrupted Thursday by a loud siren, two Humvee-style vehicles and a group of SWAT-like figures in camouflage, rifles trained on a house. "This is the FBI. We have a federal search warrant," the voice coming over a loudspeaker said, according to a neighbor. "Come out of the house with your hands up." The ensuing arrest of a ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Mortgage interest rates may still drop this year. Following two Federal Reserve interest rate cuts that caused mortgage rates to fall to multiple 3-year lows , the central bank is poised to cut rates again when it meets on December 10. That, in turn, could cause mortgage rates to fall again. And it may even happen pre-emptively , as the last two big mortgage rate drops actually occurred in the hours preceding a Fed ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Police said Friday they have recovered a James Bond-inspired Fabergé pendant after six days of closely watching the man accused of swallowing the jewelry in an Auckland store. They said the pendant was recovered Thursday night after it exited the suspect's gastrointestinal tract naturally without medical intervention. The limited-edition, Fabergé egg ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Discussions over women becoming deacons, who are ordained and can assist with services but cannot celebrate Mass, have convulsed the 1.4 billion-member Church. VATICAN CITY — A high-level Vatican commission voted against allowing Catholic women to serve as deacons, maintaining the global Church's practice of all-male clergy, according to a report given to Pope Leo and released on Thursday. The commission, in ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Architect Frank O. Gehry, who brought an alluringly new kind of shape-making to his profession even as he fundamentally changed the reputation and civic landscape of his adopted hometown of Los Angeles in such projects as the shimmering Walt Disney Concert Hall on Grand Avenue, has died. He was 96. Gehry, who arrived in L.A. as an aimless teenager just after World War II and went on to become the most famous and ...
Source: latimes.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Frank Gehry, the renowned architect who was known for designing the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, has died, a representative confirmed to CBS News. He was 96. Gehry died Friday in his home in Santa Monica, California, after a brief respiratory illness, Meaghan Lloyd, his chief of staff at Gehry Partners LLP, told CBS News in an email. He won every major ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Ongoing reports and analysis The Trump administration released its long-anticipated new national security strategy late Thursday night, laying out a vision that attempts to reconcile U.S. global dominance with a U.S. retreat from many aspects of its decades-long global role. The one through line in the strategy—which at various points both promotes and rails against interventionism—is advancing ...
Source: foreignpolicy.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Employers announced 71,321 job cuts last month: Report Only third time since 2008 that Nov. layoff plans topped 70K Markets expect Fed to cut interest rates at the next meeting TAMPA, Fla. ( NewsNation ) — U.S. employers have announced more than 1.1 million job cuts so far this year, the most since 2020, according to new data from Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The outplacement firm said this year's tally is ...
Source: wfla.com