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Top News Stories for Thursday, December 4th 2025
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
WASHINGTON -- President Trump unleashed a xenophobic tirade against Somali immigrants Tuesday, calling them "garbage" he does not want in the United States in an outburst that captured the raw nativism that has animated his approach to immigration. Even for Trump -- who has a long history of insulting Black people, particularly those from African countries -- his outburst was shocking in its unapologetic bigotry. ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Amazon Web Services Inc. wants to solve the efficiency challenges of artificial intelligence agents and reduce their overall inference demands, and it's tackling the problem with more advanced model customization tools. The company announced today at its annual customer conference AWS re:Invent that it's introducing a new Reinforcement Fine Tuning or RFT feature in Amazon Bedrock , and serverless model ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
and announced plans to issue regulations for "Trump Accounts," which are a new type of individual retirement account for children created by Congress earlier this year. Parents and guardians can create Trump Accounts for children under 18, although contributions to the accounts cannot be made before July 4, 2026, and are limited to $5,000 annually in aggregate, according to the IRS. The federal government will also ...
Source: bankingjournal.aba.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
President Donald Trump proposed deep cuts to fuel efficiency standards for passenger cars enacted by the Biden administration. Trump announced the cuts at the Oval Office flanked by the CEOs of Ford and Stellantis. In this article Traffic on Interstate 80 in San Pablo, California, US, on Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. President Donald Trump on Wednesday proposed big cuts to strict fuel economy standards for passenger ...
Source: cnbc.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By MIKE STOBBE NEW YORK (AP) — A federal vaccine advisory committee this week is expected to discuss whether newborns should still get the hepatitis B vaccine — the first shot found to prevent cancer. Federal health recommendations now suggest that all babies be vaccinated against the liver infection in their first day of life, but U.S. Health Secretary Robert ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Reading time 4 minutes Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth "risked compromising sensitive military information" when he shared information on a Signal group chat in late March, according to sources speaking to CNN, which previews a government watchdog report set to be released on Thursday. And while that information isn't at all surprising, given that the group chat inadvertently included a reporter, ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
House Democrats on the Oversight Committee on Wednesday released never-before-seen photos and videos from a private island in the Caribbean that was owned by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The release includes 14 images and videos from Epstein's island in the US Virgin Islands, where he was accused of sex trafficking young girls. Epstein owned two private islands , Little St. James and Great St. James. ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
The search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will resume at the end of December. The search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will resume at the end of December, Malaysia's transport ministry said on Wednesday, more than a decade after the plane disappeared. The Boeing 777 carrying 239 people vanished from radar screens on March 8, 2014, while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in one of ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
The US members-only warehouse retailer Costco has sued President Donald Trump's administration, demanding a refund for tariffs it has paid on imported goods, according to a lawsuit reviewed by AFP. The suit, filed on Friday in the US Court of International Trade, says the tariffs are illegal. It does not specify how much reimbursement the multinational company is seeking on tariffs paid since they took effect ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Affordable Care Act subsidies that help millions of Americans pay for health insurance will expire in less than a month. But razor-thin margins in Congress, partisan division and competing plans are making it less and less likely that lawmakers will find a bipartisan deal to keep the assistance going - which means some households will probably face spiking insurance costs next year. Senate Republicans promised ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said this week that the federal government would start withholding money to help run the SNAP food aid program from states that don't provide data on participants, including their immigration status. The department said the government needs the data to spot fraud in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which helps 42 million Americans, or about 1 in 8, buy ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
The family of a Colombian man who was killed in a U.S. military strike on a boat in the Caribbean has lodged a complaint against the United States with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). The family of 42-year-old Alejandro Carranza Medina, who was killed on Sept. 15, rejected assertions there were any drugs on the vessel targeted in Washington's anti-narcotics military campaign, and insisted he ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
New Delhi — India's government revoked an order on Wednesday that had directed smartphone makers such as Apple and Samsung to install a state-developed and owned security app on all new devices. The move came after two days of criticism from opposition politicians and privacy organizations that the "Sanchar Saathi" app was an effort to snoop on citizens through their phones. "Government has ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
LOS ANGELES — A doctor who pleaded guilty to selling ketamine to Matthew Perry in the weeks before the "Friends" star's overdose death was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison on Wednesday. Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett handed down the sentence plus two years of probation to 44-year-old Dr. Salvador Plasencia in a federal courtroom in Los Angeles. The judge emphasized that Plasencia didn't provide the ketamine ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
A supermoon is a stunning lunar event that appears in the sky every few months, and it's one of my favorite natural phenomena. In the simplest terms, a supermoon occurs when the full moon coincides with its closest approach to Earth in its orbit — a point astronomers call When that happens, the moon can appear up to 14% larger and 30% brighter than when it's farthest away (apogee). To the naked eye, ...
Source: bgr.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Kraft Heinz, Coca-Cola among companies sued over ultra-processed foods linked to diabetes, cancer The city of San Francisco is suing 10 major food manufacturers — including Kraft Heinz and Coca-Cola — accusing them of knowingly fueling a public health crisis with ultra-processed foods. City Attorney David Chiu filed the lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court on Tuesday, arguing that ultra-processed ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Dubbed the 'Mona Lisa of the decorative arts', the work is now the most expensive Fabergé egg ever sold at auction A rare crystal and diamond Fabergé egg considered the "Mona Lisa of the decorative arts" smashed records last night, selling for £22.9m at Christie's in London to become the most expensive Fabergé egg ever sold at auction. Known as the Winter Egg for its delicate frost and ...
Source: theartnewspaper.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
CAIRO (AP) — Israel said Wednesday that it would reopen the Rafah border crossing in the coming days, allowing Palestinians to leave Gaza. That could be a major development for residents of the devastated strip, for whom leaving has been extremely difficult — if not impossible — for most of the war. The announcement has raised hopes that thousands of sick and wounded people in Gaza will finally be ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine and its European allies accused Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday of feigning interest in peace efforts after five hours of talks with U.S. envoys at the Kremlin produced no breakthrough. The Russian leader "should end the bluster and the bloodshed and be ready to come to the table and to support a just and lasting peace," said U.K. Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper. ...
Source: military.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
A voluntary recall was issued for hundreds of thousands of cases of bags of shredded cheese sold at major retailers in October, according to the Food and Drug Administration. More than 250,000 cases of cheese were recalled by the Great Lakes Cheese Co. in a voluntary recall to retailers on Oct. 3, an FDA report said . The report's classification date is marked Dec. 1, and the recall was described as "ongoing." A ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Texas A&M fell four spots from No. 3 to No. 7 in the next-to-last College Football Playoff rankings after the Aggies' loss to Texas. The Aggies are still safely in the field and in line to host a first-round game. Behind A&M, Notre Dame dropped a spot to No. 10 after beating Stanford while Alabama moved up to No. 9 with its win over Auburn. Both Ohio State and Indiana stayed in their spots at the top of the ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Dec. 3 (UPI) -- The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday subpoenaed former special counsel Jack Smith to have him testify during a closed-door hearing on Dec. 17. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan , R-Ohio, wrote Smith on Wednesday to inform him of the subpoena as the committee investigates Smith's and the Biden administration's efforts to prosecute President Donald Trump . Separate investigations ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Dec. 3 (UPI) -- The Trump administration on Tuesday announced a pause on immigration application processing for nationals from 19 countries and said it would re-examine immigration and asylum cases approved during the Biden administration. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced the hold and review of all pending asylum applications and USCIS benefits applications filed by immigrants from the ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 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? The White House on Tuesday attacked after for using her music in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest video. In a reference-filled attempt to diminish ...
Source: huffpost.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article At least eight judges purged from New York City after another five judges in San Francisco were terminated has fired or forced out roughly 100 immigration judges since the president took office, including more than a dozen in the last two weeks alone. The administration purged at ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Samples taken from the asteroid Bennu are continuing to shed light on the origins of the solar system. Scientists have been studying the samples since NASA's Osiris-REx spacecraft carried them back to Earth in 2020 and recently discovered that that they contain sugars and "a gum-like substance not seen before in astromaterials," NASA said. The revelations — and how they can help answer big ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
A new report in Nature discusses how the dramatic increase in satellite launches will affect astronomy. Before 2019, the largest group of associated satellites was the Iridium satellite constellation, which first launched five satellites on May 5, 1997. Currently, 76 are active with six spares also in orbit. I remember our astronomy club in El Paso going out during evening twilight to watch "Iridium flares," ...
Source: astronomy.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Follow Earth on Google Public-health decisions sometimes create natural experiments that reveal things no lab could plan. The country of Wales unintentionally produced one of those moments when a routine shingles vaccine – given only to people hitting a very narrow age window – appeared to protect long-term memory. The unexpected pattern caught the attention of Stanford Medicine researchers, who combed ...
Source: earth.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he is issuing a "full and unconditional" pardon to Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife, Imelda, using a lengthy social media post to accuse the Biden administration of targeting political opponents, even within its own party. "One of the clearest examples of this was when Crooked Joe used the FBI and DOJ to 'take out' a member of his own Party after Highly ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Approval for a huge 215,000 sq. ft. Chinese "super embassy" in central London was postponed for a third time at the last minute, but was expected to get the go ahead in January after the government determined it was not a threat to national security. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government had been due to announce its decision Dec. 10, but said Tuesday that it needed more time , ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
An employee at a Ashland, Virginia-area liquor store found the trash panda passed out on the bathroom floor at the end of his drunken escapade. ASHLAND, Va. — The masked burglar broke into the closed Virginia liquor store early on Saturday and hit the bottom shelf, where the scotch and whisky were stored. The bandit was something of a nocturnal menace: bottles were smashed, a ceiling tile collapsed and ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Pennsylvania schools are racing to determine the role artificial intelligence should play in education – and when. In nearly a decade of teaching artificial intelligence to schoolchildren, David Touretzky has encountered his fair share of skeptics asking him why kindergarteners need to be taught about artificial intelligence. "And my answer is: We're not introducing AI to kindergartners," the Carnegie Mellon ...
Source: route-fifty.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Cases of Ritz Peanut Butter Cracker Sandwiches sold in eight states are being recalled due to packs being incorrectly labeled and posing a risk to people with peanut allergies. Mondelēz Global LLC, the owner of the Ritz brand, initially issued a recall in July, but the FDA said in a news release on Nov. 28 that Mondelēz is issuing the recall for 70 cases of the product "out of an abundance of caution." ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 2nd, 2025 -
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández, sentenced last year to 45 years in prison for his role in a drug trafficking operation that moved hundreds of tons of cocaine to the United States, was released from prison following a pardon from President Donald Trump , officials confirmed Tuesday. Hernández was released Monday from U.S. Penitentiary Hazelton in ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Dec 2nd, 2025 -
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno is introducing legislation that would ban U.S. citizens from holding citizenship from other countries, marking a sharp departure from current policy. Moreno, whose family immigrated to the United States from Colombia during his childhood, said in a statement that one of the greatest honors in his life was becoming a U.S. citizen at age 18 "the first opportunity I could do ...
Source: cleveland.com
Tuesday, Dec 2nd, 2025 -
Luigi Mangione seemed "nervous" and claimed he was homeless when a Pennsylvania police officer confronted him in a McDonald's restaurant last December, the law enforcement officer testified during a pretrial hearing Tuesday. The tense encounter ultimately led to Mangione's arrest, capping off a five-day national manhunt. Mangione, 27, pleaded not guilty to state and federal charges in the fatal shooting of ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 2nd, 2025 -
Netflix and 50 Cent's harrowing new series looks back at the disgraced music mogul's rise to fame and fall from grace The controversial Netflix docuseries Sean Combs: The Reckoning had already been called a "shameful hitpiece" by the disgraced mogul's lawyers after a trailer was released on Monday. Now after all four episodes have been dropped on Netflix, it's been called " grimly necessary " and a " relentless" ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Dec 2nd, 2025 -
NEW YORK (AP) — Starbucks will pay about $35 million to more than 15,000 New York City workers to settle claims it denied them stable schedules and arbitrarily cut their hours, city officials announced Monday, hours before Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders visited striking baristas on a picket line. The development came amid a continuing strike by Starbucks' union that began last month ...
Source: pbs.org