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Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
On Thursday, Adm. Frank M. Bradley, commander of the newly controversial September 2 operation that inaugurated President Donald Trump's deadly military campaign against suspected drug boats in the Caribbean and the eastern Pacific, briefed members of Congress about his justification for ordering a second missile strike that killed two men who survived the initial attack. Hours later, the U.S. Southern Command ...
Source: reason.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
(The Center Square) – A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services spokesman says Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker eroded public trust and is trying to reinvent public health. The governor thanked Democratic state lawmakers last week when he signed legislation to empower the Illinois Department of Health to circumvent the federal government and issue its own vaccine guidelines. "I'd also like to acknowledge the ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Dec. 5 (UPI) -- The conservative-leaning Supreme Court on Thursday permitted Texas to use new congressional maps in the next midterm elections that were redrawn to favor the Republican Party, handing President Donald Trump a win in his litigious fight to gain an advantage to maintain control of Congress. In a 6-3 ruling , divided along political lines, the U.S. high court said a lower district court erred when it ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Analysts estimate the combined entity could command up to 10% of total U.S. TV viewing and generate billions in ad revenue. This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback . Netflix has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Warner Bros. in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at $72 billion, according to a press release . The deal, which includes assets like the Warner Bros. movie ...
Source: marketingdive.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON — Teeing up a blockbuster ruling, the Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide the lawfulness of President Donald Trump's contentious plan to roll back automatic birthright citizenship for nearly anyone born in the United States. The eventual ruling in a case from New Hampshire, expected by the end of June, will likely determine conclusively whether Trump's ambitious proposal can move forward. The ...
Source: news.yahoo.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 -
Dec 5 (Reuters) - The Republican-controlled Indiana House of Representatives on Friday approved a new congressional map targeting the state's two incumbent Democrats, setting up a showdown next week in the state Senate, where the mid-decade redistricting faces more opposition. Friday's vote was 57 to 41 in favor, mostly along party lines. Still, 12 Republicans, including four in leadership positions, ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
England will begin their World Cup 2026 campaign against Croatia, while Scotland have been drawn alongside Brazil at next summer's tournament. Thomas Tuchel's England will open their tournament in Dallas or Toronto on Wednesday, 17 June, before also facing Ghana and Panama in Group L. Scotland's first match at the men's World Cup for 28 years will be against Haiti on Saturday, 13 June, in Boston or New York, ...
Source: aol.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 -
European Union regulators on Friday said it is fining Elon Musk's social media platform X $140 million (120 million euros) for violating regulations aimed at protecting internet users in the trading bloc from digital abuses. The European Commission said that X breached "transparency obligations" under the Digital Services Act (DSA). The fine represents the EU's first move to sanction a company for violating ...
Source: cbsnews.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 -
NEW DELHI (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday at an annual summit and agreed to diversify mutual economic ties, as the United States presses India to revise its decades-old partnership with Russia. The 23rd Russia-India Summit comes at a pivotal moment as the U.S. pushes for a Ukraine peace deal while seeking global cooperation. It will test ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Help Net Security newsletters : Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here! Here's a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from BlackFog, Datadog, Forward Edge-AI, SandboxAQ, and Upwind. BlackFog releases ADX Vision to block data loss from unapproved AI use BlackFog announced the availability of its newest solution, ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Florida on Friday approved the release of grand jury documents from a nearly 20-year-old investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, beginning the process of making public another batch of long-sought material about the deceased financier. The investigative material from the Florida case is among the older information that law enforcement held about Epstein, dating to an investigation ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump may remove members of the National Labor Relations Board and the Merit Systems Protection Board at will, a federal appeals court ruled. The 2-1 decision from the Washington, D.C., Circuit Court of Appeals reverses prior rulings blocking Trump's attempts to fire members of the key labor and employment panels. The majority judges, who were both appointed by Trump, noted that they don't address ...
Source: cnbc.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Web infrastructure provider says problem lasted half an hour and was not an attack, weeks after larger outage A host of websites including LinkedIn, Zoom and Downdetector went offline on Friday morning after fresh problems at Cloudflare – the company's second outage in less than a month. Cloudflare said the outage came after it adjusted its firewall to protect customers from a widespread software ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
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 has openly campaigned for the Nobel Peace Price, had been heavily favored to win the newly created FIFA prize. He and FIFA president Gianni Infantino are close allies, and ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
If you're a homebuyer or homeowner hoping to refinance, the middle of the holiday season may seem like an unconventional time to start shopping around for mortgage interest rates . But unconventional doesn't necessarily mean unworthy, especially in the cooling interest rate climate of December 2025. Mortgage interest rates have been on a gradual decline for much of this year and that could continue in the upcoming ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told the inspector general investigators looking into his alleged use of Signal to share classified strike plans that he determined the details he shared either weren't classified to begin with or were "safe to declassify," according to a written statement included in a report released Thursday by the Defense Department's independent oversight office. Though Hegseth had the authority ...
Source: nextgov.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Michael and Susan Dell donated $6.25B to fund 'Trump accounts' The chairman of the White House National Economic Council said that wealthy Americans are looking to help finance the seed money for the so-called " Trump accounts " for newborns. NEC Director Kevin Hassett said in a Friday appearance on FOX Business Network's " Mornings with Maria " that there has been a surge of interest among wealthy Americans ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Police officers have been watching the suspect closely for six days and recovered the pendant after it came out the other end without medical intervention. The man is due to appear in Auckland District Court on Monday and will remain in police custody until then. New Zealand Police say they have recovered a James Bond-inspired Fabergé pendant after six days of closely watching the man accused of swallowing ...
Source: abc.net.au
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 -
LOS ANGELES – Frank Gehry, who designed some of the most imaginative buildings ever constructed and achieved a level of worldwide acclaim seldom afforded any architect, has died. He was 96. Gehry died Friday in his home in Santa Monica after a brief respiratory illness, said Meaghan Lloyd, chief of staff at Gehry Partners LLP. fascination with modern pop art led to the creation of distinctive, striking ...
Source: news4jax.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
for citizens of certain countries to more than 30, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said, in The expansion would build on a travel ban already announced in June by the Republican administration, which 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 ...
Source: news.yahoo.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 -
Apple named its favorite apps of 2025 for iPhone, Mac, iPad, and more - did your top picks make the list? Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways December is here, which means as the year comes to a close, companies carefully curate a nostalgic rewind of the past year with experiences such as Spotify Wrapped or, in Apple's case, the release of the 2025 App Store Awards honorees. ...
Source: zdnet.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Antigravity, a brand incubated by Insta360 and partners, has released the A1, a 249-gram drone capable of 8K 360-degree recording through a dual-lens 1/1.28-inch system. The device adopts a headset-first design, pairing the drone with Vision goggles that mirror the pilot's head movements in real time. It supports a "fly-first, frame-later" workflow that captures the full environment in one pass, enabling reframing ...
Source: technode.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
KERRVILLE, Texas inundated cabins and youth camps along the Guadalupe River. A firefighter clinging to a tree who watched his wife be swept away. A family breaking through their roof, hoping for rescue. A woman calling from an , waters swirling around and unsure how to escape. Their panic-stricken pleas were among more than 400 calls for help across Kerr County last summer when hit during the overnight hours on the ...
Source: news4jax.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
A critical remote code execution vulnerability in React.js has been identified. React.js is a JavaScript library for building fast, interactive user interfaces (UIs) using reusable components. The security researcher Lachlan Davidson disclosed the vulnerability on 29 November 29, 2025, to the Meta team. Officially tracked as CVE-2025-55182 , the flaw has been dubbed React2Shell, a not-so-subtle nod the Log4Shell ...
Source: infosecurity-magazine.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Layoff announcements this year have hit their highest level since 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic shut down the U.S. economy, consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas said Thursday. U.S.-based employers have announced plans this year to eliminate nearly 1.2 million jobs through the end of November. It's only the sixth time since 1993 that announced job cuts through the month of November have surpassed 1.1 ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The New York Times filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Department of Defense for violating the constitutional rights of journalists by adding restrictions on reporting about the military. The suit accuses the Pentagon and Secretary Pete Hegseth of violating the First Amendment by creating the new restrictions on reporting. They "seek to restrict journalists' ability to do what journalists have ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
European antitrust regulators have launched an investigation into Meta's artificial intelligence (AI) enhancement to WhatsApp . The European Commission announced Thursday (Dec. 4) that it had launched a probe into whether the tech giant's new policy on AI providers' access to WhatApp violates European Union competition rules. Meta's new policy, announced in October, bars AI providers from using a tool allowing ...
Source: pymnts.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! A powerful anti-Hamas clan leader protecting civilians in Gaza and allegedly backed by Israel has been murdered in Rafah, according to multiple reports. Yasser Abu Shabab, head of the Abu Shabab militia, known locally as the "Popular Forces" of the Gaza Strip , had risen to prominence for his cooperation with Israel against Hamas' influence in the region, according to ...
Source: foxnews.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
'Information-dense' AI responses are most persuasive but these tend to be less accurate, says security report Chatbots can sway people's political opinions but the most persuasive artificial intelligence models deliver "substantial" amounts of inaccurate information in the process, according to the UK government's AI security body. Researchers said the study was the largest and most systematic investigation of AI ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
A New York judge on Thursday signaled Albany's top federal prosecutor, John Sarcone, acted beyond his authority when he subpoenaed Attorney General Letitia James (D) for information about her office's investigations. Sarcone signed four documents—two subpoenas and their respective cover letters—as acting US attorney, even though he was designated a special attorney. It "seems clear he was not acting as ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com