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Top News Stories for Thursday, December 11th 2025
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The Supreme Court appeared uncertain about whether it would strike down a major campaign-finance restriction during oral arguments on Tuesday, with some of the court's conservative members questioning a right-wing push to do so. The case, National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission , revolves around a legal challenge to Congress's ban on "coordinated party expenditures." Federal election ...
Source: newrepublic.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump administration official said, threatening new U.S. sanctions on the court if it did not. If the court does not act on this U.S. demand and two others - dropping investigations of ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
"Chip War" author Chris Miller is worried about the U.S. losing its advantage over China in artificial intelligence talent. In 2020, China's ranked first in the world at 3.57 million STEM graduates — far more than the U.S. with just 820,000. With advances in tech, Chinese companies have also seen the highest growth rate in U.S.-granted patents last year. This report is from this week's CNBC's The China ...
Source: cnbc.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Dallas congresswoman opened her Senate campaign by telling voters that she "has gone toe to toe with Donald Trump." Her Democratic primary opponent insisted that Americans are tired of "politics as a blood sport." The divergent approach highlights how U.S. Rep. are navigating a race where Democrats hope to break a three-decade losing streak in Texas. It also reflects a broader divide ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Australia became the first country to enforce a nationwide under-16 social media ban as global regulators watch closely. Platforms face tough age checks amid privacy fears, unreliable tech, and circumvention by teens. Other governments from Europe to Asia are weighing similar moves, positioning Australia as a test case. In this article In this photo illustration, iPhone screens display various social media apps on ...
Source: cnbc.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Miami voters have elected Eileen Higgins its first mayor aligned with the Democratic Party in nearly three decades. With 100% of precincts reporting, Higgins secured nearly 60% of the vote, besting Republican Emilio Gonzalez in the runoff election, according to unofficial results from the Miami-Dade County Elections Supervisor Alina Garcia. A little more than 37,000 votes were cast in the Miami ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Fighting between Thailand and Cambodia has continued for a third day, with cross-border shelling and air raids forcing more than half a million civilians to flee their homes and seek shelter, according to authorities. Officials from the two Southeast Asian neighbours on Wednesday also accused each other of restarting the conflict that has killed at least 13 soldiers and civilians so far this week and led more than ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Tech giants Amazon and Microsoft have announced a combined $52.5bn (£39.4bn) investment plan for India over the coming years. Amazon said on Wednesday it was pumping in $35bn into India by 2030 to advance AI-driven digitisation, export growth and job creation, a day after Microsoft committed $17.5bn strengthen the country's AI ecosystem. India, which is an emerging AI and cloud infrastructure hub, has ...
Source: bbc.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The Federal Reserve is again expected to lower its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point Wednesday, in an effort to support a weakening job market. But stubborn inflation and delayed economic data could complicate the Fed's decision, leading to more-than-usual disagreement within the rate-setting committee. A rate cut could make it slightly cheaper to borrow money to buy a car, expand a business or ...
Source: npr.org
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Energy drinks might give you wings, unleash the beast or fuel your grind — but chugging too many might pose a serious stroke risk, doctors warn. An otherwise fit and healthy man in his 50s with a daily eight-can habit found out the hard way, according to a case study published Dec. 9 in the journal . This patient suffered permanent damage from a minor ...
Source: insidenova.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Microsoft patched an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability as part of its monthly security update cycle yesterday. CVE-2025-62221 is an elevation of privilege (EoP) bug in the Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver, which enables a low-privileged user to achieve system-level code execution through a kernel-mode use-after-free flaw. Although no confirmed proof-of-concept (PoC) is available, it's likely ...
Source: infosecurity-magazine.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Women are hitting the top of the corporate ladder only to find something waiting for them: exhaustion. According to a report published Tuesday by McKinsey and LeanIn.org, a nonprofit founded by Sheryl Sandberg, burnout among senior-level women is the highest it has been in the past five years. Around 60% of these women said they have frequently felt burned out at work in the past few months, compared with 50% of ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
OSLO, Norway (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado will miss the ceremony to award her the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Wednesday, the head of the Norwegian Nobel Institute said. Machado last appeared in public 11 months ago. Nobel Institute director Kristian Berg Harpviken told public broadcaster NRK the Venezuelan opposition leader was not in the Norwegian capital on the day of the ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered diplomats to revert to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor Antony Blinken's decision to adopt Calibri a "wasteful" diversity move, according to a leaked internal cable. The department switched to Calibri, a modern sans-serif font, in January 2023, saying it was a more accessible font for people with disabilities because it did ...
Source: abc.net.au
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Analysts suggest that agentic browsers create an unacceptable risk for CISOs today, with data exposure now a top security concern - but far from the only one. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Businesses should steer clear of agentic browsers for now, analysts from research firm Gartner have warned. Agentic browsers, otherwise known as AI browsers, are ...
Source: zdnet.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Justice Brett Kavanaugh used an interesting choice of phrase when describing the constitutional issues in Trump v. Slaughter , the vividly named case on the president's ability to remove certain federal officials that Congress stipulated could only be fired for cause. "How do you answer the accountability theme, which I think is the theme of the other side, is that independent agencies are not accountable to the ...
Source: newrepublic.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Biden rolled out the SAVE plan in July 2023, which was intended to provide student-loan borrowers with affordable monthly payments and a condensed timeline for debt relief. In April 2024, Missouri joined other GOP-led states in filing a lawsuit that, should the court approve the settlement, the department will not enroll any new borrowers in SAVE, deny pending applications, and move all enrolled borrowers to ...
Source: insider.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is heading toward dueling partisan votes on health care this week after Republicans said Tuesday that they had united around a plan, for now, that would allow COVID-era health care subsidies to expire. Both the Republican plan, which would replace the subsidies with new savings accounts, and a Democratic bill to extend the enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits for three years ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
The European Commission said it was probing whether Google had breached EU competition rules by using the content of web publishers for AI purposes. The bloc said it would investigate to what extent the generation of AI Overviews and AI Mode by Google is based on web publishers' content without appropriate compensation. The move follows a slew of actions the bloc has taken against U.S big tech companies in recent ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
The US Department of Justice can release grand jury materials from Ghislaine Maxwell 's criminal case after a second federal judge paved the way for the disclosure of more information about the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein . US District Judge Paul Engelmayer , who had previously denied a request by the government to allow the release of transcripts and other evidence, granted it permission in an opinion on ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
LEXINGTON, Ky. ( /Gray News) - At least one person is dead after a shooting on Kentucky State University's campus Tuesday. The Frankfort Police Department said it responded to an "active aggressor" on KSU's campus at about 3:35 p.m. A university official confirmed to WKYT that a shooting happened in the area of south campus. Frankfort police report that a suspect was taken into custody at the scene. The suspect has ...
Source: mysuncoast.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
ORLANDO, Fla. – State leaders with the Council on American-Islamic Relations say the last 24 hours have been disappointing. both CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist organizations. "This type of language is causing a lot of division, and that is the intention," said Hiba Rahim, interim executive director of CAIR-Florida. DeSantis' order instructs Florida agencies to prevent CAIR and the Muslim ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
The Agentic AI Foundation launches to support MCP, AGENTS.md, and goose. Big Tech has spent the past year telling us we're living in the era of AI agents, but most of what we've been promised is still theoretical. As companies race to turn fantasy into reality, they've developed a collection of tools to guide the development of generative AI. A cadre of major players in the AI race, including Anthropic, Block, and ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Trump's smoke-and-mirrors farmer bailout won't make this self-inflicted wound disappear, experts warn Trump's USDA chief argues that farmers need a bailout — but insists Trump isn't responsible. The president's critics say his trade war is obviously the reason, writes John ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Clean energy advocates have scored at least a temporary victory after a federal judge on Monday threw out President Donald Trump's executive order that banned new wind power projects in the US. As reported by CNBC , Judge Patti Saris of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts tossed Trump's executive order in its entirety after finding it "arbitrary and capricious and contrary to law," and arguing ...
Source: commondreams.org
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article The app, described as a 'Waze for ICE sightings' and based on publicly available data, was downloaded more than a million times after its launch this year The developer who created a crowd-sourced map that lets users pinpoint the locations of federal agents in their neighborhoods ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Paramount Skydance Monday launched a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, seeking to undo Netflix's purchase of Warner's studio and streaming businesses. Paramount said its $77.9 billion all-cash bid for the whole company, including CNN, offered better value to shareholders than the $72 billion purchase price agreed to by Netflix and Warner on Friday. It was Paramount chief David Ellison's sixth bid for the ...
Source: theweek.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
said Tuesday that her country intends to send more water to the United States, but not immediately, even as U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to raise by 5% on Mexican imports if more water is not delivered as part of a water-sharing agreement. said Mexico is proposing a water delivery this month and another one in the coming years. The proposal will be discussed in a virtual meeting with U.S. officials ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Due to the government shutdown, there is no good figure for job openings in September, and the September release was canceled, but "partial data that businesses self-reported electronically" were included in today's October release, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The October data were collected as normal in November. So month-to-month comparisons for October lack a solid base (September data is only ...
Source: wolfstreet.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Residents along Japan's northeast coast were warned to stay alert, as aftershocks continued Tuesday in the aftermath of a major earthquake that has left at least 33 people injured. The U.S. Geological Survey reported a magnitude 6.6 and later a 5.1 quake in the hours after the initial temblor late Monday night local time. The USGS measured the main quake at 7.6 magnitude just off the coast of the city of Misawa in ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
met with in Rome on Tuesday, as Kyiv said it was preparing to send updated proposals to the United States for ending the war with Russia . Less than 24 hours after he reiterated that Ukraine would not cede land to Russia , Zelenskyy met with the pontiff before holding talks with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, a day after he met with the leaders of Britain, France and Germany in London. Thanking Leo for the ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
NEW YORK (AP) — Moments after Luigi Mangione was handcuffed at a Pennsylvania McDonald's, a police officer searching his backpack found a loaded gun magazine wrapped in a pair of underwear. The discovery, recounted in court Monday as Mangione fights to keep evidence out of his New York murder case, convinced police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, that he was the man wanted in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO ...
Source: pbs.org
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Two Chinese men were detained for allegedly smuggling Nvidia chips to China and other restricted locations. A Houston-based company and its owner have already pleaded guilty to routing Nvidia hardware through shell buyers. The latest arrests are part of a broader investigation involving more than $160 million in export-controlled technology. Nvidia H100 chips inside a server room at the Yotta Data Services Pvt. ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
A new investigation has revealed that grocery delivery service Instacart is using a covert, AI-powered dynamic pricing scheme to charge customers different prices for the same items — potentially costing households over $1,000 more a year. Groundwork Collaborative, Consumer Reports, and More Perfect Union collaborated on an experiment with 437 shoppers across four U.S. locations, representing several ...
Source: truthout.org
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
( The Hill ) – More American newborns are not receiving vitamin K shots, according to a study published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study found that from January 2017 to December 2024, 3.92 percent of the more than 5 million newborns in a U.S.-based electronic database did not receive a vitamin K shot. The share of newborns who did not receive the shot rose from 2.92 ...
Source: wfla.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
Congressional efforts to legally place a 10-year moratorium on state artificial intelligence regulation have thus-far failed to garner enough support. President Donald Trump confirmed on Monday that he plans to sign a new executive order focused on ensuring U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence development through "one rule" to counter the spectrum of differing state regulations. Trump said in a post on ...
Source: route-fifty.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 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 ― Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) launched a bid for the in Texas, according to multiple reports , shaking up the Democratic primary to unseat ...
Source: huffpost.com