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Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Dec 11 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's bid to redraw Indiana's congressional map and boost Republican odds of keeping control of the U.S. House of Representatives faces a pivotal test on Thursday, when the Indiana Senate is set to vote on whether to approve it. Despite months of pressure from the White House, it remains unclear whether the map has enough support to pass the chamber, where ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
This image from video posted on Attorney General Pam Bondi's X account, and partially redacted by the source, shows an oil tanker being seized by U.S. forces off the coast of Venezuela, Dec. 10, 2025. Credit - U.S. Attorney General's Office—X/AP The Venezuelan government has called the U.S. seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela "a blatant theft and an act of international piracy." President ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
, a next-generation AI consulting and solutions firm, announced its official launch, introducing a research-backed, operations-focused approach to enterprise AI implementation. Established to help organizations cut through the noise, identify where AI truly adds value, and deploy systems that work in harmony with their existing business architecture, Xspark.ai's methodology is rooted in research and refined by ...
Source: aithority.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Former Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore was jailed on Wednesday, according to court records, hours after he was fired for what the university said was an "inappropriate relationship with a staff member." According to the Washtenaw County Jail, the 39-year-old Moore had been booked into the facility as of Wednesday evening. The jail's records did not provide any information about ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Fighting between Thailand and Cambodia entered its fourth day on Thursday as both sides waited for a promised telephone call from U.S. President Donald Trump , who says he believes he can again end the conflict between the two Southeast Asian nations. On Wednesday, clashes at more than a dozen locations along the 500-mile Thai-Cambodian border saw some of the most intense fighting since a five-day battle in July, ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Bjork supported the boycott move ( JTA ) — The public broadcaster of Iceland announced on Wednesday that it will not participate in this year's Eurovision Song Contest after Israel's participation was confirmed by the European Broadcasting Union last week. The decision drew support from prominent Icelandic artists, including the singer Björk and the former Eurovision representative Paul Oscar, as well as ...
Source: forward.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! A sperm donor whose samples helped conceive nearly 200 children across Europe unknowingly carried a cancer-causing genetic mutation — a hidden risk now tied to multiple childhood illnesses and early deaths. An investigation led by the BBC and many other public service broadcasters revealed that the donations were made to Denmark's European Sperm Bank (ESB). Those ...
Source: foxnews.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Oracle shares sank on Wednesday after revenue earnings missed analyst expectations. The database software maker extended losses on Thursday. Other AI-related names fell alongside it. In this article Oracle shares plummeted over 12% in premarket trading on Thursday, extending yesterday's losses after the firm reported disappointing results. The cloud computing and database software maker reported ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
A state of emergency has been declared, and tens of thousands of people have been ordered to leave their homes in western Washington after historic rain left rivers at record levels across the state. Skagit County has ordered everyone in the Skagit River 100-year floodplain to evacuate to higher ground, as authorities have forecast 18 major floods and 15 moderate floods. Gov. Bob Ferguson said late Wednesday, ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Artificial intelligence chatbots are no longer a novelty for U.S. teenagers. They're a habit. A new Pew Research Center survey of 1,458 teens between the ages of 13 and 17 found that 64 percent have used an AI chatbot, with more than one in four using such tools daily. Of those daily users, more than half talked to chatbots with a frequency ranging from several times a day to nearly constantly. The results offer a ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
By The Federal Reserve lowered interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point on Wednesday in a highly contentious decision. The split among policymakers suggested that the central bank may be done lowering borrowing costs for the time being unless there are clear signs that the labor market is weakening further. The decision to cut for a third meeting in a row shifted interest rates to a new range of 3.5% to ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A parent of a Kentucky State University student has been charged with murder in an on campus shooting that killed one student and critically injured another. Jacob Lee Bard was at the school's campus in Frankfort on Tuesday and fired shots at the victims at a residence hall, police said in a statement. Investigators said the shooting was ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The Trump administration has reached an agreement that could end President Biden's signature student loan repayment plan, a move that may force millions of borrowers back into repayment. The Education Department on Tuesday announced a proposed settlement with the state of Missouri that it said would terminate the Saving on a Valuable Education, or SAVE, plan, an income-driven repayment plan that tabulates loan ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Washington — A federal judge in New York has granted a request from the Justice Department to unseal more files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In a brief four-page ruling on Wednesday, Judge Richard Berman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered the unsealing of grand jury materials as well as investigative records, documents and communications from the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
News red__koral__ph / Pixabay Federal judge orders Trump to end California National Guard federalization A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to end its six-month federalization of the California National Guard, ruling the deployment lacks legal justification. US federal law ( 10 USC § 12406 ) permits the president to federalize National Guard troops only when the nation faces ...
Source: jurist.org
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The Supreme Court on Tuesday wrestled over whether to lift limits on how much political parties can spend in cooperation with candidates. The case could significantly shift the balance of political power between the parties and outside groups such as Super PACs. Republican leaders are asking the court to remove limits on how much parties can spend in coordination with federal candidates on items such as ...
Source: abajournal.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
By and Following her decisive victory in Miami's runoff election, Mayor-Elect Eileen Higgins laid out a vision for a new era in Miami politics Wednesday, with promises to end City Hall's "reality TV show" culture and instead focus on tackling major issues plaguing Miami residents. "So first of all, the temperature on the dais has to go down," Higgins told reporters in her first post-election press conference. ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Kyiv, Ukraine – United States President Donald Trump bristled at a question about his Ukrainian counterpart on Wednesday during an interview with media outlet Politico. Admonishing Volodymyr Zelenskyy for failing to hold a presidential election, he accused him of not ending the war with Russia as an excuse to cling to power. "They talk about a democracy, but it gets to a point where it's not a democracy any ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
We didn't start the fire. (Neanderthals did, at least 400,000 years ago.) Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 years ago in what's now Suffolk, England. Based on chemical analysis of the sediment at the site, along with the telltale presence of pyrite, a mineral not naturally found nearby but very handy for striking sparks with ...
Source: arstechnica.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 -
OSLO, Norway — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado appeared in public for the first time in 11 months early Thursday morning, when she waved to supporters at a hotel in Norway's capital hours after her daughter accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf. Machado had been in hiding since Jan. 9, when she was briefly detained after joining supporters in a protest in Caracas, Venezuela's ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Exclusive reporting by Reuters on Wednesday cites an anonymous government official who says that the Trump administration has privately reached out to the International Criminal Court in order to threaten new sanctions against the ICC unless it pledges not to prosecute President Donald Trump for any crimes he may have committed. According to the news agency: The Trump administration official, speaking on the ...
Source: commondreams.org
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese welcomed a world-first social media ban for children younger than 16 that took effect Wednesday as families taking back power from tech giants but warned the implementation would be difficult. Many children posted farewell messages, while parents reported distraught children discovering they'd been shut out of platforms as the landmark law ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Space agency is investigating after Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekend Nasa has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade, though the US space agency said it was trying to re-establish a communications link. Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekend. Nasa said this week that the spacecraft had been working fine ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Heart disease has long been the top killer of women in the United States, but new research suggests uterine fibroids, which many may not even be aware they have, could be putting them at a significantly greater risk. A large, 10-year study found that women with leiomyomas had an 81% higher long-term risk of heart disease than those without the common condition. Women with fibroids — generally benign tumors ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled over how courts should decide borderline cases of whether convicted murderers are intellectually disabled and should be shielded from execution. There was no clear outcome apparent after the justices heard two hours of arguments in an appeal from Alabama, which wants to put to death a man who lower federal courts found is intellectually disabled. ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
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, a case study published Tuesday in the journal BMJ Case Reports states. This patient suffered permanent damage from a minor stroke caused by extremely high blood pressure, ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
SAN FRANCISCO ( KRON ) – Instacart, the San Francisco-based company that operates its eponymous grocery delivery app, is responding to reports that it charged some customers more than others for the exact same items as part of an artificial intelligence-enabled experiment. The allegations stem from a study conducted by Consumer Reports , an advocacy group known as Groundwork Collaborative, and the non-profit ...
Source: wfla.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Connecticut has confirmed its first measles case of the year, involving an unvaccinated child in Fairfield County, according to state health officials. The case was reported on Wednesday in an announcement from the Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH). The child, who is under the age of 10, recently traveled internationally before developing symptoms several days later, according to DPH. Symptoms included ...
Source: bnonews.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The Trump administration is proposing to ask visitors from several dozen nations that enjoy visa-free travel to the U.S. to submit additional personal information before entering the country, including five years of their social media history, the Department of Homeland Security said in a notice this week. Citizens of 42 countries enrolled in the visa waiver program can generally come to the U.S. for up to 90 days ...
Source: cbsnews.com
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
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 -
WWSB ) – Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday unveiled a $117 billion "Floridians First" budget proposal for fiscal year 2026-27, anchored by a record $1.56 billion for teacher pay while keeping Florida's reserves at historic levels. Speaking at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in Orlando, DeSantis said Florida is entering the next budget cycle from a position of strength, with the rainy-day fund at ...
Source: mysuncoast.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 -
Big 12 Conference commissioner Brett Yormark said Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua was "totally out of bounds" for his comments on the Atlantic Coast Conference this week. Notre Dame have a football scheduling alliance with the ACC and are a full member of the conference in other sports. Bevacqua has claimed the ACC damaged Notre Dame's chances at making the College Football Playoff, instead campaigning ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Egypt and Iran are calling on football's governing body to intervene in the LGBTQ+ Pride celebration planned to coincide with their group stage match in Seattle at the 2026 World Cup . Egypt's Football Association (EFA) said on Tuesday it had sent a letter to Fifa urging them to prevent any LGBTQ+ Pride-related activities during the national team's match against Iran next June. The EFA argues in the letter that ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Emil Bove, a top Trump Justice Department official turned federal appeals court judge, attended a campaign-style presidential rally in Pennsylvania in a highly unusual move for a sitting judge. Bove, who was confirmed to the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in July, was in the audience in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania on Tuesday night while President Donald Trump delivered remarks, which were initially billed ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com