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Sunday, Dec 7th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article "Whatever we were to decide to release, we'd have to be very responsible about reviewing that right now," Hegseth said. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth refused to commit to releasing video footage of the controversial second strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea. ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Sunday, Dec 7th, 2025 -
A massive fire tore through a nightclub in one of India's most popular beach resorts, killing at least 25 people including tourists. Musicians were playing on stage when the fire broke through the ceiling and engulfed the club in a matter of minutes. Guests were heard screaming as they fled the venue in video recorded inside the club as the fire took hold. The blaze started at just after midnight on Sunday ...
Source: aol.com
Sunday, Dec 7th, 2025 -
The Liverpool star says he has invited his family to come and watch the Brighton match next Saturday, in case it's his last for the club. Liverpool star Mohamed Salah says he has been "thrown under the bus" by the club, and his relationship with manager Arne Slot has broken down. The 33-year-old player also suggested that next Saturday's match against Brighton could be his last for the Reds, who are the reigning ...
Source: news.sky.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
This article originally appeared on PolitiFact . Since roughly 1991, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended all babies get a dose of the hepatitis B vaccine at birth. The CDC committee that helps set vaccine policy voted Dec. 5 to overturn that decadeslong policy. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices' new recommendations say mothers who tested negative for hepatitis B should ...
Source: pbs.org
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
The United States Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether US President Donald Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship — as guaranteed under the 14th Amendment for more than 150 years — is constitutional. Next spring, the justices will hear oral arguments in Trump's appeal of a lower court ruling that struck down parts of an executive order — titled Protecting the Meaning and ...
Source: truthout.org
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
Each nation's World Cup is defined, for good or bad, by huge, indelible moments. With a favorable draw, the onus is now on the US to create them C hristian Pulisic vividly remembers watching it with his family. So does Tyler Adams, who saw it with his friends from soccer camp. Memories of Tim Howard catching an Algerian header in Pretoria, and hurling it upfield to ignite the counterattack that would lead to Landon ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
Federal Judge Orders Release of Jeffrey Epstein Grand Jury Records in Florida The big question is whether, as another judge suspected, this is just a DOJ distraction. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. A Trump-appointed federal judge in Florida has ordered the public release of grand jury transcripts from the first federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of underage ...
Source: motherjones.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
SAN FRANCISCO -- Netflix announced Friday that it planned to buy Warner Bros. Discovery in an $82.7 billion deal that could redefine Hollywood and the broader media landscape. Bringing the century-old Hollywood studio under Netflix's umbrella would give the world's largest paid streaming service expansive power over theater owners and entertainment-industry unions. It would also give Netflix access to more content ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Park Service will offer free admission to U.S. residents on President Donald Trump's birthday next year — which also happens to be Flag Day — but is eliminating the benefit for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth. The new list of free admission days for Americans is the latest example of the Trump administration downplaying America's civil rights history while ...
Source: apnews.com
Tower of London closed after 'custard and apple crumble' thrown on case containing U.K. crown jewels
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
LONDON — The Tower of London was closed after a video appeared to show activists smearing food on a display case containing one of Britain's crown jewels. Police said four protesters had been arrested following the incident just before 10 a.m. local time (5 a.m. ET) on Saturday, after reports that food had been thrown onto the case containing the State Crown. "Officers worked closely with City of London ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
Dec. 6 (UPI) -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pushed and pepper-sprayed Rep. Adelita Grijalva during an immigration enforcement action outside a Tucson restaurant on Friday, she alleges. Grijalva, D-Ariz., said she identified herself and was "asking for clarification" after finding about 40 ICE agents and their vehicles in the street outside a restaurant that she frequents, NBC News reported. The ...
Source: upi.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
Gunmen have killed at least 12 people, including a three-year-old boy, in a mass shooting at a bar near the South African city of Pretoria, according to police. Athlenda Mathe, spokesperson for the South African Police Service (SAPS), confirmed on Saturday that a total of 25 people were shot in the bar in Saulsville township, 18km (11 miles) west of Pretoria, adding that 14 had been taken to hospital. Police said ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
The autonomous ride-hailing service Waymo plans to file a voluntarily software recall after several reports that its self-driving taxis illegally passed stopped school buses. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) opened an investigation in October in response to "a media report involving a Waymo AV [autonomous vehicle] that failed to remain stopped when approaching a school bus that was stopped ...
Source: npr.org
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
Lionel Messi's legacy was long secured when he came to Inter Miami and joined Major League Soccer. He'd won a World Cup, won dozens of trophies, was generally considered the greatest player in the sport's history. He didn't need an MLS Cup. But he wanted one — and got it. Messi and Inter Miami have completed their ascent, beating the Vancouver Whitecaps 3-1 on Saturday in the MLS Cup final for the franchise's ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
President Trump on Saturday presented the 2025 Kennedy Center honorees with their medals during a ceremony in the Oval Office, hailing the slate of artists he was deeply involved in choosing as "perhaps the most accomplished and renowned class" ever assembled. This year's recipients are actor Sylvester Stallone, singers Gloria Gaynor and George Strait, the rock band Kiss and actor-singer Michael Crawford. Mr. Trump ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
A new released by the White House calls for asserting U.S. dominance in the Western Hemisphere and "cultivating resistance" within Europe, while reestablishing "strategic stability" with Russia and accepting the Middle East and its leaders "as they are." The strategy released late Thursday, which builds on President Donald Trump's " America First " maxim, marks a sharp escalation of his Administration's criticism ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Voters who backed Democratic governors in New Jersey and Virginia this year after voting for President Donald Trump in 2024 have a message for both parties: reject your party's extremes and run campaigns about more than just Trump. In new focus groups, 14 swing voters from New Jersey and Virginia revealed sharply negative views of both parties — and of politicians broadly. They explained that they were drawn ...
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 FIFA said the president had 'championed the unifying power of football on the world stage' Soccer fans reacted with outrage and incredulity as Donald Trump accepted the newly created "FIFA Peace Prize" during the 2026 World Cup draw. "This is pathetic," wrote one user, responding ...
Source: independent.co.uk
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 -
Canadian–American architect who explored crumpling and fish curves in such buildings as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao Frank Gehry, who has died aged 96 after a respiratory illness, influenced the course of world architecture at least twice. First, in the 1970s, with his informal ad hoc aesthetic, he showed how such material as chain-link fencing could be turned into an expressive art form. Secondly, in the ...
Source: theguardian.com