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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 -
Liverpool's Mohamed Salah said he had been "thrown under the bus" as he tore into the club over his treatment and signalled a potential exit, after watching from the bench as they were held to a 3-3 Premier League draw with Leeds United on Saturday. In his incendiary post-match comments, the 33-year-old Egyptian lashed out at the club and coach Arne Slot, telling journalists he felt he had been scapegoated for ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
Pediatricians say panel's decision will create confusion and access issues, and condemn 'parody of public health' The entire US childhood vaccine schedule is now open for scrutiny, experts say, after government vaccine advisers took up discussions of the safety and efficacy of the vaccines and their components and changed its recommendations on one crucial prevention. Several of the vaccine advisers are longtime ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
News , via Wikimedia Commons US Supreme Court agrees to consider the legality of birthright citizenship The US Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide on the principle of birthright citizenship, which holds that all children born on US soil are American citizens. The principle of birthright citizenship is rooted in Section 1 of the 14 th Amendment to the Constitution, and US President Donald Trump asked the court ...
Source: jurist.org
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
Gillette Stadium, which FIFA has labeled "Boston Stadium," will host seven World Cup games. Here's the updated schedule after the group stage draw. Following Friday's group stage draw , FIFA announced the updated schedule for the 2026 World Cup on Saturday. England, France, Ghana, Haiti, Morocco, Norway, and Scotland are officially coming to Foxborough. With "Boston Stadium" (FIFA's designation for Foxborough's ...
Source: boston.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 -
Proposed merger would give Netflix control of HBO Max, DC Universe and major franchises like 'Game of Thrones' The Trump administration reportedly has some reservations about the proposed $72 billion deal for Netflix to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery's film and television studios and streaming platform, HBO Max. A senior Trump administration official reportedly told CNBC that, inside the White House, the deal, ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
The US National Park Service (NPS) is removing Martin Luther King Jr Day and Juneteenth from its list of fee-free entrance days. The move is part of President Donald Trump's "modernisation" of the park service, which, beginning in 2026, also includes changing the parks' cost structure to favour American citizens over foreign visitors, following a July executive order from Trump. In addition to removing the two ...
Source: bbc.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
London , this morning. The campaigners, who have identified themselves as members of Take Back Power, then unfurled a sign saying: 'Democracy has crumbled - tax the rich'. Take Back Power said it is a new, nonviolent civil-resistance group demanding the establishes a 'permanent citizen's assembly - a House of the People, which has the power to tax extreme wealth and fix Britain'. It is the third action ...
Source: dailymail.co.uk
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 -
At least 11 people – including a three-year-old child – have been killed in a mass shooting at a hostel in South Africa. Fourteen others were wounded when gunmen stormed the venue in Saulsville township, west of the capital Pretoria, early on Saturday. At least three unknown gunmen began firing "randomly" at a group of people who were drinking, police spokesperson Brigadier Athlenda Mathe said. The ...
Source: bbc.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 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article "I'm sure they'll give me great reviews, right?" Trump said. joked that he shouldn't be in office if he can't outperform comedian Jimmy Kimmel when hosting the Kennedy Center Honors this weekend. "I've watched some of the people that host; Jimmy Kimmel was horrible," Trump said on ...
Source: independent.co.uk
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 -
that aims to make all nine of the state's U.S. House districts friendly to Republicans, after The bill passed in a 57-41 vote and now heads to the GOP-controlled state Senate, which is reconvening on Dec. 8. A number of vocal Republicans in the Indiana Senate have held out against redistricting, although it's unclear if they are enough to prevent it from passing. President Trump congratulated members of the state ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
▶ Follow live updates on President Donald Trump and his administration 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 had openly campaigned for the Nobel Peace Prize, had been heavily expected to receive the newly ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Frank Gehry, the renowned architect who was known for designing the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, has died, a representative confirmed to CBS News. He was 96. Gehry died Friday in his home in Santa Monica, California, after a brief respiratory illness, Meaghan Lloyd, his chief of staff at Gehry Partners LLP, told CBS News in an email. He won every major ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Architect Frank O. Gehry, who brought an alluringly new kind of shape-making to his profession even as he fundamentally changed the reputation and civic landscape of his adopted hometown of Los Angeles in such projects as the shimmering Walt Disney Concert Hall on Grand Avenue, has died. He was 96. Gehry, who arrived in L.A. as an aimless teenager just after World War II and went on to become the most famous and ...
Source: latimes.com