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Top News Stories for Saturday, December 20th 2025
Saturday, Dec 20th, 2025 -
Disappointed. Frustrated. Suspicious. Several of Jeffrey Epstein's victims said Friday that Justice Department failed them with its partial release of files related to the federal investigations into Epstein's decades-long sexual abuse of teen girls and young women. They said the release of thousands of pages of photographs and heavily redacted documents did little to shed new light on the investigations and the ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Dec 20th, 2025 -
Elon Musk , the justices split on parts of the liability analysis but agreed that rescinding the entire package was "an inappropriate remedy" given Tesla's subsequent performance and shareholder support. The decision effectively clears the way for Musk to exercise options on about 303 million Tesla shares (split‑adjusted), a stake values at roughly $139 billion based on the stock's latest closing price. To ...
Source: bradenton.com
Saturday, Dec 20th, 2025 -
It's quick and easy to access Live Science Plus, simply enter your email below. We'll send you a confirmation and sign you up for our daily newsletter, keeping you up to date with the latest science news. Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Flipboard Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Astronomers hoping to observe a planet around a nearby star have witnessed a ...
Source: livescience.com
Saturday, Dec 20th, 2025 -
The mayor of Providence is asking FBI Director Kash Patel to give the $50,000 reward offered for information in the Brown University mass shooting to a local tipster who provided a detailed account of the suspect. The man, only identified by authorities in a criminal complaint as "John," provided the Providence Police Department with the most detailed account of the suspect, later identified as 48-year-old Carlos ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
The name of President Donald Trump was added to the facade of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The theater's board on Thursday voted rename that Washington institution the "Trump-Kennedy Center." By law, the name of the Kennedy Center cannot be changed without authorization by Congress. Workers stand on lifts in front of the newly added lettering for President Donald Trump's name at the facade of ...
Source: cnbc.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
President Trump has just signed an executive order that accelerated rescheduling cannabis from Schedule 1 to Schedule 3. This began under President Biden, but the current administration is fast-tracking the process. When finalized, this rescheduling will mark a big change in cannabis policy from the federal government, so light a celebratory joint and stay tuned, because we're gonna tell you all about it. What ...
Source: leafly.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
By Dec. 19 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump on Friday announced that nine of the largest drugmakers in the United States and Europe have agreed to voluntarily sell their medications at lower prices in a "Most Favored Nation" program. In return, the companies won't have tariffs placed on their products during a three-year grace period if they collectively invest at least $150 billion in U.S. manufacturing. All state ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
(The Center Square) - California Attorney General Rob Bonta is pushing back on President Donald Trump's proposed rules on gender-affirming care for minors. The new Medicaid and CHIP Reimbursement Rule would block both federally-funded health care programs from paying for gender-affirming care for minors. Under the new rules, funds can't pay for that care for patients under age 18 who get Medicare and for those ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
STATESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Federal investigators on Friday will begin sifting through the wreckage of a business jet that crashed in North Carolina and killed all seven people aboard, including retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and his family. The Cessna C550 erupted into a large fire when it hit the ground Thursday. It had departed Statesville Regional Airport, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) north of ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Republican worries about losing their majority in the U.S. House of Representatives next year erupted this week, when four moderates joined Democrats in a last-ditch effort to prevent a spike in healthcare costs for 24 million Americans beginning in less than two weeks. and Mike Lawler of New York - are part of a larger group of about a dozen House Republicans who had been ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
You are not logged into your account. You have a registered email address and password on pressherald.com, but we are unable to locate a paid subscription attached to these credentials. Please Thank you for your support of local journalism! A frantic search for the suspect in last weekend's mass shooting at Brown ended at a New Hampshire storage facility where authorities discovered the man dead inside and then ...
Source: pressherald.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
The grocery app will also stop hiding refund options and obscuring delivery costs. Instacart has agreed to pay out $60 million in subscriber refunds, the Federal Trade Commission announced on Thursday. The refunds will help settle a lawsuit the FTC raised, accusing the grocery delivery app of engaging in "numerous unlawful tactics that harmed shoppers and raised the cost of grocery shopping for Americans." Under ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON - The U.S. launched large-scale airstrikes on more than 70 targets across Syria, the Pentagon said Friday, fulfilling President Donald Trump's vow to strike back after the killing of two U,S soldiers. "This is not the beginning of a war - it is a declaration of vengeance," Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a post on X. "Today, we hunted and we killed our enemies. Lots of them. And we will continue." ...
Source: bradenton.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
A Wisconsin judge who helped a Mexican immigrant evade federal agents was found guilty of obstruction Thursday. Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan now faces up to five years in prison, the reports. Federal prosecutors had also charged Dugan with concealing an individual to prevent arrest, but the jury acquitted her on that count. Dugan learned in April that immigration officials had come to the Milwaukee ...
Source: abajournal.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
The administration of President Donald Trump has announced it will halt the visa lottery programme that allowed the suspect in the Brown University shooting to enter the United States. The lottery awards approximately 50,000 immigrant visas each year, according to the US government. But Trump has long opposed the Diversity Immigrant Visa Programme, sometimes known as the DV Programme. On Friday, his secretary of ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
775,399 19,813 Market yield on U.S. treasury securities at 10-year constant maturity. Updated daily. Welcome, + Existing home sales have risen for three months, reaching a nine-month high as mortgage rates fell and inventory increased. AI Summary Existing home sales have been trending higher since June, when the monthly sales print bottomed at 3,930,000 for 2025. The question is: can this continue? Back in ...
Source: housingwire.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
European Union leaders have agreed to provide an interest-free loan to Ukraine to meet its military and economic needs in its war with Russia for the next two years, EU Council President Antonio Costa has said. The leaders decided early on Friday to borrow cash on capital markets to fund Ukraine's defence against Russia rather than use frozen Russian assets, diplomats said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
A yearslong saga over the future of TikTok in America is nearing its end. The U.S. division of the popular social media app, which is owned by Chinese tech giant ByteDance , will soon be majority-owned by a coalition of U.S. investors that includes Oracle . The agreement was detailed in an internal memo from TikTok CEO Shou Chew, first reported by Axios . Oracle, alongside private equity firm Silver Lake and the ...
Source: observer.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
Key Takeaways A new executive order seeks to preempt state AI laws viewed as inconsistent with administration AI policies and establishes a Litigation Task Force to challenge them. State courts will be a battleground for determining the viability of state laws and establishing new "industry standards" as legal duties for AI technologies. State AI laws that include safe harbors or mitigation mechanisms, or ...
Source: natlawreview.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
US military declares five alleged drug traffickers killed in Pacific Ocean The US military said it killed on Thursday five more alleged drug traffickers aboard two vessels in the Pacific Ocean, bringing the divisive campaign's death toll to over 100. The Trump administration has carried out such strikes in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean since September but has provided no evidence that the boats are ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
Sam Darnold connected with Jaxon Smith-Njigba for a touchdown in overtime, then hit a wide-open Eric Saubert for the winning two-point conversion, and the Seattle Seahawks rallied from a 16-point fourth-quarter deficit to stun the Los Angeles Rams 38-37 on Thursday night and take a one-game lead in the NFC West. "It was something we talked about throughout the season and particularly for this game because of the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
Reportedly critical drone strike is first in Mediterranean since full-scale invasion began as maritime conflict grows Ukraine says it has attacked a Russian "shadow fleet" tanker with aerial drones 1,250 miles (2,000km) from its borders, in the first such strike in the Mediterranean Sea since Moscow's full-scale invasion nearly four years ago. Friday's strike off the coast of Libya, which reportedly caused critical ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
PCWorld reports that OpenAI has launched an app store for ChatGPT, allowing developers to submit applications that integrate directly with the AI chatbot platform. This expansion transforms ChatGPT into a more comprehensive platform where developers can even link apps to external sites for purchasing physical goods. OpenAI just announced in a blog post that you can now connect ChatGPT with even more apps. In fact, ...
Source: pcworld.com
Thursday, Dec 18th, 2025 -
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A man who is suspected of killing two and wounding several others at Brown University has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility, officials said. Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a Brown student and Portuguese national, was found dead Thursday evening from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Col. Oscar Perez, the Providence police chief, said at a news conference. From AP's ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Dec 18th, 2025 -
WNBA players have authorized their union's executive council to call a strike if necessary, the union announced Thursday as it continues to negotiate a collective bargaining agreement with the league. The WNBPA and league have been negotiating a new agreement for the past few months, extending the deadline a couple of times with the latest one set to expire on 9 January. The move gives union negotiators another ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Dec 18th, 2025 -
TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance has signed binding agreements with US and global investors to operate its business in America, TikTok's boss told employees on Thursday. Half of the joint venture will be owned by a group of investors, including Oracle, Silver Lake and the Emirati investment firm MGX, according to a memo sent by chief executive Shou Zi Chew. The deal, which is set to close on 22 January, would end ...
Source: bbc.com