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Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The family of a Colombian man has filed the first formal challenge to U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats, arguing in a petition to the premier human rights watchdog in the Americas that his death was an extrajudicial killing. The petition from the family of Alejandro Carranza says the military bombed his fishing boat on Sept. 15, when he was sailing off Colombia's ...
Source: military.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
They contracted hepatitis before the vaccine was given at birth - now the shot may be delayed again John Ellis was 16 when frequent stomach pains led to an unexpected diagnosis. His mother suggested they go to the doctor, and after a series of tests, the results took even Mr Ellis's mother, a nurse of 30 years, by surprise: Mr Ellis had hepatitis B. Born in 1990, just a year before the US began universally ...
Source: bbc.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
A divided US Supreme Court cleared Texas to use a new Republican-drawn congressional map for next year's election, bolstering GOP hopes of picking up as many as five new House seats in the state. Over three dissents, the justices on Thursday lifted a lower court ruling that had blocked the map, which was drawn at President Donald Trump 's behest to help Republicans try to keep their House majority in the midterm ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Jim Farley says customers will get to choose what they want instead of being 'forced' into EVs The CEO of Ford Motor Co. is revved up for the Trump administration's plan to make automobiles affordable, as he expressed his praise for helping to bring car prices back down. "What you should know is that this is a victory for affordability and common sense. As the president said, we will be able to offer more ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put defence personnel and their missions at risk when he used the messaging app Signal to discuss sensitive information about military strikes on Yemen's Houthis, a classified Pentagon watchdog report has found. In a report provided to Congress on Tuesday, the Pentagon inspector general said its investigation concluded that Hegseth violated protocol when he used his ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Although intended for OT administrators, new multi-agency AI guidelines raise issues that apply across IT networks as well. The security of operational technology (OT) in critical infrastructure has been a recurring theme for years, but this week the US National Security Agency (NSA) and its global partners added a new concern to the mix: how the increasing use of AI in OT risks making things worse. The scope of ...
Source: csoonline.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article New footage and images released by Democrats as lawmakers ask for update on Epstein files from the Justice Department Leer en Español Never-before-seen photos and videos, released Wednesday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee , reveal details of late sex offender ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
– Remains that militants in Gaza handed to Israel as part of the first phase of the ceasefire deal were those of a Thai agricultural worker, Israeli and Thai officials said Thursday. The return of Sudthisak Rinthalak's remains leaves just one more hostage to be returned under the agreement. Sudthisak was an agricultural worker who had been employed at Kibbutz Be'eri, one of the hardest-hit communities in the ...
Source: news4jax.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
The last dazzling sky show of the year will be Thursday, Dec. 4. December's supermoon is known as the Cold Moon and is the fourth of 2025. The moon earned its name because it appears in the colder months of the year, near the winter solstice, according to the Almanac . What is a supermoon? A supermoon occurs when a full moon is at its closest point to Earth in its orbit. This point is known as perigee, according to ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Dec 4 (Reuters) - Unions representing U.S. State Department employees have asked a federal judge to block the agency from laying off more than 1,300 workers on Friday, the latest legal battle over mass job cuts by President Donald Trump's administration. The unions in a filing in San Francisco federal court late Wednesday said the looming cuts, which include 1,100 civil service jobs and nearly ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
GENEVA (AP) — Public broadcasters in Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain and Slovenia on Thursday pulled out of next year's Eurovision Song Contest after organizers decided to allow Israel to compete, putting political discord on center stage over a usually joyful celebration of music. The walkouts came after the general assembly of the European Broadcasting Union — a group of public broadcasters from 56 ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
The recall includes multiple brands of cheese sold across more than two dozen states. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has shared a recall , and this time it involves shredded cheese. More than a million bags of the dairy essential are being recalled due to concerns that the cheese had become contaminated with non-food items. The recall includes several different brands of cheese that had been ...
Source: greenmatters.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
The New York Times Co. sued the Defense Department and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over the Pentagon's new press policy. The policy, which requires reporters to seek approval before publishing information, violates free press protections enshrined by the 1st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the suit alleges. A number of media outlets sympathetic to the Trump administration have agreed to the rules, and ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Meta Platforms Inc. risks a temporary European Union ban on the rollout of new policies over how its AI features in WhatsApp, after being hit by the latest probe into Big Tech's alleged dominance on the continent. Teresa Ribera , the EU's antitrust chief, said Thursday she's weighing so-called interim measures "to ensure that this could not blow up." She made the comments to reporters in Brussels after signing off ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
'Information-dense' AI responses are most persuasive but these tend to be less accurate, says security report Chatbots can sway people's political opinions but the most persuasive artificial intelligence models deliver "substantial" amounts of inaccurate information in the process, according to the UK government's AI security body. Researchers said the study was the largest and most systematic investigation of AI ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Lawyers for the New York attorney general's office are expected to appear in federal court in Albany on Thursday to try to disqualify a US attorney from investigating the state's civil case against President Donald Trump. New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, is challenging the appointment of John Sarcone, the Trump administration's pick as acting US attorney for the Northern District of New York. ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Trump administration officials overseeing the immigration crackdown launched this week in New Orleans are aiming to make 5,000 arrests, a target that some city leaders who oppose the operation say is unrealistic and would require detainining more than just violent offenders. It's an ambitious goal that would surpass the number of arrests during a two-month enforcement blitz this fall around ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
A popular snack cracker is being pulled from shelves after it was discovered to contain a potentially deadly allergen. The Ritz Cracker recall was first shared on Nov. 28, 2025 in a statement from the parent company. In the days that followed the recall notice was shared far and wide in an effort to make sure that customers who purchased these crackers were aware of issue with the label that could cause those who ...
Source: greenmatters.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
A federal grand jury on Dec. 4 rejected an attempt to indict , a key target of President Donald Trump 's ire, less than two weeks after a judge against her. The grand jury's rejection of charges marks the Justice Department's second attempt at indicting the New York attorney general whom the president has railed against in recent weeks. James brought a lawsuit against Trump in 2022. In a statement, ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Washington — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Thursday that Democrats will offer a clean three-year extension of enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits for a vote next week, when the issue that was at the center of the shutdown fight comes center stage. "This is the bill, a clean three-year extension of ACA tax credits, that Democrats will bring to the floor of the Senate for a vote next ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
has replaced the chief architect in charge of designing his grandiose $300 million ballroom. The president replaced James McCrery II and his architecture firm back in late October, according to the Washington Post. Behind the scenes, Trump and McCrery battled over the commander-in-chief's desire to keep increasing the size of the new building. One source said Trump decided to replace the esteemed designer after ...
Source: dailymail.co.uk
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Renaming 'adds insult to injury' says lawyer for staff fired from non-profit thinktank by Trump administration The Trump administration has renamed the US Institute of Peace after Donald Trump and has planted the president's name on the organization's headquarters despite an ongoing fight over the institute's control. It is the latest twist in a seesaw court battle over who controls the US Institute of Peace, a ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Abu Shabab's death would be a boost to Hamas, which branded him a collaborator and ordered its fighters to kill or capture him. The head of an armed Palestinian faction that opposes Hamas in Gaza has been killed, Israeli media reported on Thursday, in what would be a blow to Israeli efforts to support clans in Gaza against the Islamist movement. Yasser Abu Shabab, a Bedouin tribal leader based in Israeli-held Rafah ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Steve Cropper, the prodigious guitarist, songwriter and producer who played a pivotal role in shaping the lean gutbucket soul music made at Memphis' Stax Records in the 1960s and '70s, died on Wednesday in Nashville, Tennessee. He was 84. His death, at a rehabilitation facility, was confirmed by his wife, Angel Cropper, who did not specify the cause. As a member of Booker T. & the MG's, the house rhythm section at ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Russian President Vladimir Putin said parts of the US peace plan were unacceptable and Russia would take Ukrainian land through military force or other means in an interview aired Thursday, as Moscow sticks to its demand that Kyiv surrender territory it still holds after nearly four years of fighting. Excerpts from the interview with India Today, which coincided with Putin's arrival in India on Thursday night, ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
News By No machine-readable author provided. assumed (based on copyright claims). - No machine-readable source provided. Own work assumed (based on copyright claims)., US federal judge blocks warrantless immigration arrests A US federal judge on Tuesday granted a preliminary injunction blocking the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from enforcing its policy of warrantless civil immigration arrests without ...
Source: jurist.org
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Defendants were convicted of similar crimes a decade ago. How were they cleared again? Two sibling contractors convicted a decade ago for hacking into US State Department systems have once again been charged, this time for a comically hamfisted attempt to steal and destroy government records just minutes after being fired from their contractor jobs. The Department of Justice on Thursday said that Muneeb Akhter and ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
The European Union has unveiled plans to use billions of euros in frozen Russian assets to help cover Ukraine's war needs over the next two years. But Belgium is pushing back following the announcement on Wednesday, arguing that the plan carries legal and financial risks that it fears it could end up shouldering alone. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that Brussels would supply 90 billion ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump and Republicans have launched an unprecedented effort this year to redraw state congressional maps to help protect the party's narrow majority in the House ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Democrats have responded with redistricting efforts of their own, setting off a series of fights across the country — including in the courts — which will shape the midterm landscape and ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage fell again this week, slipping close to its low point so far this year. The decline brings the average long-term mortgage rate to 6.19% from 6.23% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. A year ago, the rate averaged 6.69%. This is the second straight weekly drop in the average rate ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
NEW DELHI — India 's telecoms ministry on Wednesday rolled back its order for smartphone manufacturers to preinstall a government-run cybersecurity app on new devices. The Ministry of Communications on Monday asked smartphone makers to install the government's "Sanchar Saathi" app within 90 days and to prevent users from disabling it. It also required manufacturers to push the app onto older models through a ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
A grassroots group opposed to the facility hosted a panel discussion prior to a Howell Township meeting. Speakers discussed potential risks around large-scale data centers and energy requirements. (TNS) — A local group opposed to a proposed $1 billion "hyperscale" data center reportedly backed by Facebook and Instagram owner Meta hosted a panel discussion days ahead of a pivotal Howell Township meeting. The ...
Source: govtech.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Before Friday's event we also examine a possible overall group of death and where geopolitics could meet football England's worst-case scenario Croatia are the highest-ranked potential Pot 2 opponents (10th) and reached the final and the semi-finals at the past two World Cups respectively but, with a maximum of two European teams in each group, drawing them would eliminate for England the possibility of facing ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
The Future of Life Institute assigned letter grades to eight leading AI labs to score their safety efforts. The results look like the report card of a child who's barely making an effort. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The world's top AI labs aren't exactly scoring top marks in their efforts to prevent the worst possible outcomes of the technology, a new ...
Source: zdnet.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By MORIAH BALINGIT WASHINGTON (AP) — When the children of wealthy households leave the nest, they often benefit from their parents' largesse in the form of a trust fund. Less affluent peers may receive nothing at all — or even be expected to support their families when they become adults. But what if all children, regardless of their family's circumstances, ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
accused Keir Starmer of 'not believing in democracy' today after it emerged more elections are being delayed amid dire polls for . The Reform leader condemned the PM's 'monstrous' move in postponing four mayoral contests from May to 2028. The decision will affect 7.5million residents in Essex, Hampshire and the Solent, Sussex and , and Norfolk and Suffolk. Ministers argue that more time is needed to finish ...
Source: dailymail.co.uk
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
This article originally appeared on PolitiFact . President Donald Trump has recently claimed his tariffs will generate so much money that Americans could soon stop paying federal income taxes. But experts say he's overpromised. "Over the next couple of years, I think we'll … be cutting income tax — could be almost completely cutting it, because the money we're taking in is going to be so large," Trump ...
Source: pbs.org
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Dogs may boost mental health by subtly reshaping the microbes in our bodies. "Adolescent children who keep dogs exhibit higher mental well-being, and we also found that dog ownership alters the gut microbiota," Takefumi Kikusui, one of the study authors and a professor at Azabu University in Japan, said . If this is the case, then it could change how we think about the benefits of pet ownership — not just as ...
Source: zmescience.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
The number of children who die before age 5 is expected to rise for the first time this century, amid sweeping cuts to global health funding by high-income countries, according to a new report from the Gates Foundation. Child mortality around the world is projected to reach an estimated 4.8 million deaths in 2025, an increase of 200,000 preventable deaths compared with last year, the Gates Foundation said in its ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — Malaysia's government said Wednesday that American marine robotics company Ocean Infinity would soon resume the seabed search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 , more than a decade after the plane vanished over the Indian Ocean. MH370, a Boeing 777, disappeared from air-traffic radar 39 minutes after departing from Kuala Lumpur enroute to Beijing, China, on March 8, 2014. The ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
A doctor who admitted to distributing ketamine to Matthew Perry weeks before he died is set to be sentenced on Wednesday -- the first among the five people convicted in connection with the "Friends" actor's 2023 overdose death. Salvador Plasencia pleaded guilty in July to four counts of distribution of ketamine. He is one of two doctors convicted of providing Perry with ketamine before the actor died in ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia's leader said Wednesday that it was "better not to respond" a day after President Trump called Somali immigrants "garbage" during a xenophobic tirade. "We are not the only country that Trump insults," Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre told an audience at an innovation summit in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, in response to a question about Trump's comments, according to video ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
2 min read Jim Jordan, the Republican Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said he has issued a subpoena to former Special Counsel Jack Smith to privately testify before the committee in mid-December. The subpoena follows Smith's continued calls to allow him to testify publicly about his investigations and cases against President Donald Trump. In the letter to Smith, which Jordan shared on X on Wednesday , ...
Source: edition.cnn.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
– Even for a president who has long made clear he's no fan of Somalia, the latest round of White House contempt was a shock Wednesday in the country's "They contribute nothing. I don't want them in our country," President Donald Trump told reporters during a Tuesday Cabinet meeting. "We can go one way or the other, and we're going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country." Trump ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Asteroids often play a crucial role in scientific research because they bring in samples from the solar system . Unlike planets, these space rocks remain largely unchanged for thousands of years, preserving many materials that are yet to be discovered. By studying their composition, experts can gather clues about different aspects of our universe. In one such incident, recent reports claim that asteroid Bennu, a ...
Source: greenmatters.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Today the globe is circled by thousands of active satellites—each prone to photobombing astronomers' telescopes as an artificial star zipping across the night sky. Scientists working with ground-based observatories such as the cutting-edge Vera C. Rubin Observatory have long worried about this visual interference—but as satellites continue to proliferate , space-based telescopes, including the beloved ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
A man was shot and killed in what police described as a targeted attack inside the food court at MGM National Harbor Hotel & Casino in Maryland, according to officials. The shooting occurred late Wednesday morning at the casino and resort complex in Oxon Hill, just south of Washington, D.C., according to Prince George's County Police Chief George Nade. Police said the victim was found in the food court and died at ...
Source: bnonews.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Apple's head of user interface design, Alan Dye, is leaving the company and will reportedly join Meta. Dye revealed the June redesign of Apple's software interface for iPhones, Macs, and Apple Watch called Liquid Glass. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a Wednesday social media post said that Dye would lead up a new creative studio that brings together design, fashion and technology. In this article File: Then Apple ...
Source: cnbc.com