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Top News Stories for Tuesday, December 9th 2025
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
The US Supreme Court's liberal justices warned of far-reaching consequences affecting entities like the Tax Court should their conservative colleagues grant the president control over dozens of traditionally independent agencies. The possibility of specialized Article I courts created by Congress losing their independence was driven by Justice Elena Kagan at Monday's arguments over Donald Trump's attempt to fire ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
SURIN, Thailand (AP) — Cambodia's powerful Senate President Hun Sen on Tuesday vowed that his country would carry out a fierce fight against Thailand as a second day of widespread renewed combat between the Southeast Asian neighbors drove tens of thousands of people to flee border areas. Fighting broke out following a skirmish on Sunday during which two Thai soldiers were injured, derailing a ceasefire that ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
is considering a Republican-led drive, backed by President Donald Trump's administration, to overturn a quarter-century-old decision and erase limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president. they would overturn a 90-year-old decision limiting the president's power to fire independent agency heads, the court on Tuesday is revisiting a 2001 decision that ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON, Dec 9 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's approval rating edged up to 41% in the past week as Republicans warmed to his handling of the cost of living, a sign the administration's new focus on affordability might be supporting his popularity, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. The six-day poll, which closed on Monday, showed approval of the president rising from 38% late ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Commerce department finalising deal to allow H200 chips to be sold to China as strict Biden-era restrictions relaxed Donald Trump has cleared the way for Nvidia to begin selling its powerful AI computer chips to China, marking a win for the chip maker and its CEO, Jensen Huang, who has spent months lobbying the White House to open up sales in the country. Before Monday's announcement, the US had prohibited sales of ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Although tech companies often don't directly manufacture these toys, their absolutist ideological opposition to any legal safeguards on AI is making kids emotionally, mentally, and physically vulnerable. Julie Scelfo is a journalist and the founder and executive director of Mothers Against Media Addiction. Tim Wu is a professor of law, science, and technology at Columbia Law School and author of "The Age of ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
By Siddharth Damle In early 2025, a healthtech firm that compromised records of more than 483,000 patients. The cause was a semi-autonomous AI agent that, in trying to streamline operations, pushed confidential data into unsecured workflows. What does this mean for the rollout of agentic AI in finance? ABA will host a free members-only webinar 2 p.m. Dec. 16 titled, Deepfake Defense: Protecting ID and ...
Source: bankingjournal.aba.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Residents along Japan's northeast coast were warned to stay alert, as aftershocks continued Tuesday in the aftermath of a major earthquake that has left at least 33 people injured. The U.S. Geological Survey reported a magnitude 6.6 and later a 5.1 quake in the hours after the initial temblor late Monday night local time. The USGS measured the main quake at 7.6 magnitude just off the coast of the city of Misawa in ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
The Federal Reserve has one more decision in 2025 — and it will set the tone for where interest rates will go in the new year. On Wednesday, leaders at the central bank will decide whether to continue cutting rates or put a pause on loosening monetary policy. The call will have ripple effects across consumer prices, the job market , and Corporate America. CME FedWatch predicted the Fed had a roughly 90% ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett is associate professor of family medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, vice chair of primary care innovation & transformation at Boston Medical Center, and communications fellow at Primary Care Collaborative. As a family medicine physician, I have the privilege of caring for patients from the earliest days of pregnancy contemplation through pregnancy ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
ROME (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reaffirmed his strong refusal to cede any territory, resisting U.S. pressure for painful concessions to Russia as he moved ahead Tuesday to rally more European support for his country. "Undoubtedly, Russia insists for us to give up territories. We, clearly, don't want to give up anything. That's what we are fighting for," Zelenskyy told reporters in a ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Florida has designated the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations as foreign terrorist organizations, becoming the second GOP-led state in as many months to move against the Islamic groups. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said in a Monday statement that the designations were "EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY." "Florida agencies are hereby directed to undertake all lawful measures to prevent ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
OpenAI says it's boosting productivity . On Monday, OpenAI published its first report on the state of enterprise AI, and based on the 9,000 surveyed workers across 100 companies, three-quarters said that AI has improved the speed and quality of their work. Here are the survey results: 87% of IT workers said they can solve IT issues faster, 85% of marketing and product say they can execute campaigns faster, 75% of ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
The European Commission said it was probing whether Google had breached EU competition rules by using the content of web publishers for AI purposes. The bloc said it would investigate to what extent the generation of AI Overviews and AI Mode by Google is based on web publishers' content without appropriate compensation. The move follows a slew of actions the bloc has taken against U.S big tech companies in recent ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Reading time 3 minutes Vaccines aren't the only near-miraculous medical intervention some Americans are turning their backs on. New research out today finds that more newborns are not receiving a safe supplement that protects them from serious bleeding. Doctors at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) studied the medical records of newborns. In recent years, they found, an increasing number of children ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Dec. 9 (UPI) -- A federal judge has ordered two senior Justice Department attorneys, including one fired by the Trump administration, to testify before the court in its inquiry into a March deportation flight that proceeded in defiance of court orders. Chief Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., on Monday ordered Erez Reuveni, a former Justice Department attorney-turned-whistleblower, ...
Source: upi.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
Paramount said it would take its deal directly to shareholders after six previous proposals were never "meaningfully" engaged with. Paramount has launched a $108.4bn (£81bn) hostile bid for Warner Bros, challenging Netflix, which had reached a $72bn (£54bn) takeover deal with the company. Paramount said on Monday that it was going straight to Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) shareholders with its cash offer ...
Source: news.sky.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
The developer of ICEBlock, an iPhone app that anonymously tracks the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, has sued the Trump administration for free speech violations after Apple removed the service from its app store under demands from the White House. The suit, filed on Monday in federal court in Washington, asks a judge to declare that the administration violated the First Amendment when it ...
Source: npr.org
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
The Treasury market – and the mortgage market with it – has gotten a little ruffled since the tranquility of Thanksgiving week ended, despite the widespread assumption that the Fed will deliver another rate cut this week. The 30-year Treasury yield has risen by 17 basis points since the day before Thanksgiving, including 2 basis points today, to 4.81%, the highest since September 4. Since the rate cut ...
Source: wolfstreet.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a Democrat and fierce Trump critic, announced Monday she was launching a high-stakes U.S. Senate campaign in Texas, the same day Democratic primary opponent Colin Allred dropped out. Crockett, who filed just hours before the deadline , will face Democratic Rep. James Talarico of Austin in the March 3rd primary , as she tries to turn incumbent Republican Sen. John Cornyn 's ...
Source: upi.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
A new investigation by Pro Publica revealed that Donald Trump has, on multiple occasions, signed mortgages for new homes claiming they would serve as his primary residence and instead used them as investment or rental properties. For months, Trump and his administration have been accusing its political enemies of mortgage fraud for claiming more than one primary residence. Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public ...
Source: commondreams.org
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
NEW YORK - Police debated whether they needed a warrant to continue searching Luigi Mangione's backpack after they arrested him and found a gun magazine wrapped in his underwear in the bag, an officer testified Monday. The testimony came at a court hearing to determine whether police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, improperly questioned Mangione and searched his bag without a warrant as a suspect in the New York murder ...
Source: bradenton.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
IBM The tech giant is scooping up data-streaming dynamo Confluent Under the terms of the deal announced Monday, IBM will purchase Confluent for $11 billion in cash. That amounts to $31 per share, a premium of 34% compared to the stock's closing price on Friday. "IBM and Confluent together will enable enterprises to deploy generative and agentic AI better and faster by providing trusted communication and data flow ...
Source: fool.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
This year, the holidays don't feel celebratory for many Americans who've been negatively affected by the Trump administration's decisions. We're here to make sure those people do not go unheard. Help us hold the administration accountable. Already a member? Donald Trump is angry that Rep. Henry Cuellar is running again as a Democrat rather than switch parties after the president pardoned the Texas congressman and ...
Source: huffpost.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
All the nominees for the awards ceremony due to take place on 11 January, the 83rd edition of the film and television gongs Film Best film – drama Frankenstein Hamnet It Was Just an Accident The Secret Agent Sentimental Value Sinners Best film – musical or comedy Blue Moon Bugonia Marty Supreme No Other Choice Nouvelle Vague One Battle After Another Best female actor in a film – drama Jessie ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
Two senior military officials taken hostage during Sunday's attempted coup in Benin have been freed, a government source has told the BBC. It remains unclear how they were released or if other hostages are still being held. Security forces are continuing a manhunt for those involved in the plot, who remain at large. A group of soldiers appeared on state TV early in the morning to announce they had taken over in the ...
Source: bbc.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump said he is "disappointed" with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy , who he said had not read the latest plan to end Russia's war. Trump's criticism adds to mounting U.S. pressure on Kyiv as Zelenskyy prepared to meet Monday with top European leaders, amid fears on the continent that Washington was pushing a peace deal that was favorable to the Kremlin. Russia has not publicly supported a plan and ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
Health officials in the United Kingdom have identified a new recombinant strain of mpox in an individual who recently returned from abroad, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). The case was identified in England in an individual who had recently traveled to Asia, according to a statement from UKHSA on Monday. Genomic sequencing showed that the mpox genome contained elements of clade Ib and clade IIb. ...
Source: bnonews.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another" topped the Golden Globe nominations on Monday, a victory for Warner Bros. just after struck a deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming business. With nine nominations, the film lead Joachim Trier's "Sentimental Value," which gained eight, and Ryan Coogler's "Sinners," with seven. New this year was a best podcast category, too, whose nominees ...
Source: aol.com