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Top News Stories for Friday, December 12th 2025
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump has not endorsed a plan to prevent Obamacare rates from spiking in three weeks, leaving Republicans without a clear path ahead of a key vote. On Thursday the Senate is expected to vote down the only GOP plan on the table, an effort by Sens. (R-Idaho). Trump hasn't waded into the fray, instead talking broadly about his preferences without publicly supporting a specific plan. Absent a deal, ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Welcome to Trendlines. The secret password is " He's dead, Jim ." Today, the Federal Reserve remains sharply divided over the outlook for jobs and inflation. Plus: the mill fire that created a folk hero. Federal Reserve officials gather about every six weeks to assess the economy and whether interest rates are at the right level to support its goals of maximum employment and low, steady inflation. The outcome is ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Disney and OpenAI have made a surprise deal – what happens next? In a stunning reversal, Disney has changed tack with regard to safeguarding its copyrighted characters from incorporation into AI tools – perhaps a sign that no one can stem the tide of AI The world's best-known AI company and the world's best-known entertainment firm have come to a surprise agreement to allow AI versions of some of the ...
Source: newscientist.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a resident of Maryland who has become a symbol of the Trump administration's policy of mass deportations, was freed from immigration detention Thursday afternoon, his attorney confirmed to NPR. Garcia, who was deported to El Salvador in the spring due to an "administrative error" admitted to by Immigration and Customs Enforcement , was held in a notorious prison there and eventually brought ...
Source: npr.org
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Thursday rejected legislation to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, essentially guaranteeing that millions of Americans will see a steep rise in costs at the beginning of the year. As Republicans and Democrats have failed to find compromise, senators voted on two partisan bills instead that they knew would fail — the Democratic bill to extend the subsidies, and a ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
The newest component of Bigeye's AI Trust Platform, the AI Guardian acts as a control plane to evaluate every AI request against business policies. the leader in enterprise data observability and lineage, announced the launch of the AI Guardian, part of the Bigeye AI Trust Platform. This industry-first solution gives enterprises control over AI data use, enabling them to safely deploy agentic AI at scale. As ...
Source: aithority.com
Homeland Security Secretary Noem defends Trump's hard-line immigration policies during tense hearing
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
defiantly defended the Trump administration's hard-line immigration policies on Thursday during a House committee hearing, portraying migrants as a major threat faced by the nation that justifies a crackdown that has seen , deportations and a dizzying pace of restrictions on foreigners. Noem, who heads the agency central to approach to immigration, received backup from Republicans on the panel but faced from ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Police outside Ann Arbor, Michigan, began their investigation of University of Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore before it was publicly announced he had been fired by the school, a timeline of Wednesday's shocking meltdown reveals. Cops in Pittsfield Township confirmed Wednesday that they were i nvestigating an alleged assault , but didn't explicitly say Moore was involved. The Pittsfield Township Police ...
Source: nypost.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Turns out the ability to use fire might have started long before our species, with Neanderthal ancestors. The old cliché goes like this: humans mastered fire, and with it, we conquered the world. But a plot twist is emerging from the sediment of history. What if it wasn't Homo sapiens who figured this out first? What if it was the Neanderthals, or their ancestors? According to groundbreaking findings from ...
Source: zmescience.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
A grand jury, for a second time, declined to bring a new indictment against Letitia James, the New York attorney general who defeated President Donald Trump and his company in court, according to multiple sources. The Justice Department presented its case against James to grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, Thursday — a week after a different grand jury in Norfolk declined to bring charges. Of the five cases ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Renewed fighting between Thailand and Cambodia has entered its fourth day , as deaths rise on both sides, with both countries accusing one another of violating international law as they await a promised phone call from United States President Donald Trump. Three Thai civilians were killed as heavy combat continued along the country's border, the Thai military said on Thursday, marking the country's first civilian ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Time magazine on Thursday named the architects of artificial intelligence as the 2025 Person of the Year. While no one specific person was singled out by the magazine for the annual honor, the cover story for the edition featured interviews with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Baidu CEO Robin Li. Time editor in chief Sam Jacobs, in a ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! South Carolina is facing a major measles outbreak , resulting in the quarantine of hundreds of residents. The South Carolina Department of Health (DPH) reported in a media briefing on Wednesday that the current number of measles cases has reached 111 as part of the current Spartanburg County outbreak. DPH first reported a measles outbreak in the Upstate region on Oct. 2. The ...
Source: foxnews.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Ukrainian president says plan would not be fair without guarantees that Russia would not simply take over zone The US wants Ukraine to withdraw its troops from the Donbas region, and Washington would then create a "free economic zone" in the parts Kyiv currently controls, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. Previously, the US had suggested Kyiv should hand over the parts of Donbas it still controlled to Russia, but the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Bjork supported the boycott move ( JTA ) — The public broadcaster of Iceland announced on Wednesday that it will not participate in this year's Eurovision Song Contest after Israel's participation was confirmed by the European Broadcasting Union last week. The decision drew support from prominent Icelandic artists, including the singer Björk and the former Eurovision representative Paul Oscar, as well as ...
Source: forward.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Reading time 5 minutes Cast your mind back to May of this year: Congress was in the throes of debate over the massive budget bill . Amidst the many seismic provisions, Senator Ted Cruz dropped a ticking time bomb of tech policy: a ten-year moratorium on the ability of states to regulate artificial intelligence. To many, this was catastrophic. The few massive AI companies seem to be swallowing our economy whole: ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Announcement, and lack of details in the weeks following, represents major departure from previous FDA priorities As the US's top vaccine officials come under pressure from lawmakers and former leaders, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says it will release information "soon" about changes to regulations following unconfirmed claims of deaths after Covid vaccination. It's part of a sweeping effort, led by ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Northern resident killer whales appear to use dolphins as 'scouts', in a surprising cooperative hunting strategy Orcas and dolphins have been spotted for the first time working as a team to hunt salmon off the coast of British Columbia, according to a new study which suggests a cooperative relationship between the two predators. The research, published on Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports , shows ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! A sperm donor whose samples helped conceive nearly 200 children across Europe unknowingly carried a cancer-causing genetic mutation — a hidden risk now tied to multiple childhood illnesses and early deaths. An investigation led by the BBC and many other public service broadcasters revealed that the donations were made to Denmark's European Sperm Bank (ESB). Those ...
Source: foxnews.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Home » » WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that his administration has begun accepting applications for his immigration " Trump Gold Card". The visa program offers legal status and a pathway to U.S. citizenship to foreign recipients. Individual applicants will pay $1 million, while corporations are set to pay twice the amount per foreign-born employee. The president has been ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Company claims new AI model tops Gemini and matches humans on 70% of work tasks. On Thursday, OpenAI released GPT-5.2, its newest family of AI models for ChatGPT, in three versions called Instant, Thinking, and Pro. The release follows CEO Sam Altman's internal "code red" memo earlier this month, which directed company resources toward improving ChatGPT in response to competitive pressure from Google's Gemini 3 AI ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Michael Jordan and NASCAR chairman Jim France stood side-by-side on the steps of a federal courthouse as if they were old friends following a stunning settlement Thursday of a bruising antitrust case in which the Basketball Hall of Famer was the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit accusing the top racing series in the United States of being a monopolistic bully. The duo was flanked by three-time ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Residents began packing up and fleeing rising rivers in western Washington state Wednesday as a new wave of heavy rain swept into a region still reeling from a storm that triggered rescues and road closures a day earlier. In the Pacific Northwest, an atmospheric river was swelling rivers toward record levels, with major flooding expected in some areas including the Skagit River, a major agricultural valley north of ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Adobe has launched free Photoshop, Express, and Acrobat apps inside ChatGPT. Here's how they work. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways The three apps: Photoshop, Express, and Acrobat. Adobe Photoshop is such a powerful image editing tool that it can be intimidating to use, even for the simplest of edits, like blurring a background. Now, a new ...
Source: zdnet.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Oracle shares sank on Wednesday after revenue earnings missed analyst expectations. The database software maker extended losses on Thursday. Other AI-related names fell alongside it. In this article Oracle shares plummeted over 12% in premarket trading on Thursday, extending yesterday's losses after the firm reported disappointing results. The cloud computing and database software maker reported ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
to get our biotech newsletter in your inbox. Lilly's triple-G drug leads to major weight loss, but with many discontinuations Eli Lilly's next-generation obesity drug led to what appears to be the most weight loss seen so far in a late-stage trial, but rates of side effects were high and many participants discontinued the treatment, including people who felt they were losing too much weight.
Source: statnews.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
The age-old desire to automate online work is driving a new arms race in Silicon Valley: the agentic browser. With today's (Dec. 11) launch of Opera's Neon artificial intelligence (AI) browser, available for $20 a month, the field of competitors is expanding, promising an AI assistant that can browse, click, and reason on a user's behalf. These new tools, like Neon's ability to analyze videos, draft text, and ...
Source: pymnts.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
"Ripping the SAVE plan away from student loan borrowers now without access to a clear and affordable alternative is reckless and short-sighted, creating even more needless confusion, uncertainty, and financial stress for millions of Americans already struggling with the rising cost of living," said Abby Shafroth, managing director of advocacy at the National Consumer Law Center in a statement this week following ...
Source: forbes.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Fourteen years after their breakout roles in the juggernaut dystopian franchise The Hunger Games , and a decade since their last appearance in one of the films, Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson are set to return to Panem. As reported by Deadline , the stars are confirmed to appear in the forthcoming prequel, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping . The movie follows The Hunger Games (2012) , Catching Fire ...
Source: vogue.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
As President Donald Trump announced a $12 billion farm aid package this week to help U.S. farmers hurt by tariffs, he placed responsibility for the U.S. agricultural trade deficit on former President Joe Biden. But in casting blame elsewhere, he is ignoring other factors, including his own role. Currently, farmers — especially those that produce soybeans and sorghum — have had a hard time selling their ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it plans to create a militarized zone along the U.S.-Mexico border in California to support border security operations for three years, the latest in a controversial series of moves aimed at securing the border amid the government's immigration crackdown. that the agency plans to transfer about 760 acres of public land in San Diego and Imperial counties to the ...
Source: bradenton.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
The proposal follows the exodus of hundreds of thousands government employees — including AI and tech talent — under the Trump administration's push to shrink the government workforce. A bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers introduced legislation Wednesday meant to modernize how the government hires technical talent, especially those specializing in artificial intelligence. The AI Talent Act ...
Source: nextgov.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
OpenAI and its largest financial backer, Microsoft, have been sued in California state court over claims that ChatGPT, OpenAI's popular chatbot, encouraged a man with mental illnesses to kill his mother and himself. The lawsuit, filed on Thursday, said that ChatGPT fuelled 56-year-old Stein-Erik Soelberg's delusions of a vast conspiracy against him, and eventually led him to murder his 83-year-old mother, Suzanne ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
In its latest splurge, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will spend nearly $140 million on six Boeing 737 planes to deport immigrants. The new DHS planes are intended to cut costs "by allowing ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] to operate more effectively," Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin told The Washington Post . The planes will be purchased with funding granted by the One ...
Source: reason.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The Trump administration must stop deploying the California National Guard in Los Angeles and return control of the troops to the state, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco granted a preliminary injunction sought by California officials who opposed President Donald Trump's extraordinary move to use state Guard troops without the governor's approval to further his ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Daughter accepts Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado's Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Oslo, Norway — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado missed the ceremony to award her the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Wednesday, but said she was on her way to the Norwegian capital and would arrive soon to embrace her family for the first time in months. Machado, who's fight against the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, whom she, the U.S. and many other ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
One of NASA's workhorse spacecraft in orbit around Mars has fallen silent, leaving agency personnel scrambling to troubleshoot the issue. The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission launched in November 2013 and has been operating at the Red Planet since September 2014. Like many NASA missions, MAVEN has lasted well beyond its original design lifetime, which was one year. But on December 6 something ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Heart disease has long been the top killer of women in the United States, but new research suggests uterine fibroids, which many may not even be aware they have, could be putting them at a significantly greater risk. A large, 10-year study found that women with leiomyomas had an 81% higher long-term risk of heart disease than those without the common condition. Women with fibroids — generally benign tumors ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Washington — A federal judge in New York has granted a request from the Justice Department to unseal more files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In a brief four-page ruling on Wednesday, Judge Richard Berman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered the unsealing of grand jury materials as well as investigative records, documents and communications from the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump administration official said, threatening new U.S. sanctions on the court if it did not. If the court does not act on this U.S. demand and two others - dropping investigations of ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Danny KEMP 3 min read US President Donald Trump has been seen closing his eyes periodically at a number of events (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS) US President Donald Trump has blasted media reports questioning his state of health as "seditious, perhaps even treasonous," sparking pushback Wednesday by one of the major outlets behind the stories. In a long, late-night social media post, the oldest elected president in US ...
Source: yahoo.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
ORLANDO, Fla. – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis presented on Wednesday his $117 billion budget proposal for fiscal year 2026-2027. DeSantis presented his budget in a news conference in Orlando, where he highlighted that his proposal comes "from a position of fiscal strength." He also said the proposed $117 billion budget includes about $17 billion in reserves. Watch DeSantis' budget presentation in the video player ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
US Wants Five Years of Some Tourists' Social Media to Enter the Country Digital rights advocates say it's an affront to civil liberties. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. The Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection is planning to require visitors from countries on the Visa Waiver P rogram to provide up to five years of their social media history, along ...
Source: motherjones.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Tech giants Amazon and Microsoft have announced a combined $52.5bn (£39.4bn) investment plan for India over the coming years. Amazon said on Wednesday it was pumping in $35bn into India by 2030 to advance AI-driven digitisation, export growth and job creation, a day after Microsoft committed $17.5bn strengthen the country's AI ecosystem. India, which is an emerging AI and cloud infrastructure hub, has ...
Source: bbc.com