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Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
A select group of lawmakers Thursday viewed video of the Sept. 2 military strike on an alleged cocaine-trafficking boat, including the follow-up strike that killed two survivors clinging to portions of the destroyed vessel. Following a series of classified briefings by Adm. Frank "Mitch" Bradley, who to blow up suspected drug traffickers. A 22nd boat strike announced Thursday evening killed four more people, ...
Source: theweek.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
On Friday an influential vaccine advisory panel voted to change the recommendations for the hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. Under the new guidance from the panel, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention almost always adopts, parents would need to consult with a health care provider about when to give a baby their first dose of the vaccine—so long as the person who gave birth to the baby tested ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
The Supreme Court on Thursday handed President Donald Trump and Republicans a major political victory by clearing the way for a Texas congressional map that was drawn in the hope of flipping up to five House seats to the GOP. "The District Court improperly inserted itself into an active primary campaign, causing much confusion and upsetting the delicate federal-state balance in elections," the court said in an ...
Source: abajournal.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
The $83 billion deal gives the streamer a century's worth of prestige television and movies, from Batman movies to Game of Thrones . It also ends the streaming wars. Close your eyes, think for a minute, and tell me: What is a Netflix Movie? OK, try again: What is a Netflix Show? Sure, it's easy to rattle off some killer titles— KPop Demon Hunters , Stranger Things —but Netflix has never really had a ...
Source: wired.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Dec. 5 (UPI) -- The Supreme Court on Friday said it will hear arguments for and against President Donald Trump 's executive order ending birthright citizenship. The court will rule on the birthright citizenship clause in the 14th Amendment, which was ratified in 1868. The court likely will schedule oral arguments in April and render its judgment by the end of June, Politico reported . Trump on Jan. 20 signed the ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Host broadcaster says show will not suffer after four countries withdraw from 2026 contest over Israel and Gaza Austria has said it will continue with plans to host next year's Eurovision , in spite of its budget being hit by four countries boycotting the song contest over Israel's participation and the war in Gaza. At a meeting in Geneva, the national broadcasters that make up the European Broadcasting Union gave ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Dec 5 (Reuters) - The Republican-controlled Indiana House of Representatives on Friday approved a new congressional map targeting the state's two incumbent Democrats, setting up a showdown next week in the state Senate, where the mid-decade redistricting faces more opposition. Friday's vote was 57 to 41 in favor, mostly along party lines. Still, 12 Republicans, including four in leadership positions, ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
The 12 four-nation "Groups" have now been set. The schedule (and specifically who will come to Gillette Stadium for the first round of the tournament) will be announced on Saturday. The 2026 FIFA World Cup "Final Draw" is now complete, with all qualified teams sorted into their respective groups (and the six remaining spots up for grabs in the play-off qualifying given established paths). The United States ...
Source: boston.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article James McCrery II will remain on the project in a 'consulting' role, the White House has said President Donald Trump replaced the original architect tapped to oversee his $300 million ballroom due to the massive size of the president's project, according to a report. James McCrery ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
LONDON (AP) — European Union regulators on Friday fined X, Elon Musk's social media platform, 120 million euros ($140 million) for breaches of the bloc's digital regulations, in a move that risks rekindling tensions with Washington over free speech. The European Commission issued its decision following an investigation it opened two years ago into X under the 27-nation bloc's Digital Services Act, also known ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
By Perry Stein and Gregory S. Schneider, The Washington Post A grand jury in Virginia on Thursday rejected Justice Department efforts to charge New York Attorney General Letitia James with mortgage fraud, declining to indict her again after a judge dismissed the charges last week, according to two people familiar with the matter, who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak about the ...
Source: abajournal.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Putin and Modi discuss trade and peace at summit talks in India Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared that Moscow is ready to provide "uninterrupted shipments" of fuel to India, as he reached a deal in a New Delhi summit with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to "reshape" their defence ties amid intensive United States pressure. "Russia is a reliable supplier of oil, gas, coal, and everything that is ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
AI Security Leader Joins HPE Unleash AI Partner Program to Enable Secure AI Adoption Worldwide a leading AI data security platform provider, announced it has joined the HPE Unleash AI partner program. This collaboration brings pre-validated AI security capabilities to HPE Private Cloud AI, co-developed with NVIDIA as part of NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE portfolio. Now, Daxa's runtime AI security platform integrates ...
Source: aithority.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
NEW YORK (AP) — The clock is ticking for the U.S. government to open up its files on After months of rancor and recriminations, compelling the Justice Department to give the public everything it has on Epstein — and it has to be done before Christmas. of underage girls in Florida. The judge said the new law overrode the usual rules about grand jury secrecy. While there's sure to be never-before-seen ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 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? This article is part of HuffPost's biweekly politics newsletter. Click here to subscribe . Rarely does a blockbuster case that would radically alter the balance ...
Source: huffpost.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
By The Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare experienced an issue early Friday that brought down some of the world's most popular websites for a few hours before a fix was deployed. The company, whose software is used to manage and secure traffic for about 20% of the Internet, said just after 9:00 a.m. London time, its dashboard and related application program interfaces started to experience issues, The ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
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 has openly campaigned for the Nobel Peace Price, had been heavily favored to win the newly created FIFA prize. He and FIFA president Gianni Infantino are close allies, and ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Mortgage interest rates may still drop this year. Following two Federal Reserve interest rate cuts that caused mortgage rates to fall to multiple 3-year lows , the central bank is poised to cut rates again when it meets on December 10. That, in turn, could cause mortgage rates to fall again. And it may even happen pre-emptively , as the last two big mortgage rate drops actually occurred in the hours preceding a Fed ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told the inspector general investigators looking into his alleged use of Signal to share classified strike plans that he determined the details he shared either weren't classified to begin with or were "safe to declassify," according to a written statement included in a report released Thursday by the Defense Department's independent oversight office. Though Hegseth had the authority ...
Source: nextgov.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Michael and Susan Dell donated $6.25B to fund 'Trump accounts' The chairman of the White House National Economic Council said that wealthy Americans are looking to help finance the seed money for the so-called " Trump accounts " for newborns. NEC Director Kevin Hassett said in a Friday appearance on FOX Business Network's " Mornings with Maria " that there has been a surge of interest among wealthy Americans ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Police officers have been watching the suspect closely for six days and recovered the pendant after it came out the other end without medical intervention. The man is due to appear in Auckland District Court on Monday and will remain in police custody until then. New Zealand Police say they have recovered a James Bond-inspired Fabergé pendant after six days of closely watching the man accused of swallowing ...
Source: abc.net.au
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Topics More from TechCrunch Waymo plans to voluntarily issue a software recall with federal safety regulators related to how its robotaxis operate around school buses, the Alphabet-owned company told TechCrunch. The voluntary software recall will be filed early next week, according to the company. Waymo said as soon as the issue was identified it updated its software on November 17. The company contends ...
Source: techcrunch.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
LOS ANGELES – Frank Gehry, who designed some of the most imaginative buildings ever constructed and achieved a level of worldwide acclaim seldom afforded any architect, has died. He was 96. Gehry died Friday in his home in Santa Monica after a brief respiratory illness, said Meaghan Lloyd, chief of staff at Gehry Partners LLP. fascination with modern pop art led to the creation of distinctive, striking ...
Source: news4jax.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
for citizens of certain countries to more than 30, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said, in The expansion would build on a travel ban already announced in June by the Republican administration, which barred travel to the U.S. for citizens from 12 countries and restricted access to the U.S. for people from seven others. In a social media post earlier this week, Noem had suggested more countries would be ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Discussions over women becoming deacons, who are ordained and can assist with services but cannot celebrate Mass, have convulsed the 1.4 billion-member Church. VATICAN CITY — A high-level Vatican commission voted against allowing Catholic women to serve as deacons, maintaining the global Church's practice of all-male clergy, according to a report given to Pope Leo and released on Thursday. The commission, in ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Apple named its favorite apps of 2025 for iPhone, Mac, iPad, and more - did your top picks make the list? Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways December is here, which means as the year comes to a close, companies carefully curate a nostalgic rewind of the past year with experiences such as Spotify Wrapped or, in Apple's case, the release of the 2025 App Store Awards honorees. ...
Source: zdnet.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Antigravity, a brand incubated by Insta360 and partners, has released the A1, a 249-gram drone capable of 8K 360-degree recording through a dual-lens 1/1.28-inch system. The device adopts a headset-first design, pairing the drone with Vision goggles that mirror the pilot's head movements in real time. It supports a "fly-first, frame-later" workflow that captures the full environment in one pass, enabling reframing ...
Source: technode.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Police in Kerrville, Texas, said they are releasing hours of 911 calls from the early morning of July Fourth, when catastrophic floods swept across Texas Hill Country, devastating communities several counties and killing 136 people . The 911 calls are being released to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests, Kerrville Police Chief Chris McCall said in a video statement Thursday. CNN is working to obtain a ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
It has been seen spreading cryptojacking malware and in attempts to steal cloud credentials from compromised machines. Plugging the React2Shell vulnerability in the open source React server and Next.js in IT environments has just become even more urgent with reports that exploits are already in the wild. Researchers at Greynoise said today they are seeing "opportunistic, largely automated exploitation attempts" ...
Source: csoonline.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
living under President Donald Trump are being laid off at a rate not seen since the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new data. In November alone, 71,321 were announced, taking the total to 1.17 million in 2025. It comes despite Trump repeatedly bragging about his success in addressing the cost of living, creating jobs, firing up domestic production, and standing up for working people. The November ...
Source: thedailybeast.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The New York Times filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Department of Defense for violating the constitutional rights of journalists by adding restrictions on reporting about the military. The suit accuses the Pentagon and Secretary Pete Hegseth of violating the First Amendment by creating the new restrictions on reporting. They "seek to restrict journalists' ability to do what journalists have ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
European antitrust regulators have launched an investigation into Meta's artificial intelligence (AI) enhancement to WhatsApp . The European Commission announced Thursday (Dec. 4) that it had launched a probe into whether the tech giant's new policy on AI providers' access to WhatApp violates European Union competition rules. Meta's new policy, announced in October, bars AI providers from using a tool allowing ...
Source: pymnts.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
A prominent Palestinian militia leader in Gaza who opposed Hamas has been killed. Yasser Abu Shabab headed the so-called Popular Forces group, which has dozens of fighters and operates in Israeli-controlled territory near the southern city of Rafah. The Popular Forces said in a statement that Abu Shabab was shot while "attempting to resolve a dispute" between members of the Abu Seneima family. It dismissed as ...
Source: bbc.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Technology Could ChatGPT Secretly Tell You How to Vote? The political manipulation machine Illustration by The Atlantic December 4, 2025, 2:41 PM ET Save In the months leading up to last year's presidential election, more than 2,000 Americans, roughly split across partisan lines, were recruited for an experiment: Could an AI model influence their political inclinations? The premise was straightforward—let ...
Source: theatlantic.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