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Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Conservative justices seem ready to back Trump control of independent agencies. The Supreme Court's conservative justices appear ready to overturn a 90-year-old precedent that said the president cannot fire a Federal Trade Commission member without cause. A ruling for Trump would give him more power over the FTC and potentially other independent agencies such as the Federal Communications Commission. Former FTC ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
In a wide-ranging interview with Politico, Trump also said Russia has the upper hand in negotiations over its war with Ukraine and called European leaders "weak." WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said in an interview with Politico released Tuesday that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's "days are numbered" and declined to comment on whether the U.S. could send troops to the country. Asked whether ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Paramount Skydance Monday launched a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, seeking to undo Netflix's purchase of Warner's studio and streaming businesses. Paramount said its $77.9 billion all-cash bid for the whole company, including CNN, offered better value to shareholders than the $72 billion purchase price agreed to by Netflix and Warner on Friday. It was Paramount chief David Ellison's sixth bid for the ...
Source: theweek.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 -
ATLANTA (AP) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is finally scheduled to appear on Dec. 17 to testify before a examining her prosecution of President Donald Trump, but lawyers aren't done arguing over lawmakers' power to haul her in. Lawyers for Willis and the state Senate committee appeared Tuesday before the Georgia Supreme Court to contest whether a 2024 subpoena can still compel Willis to ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Lawmakers and industry experts are warning that President Donald Trump's decision on Monday to allow the sale of Nvidia-manufactured chips used in advanced artificial intelligence (AI) to China puts national security at risk. President Trump said that he would allow Nvidia, one of the world's largest semiconductor manufacturers, to export its H200 chips to "approved customers" in China and ...
Source: meritalk.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 -
The Trump administration announced an agreement on Tuesday to officially kill the SAVE plan for federal student loans. The announcement, included in an Education Department filing to settle an ongoing legal challenge, will result in millions of borrowers being forced into "For four years, the Biden Administration sought to unlawfully shift student loan debt onto American taxpayers, many of whom either never took ...
Source: forbes.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Reading time 2 minutes OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block have teamed up to co-found a new foundation that promises to help standardize the development of AI agents. The new Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) will operate under the larger Linux Foundation, a non-profit that oversees several open-source projects including the Linux operating system. In addition to establishing the foundation, each of the three companies donated ...
Source: gizmodo.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 -
All eyes turn toward the Federal Reserve today as the central bank meets for its final meeting of 2025. Hope for another interest rate cut is now high. A cut in the form of 25 basis points is expected to be issued on Wednesday as the bank makes a continuing effort to stimulate the economy amid unemployment concerns. A cut there, the third such one in four months, could continue to result in lower interest rates for ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
The US Department of Justice's request to publicly release material from the disgraced socialite's sex trafficking trial has been granted by a district judge. A New York judge has ordered the release of material from Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking case. Maxwell , a disgraced British socialite and ex-girlfriend of the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein , is serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking . In ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Dec. 9 (UPI) -- The European Commission launched an investigation Tuesday into Google on allegations of antitrust practices for using websites in its artificial intelligence to the detriment of competitors. The commission said in a press release that it's investigating whether the tech giant had breached European Union competition rules by using web and video content for AI without compensation to web publishers or ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article The app, described as a 'Waze for ICE sightings' and based on publicly available data, was downloaded more than a million times after its launch this year The developer who created a crowd-sourced map that lets users pinpoint the locations of federal agents in their neighborhoods ...
Source: independent.co.uk
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 -
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: pbs.org
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Dec. 9 (UPI) -- A federal judge in Massachusetts overturned President Donald Trump 's decision to halt all new permits for wind energy projects. The ruling by Judge Patti Saris of the District of Massachusetts on Monday called the ban "arbitrary and capricious and contrary to law" and said there wasn't a good explanation for implementing it. Trump halted all new wind energy project permits in a Jan. 20 executive ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Florida's governor has designated the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) a "foreign terrorist organisation". Ron DeSantis posted his executive order to list the United States-based Muslim civil rights and advocacy group on social media on Monday. The move follows a similar declaration by the Republican governor of Texas last month. CAIR has rejected the labelling by both states and mounted legal ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Dec. 9 (UPI) -- A suspect has been arrested and the campus secured following a shooting that killed one and left another hospitalized Tuesday afternoon at Kentucky State University in Frankfort. The Frankfort Police Department responded to an emergency call reporting an active aggressor at the KSU campus at 3:35 p.m. EST, WKYT reported . Two students were shot, with one deceased and the other hospitalized in ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Tuesday that her country intends to send more water to the United States, but not immediately, even as U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to raise tariffs by 5% on Mexican imports if more water is not delivered as part of a water-sharing agreement. Sheinbaum said Mexico is proposing a water delivery this month and another one in the coming years. ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
The Federal Reserve is poised to deliver its third straight interest rate cut Wednesday, while simultaneously firing a warning shot about what's ahead. The rate-setting FOMC is split between members who favor cuts to head off further weakness in the labor market against those who think easing has gone far enough and threatens to aggravate inflation. In addition to the rate decision and the statement, investors will ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
President did same thing his administration is now calling 'mortgage fraud' in case against Fed governor Lisa Cook Donald Trump signed mortgage documents in the 1990s claiming two separate Florida properties would each serve as his principal residence – the same thing his administration is calling "mortgage fraud" when done by political rivals, records show. ProPublica unearthed documents demonstrating that ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Environmental groups across the country are urging Congress to enact a nationwide pause on the approval and construction of data centers, writing in a letter to lawmakers Monday that a moratorium is needed to address the "massive" harms linked to building and operating the facilities. The letter , which was led by Food & Water Watch and signed by more than 230 organizations, rails against the expansion of ...
Source: fedscoop.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
The American Academy of Pediatrics began recommending the shot to newborns starting in 1961. When a baby is born in a medical facility in the U.S., chances are high that they will be offered a range of treatments and tests that are recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics, which includes some of very first shots that are included on the childhood immunization list. Vitamin K is among the first of the ...
Source: greenmatters.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 -
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 -
NEW YORK (AP) — Moments after Luigi Mangione was handcuffed at a Pennsylvania McDonald's, a police officer searching his backpack found a loaded gun magazine wrapped in a pair of underwear. The discovery, recounted in court Monday as Mangione fights to keep evidence out of his New York murder case, convinced police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, that he was the man wanted in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO ...
Source: pbs.org
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Microsoft is pouring $17.5 billion into India — its largest investment in Asia — to boost the country's AI infrastructure and diffusion, the company announced Tuesday . The funding, planned over four years between 2026 and 2029, comes after an earlier $3 billion commitment announced earlier this year . Microsoft's aim is to help advance India's cloud and AI infrastructure, skilling and ongoing ...
Source: geekwire.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Due to the government shutdown, there is no good figure for job openings in September, and the September release was canceled, but "partial data that businesses self-reported electronically" were included in today's October release, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The October data were collected as normal in November. So month-to-month comparisons for October lack a solid base (September data is only ...
Source: wolfstreet.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Instacart customers may be surprised to discover they are unwittingly paying more for the same items sold by some of America's major retail chains than their fellow shoppers. A months-long investigation by the nonprofit organizations Consumer Reports and Groundwork Collaborative found that identical grocery items on Instacart could differ in price by as much as 23% from one customer to the next. That's due to the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
New research shows men and women are equally committed to doing their best at work, but there's a growing ambition gap among women who want to get ahead — and companies rolling back commitments to women's career advancement, sponsorship and stretch opportunities could be to blame. That's according to Lean In and McKinsey & Company's latest Women in the Workplace report , now in its 11th year, which looked at ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Follow Earth on Google New research points to a strong link between hot nights and poor sleep. The study helps explain how rising temperatures disturb rest and why some groups face stronger effects. Researchers used long-term sleep records from the All of Us program . These records show clear connections between hotter air, lighter sleep, more waking, and personal factors such as age, income, or health. The ...
Source: earth.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Dec. 9 (UPI) -- A Texas-based businessman has pleaded guilty and two others have been charged in a scheme to smuggle artificial intelligence technology to China in violation of U.S. export laws, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas said the three men trafficked or attempted to traffic more than $160 million in Nvidia AI chips, which require special ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
From multimodal AI glasses to immersive headsets, Google's Android XR vision is more ambitious - yet clearer - than ever. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Last week, within the confines of Google's Hudson River office, I put on a pair of Android XR glasses and conversed with Gemini as I walked around the room. These weren't the Warby Parker or Gentle Monster ...
Source: zdnet.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
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
JERUSALEM (AP) — A Hamas leader on Tuesday threatened to not move into the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement until more pressure is put on Israel to open a key border crossing, cease deadly strikes and allow more aid into the Palestinian territory. The accusation came as Israel's government says it is ready to move into the next and more complicated phase of the ceasefire deal, while calling on the ...
Source: pbs.org
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? WASHINGTON ― Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) launched a bid for the in Texas, according to multiple reports , shaking up the Democratic primary to unseat ...
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 -
Washington — President Trump lambasted former ally Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Truth Social Monday morning, after the Georgia Republican told CBS News' "60 Minutes " the president has forsaken his base. Once one of Mr. Trump's staunchest allies in Congress, Greene has become one of the few Republicans willing to speak out against him in public. As she prepares to resign from Congress before her term ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump has said he is "disappointed" with Ukraine's , 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 deal that was favorable to Russia. Trump's team held talks with Ukrainian officials in Miami after flying ...
Source: aol.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
IBM Corp. said today it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire streaming data firm Confluent Inc. in an all-cash transaction valued at about $11 billion, paying $31 per share in cash for all outstanding Confluent common stock. Confluent sells an enterprise version of the open-source Kafka data streaming platform, which it said is used by 80% of the Fortune 100. IBM said the addition of Confluent ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
A new strain of mpox, previously called monkeypox, has been detected in a person in England, say UK health officials. The virus is a mix of two major types of the mpox virus, and was found in someone who recently returned from travelling in Asia. Officials say they are still assessing the significance of the new strain. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) says it is normal for viruses to evolve. Getting ...
Source: bbc.com