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Top News Stories for Saturday, July 12th 2025
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. . Amazon Prime Day deals on SSDs and external hard drives for the last day: Save on Samsung, Crucial, Sandisk and more We've gathered the best Prime Day SSD and external hard drive deals on units 1TB and up. Solid-state drives (SSDs) come in many ...
Source: engadget.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
Donald Trump ramped up the U.S. trade war with Canada and threatened blanket tariffs on other countries. The president is set to visit Texas a week after deadly floods in the state. And how an NBC News report on liver damage helped a viewer recognize her own illness. Here's what to know today. moved forward yesterday as he escalated the U.S. trade war with Canada and said in an exclusive interview that he plans to ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
A federal judge's decision to temporarily prevent the Trump administration from stripping birthright citizenship for some babies born in the U.S. is an early test of the legal landscape, after the Supreme Court greatly restricted the ability of judges to issue nationwide blocks of presidential policies. On Thursday morning, in New Hampshire, U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante granted class action status to a ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
A pair of switches that control the fuel supply to the engines were set to "cutoff" moments before the crash of Air India Flight 171, according to a preliminary report from India's Air Accident Investigation Bureau released early Saturday in India. A total of 260 people were killed when the Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed shortly after it took off from Ahmedabad last month. Indian investigators determined the jet was ...
Source: npr.org
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
By Elon Musk released the newest artificial intelligence model from his company xAI on Wednesday night. In an hour-long public reveal session, he called the model, Grok 4, "the smartest AI in the world" and claimed it was capable of getting perfect SAT scores and near-perfect GRE results in every subject, from the humanities to the sciences. During the online launch, Musk and members of his team described testing ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
The Trump administration is backing away from getting rid of the Federal Emergency Management Agency after months of vowing to abolish it. As President Donald Trump headed to Texas to see the brutal effects of the floods firsthand, a senior White House official told The Washington Post the administration is focused on "rebranding" the disaster response agency instead of eliminating it entirely. Trump brushed off ...
Source: thedailybeast.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
Inside AWS' halftime playbook: 13 ways agentic AI is redefining enterprise innovation Agentic workflows are no longer a future promise — they're the new foundation of enterprise artificial intelligence. As autonomous systems shift from generating content to taking action, organizations are redesigning how they build, operate and scale. This pivot is reshaping everything from infrastructure and developer ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The State Department is firing over 1,300 career diplomats and civil servants on Friday in line with a dramatic reorganization plan initiated by the Trump administration earlier this year. The department is sending layoff notices to 1,107 civil servants and 246 foreign service officers with domestic assignments in the United States, said a senior State Department official, who ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
OMB director says Trump is 'extremely troubled' by Powell's management as pressure mounts for interest rate cuts A Trump administration official is demanding answers from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell over the central bank's renovations project amid the president's pressure on the Fed chair to cut interest rates. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought sent a letter to Powell on ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
State public health officials announced Friday that the southern Illinois measles outbreak had ended. At a news conference in Springfield, Illinois Department of Public Health director Dr. Sameer Vohra said the state had once again thwarted "one of the most contagious viruses on Earth." "We make this announcement knowing the spread of measles continues to be a threat, but it's a moment to acknowledge Illinois' ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
The move, which included the acknowledgment that one particular sought-after document never existed in the first place, sparked a contentious conversation between Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino at the White House earlier this week that threatened to permanently shatter relations between the two officials, and centered — in part — on a news story that described divisions ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
Speed: 0.5x Speed: 1x Speed: 1.5x Speed: 2x 🎙️ Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur. The White House reacted on Friday to multiple reports of escalating tensions between Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino over the administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein memo. The Context The memo, released earlier this week, said Epstein, a financier and sex offender, ...
Source: newsweek.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
Trump toured the devastation alongside the first lady. President Donald Trump toured the devastation left by flash flooding in central Texas amid growing questions about how local officials responded to the crisis as well as questions about the federal response -- including the fate of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Trump's visit on Friday came a week after heavy rainfall caused the Guadalupe River in ...
Source: abcnews.go.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
It is the most expensive handbag ever sold at auction Hermès Birkin bags are the most coveted—and valuable—purses in the world. Few accessories have held such a firm grip on pop culture and fashion. As the Sex and the City character Samantha Jones said in an episode with an entire subplot dedicated to her mission to procure one: "It's not a bag, it's a Birkin." This is why it was with much ...
Source: theartnewspaper.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
Walmart is taking 850,000 water bottles off the market after customers reported being hit in the face with the lid. Two people suffered permanent vision loss after trying to open Ozark Trail stainless steel water bottles, according to a report Thursday from the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The lid of the Ozark Trail 64-ounce water bottle can "forcefully eject, posing serious impact and laceration hazards" as ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
Nine months ago, Hurricane Helene barreled up from the Gulf of Mexico and slammed into the rugged mountains of western North Carolina, dumping a foot of rain onto an already saturated landscape. More than 100 people died, most by drowning in floodwaters or being crushed by water-fueled landslides. "We had no idea it was going to do what it did," said Jeff Howell, the now-retired emergency manager in Yancey County, ...
Source: propublica.org
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON — The United States is selling weapons to its NATO allies in Europe so they can provide them to Ukraine as it struggles to fend off a recent escalation in Russia's drone and missile attacks, President Donald Trump and his chief diplomat said. "We're sending weapons to NATO, and NATO is paying for those weapons, 100%," Trump said in an interview with NBC late Thursday. "So what we're doing is, the ...
Source: military.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
Nearly 4 in 5 Americans believe immigration is good for the country, a record high, according to a poll released Friday that comes as President Donald Trump continues to take aggressive and wide-ranging measures to fortify the southern border and deport people who are in the country illegally. The finding from the Gallup survey that 79 percent of Americans consider immigration a "good thing" was one of multiple ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
The Trump administration's ban on immigrants in the country illegally from enrolling in Head Start could deprive young children of vital access to early education and strip families of the opportunity to support themselves and find work, local advocates told the Globe Friday. The prohibition — which forces Head Start to start screening children and families for their immigration status for the first time in ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
Recruit Holdings, the parent company of career sites Indeed and Glassdoor, is laying off 1,300 employees across the two sites. The job cuts represent about 6% of Recruit's overall global workforce and will especially impact U.S. employees working on the research and development, people operations, and sustainability teams, per CBS . The news was announced in a leaked internal email, viewed by TechCrunch , which ...
Source: entrepreneur.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
WIMBLEDON, England — The park where Wimbledon hosts the Queue was a madhouse on Day 1 this year. The famous line in which fans can wait for inexpensive tickets to the tournament has a storied history, thanks mostly to the tent village the die-hards set up a few days in advance to ensure a good spot. The previous few years, it had been lively but not so crowded, thinned partly in the wake of some of the ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
Israeli PM manages to avoid breach with US president through high-profile assurances he is seeking end to war Benjamin Netanyahu arrived back in Israel on Friday without a ceasefire in the Gaza war despite heady predictions from US and Israeli officials that this week could provide a breakthrough in negotiations. But he did not come home completely empty-handed. The Israeli PM's visit was his third since Donald ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
The son of notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking charges Friday at a hearing in Chicago. Prosecutors allege Ovidio Guzman Lopez, along with his brother Joaquin Guzman Lopez, ran a faction of the cartel known as "Los Chapitos," or "little Chapos." As part of his plea deal, Ovidio Guzman Lopez admitted to overseeing a major fentanyl trafficking ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
Ford is recalling 850,000 of its cars in the United States to fix defective fuel pumps in its pickup trucks and sports-utility vehicles. Affected vehicles include the 2021-2023 Bronco, Explorer, Aviator and some F-series pickup trucks, according to a filing from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The 2022 Expedition and 2021 to 2022 Mustang and Navigator were also listed as part of the recall. ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
A Donald Trump-backed effort to gerrymander Texas would boost the GOP's attempts to cling to its razor-thin House majority in next year's midterms — but it also runs a serious risk of backfiring. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott asked the state legislature to redraw the map during its special session this summer, following a push from the White House and the Justice Department. Ohio is also required by state law to ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
Missouri's Republican governor on Thursday signed legislation repealing the paid sick leave portion of a ballot measure that the state's voters approved with nearly 60% support in the 2024 election. The short-lived provision, which will officially be repealed on August 28, required Missouri employers to provide workers with an hour of paid sick time for every 30 hours of work. Businesses with 15 or more employees ...
Source: truthout.org
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
LUSAKA, July 11 (Reuters) - Copper miners remain bullish on the metal's future prospects even as a looming 50% U.S. tariff creates short-term price volatility, Barrick Mining Corp (ABX.TO) CEO Mark Bristow said in Zambia, where the company is expanding its operations. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would impose the new copper tariff from August 1 to promote domestic development of an industry ...
Source: reuters.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
Due to go into effect on July 14, the Negative Option Rule has been struck down by the Eighth Circuit. Our Consumer Protection/FTC Group examines the Federal Trade Commission's options going forward. The FTC broke its own rules by failing to provide a preliminary analysis that would allow comments before the rule was finalized The FTC could still appeal the ruling, start the rulemaking process over, or simply walk ...
Source: jdsupra.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
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Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
– Fighters with a that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony on Friday in northern Iraq, the first concrete step toward a promised disarmament as part of The Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, announced in May that it would disband and renounce armed conflict, ending . The move came after PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan , who has been imprisoned on ...
Source: news4jax.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
By SALLY HO SEATTLE (AP) — Though natural disasters cycle across seasons and regions in the U.S., it's often a shocking discovery for property owners how expansive and expensive flood and water damage can be when a major storm devastates their homes, businesses and communities. That's because oftentimes insurance doesn't cover what the policyholder thinks it does — or thinks it should. The disappointing ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
There is a "high probability" that US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will meet this year, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday. "The odds are high," Rubio told journalists gathered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Friday. "I think both sides want to see it happen." Rubio said he was unable to provide a date for any potential meeting but said there was a "strong desire on both sides to do ...
Source: cnn.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
Federal immigration agents were met with a strong show of resistance Thursday when they raided two farms in Southern California—with hundreds of community members protesting the arrests of migrants at the facilities growing cannabis and vegetables. Los Angeles-based independent journalist Mel Buer reported that hundreds of community members gathered to protest the raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...
Source: commondreams.org
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
A divided federal appeals court has thrown out a plea agreement that would have allowed accused "9/11 mastermind" Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other co-defendants to plead guilty in exchange for avoiding the death penalty, US media report. Judges in Washington DC rejected the agreement, which would have given Mohammed and the other defendants a life sentence without parole, in a 2-1 decision on Friday. Mohammed is ...
Source: bbc.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
The production combo sounds prettay, prettay, prettay good ( JTA ) — After his beloved and extremely Jewish sitcom "Curb Your Enthusiasm" ended after 12 seasons last year, many fans undoubtedly had the same thought: Would this be the last of Larry David on TV? The notorious curmudgeon's answer: Absolutely not. On Thursday, David announced that he will be partnering with Barack and Michelle Obama's production ...
Source: forward.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
By Launched in 2006 amid the chain's attempts to reach more drive-thru customers, the McDonald's ( MCD ) Snack Wrap spent 10 years on the menu before eventually getting discontinued in 2016. At the time, the fast-food giant's corporate team wanted to speed up back-of-house operations and felt that the time it took employees to assemble the chicken, lettuce, shredded cheddar and Monterrey cheese and choice of ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
A federal appeals court has rejected a challenge to a New York gun nuisance law that imposes liability for injuries stemming from misconduct in the sale or marketing of firearms. In a , the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at New York affirmed dismissal of the lawsuit filed by the National Shooting Sports Foundation and 14 of its members. The 2021 state law is not preempted by federal law, it does not violate ...
Source: abajournal.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
The billionaire's latest venture into U.S. politics points to cracks in the two-party system—even if it might flop. For this week's Fault Lines column, Jon Allsop is filling in for Jay Caspian Kang. There have been several political groupings called the American Party, or something similar, in U.S. history. Perhaps most famously, this was the official name of the Know Nothings, the once secret society ...
Source: newyorker.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
Cuts to taxes and Medicaid spending got most of the attention, but the massive spending law signed last week made huge changes to education, too: There will be billions less for student loans and billions of new dollars for private school vouchers. The changes had been long sought by conservatives, who saw an opportunity to advance key elements of their education agenda. The changes related to education were ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Thursday, Jul 10th, 2025 -
In the first Trump Administration, "they didn't say 'Fuck you' to the courts," Erez Reuveni said. In the early days of the first Trump Administration, Erez Reuveni, a lawyer for the Department of Justice, went to court to defend the new President's travel ban on foreign nationals from seven predominantly Muslim countries. He told the federal judge hearing the case to ignore the unpleasant fact that, as a candidate, ...
Source: newyorker.com
Thursday, Jul 10th, 2025 -
The Houthis recently sank a commercial ship traversing the Red Sea, reportedly destined for Israel . The attack marks the second time Houthis have sunk a commercial ship in less than a week. Houthi-released videos demonstrate the Eternity C and Magic Seas ships sinking after suffering heavy damage from Houthi attacks. Additionally, Houthi missiles rained down on Israel shortly after the ships ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Thursday, Jul 10th, 2025 -
Mahmoud Khalil , the former Columbia University student activist who was detained for months as the federal government sought to deport him, has filed a claim against the Trump administration, seeking $20 million in damages. Khalil would use the money to help others similarly detained, according to his lawyers. He would also be satisfied with an official apology and the government abandoning what he calls its ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Thursday, Jul 10th, 2025 -
United Nations expert Francesca Albanese has slammed the decision by the United States to sanction her as "obscene", saying she is being targeted for calling out Israel's genocide in Gaza. Speaking to Al Jazeera on Thursday, Albanese, who serves as the UN's special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, said she would not be cowed into silence by the US move against her on Wednesday . Albanese stressed ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Jul 10th, 2025 -
TikTok was fined 530 million euros ($620 million) in May by the Data Protection Commission over sending personal data to China. An Irish regulator helping police European Union data privacy said Thursday it had launched an investigation into TikTok over the transfer of European users' personal data to servers in China. TikTok was fined 530 million euros ($620 million) in May by the Data Protection Commission over ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Thursday, Jul 10th, 2025 -
Disruption from the M&S attack continues and is likely to cost the retailer hundreds of millions of pounds. Four people have been arrested by police investigating cyber attacks targeting M&S, Co-op and Harrods. A 20-year-old woman and two males, both aged 19, and another aged 17, were detained in London and the West Midlands as part of a National Crime Agency (NCA) operation. They were arrested at their homes on ...
Source: news.sky.com
Thursday, Jul 10th, 2025 -
Transportation secretary named as interim administrator of space agency as it faces crisis amid Trump's budget cuts Donald Trump has appointed his transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, as interim administrator of Nasa , six weeks after withdrawing the nomination of the Elon Musk ally and billionaire Jared Isaacman for the permanent role. The president announced the appointment on Truth Social on Wednesday evening, ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Jul 10th, 2025 -
Painful gallstones and recurrent infections mean that, sometimes, your pesky gallbladder has to go. The minor laparoscopic (keyhole) surgery is performed by a surgeon today, but one day these and other soft tissue surgeries could be the domain of robots. A robot trained on videos of surgeries has performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal, or cholyecystectomy, almost autonomously. This was done on a ...
Source: cosmosmagazine.com
Thursday, Jul 10th, 2025 -
Thirty-one workers were rescued, some hoisted to safety in a cage, after a tunnel collapsed at a Los Angeles construction project Wednesday night, officials said and video showed. There were no injuries in the incident in the Wilmington section of the city, where a wastewater management project was underway, the Los Angeles Fire Department said. "Tonight, we were lucky," LAFD Interim Fire Chief Ronnie Villanueva ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Jul 10th, 2025 -
The Ferrero Group said Thursday it will buy WK Kellogg Co. in a deal valued $3.1 billion, expanding the Italian food giant's global reach. Kellogg, which was founded in Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1906, is known for brands including Corn Flakes, Froot Loops, Rice Krispies and Special K. Ferrero's brands include Nutella and Rocher chocolates. The deal will include manufacturing, marketing and distribution ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Jul 10th, 2025 -
AI video generation is quickly getting better, and you can play with it even if you're not a professional. Google said Wednesday that its Gemini AI app will now let paying users make eight-second videos out of still images. Upload a photo and describe what you want to happen (including sound effects) and Google's video generator Veo 3 will spit out a short scene. People say they're using the tech to animate old ...
Source: washingtonpost.com