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Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
House Democrats released photos Friday from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein that included images of Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Bill Gates and other prominent figures. The images could embarrass those pictured, but Jeremy Saland, a former Manhattan prosecutor who now runs his own criminal defense practice, said the photos do not prove those figures were involved in crimes. Epstein was charged in federal court in 2019 ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
Op-Ed: Favors for the rich kids — US executive order against state AI regulation is an incredibly stupid mistake The world is tired of trying to tolerate this insanity. The last thing anyone expects from the US is realism or competence on any level. Total trade, diplomatic, and socioeconomic failure apparently isn't enough, though. Trump's much-hyped executive order is to pre-empt and "target" states that ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
LONDON (AP) — Medics and health charities on Saturday praised King Charles III for giving a public update on his cancer treatment, saying his call for people to get tested for the disease could save lives. In a strikingly personal video statement, the British monarch acknowledged that a cancer diagnosis can feel "overwhelming," but said catching the disease early brings "the precious gift of hope." Here's ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Trump Says 'We Will Retaliate' After 3 Americans Are Killed in Syria Attack That the US Blames on IS
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday that "we will retaliate" after two U.S. service members and one American civilian were killed in a Syria attack that the U.S. blames on the Islamic State group. "This is an ISIS attack," the American president told reporters at the White House before departing for the Army-Navy football game in Baltimore. He paid condolences to the three Americans ...
Source: military.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
The Senate on Thursday rejected legislation to extend enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits, all but ensuring that millions of Americans will face sharply higher health insurance costs at the start of the year. Lawmakers voted down both a Democratic proposal to extend the subsidies for three years and a Republican alternative that would have created new health savings accounts. The votes marked an abrupt end to ...
Source: bradenton.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A shooter dressed in black killed at least two people and wounded eight others at Brown University on Saturday during final exams on the Ivy League campus, authorities said, and police were searching for the suspect. Officers scattered across the campus and into an affluent neighborhood filled with historic and stately brick homes, searching academic buildings, backyards and porches for ...
Source: news4jax.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — The United States will lift sanctions on Belarusian potash in the latest sign of a thaw between Washington and the isolated autocracy. John Coale, the U.S. special envoy for Belarus, made the announcement after meeting the country's authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko in the Belarusian capital of Minsk on Friday and Saturday. A close ally of Russia, Minsk has faced Western ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
News US federal judge orders ICE not to rearrest Kilmar Abrego Garcia US District Judge Paula Xinis issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) blocking Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia again, pending further hearings. The TRO came only a few hours after Judge Xinis ordered Abrego Garcia's release from ICE custody in Pennsylvania. In the TRO, Judge Xinis wrote, "Abrego ...
Source: jurist.org
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
Fighting raged Saturday morning along the border of Thailand and Cambodia, even after U.S. President Trump, acting as a mediator, declared that he had won agreement from both countries for a ceasefire. Thai officials have said they did not agree to a ceasefire, and Cambodia has not commented on Mr. Trump's claim. Its defense ministry instead said Thai jets carried out airstrikes Saturday morning. Cambodian media ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
The activist was detained in the city of Mashhad during a memorial ceremony for another activist, raising concern from the Norwegian Nobel Committee and human rights groups about her safety and health. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, who was awarded the prestigious honour in 2023 for her work defending women's rights and human rights in Iran, has been "violently" detained, according to her ...
Source: news.sky.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
At 41, Lindsey Vonn is no longer defying expectations so much as resetting them. One day after becoming the oldest woman to win a World Cup race , the American came within a quarter-second of doing it again, finishing second in Saturday's downhill at St Moritz behind Germany's Emma Aicher. Less than 24 hours after rewriting the World Cup age record, Vonn briefly looked on course for another victory as she surged ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
No fatalities reported in flooding, which prompted Trump to approve emergency declaration request from governor Record-breaking flood waters in Washington state have started slowly retreating after days of devastation that saw neighborhoods inundated, emergency rescues from cars and rooftops, and widespread evacuations. "This is not just a one- or two-day crisis," Washington's governor, Bob Ferguson, said during a ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
Follow Earth on Google Indoor tanning remains common in many places, even as new warnings keep appearing. Many people focus on getting a quick tan and don't think much about what happens under the surface. A new study reveals clear genetic damage from indoor tanning that natural sunlight does not usually create. The tan fades quickly, yet mutations remain inside the skin. Rising danger of tanning beds Researchers ...
Source: earth.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Fired University of Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore "barged his way" into the apartment of a woman with whom he had been having an affair and threatened to kill himself after she reported the relationship to the school and he lost his job, prosecutors said Friday. Moore was charged with three crimes, including felony home invasion and stalking. As he watched by video from jail, ...
Source: npr.org
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump's pledge to pardon Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk convicted of tampering with voting machines, touched off a new battle Friday over the fate of perhaps the last high-profile 2020 election denier still behind bars. Democratic leaders in Colorado dismissed the pardon as an empty attempt to bully a Democratic state into freeing one of the president's political allies. They argued ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
Covid Shots May Get FDA's Strongest Warning The agency's black-box label is meant to flag serious threats to life and health. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. The Food and Drug Administration is considering whether to place a "black-box" warning —a high-danger label only used to flag risk of death, severe harm, or incapacitation—on Covid vaccines, CNN has ...
Source: motherjones.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
The Israeli military sats it has killed senior Hamas commander Raed Saad in a strike in Gaza City. The attack on Saturday killed five people and wounded at least 25, according to Gaza health authorities. Hamas in a statement did not confirm the death of Raed Saad. It said a civilian vehicle had been struck outside Gaza City and asserted it was a violation of the ceasefire that took effect on October. In a post on ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said that Kevin Hassett and Kevin Warsh are his top choices to lead the US Federal Reserve and that he expects the next chair of the central bank to consult with him on interest rates. Trump, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Friday, indicated that Warsh, a former Fed governor, has climbed up the short list of contenders to challenge Hassett, the White House ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
Lionel Messi 's tour of India kicked off chaotically on Saturday as fans threw objects, ripped up seats and invaded the pitch at Kolkata's Salt Lake stadium after the Argentine soccer great made only a brief appearance at a ticketed event. Satadru Dutta, the event's chief organizer, has been detained by police, said Rajeev Kumar, director general of West Bengal police. Messi was scheduled for a 45-minute visit to ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
South Carolina health officials say a measles outbreak is growing amid holiday travel and low vaccination rates, and they warn the spread could continue for weeks. As of Dec. 10, the state's Department of Public Health has confirmed 114 cases, nearly all in the state's upstate region. Of 111 cases recorded there, 105 were in people who were unvaccinated, and three had received only one shot of the two-dose measles ...
Source: upi.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
Reading time 3 minutes Scientists have discovered the strongest evidence yet of a rocky planet with an atmosphere outside the solar system, challenging previous notions that small planets that orbit closely to their stars are unable to sustain a thick blanket of gases. TOI-561 b orbits a 10-billion-year-old star located about 280 light-years from Earth and has a vast magma ocean. Using NASA's Webb Space Telescope, ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
A skydiver in Australia made it through an intense situation when their reserve parachute deployed and got entangled with the plane's tail. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau on Dec. 11 released a video as part of an investigation report about the incident, which occurred Sept. 20 over Tully Airport in Queensland on the country's northeastern coast. The skydiver was one of 17 freefall skydivers on board the ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
Kevin Rodriguez-Zavala found unresponsive with severe facial trauma and broken thigh bone The death of 32-year-old Kevin Rodriguez Zavala was ruled accidental, and the investigation has been closed, according to an incident report from the Orange County Sheriff's Office . Zavala was riding a high-speed roller coaster at Universal Orlando's Epic Universe theme park when he was found unresponsive. The sheriff's ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
In addition to his supporting roles, Greene starred in the 1993 film Clean, Shaven in which he played a man with schizophrenia who is suspected in a murder. Peter Greene, the actor known for roles in Pulp Fiction and The Mask, has died aged 60. He was found dead at his New York City apartment on Friday, his manager confirmed. A cause of death has not been disclosed. Greene drew praise for the various villains and ...
Source: news.sky.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
National Trust looks to halt construction, claiming Trump tore down historic East Wing without needed permission Donald Trump is facing a federal lawsuit seeking to halt construction on his $300m White House ballroom , with historic preservationists accusing the president of violating multiple federal laws by tearing down part of the iconic building without required reviews or congressional approval. The legal ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
Above: Panelists—Wolfram Gast, Abhii Dabbas and Berry Everitt—discuss "The Digital Edge: How AI and Data Are Transforming Real Estate" at LeadingRE's Global Symposium, moderated by COO Kate Reisinger. At Leading Real Estate Companies of the World's (LeadingRE) Global Symposium in Prague, members from 31 countries explored how global trends are reshaping local markets. Among the topics discussed ...
Source: rismedia.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
Doral, Florida — The admiral overseeing U.S. military forces in South America relinquished command Friday, as the U.S. continues its buildup of ships and military assets off Venezuela and carries out strikes against alleged drug boats. "We have worked hard and tirelessly to build relationships and understand requirements across the region," Adm. Alvin Holsey said during a relinquishment of command ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
MIAMI (AP) — The oil tanker was navigating near the coast of Guyana recently when its location transponder showed it starting to zigzag. It was a seemingly improbable maneuver and the latest digital clue that the ship, the Skipper, was trying to obscure its whereabouts and the valuable cargo stored inside its hull: tens of millions of dollars' worth of illicit crude oil. On Wednesday, U.S. ...
Source: pbs.org
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
Dec. 12 (UPI) -- Russia's Central Bank has filed suit against the Belgian bank that holds about $217 billion in frozen Russian state assets to stop the European Union from using that money to make a large loan to Ukraine . Most of Moscow's frozen cash is held in Belgian bank depository Euroclear. The EU wants to extend a loan to Ukraine , which is running out of money to fight the Russian invasion of the country. ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
Expanded live translation will come to iOS in the coming months. Google has increasingly moved toward keeping features locked to its hardware products, but the Translate app is bucking that trend. The live translate feature is breaking out of the Google bubble with support for any earbuds you happen to have connected to your Android phone. The app is also getting improved translation quality across dozens of ...
Source: arstechnica.com