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Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
Pediatricians say panel's decision will create confusion and access issues, and condemn 'parody of public health' The entire US childhood vaccine schedule is now open for scrutiny, experts say, after government vaccine advisers took up discussions of the safety and efficacy of the vaccines and their components and changed its recommendations on one crucial prevention. Several of the vaccine advisers are longtime ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
With the White House's push for states to draw new maps ahead of the midterms not going as smoothly as planned, the Sunshine State is now entering the fray. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida could be the final state the White House can count on to pick up additional seats as part of the rare mid-decade redistricting cycle it has pushed ahead of the midterm elections. The Republican-controlled state officially ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 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 (AP) — The U.S. military opened fire on two people clinging to the wreckage of a boat allegedly carrying drugs, congressional lawmakers learned ...
Source: huffpost.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
Netflix won the business version of the Squid Game on Friday, beating out Paramount Skydance , Comcast , and possibly others in a bidding war for the Warner Bros. streaming and studios assets of Warner Bros. Discovery . Netflix is now the biggest entertainment company in the world by far, with a market cap of more than $400 billion, and the company that was dismissed by a former Warner Bros. boss as the "Albanian ...
Source: fool.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
Each nation's World Cup is defined, for good or bad, by huge, indelible moments. With a favorable draw, the onus is now on the US to create them C hristian Pulisic vividly remembers watching it with his family. So does Tyler Adams, who saw it with his friends from soccer camp. Memories of Tim Howard catching an Algerian header in Pretoria, and hurling it upfield to ignite the counterattack that would lead to Landon ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
The Trump administration will be expanding its ban on travel for citizens of certain countries to more than 30, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said, in the latest restriction to come since a man from Afghanistan was accused of shooting two National Guard members. The expansion would build on a travel ban already announced in June by the Republican administration, which barred ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
The more persuasive a model is trained to be, the higher the likelihood that it'll hallucinate, researchers find. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Most of us feel a sense of personal ownership over our opinions: "I believe what I believe, not because I've been told to do so, but as the result of careful consideration." "I have full control over how, when, and why I ...
Source: zdnet.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — Many of the voices were frantic and desperate. A few were steady and calm amid mounting, frightening danger, and in some cases, inescapable doom. They came from families huddled on rooftops to escape rising, swirling waters, mothers panicked for the wellbeing of their children and onlookers who heard people yell for help through the dark as they clung to treetops. One man, stuck high ...
Source: apnews.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
For babies born in the next few years, "Trump accounts" could be a financial game changer. And for the policymakers and advocates who conceived of the idea, the accounts have another potential benefit: Improving capitalism's reputation, especially among young people. "What I'm really excited about is, we are creating a new generation of capitalists," Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said at the White House on ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
that aims to make all nine of the state's U.S. House districts friendly to Republicans, after The bill passed in a 57-41 vote and now heads to the GOP-controlled state Senate, which is reconvening on Dec. 8. A number of vocal Republicans in the Indiana Senate have held out against redistricting, although it's unclear if they are enough to prevent it from passing. President Trump congratulated members of the state ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case on whether some children born in the US have a constitutional right to citizenship. On his first day in office in January, President Donald Trump signed an order to end birthright citizenship for those born to parents who are in the country illegally, but the move was blocked by multiple lower courts. No date has been set yet for the Supreme Court arguments, and a ...
Source: bbc.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
A federal judge in Florida has ordered the release of material from grand jury investigations into sex offender Jeffrey Epstein from 2005 and 2007. A similar bid was rejected earlier this year, but U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith said he was granting the Justice Department's renewed request in light of the bill that Congress passed last month requiring the DOJ to release all of its records related to Epstein. The ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Dec. 5 (UPI) -- A federal grand jury has rejected the Justice Department's bid to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James , according to reports, dealing a blow to President Donald Trump 's effort to prosecute political opponents. The Norfolk, Va., grand jury decision comes less than two weeks after a federal judge threw out criminal cases against James and FBI Director James Comey . "The grand jury's ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
BRUSSELS, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's social media company X was fined 120 million euros ($140 million) by EU tech regulators on Friday for breaching EU online content rules, the first sanction under landmark legislation which will likely draw the U.S. government's ire. Rival TikTok staved off a penalty with concessions. Europe's crackdown on Big Tech to ensure smaller rivals can compete and ...
Source: news.yahoo.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 -
Vladimir Putin arrives in New Delhi with a large trade delegation and wants to protect trade and defence ties from US sanctions over the war in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin was given a red carpet ceremonial welcome as he arrived in New Delhi for the 23rd India-Russia summit. Breaking protocol, India's prime minister Narendra Modi greeted the Russian leader on the tarmac on Thursday evening, ...
Source: news.sky.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
The European Broadcasting Union said a 'large majority' of its members agreed not to vote on Israel's participation ( JTA ) — Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands and Slovenia's public broadcasters said they will boycott this year's Eurovision Song Contest after a Thursday meeting of the European Broadcasting Union confirmed Israel's participation. The Thursday General Assembly meeting in Switzerland of the ...
Source: forward.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
3 min read Rep. Adelita Grijalva said Friday she was pepper-sprayed and pushed around during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid in Tucson, Arizona, a claim that the Department of Homeland Security swiftly disputed. The Arizona Democrat said in a video on X the incident occurred near a restaurant she frequents and that she came upon a scene of "maybe 40 ICE agents, most of them masked, in several vehicles" ...
Source: edition.cnn.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
The web infrastructure company said at around 9am that it was "investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard" after reports of "a large number of empty pages". Several websites, including Linkedin, Zoom and Canva, went down after new issues with internet provider Cloudflare. The web infrastructure company said at around 9am that it was "investigating issues with Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs (application ...
Source: news.sky.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
This week was all about AWS re:Invent, the biggest cloud conference of the year — which also makes it by definition, these days, one of the biggest AI conferences of the year. The headlines from our 20 or so stories plus more interviews from theCUBE tell the story. But the gist is that if CEO Matt Garman (pictured) didn't knock everyone's socks off, he made a pretty good case that Amazon's in solid shape for ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Dec. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. presidents have the power to fire members of the National Labor Relations Board and the Merit Systems Protection Board, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday. A three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled 2-1 that NLRB and MSPB positions are at-will and can be ended at any time without cause. The ruling overturns several lower court rulings to the ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
World football's governing body, which announced the annual award last month, said it would be given to "individuals who have taken exceptional and extraordinary actions for peace". US President Donald Trump has been awarded FIFA's new peace prize at the draw for next year's World Cup. FIFA President Gianni Infantino presented Mr Trump with a large golden trophy - formed of hands holding the earth - and a gold ...
Source: news.sky.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Federal regulators said they are expanding an investigation into Waymo this week, following reports that the company's self-driving cars navigated around school buses stopped on the road in Austin, Texas. In a letter to Waymo dated Dec. 3, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said it will investigate the performance of the autonomous vehicles and their ability to follow traffic safety ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
The quiet calm of a weekday morning in a Woodbridge, Virginia, neighborhood was suddenly interrupted Thursday by a loud siren, two Humvee-style vehicles and a group of SWAT-like figures in camouflage, rifles trained on a house. "This is the FBI. We have a federal search warrant," the voice coming over a loudspeaker said, according to a neighbor. "Come out of the house with your hands up." The ensuing arrest of a ...
Source: aol.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 -
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 -
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 -
Canadian–American architect who explored crumpling and fish curves in such buildings as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao Frank Gehry, who has died aged 96 after a respiratory illness, influenced the course of world architecture at least twice. First, in the 1970s, with his informal ad hoc aesthetic, he showed how such material as chain-link fencing could be turned into an expressive art form. Secondly, in the ...
Source: theguardian.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 -
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's administration has set forth a new national security strategy that paints European allies as weak and aims to reassert America's dominance in the Western Hemisphere. The document released Friday by the White House is sure to roil long-standing U.S. allies in Europe for its scathing critiques of their migration and free speech policies, suggesting they face the "prospect ...
Source: npr.org
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Employers announced 71,321 job cuts last month: Report Only third time since 2008 that Nov. layoff plans topped 70K Markets expect Fed to cut interest rates at the next meeting TAMPA, Fla. ( NewsNation ) — U.S. employers have announced more than 1.1 million job cuts so far this year, the most since 2020, according to new data from Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The outplacement firm said this year's tally is ...
Source: wfla.com