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Top News Stories for Wednesday, December 24th 2025
Voluminous new Epstein document release includes multiple Trump mentions, but little revelatory news
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and SEUNG MIN KIM WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has released tens of thousands more documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, a tranche that included multiple mentions of President Donald Trump but added little new revelatory information to the long-anticipated public file on the late financier and convicted sex offender. The release ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – President Donald Trump's said Tuesday that the Republican administration is looking to begin a conversation with residents of the semi-autonomous Danish territory about the best way forward for the strategically important island. In his first extended comments since being appointed to the role this week, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry said the Trump administration isn't going to "go in ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Trump denies new 'Golden Fleet' is aimed at countering China announced plans on Monday for the U.S. Navy to construct a new class of warships that will be some of the largest vessels of its type the service has fielded. The battleships, which are part of an effort to develop a new ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
Equinor ASA and Orsted A/S said they are engaging with US authorities over security concerns tied to their offshore wind projects, after the Trump administration issued another round of work suspension orders. The US announced on Monday it would suspend leases for all five wind farms under construction off the East Coast, citing national security concerns that the turbines may interfere with radar systems. The five ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! The first oral GLP-1 medication for weight loss has been approved for use in the U.S. The Wegovy pill, from drugmaker Novo Nordisk, was cleared by the Food and Drug Administration to reduce excess body weight, maintain long-term weight reduction and lower the risk of major cardiovascular events. Approval of the once-daily 25mg semaglutide pill was based on the results of two ...
Source: foxnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a bid by the Trump administration to deploy National Guard members to the Chicago area while a legal challenge moves forward, delivering a setback to President Trump in his effort to use federalized troops in Illinois to ensure enforcement of federal immigration laws. The high court left untouched a judge's decision blocking the government from putting ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
While the furor over CBS News' decision to delay a planned "60 Minutes" report about deportees sent by the Trump administration to a notorious Salvadoran prison continued Monday, the intended segment was already circulating online, having been streamed in Canada. The report, titled "Inside CECOT," was streamed by Canada's Global Television Network. In the U.S., its broadcast was postponed by CBS under its new ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
showed that Instacart was running AI price experiments in the app, charging some consumers as much as 23% more than others for the same goods. While Instacart disputed some of the findings initially, announced on Monday that it will end all AI price experiments. Buyers may continue to see price differences for the same products between different retailers, similar to what happens in brick-and-mortar stores, but ...
Source: bgr.com
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
By The U.S. economy grew at a vigorous pace through the end of September, despite the uncertainty created by tariffs and widespread concerns about affordability among households. Economic growth rose at a 4.3% annual rate in the third quarter, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday, an acceleration from the previous quarter. The third-quarter reading showed that, even in the face of negative consumer sentiment ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
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Source: huffpost.com
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said on Tuesday that it will begin garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers who are in default early next year. The department said it will send notices to approximately 1,000 borrowers the week of January 7, with more notices to come at an increasing scale each month. Millions of borrowers are considered in default, meaning they are 270 days past due on their ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
The Powerball jackpot has jumped to an eye-popping $1.7 billion, after the 46th drawing passed without a big winner. The numbers drawn Monday night were 3, 18, 36, 41, 54, and the Powerball 7. Since Sept. 6, there have been 46 straight drawings without a big winner. A person in Sunrise won $1 million on Monday's Powerball by matching 5 numbers. The ticket was purchased at a Key Food in Sunrise, Florida. ...
Source: wfla.com
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
Reading time 2 minutes The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced on Monday that it is banning new foreign-made drones and drone components over national security concerns. The move could disrupt the drone industry as it aims to keep popular Chinese brands out of the U.S. market. The FCC said the ban follows a review that determined drones and drone parts made outside the U.S. pose "unacceptable ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
Police arrested activist Greta Thunberg in London on Tuesday while she was participating in a protest supporting imprisoned hunger strikers linked to proscribed group Palestine Action. Images of the arrest show Thunberg seated on the ground at the protest holding a sign that reads, "I support Palestine Action prisoners" and "I oppose genocide." Police confronted her as she joined demonstrators outside of a building ...
Source: truthout.org
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
In 2025, fashion's engagement with AI moved from an experimental phase to an operational necessity. Meanwhile, the AI industry set its sights on fashion for the first time. This gave rise to the emerging practice of AI optimization, or AIO , among fashion marketing teams, and a cottage industry of startups hoping to be fashion brands' go-to platforms for data analytics, AI-powered personalization and advice on how ...
Source: vogue.com
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Actor and comedian Russell Brand has been charged with two new offenses -- one rape and one sexual assault -- from two new women, London's Metropolitan Police said Tuesday. Brand is scheduled to appear in court Jan. 20 on the new allegations. Brand pleaded not guilty to five previous charges earlier this year. Those charges were from four women who allege assaults from 1999 to 2005. That trial is ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Five people died when a Mexican navy plane crashed off the coast of Galveston, Texas, the Mexican military announced. Mexican officials reported that a King Air ANX 1209 plane crashed into Galveston Bay carrying four navy members and four civilians. The Mexican navy described the crashed aircraft as part of a humanitarian medical transport mission. Of the eight people on board, five were killed, ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
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Source: huffpost.com
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
( NewsNation ) — The maker of the popular Jim Beam bourbon whiskey announced it would stop all operations at its Kentucky distillery for all of next year. In a statement, the James B. Beam Distilling Company said it would close the distillery in Clermont until it took the "opportunity to invest in site enhancements." The company added that its campus would remain open for visitors during that time. "We are ...
Source: wfla.com
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Flu cases are on the rise across the country, as well as in the state of Florida. The State Department of Health's website shows that the positivity rate and number of flu-related ER visits are already increasing, and doctors fear cases will only get worse with the holidays. In December, doctors with Tampa General Hospital said they have already seen 426 Influenza A cases across their ...
Source: wfla.com
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
Department of Veterans Affairs says justice department found procedure not to be legally sound The Department of Veterans Affairs can no longer provide abortions to veterans, including in cases of rape or incest, following a Department of Justice memo that found last week that the practice was not legally sound. The ban follows months of efforts by the Trump administration to roll back a Biden-era policy that, for ...
Source: theguardian.com
Oklahoma instructor who gave student a zero on gender essay barred from teaching duties, school says
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
The University of Oklahoma said Monday that the graduate teaching assistant who assigned a failing grade to a student for a psychology essay on gender stereotypes will "no longer have instructional duties" at the university. A graduate teaching assistant for an online psychology class was "arbitrary in the grading of this specific paper" and therefore will "no longer have instructional duties," the university said ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
Former Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., announced Tuesday that he has been diagnosed with "metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer," writing in an X post that the diagnosis is "a death sentence." "Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die," Sasse, 53, wrote in the lengthy post. "Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it's a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
Inmates' escape from DeKalb county jail discovered during routine security check early Monday Three inmates who escaped from a jail east of Atlanta , including one who was being held on a murder charge, have been apprehended in Florida, a member of a federal fugitive taskforce confirmed. Eric Heinze, assistant chief inspector with the US Marshals Service Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force, declined to share ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
Brown University placed the campus police chief on leave and hired retired Providence police chief Hugh Clements Jr. to take over on an interim basis as the federal government announced it was investigating the school's safety protocols. Rodney Chatman, the school's vice president for Public Safety and Emergency Management, had been a presence at many of the news briefings following the Dec. 13 mass shooting at the ...
Source: wbur.org
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
Music streaming service Spotify said Monday it had disabled accounts from a piracy activist hacker group. Music streaming service Spotify said Monday it had disabled accounts from a piracy activist hacker group that claimed to have "backed up" millions of Spotify's music files and metadata. The group Anna's Archives said in a blog post it had backed up 86 million Spotify tracks and the metadata for 256 million ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
A coalition of attorneys general from across the US sued White House budget chief Russell Vought on Monday over his effort to completely starve the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau of funding, a ploy that—if successful—would eliminate a key path of recourse for Americans harmed by corporate abuses. The lawsuit was filed in a federal court in Portland, Oregon by the top law enforcement officials of ...
Source: commondreams.org
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
Reading time 3 minutes As OpenAI and other tech companies keep working towards developing agentic AI, they're now facing some new challenges, like how to stop AI agents from falling for scams. OpenAI said on Monday that prompt injection attacks, a cybersecurity risk unique to AI agents, are likely to remain a long-term security challenge. In a blog post , the company explained how these attacks work and outlined ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
Kyiv, Ukraine — Russia fired more than 650 drones and three dozen missiles at Ukraine in a large-scale attack that began during the night and stretched into daylight hours Tuesday, officials said. At least three people were killed, including a 4-year-old child, two days before Christmas. The barrage struck homes and the power grid in 13 regions of Ukraine, causing widespread outages in bitter temperatures, ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Monday, Dec 22nd, 2025 -
Russia's Investigative Committee says it is looking into whether Ukraine intelligence services were behind attack A Russian general has been killed after an explosive device detonated beneath his car in what Moscow described as a likely assassination carried out by Ukrainian intelligence services. Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov, the head of the operational training directorate of the Russian armed forces' general staff, ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Dec 22nd, 2025 -
Barry Manilow announced Monday he will undergo surgery to have a cancerous spot on his left lung removed. The singer, 82, shared the health news on social media and said some of his concerts will have to be rescheduled. Manilow said the lung cancer was picked up on an MRI after he had been suffering from a bout of bronchitis for several weeks. "As many of you know I recently went through six weeks of bronchitis ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Monday, Dec 22nd, 2025 -
Kilmar Abrego Garcia — who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March — will remain free on supervised release until at least the end of the year, after a Maryland judge on Monday extended her order barring the government from detaining and deporting him again. Abrego Garcia was released from federal immigration custody earlier this month. At a hearing on Monday, U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Monday, Dec 22nd, 2025 -
The NFL suspended Pittsburgh Steelers receiver DK Metcalf for two games without pay Monday, one day after he took a swing at a fan in Detroit. Metcalf can appeal the suspension, which, if it is upheld, would make him eligible to return Jan. 5, which would be after the Steelers' final two games of the regular season. Metcalf was seen on camera shoving his closed fist upward toward the face of a Lions fan leaning ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Dec 22nd, 2025 -
Alphabet Inc. today inked a deal to acquire Intersect Power LLC for $4.75 billion in cash. The Google LLC parent also plans to assume the renewable energy company's outstanding debt. It expects to complete the transaction in the first half of 2026. According to the search giant, the deal is intended to expedite its data center construction efforts. Founded in 2016, Intersect develops solar and wind power ...
Source: siliconangle.com