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Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
oil buyers will push Venezuela for bigger discounts following US seizure – starving Maduro of revenue The U.S. seizure of an oil tanker off the Venezuelan coast looks designed to further squeeze the economy of President Nicolás Maduro's country. The Dec. 10, 2025, operation – in which American forces descended from helicopters onto the vessel – follows months of U.S. military buildup ...
Source: theconversation.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
It's likely just a matter of time before we see the wisened duo of Rafiki and Jiminy Cricket weilding lightsabers on the icy plains of Arendelle. to use Disney's characters and other intellectual property. Disney will also invest $1 billion in OpenAI and will purchase ChatGPT Enterprise for its employees. It's a major shift for Disney, which has historically been deeply protective of its intellectual property. And ...
Source: insider.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
An executive order aims to tackle state regulation on artificial intelligence. An Obamacare exodus occurs before premium hikes. And, major flooding in the Pacific Northwest. Here's what to know today. Trump signs executive order seeking to ban states from regulating AI companies President Donald Trump signed an executive order that seeks to limit states' ability to regulate artificial intelligence and upend ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose case has become a flashpoint in the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in the United States, has been freed from detention on a judge's order and returned to his home, according to reports. Abrego Garcia was due to check in with US immigration officials on Friday, The Associated Press news agency reported, a day after returning to his home following his release from an ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By LARRY LAGE ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — After spending two nights in jail, fired Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore was expected to be arraigned Friday amid a police investigation of an alleged assault. Moore, 39, was fired on Wednesday for what the school called an inappropriate relationship with a staff member. Hours later, he was in police custody. Authorities ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
The Justice Department's mortgage fraud investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James is on life support after a grand jury, for the second time, rejected an indictment that would have revived charges against her. Lindsey Halligan , appointed by President Donald Trump to run the office, now faces the decision on whether to try again next week or pull the plug and risk the wrath of the president who ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
Residents in the Pacific Northwest of the US and western Canada are bracing for potentially life-threatening floods as several days of heavy rain have swollen a number of rivers and tributaries. On Thursday, the National Water Center reported heavy flooding along the Skagit and Snohomish rivers in the state of Washington that is expected to continue through Friday. In Canada, major highways to Vancouver have been ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
's declaration that he has granted former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters a "full pardon" saying it 'is a matter for the courts to decide". Peters, who was convicted in 2024 on multiple state charges-including attempting to influence a public servant and criminal impersonation-remains incarcerated at La Vista Correctional Facility while her appeal proceeds. In a post on X Thursday, Polis wrote that Peters "was ...
Source: bradenton.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
The US Food and Drug Administration intends to put a "black box" warning on Covid-19 vaccines, according to two people familiar with the agency's plans. A boxed warning, which appears at the top of prescribing information for medicines, is the agency's most serious, designed to warn about risks such as death or life-threatening or disabling reactions that should be weighed against the intervention's benefits. They ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
The United States is planning to require some visitors to provide their social media history from the past five years, according to US President Donald Trump's administration. This requirement will apply to visitors who do not need a visa to enter the US. Here is a closer look at this proposal: What is the US planning to do? The proposal was announced on the Federal Register by the US Customs and Border Protection ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
Football's leading fan organisations have demanded FIFA immediately stop selling tickets for next year's World Cup , to be played in the United States, Canada and Mexico, warning that prices reaching nearly $9,000 for premium final seats will exclude supporters from the tournament. Football Supporters Europe, which called the ticket pricing "extortionate", issued the call on Thursday after national associations ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
FDA reports cases have increased from 39 last week with illnesses spanning multiple months At least 51 babies have been hospitalized in a growing botulism outbreak tied to contaminated baby formula, federal health officials announced Wednesday. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said suspected and confirmed cases have now been reported in 19 states among infants who consumed ByHeart formula ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
Co-founder of Singapore-based Terraform Labs given more jail time by US judge than prosecutors sought Do Kwon, the entrepreneur behind two cryptocurrencies that lost $40bn (£29.8bn) three years ago and caused the sector to crash, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for fraud. The South Korean, 34, had pleaded guilty to two counts of US charges of conspiracy to defraud and wire fraud. Kwon, who co-founded ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
The U.S. Federal Reserve on December 10, 2025, cut its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points, lowering the federal funds target range to 3.50%–3.75%, the third rate reduction of the year, in hopes of supporting the economy amid mixed signals on inflation and the labor market. The decision was not unanimous, with multiple policymakers dissenting and the Fed signaled that it may pause further cuts until ...
Source: bdmag.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked Democratic legislation that would have extended enhanced tax credits for over 20 million people enrolled in the Affordable Care Act for the next three years, setting up big health insurance premium hikes next year. The 51-48 vote capped a bitter months-long battle in Congress over health care that included the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. In ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was challenged during a hearing today about her department's controversial deportation practices. Noem, 54, testified before the House on Thursday, Dec. 11, about national security threats, where she was questioned by a representative about the deportation of military veterans by the Trump administration. "Madame Secretary, how many United States military veterans have you ...
Source: people.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
In what has become a tradition every few years, Time magazine's "Person of the Year" isn't an individual for 2025 -- it's a group and a concept. In this case, it's what Time is dubbing, " The architects of AI ." Time Editor in Chief Sam Jacobs said in a note about the cover story that AI's power and influence was ever-present in 2025, advancing rapidly and making the impossible possible. Don't miss any of our ...
Source: cnet.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! South Carolina is facing a major measles outbreak , resulting in the quarantine of hundreds of residents. The South Carolina Department of Health (DPH) reported in a media briefing on Wednesday that the current number of measles cases has reached 111 as part of the current Spartanburg County outbreak. DPH first reported a measles outbreak in the Upstate region on Oct. 2. The ...
Source: foxnews.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Zelensky says both sides would pull back from 'free economic zone' envisaged by Trump in mineral-rich eastern Donbas Ukraine could withdraw its troops from its eastern Donbas regions under a peace deal being considered ahead of talks with US officials. The compromise would result in Kyiv's armed forces being pulled back from Donetsk and Luhansk to form a demilitarised zone, as long as Russia agreed to a ...
Source: telegraph.co.uk
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Company claims new AI model tops Gemini and matches humans on 70% of work tasks. On Thursday, OpenAI released GPT-5.2, its newest family of AI models for ChatGPT, in three versions called Instant, Thinking, and Pro. The release follows CEO Sam Altman's internal "code red" memo earlier this month, which directed company resources toward improving ChatGPT in response to competitive pressure from Google's Gemini 3 AI ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. . D olphins, with their exceptional echolocation abilities, are skillful at catching fish. But some fish, like Chinook salmon, are too big for them to capture and swallow whole. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. In the first recorded instance of hunting cooperation between dolphins and orcas, a new study published today in Scientific Reports describes how ...
Source: nautil.us
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Some social media users in the Netherlands said they couldn't stomach it, so McDonald's has withdrawn an advertisement generated entirely by artificial intelligence . Entitled "the most terrible time of the year," the 45-second video was released on the fast-food giant's YouTube channel for the country Saturday. As a reworked version of the Andy Williams song "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" plays in the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Home » » WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that his administration has begun accepting applications for his immigration " Trump Gold Card". The visa program offers legal status and a pathway to U.S. citizenship to foreign recipients. Individual applicants will pay $1 million, while corporations are set to pay twice the amount per foreign-born employee. The president has been ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
that bans Australian children younger than 16 from holding accounts on the world's most popular social media platforms. California-based Reddit Inc.'s suit filed in the High Court follows a case filed last month by Sydney-based rights group Both suits claim the law is unconstitutional because it infringes on Australia's implied freedom of political communication. "We believe there are more effective ways for the ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Dec 11 (Reuters) - Eli Lilly ( LLY ) said on Thursday its next-generation obesity drug helped patients lose an average of 28.7% of their weight in a late-stage trial, outperforming its blockbuster drug Zepbound and reinforcing the company's lead in the fast-growing market. The global obesity market has surged in recent years on strong demand for GLP-1-based drugs like Zepbound and Novo Nordisk's ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR reached a settlement Thursday of the bruising antitrust lawsuit filed against the stock car series by two of its race teams, including one co-owned by NBA great Michael Jordan. The settlement came on the ninth day of the trial before U.S. District Judge Kenneth Bell, who set aside motions hearing for an hour-long sidebar. Jeffrey Kessler, attorney for 23XI Racing and Front Row ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
OpenAI and its largest financial backer, Microsoft, have been sued in California state court over claims that ChatGPT, OpenAI's popular chatbot, encouraged a man with mental illnesses to kill his mother and himself. The lawsuit, filed on Thursday, said that ChatGPT fuelled 56-year-old Stein-Erik Soelberg's delusions of a vast conspiracy against him, and eventually led him to murder his 83-year-old mother, Suzanne ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
In its latest splurge, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will spend nearly $140 million on six Boeing 737 planes to deport immigrants. The new DHS planes are intended to cut costs "by allowing ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] to operate more effectively," Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin told The Washington Post . The planes will be purchased with funding granted by the One ...
Source: reason.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it plans to create a militarized zone along the U.S.-Mexico border in California to support border security operations for three years, the latest in a controversial series of moves aimed at securing the border amid the government's immigration crackdown. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum said in a written statement that the agency plans to transfer about 760 ...
Source: latimes.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
The US trade deficit narrowed unexpectedly in September to the smallest since 2020, delayed government data showed Thursday, with imports rising just slightly as President Donald Trump's new tariffs set in. The overall trade deficit fell 10.9 percent to $52.8 billion, the lowest since mid-2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. This came as exports rose 3.0 percent to $289.3 billion, while imports edged up 0.6 percent ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Hearing on whether ex-Abercrombie & Fitch CEO is mentally fit to stand trial for sex trafficking set
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
NEW YORK – The former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch faces a March court hearing to determine whether he's competent to stand trial on after being hospitalized in recent months for dementia and Alzheimer's symptoms. If he's found mentally fit, Michael Jeffries could have his day in court by late October, U.S. District Court Judge Nusrat Choudhury said Thursday. "We are aiming for a trial this fall," she said on a ...
Source: news4jax.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
At least 30 people were killed, including patients, after an airstrike by Myanmar 's ruling junta hit a major hospital in the western state of Rakhine, a rebel group, an aid worker and a witness said Thursday. More than 70 people were injured, they said. The hospital in Rakhine's Mrauk U township was struck late Wednesday by bombs dropped by a military aircraft, said Khine Thu Kha, a spokesperson for the Arakan ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson are reportedly set to return to the Hunger Games in next year's highly anticipated prequel. The pair last starred together in Mockingjay - Part 2, the climactic installment of the original film series. US magazines The Hollywood Reporter and reported that Lawrence, 35, returns as Katniss Everdeen while Hutcherson, 33, will reprise his role of Peeta Mellark in The Hunger Games: ...
Source: bbc.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
If NASA is serious about exploring Mars, it's past time to send new missions. NASA has lost contact with one its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars orbiter is perilously close to running out of fuel, and the third mission is running well past its warranty. Ground teams last heard from the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN, spacecraft on Saturday, ...
Source: arstechnica.com