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Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article The U.S. House Oversight Committee Democrats has received 95,000 photos from the Epstein estate, with two tranches posted online Friday said newly released photos showing he and Jeffrey Epstein mingling with several women were "no big deal," but later claimed he had not seen them. ...
Source: independent.co.uk
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
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
Dec. 13 (UPI) -- Two members of the U.S. Army and a civilian interpreter were killed, with three other Americans and two Syrians injured, in a shooting by a lone gunman Saturday in Syria. The gunman, believed to have been a member of ISIS, was "engaged and killed," halting the ambush, U.S. Central Command confirmed in a post on X . Central Command said the gunman was killed and the identities of the two soldiers ...
Source: upi.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
The end of the year brings noise. Your membership ensures our newsroom remains a clear, reliable source of facts for the whole community. Help us keep the signal strong for the year ahead. Already a member? WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate failed to get anywhere on the health care issue this week. Now it's the House's turn to show what it can do. Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled a Republican alternative late Friday, ...
Source: huffpost.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — 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, as police searched for the suspect. Officers were hunting through campus buildings and sifting through trash cans more than three hours after the shooting erupted. The suspect was a male in dark clothing who was ...
Source: pbs.org
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
Dec. 13 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump on Saturday ended U.S. sanctions on potash fertilizers from Belarus in exchange for Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko releasing 123 political prisoners. Lukashenko freed the prisoners, who include Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski and political opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova, in an effort to improve the Russia-allied nation's relations with the United ...
Source: upi.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 -
BURLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — When Eddie Wicks and his wife went to bed in their house next to the Snoqualmie River on a Washington state farm known for its sunflower mazes and Christmas trees, they weren't too worried about the flooding heading their way. After 30 years living in the city of Duvall northeast of Seattle, their family had plenty of experience with floods and always made it through largely ...
Source: military.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 -
Israel's military said it killed a top Hamas commander in Gaza who it described as one of the architects of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that sparked the two-year-long war . The military said it killed Raed Saad after an explosive device detonated and wounded two soldiers in the territory's south. Hamas, in a statement, did not confirm Saad's death. It said a civilian vehicle had been struck outside Gaza ...
Source: cbsnews.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, invaded the pitch and broke the stage after the soccer great made only a brief stadium appearance, shielded from view by a large entourage. Fans in the Salt Lake stadium in Kolkata threw ripped-up stadium seats and other objects onto the field and track, while several people climbed a fence around the field and ...
Source: nypost.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
Late-night emails sent to parents informing them that someone in their child's classroom has been infected with measles. Pediatricians fielding calls from concerned mothers about the vaccination status of their children. An anxious father running into the waiting room of a hospital, a sick baby in his arms, asking for help. What began in the fall as a trickle of measles infections in Spartanburg County, South ...
Source: bostonglobe.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 died from blunt-impact trauma on ride at Universal's Epic Universe theme park A Florida sheriff's office has concluded that the death of a 32-year-old man while riding a high-speed roller coaster at Universal's Epic Universe theme park was accidental. According to a report released Friday by the local medical examiner, Kevin Rodriguez Zavala suffered a deep cut on the left side of his ...
Source: theguardian.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 -
Donald Trump's White House ballroom is being challenged in court by a preservation group accusing the president of overstepping his authority to fast-track the controversial project. Weeks after Trump demolished the historic East Wing of the White House to make way for the $300 million ballroom, the National Trust Preservation Committee has filed the first major lawsuit attempting to halt further construction until ...
Source: thedailybeast.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
Thinking with AI vs. letting AI think for you How legal professionals can harness AI's power without sacrificing their critical thinking skills. Highlights Research shows AI usage negatively correlates with critical thinking capabilities in legal professionals. Professional-grade AI built on curated legal databases outperforms generic consumer AI tools. AI is quickly moving beyond a competitive advantage and ...
Source: legal.thomsonreuters.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
DORAL, Fla. (AP) — A U.S. Navy admiral who oversees military operations in Latin America handed off command responsibilities Friday as scrutiny increases over the Trump administration's deadly strikes on alleged drug boats in the region. Adm. Alvin Holsey has retired one year into a posting that typically lasts three to four years and transferred leadership duties to his top military deputy, Air Force Lt. ...
Source: apnews.com
US sanctions Maduro family members and ships it says move Venezuelan oil, a day after seizing tanker
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
The United States has announced new sanctions on shipping companies and vessels it says help move Venezuelan oil, putting more pressure on a major prop of President Nicolas Maduro's regime a day after it seized a sanctioned tanker likely carrying millions of dollars' worth of oil off the country's coast. Three nephews of Maduro's wife, Cilia Flores, as well as another Maduro-affiliated businessman were also named ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is expected on Friday to lock up Russia's assets held in Europe until it gives up its war in Ukraine and compensates its neighbor for the heavy damage that it has inflicted for almost four years. The move is an important step that would allow EU leaders to work out at a summit next week how to use the tens of billions of euros in Russian Central Bank assets to underwrite a ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
Android users can hear live translations in more than 70 languages, with Gemini preserving the speaker's tone and cadence. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways If you find yourself in a situation where you need conversations around you translated to your language but don't want to purchase dedicated AI translation earbuds (which our own Jack Wallen recently tested and called ...
Source: zdnet.com