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Top News Stories for Friday, December 19th 2025
Thursday, Dec 18th, 2025 -
Portraits of former U.S. President George W. Bush and former U.S. President Barack Obama at the "Presidential Walk of Fame" at the White House, in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 17, 2025. REUTERS/Aaron Schwartz A change made to the presidential portraits in the White House has been mocked by Gavin Newsom's Press Office. The Governor of California's team took aim at a recent addition made by Donald Trump , who is ...
Source: rawstory.com
Thursday, Dec 18th, 2025 -
Dec. 17 (UPI) -- The U.S. military killed four people Wednesday in its latest strike targeting boats in the eastern Pacific and the Caribbean Sea as questions continue to swirl around the legality of the attacks. U.S. Southern Command announced the "lethal kinetic strike" on the vessel on X, saying the boat was operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization in international waters. The alleged terrorist ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Dec 18th, 2025 -
Dec. 18 (UPI) -- Dan Bongino has announced he will be stepping down as deputy director of the FBI, less than a year after assuming the position. The former Secret Service agent-turned-right-wing pundit and podcaster announced he would be resigning in January on X, thanking President Donald Trump , Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel "for the opportunity to serve with purpose." "God bless America, ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Dec 18th, 2025 -
A federal judge has temporarily blocked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from enforcing rules that restrict congressional visits to immigration detention facilities. This deals a setback to the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) effort to regulate oversight visits during a period of intensified immigration enforcement. Newsweek contacted the DOJ for comment via email outside of normal office ...
Source: bradenton.com
Thursday, Dec 18th, 2025 -
In today's newsletter: The government's clash with resident doctors has hardened into one of the most bitter public-sector disputes since austerity began Good morning. The "moment of crisis" for the NHS that led Keir Starmer to warn resident doctors not to strike this week is already upon us as a winter flu epidemic sweeps the country , having started weeks earlier than usual. Yet, despite the warnings, ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Dec 17th, 2025 -
case and offered an unvarnished take on her boss and those in his orbit in interviews published Tuesday in Vanity Fair that sent the West Wing into damage control. The startlingly candid remarks from Wiles, included describing the president as someone with "an alcoholic's personality," and Vice President JD Vance as a calculating "conspiracy theorist." The observations from Wiles, who rarely speaks publicly given ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Dec 17th, 2025 -
As the Rhode Island community mourns, the FBI hopes a new digitally enhanced video will help generate tips from the public that could help them close in on the killer behind the . It's unknown if police or federal agents have been able to make headway into the large-scale manhunt across Rhode Island and beyond. The enhanced video offers sharper images of a masked man walking purposefully through Providence ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Dec 17th, 2025 -
The board of Warner Bros. Discovery on Wednesday said it was recommending that shareholders reject the hostile takeover bid from Paramount Skydance and its controlling shareholders, the Ellison family. The company's board said in a statement that it determined that the Paramount Skydance offer "is not in the best interests of WBD and its shareholders." The board's recommendation to shareholders effectively means ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 17th, 2025 -
Hollywood's biggest night is getting a modern makeover. On Wednesday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that the Academy Awards will livestream for free on YouTube starting in 2029, and will no longer air on broadcast television as of that year. CNET previously reported these rumors in August, but now it's official. The new partnership includes a multiyear deal, which will grant ...
Source: cnet.com
Wednesday, Dec 17th, 2025 -
Getting your player ready... By MATTHEW DALY and SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, moving to dissolve a research lab that a top White House official described as "one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country.″ White House budget director Russ Vought criticized the lab ...
Source: dailynews.com
Wednesday, Dec 17th, 2025 -
News / Pixabay Trump expands travel ban to 20 new countries US President Donald Trump issued a presidential proclamation on Tuesday expanding his prior travel ban by 20 additional countries. The ban restricts the entry of nationals from certain countries while imposing partial restrictions on others. The proclamation fully prevents nationals from five new countries from entering the US: Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, ...
Source: jurist.org
Wednesday, Dec 17th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said in a White House speech Wednesday night that he was sending a $1,776 bonus check to U.S. troops for Christmas, indicating that tariffs were funding the payments as he tried to reassure a worried public about the health of the economy. Trump said 1.45 million military service members would get the "warrior dividend before Christmas." "The checks are already on the ...
Source: wfla.com
Wednesday, Dec 17th, 2025 -
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday unveiled the new website for the Trump Accounts program, a tax-deferred investment vehicle for American children. He also announced a new Trump Accounts partner, billionaire hedge fund manager Ray Dalio. At a briefing on the program, Bessent projected that the $1,000 deposited into a Trump Account by the government when a child is born would grow to over $600,000 by ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 17th, 2025 -
30-year fixed-rate conforming mortgage increased to 6.38% this week The average 30-year fixed-rate conforming mortgage increased to 6.38% this week as applications for loans fell just under 4% even after the Federal Reserve cut interest rates the week before. Mortgages rose as analysts expect that the Federal Reserve will not cut in nearly as much as previously hoped in early 2026. Nonetheless, on a year-over-year ...
Source: bankingexchange.com
Wednesday, Dec 17th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article 'Congress long ago determined that the FCC is an independent expert agency,' FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, who now says the agency is not independent, said in 2018. , Donald Trump's handpicked chairman of the Federal Communications Commission , insisted during a Wednesday Senate ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Wednesday, Dec 17th, 2025 -
Nick Reiner, the youngest son of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer, appeared in court in shackles and weaning a suicide prevention smock, as he faces charges of first-degree murder in the killing of his parents. Rob Reiner's son Nick made his first court appearance on Wednesday on two counts of first-degree murder in the killing of his parents. Wearing a suicide prevention smock and shackles, the 32-year-old did ...
Source: news.sky.com
Wednesday, Dec 17th, 2025 -
The new guidance marks a major policy shift to the vaccine framework that has been in place since 1991. The US Centers for Disease and Prevention (CDC) no longer recommends that all US newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine, marking an abrupt end to over 30 years of medical guidance concerning the jab in the country. The decision was widely expected given the outcome of the agency's Advisory Committee on ...
Source: pharmaceutical-technology.com
Wednesday, Dec 17th, 2025 -
John Wilkerson is a Washington correspondent for STAT who writes about the politics of health care. He is also the author of the twice-weekly WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Wednesday passed a health care bill aimed at lowering health care costs and providing more options for employer-provided health insurance. That news was overshadowed by a revolt earlier in the day by moderate Republicans who joined ...
Source: statnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 17th, 2025 -
Fifa has announced a 50% increase in World Cup prize money for next year's tournament, with the champions set to take home $50m (£37.5m) as a reward for their success. The news comes days after there was widespread public outrage over the price of seats at the tournament, to be held in the US, Mexico and Canada. Fifa this week announced a limited number of discount tickets for fans of participating countries. ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Dec 17th, 2025 -
It's quick and easy to access Live Science Plus, simply enter your email below. We'll send you a confirmation and sign you up for our daily newsletter, keeping you up to date with the latest science news. Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Flipboard Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may be hiding a habitable world of slushy sea ...
Source: livescience.com
Wednesday, Dec 17th, 2025 -
New GPT Image 1.5 allows more detailed conversational image editing, for better or worse. For most of photography's roughly 200-year history, altering a photo convincingly required either a darkroom, some Photoshop expertise, or, at minimum, a steady hand with scissors and glue. On Tuesday, OpenAI released a tool that reduces the process to typing a sentence. It's not the first company to do so. While OpenAI had a ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Wednesday, Dec 17th, 2025 -
For those who don't get enough of Instagram on their smartphone, a new app now allows users to scroll through Instagram on their smart TV or streaming stick. Along with back in September, Meta is now publicly testing an Instagram for TV app. However, there's a number of restrictions at the time of this writing, including the fact that the app only supports Amazon Fire TVs and Fire TV Sticks. in a number of ways. ...
Source: bgr.com
Wednesday, Dec 17th, 2025 -
Official response to lawsuit filed by victims' relatives admits FAA and army failures played role in Washington DC crash The US government admitted on Wednesday that the Federal Aviation Administration and the army played a role in causing the collision in January between an airliner and a Black Hawk helicopter near the nation's capital, killing 67 people in the deadliest crash on American soil in more than two ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Dec 17th, 2025 -
Tua Tagovailoa said Wednesday that he's "disappointed" about being replaced as the Dolphins' starting quarterback and is unsure about his future with the team. "Naturally, I'd say I'm disappointed; it's a normal human emotion," he said during a three-plus minute interview at his locker, 15 minutes after coach Mike McDaniel formally named rookie Quinn Ewers as the starter for Sunday's home game against Cincinnati (1 ...
Source: bradenton.com
Wednesday, Dec 17th, 2025 -
Designed to balance speed with power, the new model will bring a boost to many of the AI perks that Gemini users have already come to expect, like vibe coding and multimodality. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Google has unveiled Gemini 3 Flash, the company's latest AI model, which it says balances speed with industry-leading reasoning and multimodal ...
Source: zdnet.com
Wednesday, Dec 17th, 2025 -
Ventura Foods is recalling thousands of cases of salad dressings sold at retailers including Costco and Publix because the condiments could contain "foreign objects," according to an alert from the Food and Drug Administration. More than 3,500 cases of different varieties of salad dressing could be contaminated by "black plastic planting material" in granulated onion, an ingredient in the dressings, ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 17th, 2025 -
The Arctic just experienced its hottest year since record-keeping began more than a century ago, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Wednesday. Rising temperatures in the polar region show no signs of leveling off, either, according to the agency, which said they are rising twice as fast as overall global temperatures. NOAA reviewed how the Arctic is faring in a warming world in the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 17th, 2025 -
California's Department of Motor Vehicles could temporarily halt sales of Tesla vehicles in the state. This possibility arises after a judge ruled against the company for making misleading claims about its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving features. Based on the decision, the DMV is giving Tesla 60 days to take action on how it describes its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving features to consumers. "If Tesla fails ...
Source: cnet.com
Wednesday, Dec 17th, 2025 -
Solitary bees repurposed the skulls of extinct mammals as multi-generational nurseries. The floor of the Cueva de Mono, a cave in the Dominican Republic, is a gruesome graveyard. For thousands of years, it served as the dining room for a massive family of now-extinct owls called Tyto ostologa . The owls would swoop down upon the tropical landscape, snatch up hutias (guinea-pig-like rodents) or sloths, and return to ...
Source: zmescience.com
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
The Bureau of Labor Statistics delayed the report from December 5 to extend data collection and processing after its activities were affected by the government shutdown that lasted from October to about mid-November. The US economy added 64,000 jobs in November, surpassing the 50,000 expected. That comes after a big net loss in October, largely because federal workers who took the Data published by the BLS last ...
Source: insider.com
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
Affinity Partners, key backer of hostile bid by Paramount, reportedly steps back following scrutiny of Kushner's role Jared Kushner's private equity firm has reportedly stepped back from previous efforts to take over the entertainment giant Warner Bros Discovery, following scrutiny of his involvement. Affinity Partners emerged as a key backer of a $108.4bn hostile bid by Paramount Skydance for control of WBD. ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
Sustainability: News about the rapidly growing climate tech sector and other areas of innovation to protect our planet. Three U.S. senators have launched an investigation into whether tech giants, driven by soaring AI energy demands, are raising residential power bills. Separately, Amazon released a white paper Tuesday stating that its data centers are not the problem, and that in some regions it actually pays more ...
Source: geekwire.com