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Top News Stories for Tuesday, December 9th 2025
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump's lawyer argued on Monday for far-reaching power that would go well beyond his ability to fire officials at the Federal Trade Commission and other independent agencies. Liberal Justice Elena Kagan warned US Solicitor General D. John Sauer, "Once you're down this road, it's a little bit hard to see how you stop." Sauer rejoined, "So it isn't that we have gone down this road. I think the court ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Each side has blamed the other for renewed clashes, which have derailed a ceasefire brokered by Donald Trump Deadly clashes have escalated along the disputed Thailand-Cambodia border as both sides blamed each other for the fighting and vowed to defend their territories. Seven civilians have been killed and 20 wounded in Cambodia and three Thai soldiers have been killed in the fiercest fighting since a five-day ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
is considering a Republican-led drive, backed by President Donald Trump's administration, to overturn a quarter-century-old decision and erase limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president. they would overturn a 90-year-old decision limiting the president's power to fire independent agency heads, the court on Tuesday is revisiting a 2001 decision that ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON, Dec 9 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's approval rating edged up to 41% in the past week as Republicans warmed to his handling of the cost of living, a sign the administration's new focus on affordability might be supporting his popularity, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. The six-day poll, which closed on Monday, showed approval of the president rising from 38% late ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump said Monday he had reached an agreement with President Xi Jinping to allow US chip giant Nvidia to export advanced artificial intelligence chips to China. The announcement marked a significant shift in US export policy for advanced AI chips, which Joe Biden's administration had heavily restricted over national security concerns about Chinese military applications. Democrats in Congress ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Although tech companies often don't directly manufacture these toys, their absolutist ideological opposition to any legal safeguards on AI is making kids emotionally, mentally, and physically vulnerable. Julie Scelfo is a journalist and the founder and executive director of Mothers Against Media Addiction. Tim Wu is a professor of law, science, and technology at Columbia Law School and author of "The Age of ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
By Siddharth Damle In early 2025, a healthtech firm that compromised records of more than 483,000 patients. The cause was a semi-autonomous AI agent that, in trying to streamline operations, pushed confidential data into unsecured workflows. What does this mean for the rollout of agentic AI in finance? ABA will host a free members-only webinar 2 p.m. Dec. 16 titled, Deepfake Defense: Protecting ID and ...
Source: bankingjournal.aba.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Residents along Japan's northeast coast were warned to stay alert, as aftershocks continued Tuesday in the aftermath of a major earthquake that has left at least 33 people injured. The U.S. Geological Survey reported a magnitude 6.6 and later a 5.1 quake in the hours after the initial temblor late Monday night local time. The USGS measured the main quake at 7.6 magnitude just off the coast of the city of Misawa in ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
The Federal Reserve has one more decision in 2025 — and it will set the tone for where interest rates will go in the new year. On Wednesday, leaders at the central bank will decide whether to continue cutting rates or put a pause on loosening monetary policy. The call will have ripple effects across consumer prices, the job market , and Corporate America. CME FedWatch predicted the Fed had a roughly 90% ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett is associate professor of family medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, vice chair of primary care innovation & transformation at Boston Medical Center, and communications fellow at Primary Care Collaborative. As a family medicine physician, I have the privilege of caring for patients from the earliest days of pregnancy contemplation through pregnancy ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
ROME (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reaffirmed his strong refusal to cede any territory, resisting U.S. pressure for painful concessions to Russia as he moved ahead Tuesday to rally more European support for his country. "Undoubtedly, Russia insists for us to give up territories. We, clearly, don't want to give up anything. That's what we are fighting for," Zelenskyy told reporters in a ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Florida's governor has designated the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) a "foreign terrorist organisation". Ron DeSantis posted his executive order to list the United States-based Muslim civil rights and advocacy group on social media on Monday. The move follows a similar declaration by the Republican governor of Texas last month. CAIR has rejected the labelling by both states and mounted legal ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
On Monday, OpenAI published its first report on the state of enterprise AI, and based on the 9,000 surveyed workers across 100 companies, three-quarters said that AI has improved the speed and quality of their work. Here are the survey results: The report comes a week after Anthropic published its own findings, which said its Claude assistant cut task-completion time by 80%, based on 100,000 user conversations. ...
Source: insider.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
The European Commission said it was probing whether Google had breached EU competition rules by using the content of web publishers for AI purposes. The bloc said it would investigate to what extent the generation of AI Overviews and AI Mode by Google is based on web publishers' content without appropriate compensation. The move follows a slew of actions the bloc has taken against U.S big tech companies in recent ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
( The Hill ) – More American newborns are not receiving vitamin K shots, according to a study published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study found that from January 2017 to December 2024, 3.92 percent of the more than 5 million newborns in a U.S.-based electronic database did not receive a vitamin K shot. The share of newborns who did not receive the shot rose from 2.92 ...
Source: wfla.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Dec. 9 (UPI) -- A federal judge has ordered two senior Justice Department attorneys, including one fired by the Trump administration, to testify before the court in its inquiry into a March deportation flight that proceeded in defiance of court orders. Chief Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., on Monday ordered Erez Reuveni, a former Justice Department attorney-turned-whistleblower, ...
Source: upi.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
Dec. 8 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump suggested Sunday night that the $82.7 billion merger between Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery may face difficulties being completed. As it is subject to regulatory approval, the merger has "to go through a process, and we'll see what happens," a black bow-tie-clad Trump told reporters Sunday night from the red carpet of the Kenned Center Honors in Washington, D.C. "Netflix ...
Source: upi.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
SAN FRANCISCO — For six months, Apple distributed an app called ICEBlock that allowed users to alert people when they saw Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. But after the Trump administration complained that the app endangered officers, Apple removed it. On Monday, the app's developer, Joshua Aaron, sued top Trump administration officials, accusing them of pressuring Apple to stifle his free speech ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
The Federal Reserve is expected to lower interest rates at the end of its two-day meeting this week. Many types of consumer loans, including mortgages, credit cards, and auto loans, could be impacted by another Fed rate cut. Still, a rate reduction does not guarantee lower borrowing costs for everyone. The Federal Reserve is expected to lower its benchmark rate by a quarter percentage point at its meeting this ...
Source: cnbc.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a Democrat and fierce Trump critic, announced Monday she was launching a high-stakes U.S. Senate campaign in Texas, the same day Democratic primary opponent Colin Allred dropped out. Crockett, who filed just hours before the deadline , will face Democratic Rep. James Talarico of Austin in the March 3rd primary , as she tries to turn incumbent Republican Sen. John Cornyn 's ...
Source: upi.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump's crusade against political foes he claims have all coincidentally committed mortgage fraud may have just boomeranged and hit him square in the face. Records show himself has done the very thing he has now routinely claimed constitutes "fraud" when it's done by his critics, according to a new ProPublica investigation. Years before his rise to the White House, the president signed two weeks ...
Source: thedailybeast.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pamela Smith, who was catapulted into national attention after President Donald Trump moved to federalize Washington's police force and who worked to confront rising violence in the nation's capital, is stepping down as the city's police chief, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Monday. Smith, appointed in 2023, had been brought in to stabilize a department facing staffing shortages and a city shaken ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
IBM said on Monday (Dec. 8) it plans to acquire Confluent for about $11 billion in cash for the real-time data streaming company in one of its largest acquisitions in the recent years. The transaction is expected to close by mid-2026, pending shareholder and regulatory approval. The company said Confluent will continue operating as a standalone business unit inside IBM after the deal closes. Confluent provides ...
Source: pymnts.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 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? Donald Trump is angry that Rep. Henry Cuellar is running again as a Democrat rather than switch parties after the president pardoned the Texas congressman and ...
Source: huffpost.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
And… we're off! The list of nominees for the 2026 Golden Globes , set for Sunday, January 11, 2026, has landed—giving us our clearest sense yet of the state of the 2026 awards race. So, which films, television series, and podcasts (!) will be competing for a Globe in a few weeks? See the full list below. Best Motion Picture – Drama Frankenstein Hamnet It Was Just an Accident The Secret Agent ...
Source: vogue.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
Two senior military officials taken hostage during Sunday's attempted coup in Benin have been freed, a government source has told the BBC. It remains unclear how they were released or if other hostages are still being held. Security forces are continuing a manhunt for those involved in the plot, who remain at large. A group of soldiers appeared on state TV early in the morning to announce they had taken over in the ...
Source: bbc.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump has said he is "disappointed" with Ukraine's , who he said had not read the latest plan to end Russia's war. Trump's criticism adds to mounting U.S. pressure on Kyiv as Zelenskyy prepared to meet Monday with top European leaders, amid fears on the continent that Washington was pushing a deal that was favorable to Russia. Trump's team held talks with Ukrainian officials in Miami after flying ...
Source: aol.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
Officials said they had identified a "new recombinant mpox virus" - meaning it has genetic material from different viral strains. A new strain of mpox has been discovered by scientists in England. The new strain was found in a person who had recently travelled to Asia, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said. Officials said they had identified a "new recombinant mpox virus" - meaning it has genetic material ...
Source: news.sky.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another" scored a leading nine nominations to the 83rd Golden Globe Awards on Monday, adding to the Oscar favorite's momentum and handing Warner Bros. a victory amid its deal to be acquired by Netflix. "One Battle After Another" landed nominations for its cast — Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Sean Penn and Chase Infiniti — along with nods for Anderson's ...
Source: apnews.com