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Saturday, Dec 20th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Epstein survivor finally learns from files what happened to 1996 child porn complaint she made to FBI - years before financier was investigated Epstein threatened to burn woman's house down if she told anyone about him, the documents claim The release of tens of thousands of files ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Saturday, Dec 20th, 2025 -
PROVIDENCE — It was 8:30 p.m. on Monday night, the third day of the frantic manhunt for the gunman who opened fire on students at Brown University . Police had just released new images of a person of interest in the case, but they were grainy, and he had a mask over his face. Morale in the city felt low, after a lead on a person detained for 20 hours on Sunday turned out to be a dead end. A Reddit user posted ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Dec 20th, 2025 -
A U.S. Coast Guard Maritime Special Response Team (MSRT) assisted by the U.S. Navy, seized a second oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela Saturday, a U.S. official confirmed to Fox News. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem took to X to share further details of the operation: "In a pre-dawn action early this morning on Dec. 20, the US Coast Guard with the support of the Department of War ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Dec 20th, 2025 -
A Syria monitoring group reported that at least five people were killed by retaliatory strikes against Islamic State group targets by the United States on Friday. The U.S. launched military strikes on Friday on multiple sites in Syria to "eliminate" ISIS group fighters and weapons in retaliation for an attack by a Syrian gunman that killed two U.S. Army soldiers and an American civilian interpreter nearly a week ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Saturday, Dec 20th, 2025 -
Elon Musk , the justices split on parts of the liability analysis but agreed that rescinding the entire package was "an inappropriate remedy" given Tesla's subsequent performance and shareholder support. The decision effectively clears the way for Musk to exercise options on about 303 million Tesla shares (split‑adjusted), a stake values at roughly $139 billion based on the stock's latest closing price. To ...
Source: bradenton.com
Saturday, Dec 20th, 2025 -
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Malachi Toney's tiebreaking 11-yard touchdown reception with less than two minutes left lifted No. 10 seed Miami to a 10-3 win over No. 7 Texas A&M on Saturday in the College Football Playoff. Mark Fletcher Jr. had a career-high 172 yards rushing to help the Hurricanes (11-2) advance to the Cotton Bowl to face No. 2 seed Ohio State on Dec. 31. Toney's big play came a series after ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Dec 20th, 2025 -
KYIV -- Ukraine has used drones four times in the past few weeks to hit oil tankers from Russia's shadow fleet, escalating the war in the seas and showing that Ukraine's security services agency feels increasingly emboldened to launch audacious attacks and claim them publicly. One ship was struck by aerial drones Thursday night in the Mediterranean Sea, more than 1,200 miles from Ukraine. The other three were hit ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Dec 20th, 2025 -
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space venture added a page to the space history books today by sending the first wheelchair user into space. "It was the coolest experience," said Michaela "Michi" Benthaus , a German-born aerospace and mechatronics engineer at the European Space Agency who sustained a spinal cord injury in a mountain biking accident in 2018. Blue Origin's suborbital New Shepard rocket ship lifted off from ...
Source: geekwire.com
Saturday, Dec 20th, 2025 -
The U.S. reportedly plans to overhaul the country's childhood vaccine schedule. The move, first reported by CNN , would change how many vaccines to protect against various diseases children get and when they receive those immunizations. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., secretary of health and human services, is a longtime vaccine skeptic and supports altering the vaccine schedule. Recommendations for several vaccines that ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Saturday, Dec 20th, 2025 -
NEW YORK – Luigi Mangione's lawyers contend that Attorney General Pam Bondi's against him in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was tainted by her prior work as a lobbyist at a firm that represented the insurer's parent company. Bondi was a partner at Ballard Partners before leading the Justice Department's charge to turn Mangione's federal prosecution into a capital case, creating a "profound ...
Source: news4jax.com
Saturday, Dec 20th, 2025 -
LONDON (AP) — British children's author and comedian David Walliams has denied allegations of inappropriate behavior after publisher HarperCollins dropped him. Walliams, 54, is one of the U.K.'s bestselling children's book authors and a former judge on the TV show "Britain's Got Talent." In a statement on Friday, HarperCollins said: "After careful consideration, and under the leadership of its new CEO, ...
Source: apnews.com
Saturday, Dec 20th, 2025 -
MIAMI (AP) — Anthony Joshua knocked out Jake Paul in the sixth round of their heavyweight fight on Friday night. The two-time heavyweight champion displayed why he is one of the sport's elite punchers when he dropped the fading Paul twice in the fifth round. Sensing the YouTuber was finished, Joshua rocked him with a right uppercut early in the sixth. The native of England then floored Paul with a combination ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump announced deals with nine pharmaceutical companies on Friday, the latest in a series of pacts designed to lower drug prices for some Americans in exchange for a three-year reprieve from threatened tariffs. The most recent pledges mean 14 of the 17 drugmakers targeted by Trump this summer have agreed to lower prices for the Medicaid program for low-income and disabled people, sell discounted ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
The Kennedy Center installed President Donald Trump's name on its exterior Friday morning, a dramatic change to a building established by law as a "living memorial" to a slain president. On Thursday, the center's board, made up of loyalists with Trump as chair, voted to rename the institution "The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts." Trump called it a surprise, but his ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
The Republican Party that once gave us the war on drugs and "Just Say No" is getting a little more weed-friendly. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to speed the reclassification of marijuana as a less dangerous drug, potentially moving federal policy closer to the decriminalization stance of many states. Trump's The Associated Press . Under federal rules, marijuana is classified as a ...
Source: theweek.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
Entering Thursday night's game, the Seahawks had never won when they trailed by at least 15 points in the fourth quarter of a game. Seattle put together an epic comeback in the game's final quarter and overtime to clinch a postseason berth and take over the NFC's No. 1 seed with just two more games left on the schedule. Everything was going Los Angeles' way when Sam Darnold threw his second interception of the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
Trump Seizes on Brown, MIT Shooting to Suspend More Legal Immigration The collective punishment for immigrants, documented or not, continues apace. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. President Donald Trump has suspended a diversity green-card lottery program after authorities said that the suspected gunman in the Brown University and MIT shootings used the program to gain ...
Source: motherjones.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
775,399 19,813 Market yield on U.S. treasury securities at 10-year constant maturity. Updated daily. Welcome, + Existing home sales have risen for three months, reaching a nine-month high as mortgage rates fell and inventory increased. AI Summary Existing home sales have been trending higher since June, when the monthly sales print bottomed at 3,930,000 for 2025. The question is: can this continue? Back in ...
Source: housingwire.com