The Petersburg Post
Top News Stories for Saturday, December 6th 2025
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
At least 87 people have been killed during President Trump's "war" with drug cartels, after the attack on the vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Four people have been killed in the latest US strike on an alleged drug boat amid growing unease at the legality of the attacks. The small vessel, which was hit in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Thursday, is the 22nd destroyed by the US military on suspicion of drug ...
Source: news.sky.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel voted Friday to change the recommendation for when children should get their first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine . Instead of a first dose within 24 hours of birth — as the CDC has advised for more than 30 years — the panel voted to recommend delaying it until a child is 2 months old for children born to mothers who test negative ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected the Trump administration's bid to halt an order requiring it to release millions of dollars in grants meant to address the The mental health program, which was funded by Congress after the 2022 , included grants meant to help schools hire more counselors, psychologists and social workers, with a focus on rural and underserved areas of the ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
NEW YORK (AP) — Netflix has struck a deal with Warner Bros. Discovery, the legacy Hollywood giant behind "Harry Potter" and "Friends," to buy its studio and streaming business for $72 billion. The acquisition, announced Friday, would bring two of the industry's biggest players in film and TV under one roof and alter the entertainment industry landscape. Beyond its namesake television and motion picture ...
Source: pbs.org
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take up the constitutionality of President Trump's order on birthright citizenship declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens. The justices will hear Trump's appeal of a lower-court ruling that struck down the citizenship restrictions. They have ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Four countries have announced that they are boycotting the Eurovision Song Contest in 2026 because of the organizers' much-criticized decision to allow Israel to continue participating in the competition, despite its genocide. Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands are pulling out of the competition for next year, after the body behind the competition, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), refused to hold a ...
Source: truthout.org
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Welcome to the online version of , a newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team's latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. In today's edition, we break down the findings from our focus groups with voters who backed President Donald Trump in 2024, but went for Democrats in last month's gubernatorial elections. Plus, Kristen Welker explores how the health ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
England will begin their World Cup 2026 campaign against Croatia, while Scotland have been drawn alongside Brazil at next summer's tournament. Thomas Tuchel's England will open their tournament in Dallas or Toronto on Wednesday, 17 June, before also facing Ghana and Panama in Group L. Scotland's first match at the men's World Cup for 28 years will be against Haiti on Saturday, 13 June, in Boston or New York, ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article James McCrery II will remain on the project in a 'consulting' role, the White House has said President Donald Trump replaced the original architect tapped to oversee his $300 million ballroom due to the massive size of the president's project, according to a report. James McCrery ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
The European Commission highlighted breaches including X's policy of allowing anyone to buy a verified blue checkmark. Elon Musk's social media platform X, formerly Twitter, has been fined €120m (£105m) by the EU after it found rule breaches had left users vulnerable to scams and manipulation. The European Commission started investigating X under the Digital Services Act (DSA) two years ago and has now ...
Source: news.sky.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
By Perry Stein and Gregory S. Schneider, The Washington Post A grand jury in Virginia on Thursday rejected Justice Department efforts to charge New York Attorney General Letitia James with mortgage fraud, declining to indict her again after a judge dismissed the charges last week, according to two people familiar with the matter, who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak about the ...
Source: abajournal.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
"The United States itself still buys nuclear fuel from us for its own nuclear power plants. That is also fuel," Russian President Vladimir Putin said during his first visit to India in four years. NEW DELHI — Russian President Vladimir Putin challenged heavy U.S. pressure on India not to buy Russian fuel if the U.S. could do so as he began a two-day state visit, where he was embraced on arrival by Indian ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
AI Security Leader Joins HPE Unleash AI Partner Program to Enable Secure AI Adoption Worldwide a leading AI data security platform provider, announced it has joined the HPE Unleash AI partner program. This collaboration brings pre-validated AI security capabilities to HPE Private Cloud AI, co-developed with NVIDIA as part of NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE portfolio. Now, Daxa's runtime AI security platform integrates ...
Source: aithority.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By MICHAEL R. SISAK NEW YORK (AP) — The clock is ticking for the U.S. government to open up its files on Jeffrey Epstein . After months of rancor and recriminations, Congress has passed and President Donald Trump has signed legislation compelling the Justice Department to give the public everything it has on Epstein — and it has to be done before Christmas. A ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON, Dec 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court next week weighs the legality of Donald Trump's firing of a Federal Trade Commission member in a major test of presidential power over agencies set up by Congress to be insulated from White House control in a case that could imperil a 90-year-old legal precedent. The court hears arguments on Monday in the Justice Department's appeal of a lower ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
MADRID (AP) — Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare on Friday said it had restored services following an outage that took place in the morning and brought down several global websites including LinkedIn, Zoom and others, the second such crash to affect the company in less than three weeks. Cloudflare said the issue had been resolved and was not due to an attack. A change to how its firewall handles ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
With the world's soccer fans watching, Gianni Infantino, the great toady to the globe's oligarchs, handed a made-up award to the increasingly violent US president. Bluesky Outside of what DC locals have dubbed the "Vichy" Kennedy Center, people gathered on Friday to protest the 2026 World Cup draw. Campaigners showed up for many reasons—from the security apparatus the World Cup will bring to North American ...
Source: thenation.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Mortgage interest rates may still drop this year. Following two Federal Reserve interest rate cuts that caused mortgage rates to fall to multiple 3-year lows , the central bank is poised to cut rates again when it meets on December 10. That, in turn, could cause mortgage rates to fall again. And it may even happen pre-emptively , as the last two big mortgage rate drops actually occurred in the hours preceding a Fed ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told the inspector general investigators looking into his alleged use of Signal to share classified strike plans that he determined the details he shared either weren't classified to begin with or were "safe to declassify," according to a written statement included in a report released Thursday by the Defense Department's independent oversight office. Though Hegseth had the authority ...
Source: nextgov.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
On Tuesday, the White House unveiled additional information about Trump accounts, a type of tax-advantaged savings account for children. On the same day, tech CEO Michael Dell and his wife Susan announced a $6.25 billion charitable commitment to help fund the program focused on early wealth building. Once a Trump account is set up, eligible children may receive either a one-time $1,000 contribution ...
Source: cnbc.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Police officers have been watching the suspect closely for six days and recovered the pendant after it came out the other end without medical intervention. The man is due to appear in Auckland District Court on Monday and will remain in police custody until then. New Zealand Police say they have recovered a James Bond-inspired Fabergé pendant after six days of closely watching the man accused of swallowing ...
Source: abc.net.au
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Topics More from TechCrunch Waymo plans to voluntarily issue a software recall with federal safety regulators related to how its robotaxis operate around school buses, the Alphabet-owned company told TechCrunch. The voluntary software recall will be filed early next week, according to the company. Waymo said as soon as the issue was identified it updated its software on November 17. The company contends ...
Source: techcrunch.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
LOS ANGELES — Frank Gehry, who designed some of most imaginative buildings ever constructed and achieved a level of worldwide acclaim seldom afforded any architect, has died. He was 96. Gehry died Friday at his home in Santa Monica after a brief respiratory illness, said Meaghan Lloyd, chief of staff at Gehry Partners LLP. Gehry won every major prize that architecture has to offer. His fascination with modern ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Kristi Noem said the list of countries from which travel to the US is prohibited will increase to an unspecified number The US plans to expand the number of countries covered by its travel ban to more than 30, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Kristi Noem , has announced. Noem, in an interview on Fox News's The Ingraham Angle on Thursday evening, was asked to confirm whether the Trump ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Discussions over women becoming deacons, who are ordained and can assist with services but cannot celebrate Mass, have convulsed the 1.4 billion-member Church. VATICAN CITY — A high-level Vatican commission voted against allowing Catholic women to serve as deacons, maintaining the global Church's practice of all-male clergy, according to a report given to Pope Leo and released on Thursday. The commission, in ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Apple named its favorite apps of 2025 for iPhone, Mac, iPad, and more - did your top picks make the list? Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways December is here, which means as the year comes to a close, companies carefully curate a nostalgic rewind of the past year with experiences such as Spotify Wrapped or, in Apple's case, the release of the 2025 App Store Awards honorees. ...
Source: zdnet.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Antigravity, a brand incubated by Insta360 and partners, has released the A1, a 249-gram drone capable of 8K 360-degree recording through a dual-lens 1/1.28-inch system. The device adopts a headset-first design, pairing the drone with Vision goggles that mirror the pilot's head movements in real time. It supports a "fly-first, frame-later" workflow that captures the full environment in one pass, enabling reframing ...
Source: technode.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
The water level in the rain-swollen Guadalupe River was rising fast and the man calling the emergency dispatcher from a flooded home in the Texas Hill Country sounded desperate. "No place for us to go," James Wright said. "Is it possible to get up on the roof?" the dispatcher asked. Wright quickly checked. "Get off the phone," he was heard telling his wife Donna . "We need to get to higher ground or we will die." ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
It has been seen spreading cryptojacking malware and in attempts to steal cloud credentials from compromised machines. Plugging the React2Shell vulnerability in the open source React server and Next.js in IT environments has just become even more urgent with reports that exploits are already in the wild. Researchers at Greynoise said today they are seeing "opportunistic, largely automated exploitation attempts" ...
Source: csoonline.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Employers have cut more than 1.1 million jobs through November, the most since 2020, when companies laid off 2.2 million workers as the pandemic was slamming the U.S. economy, according to a new report from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The layoffs represent a 54% increase from the same period a year earlier, when employers cut 761,358 jobs, according to the firm. It's also only the sixth ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Pentagon, attempting to overturn new rules imposed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that have led to most mainstream media outlets being banished from the building. The newspaper said the rules violate the Constitution's freedom of speech and due process provisions, since they give Hegseth the power to determine on his own whether a ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
The EU said it has opened an antitrust probe to determine if the way Meta is rolling out AI features in WhatsApp breaches competition rules. The EU said Thursday it has opened an antitrust probe to determine if the way Meta is rolling out AI features in WhatsApp breaches the bloc's competition rules. In announcing the probe, the European Commission said it was concerned that a newly-announced Meta "policy may ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Yasser Abu Shabab, the leader of a gang in the Gaza Strip that was accused of working with Israel to counter Hamas and of looting humanitarian aid, has been killed, according to his group. His militia, which calls itself the Popular Forces, said in a Facebook post on Thursday evening that Abu Shabab was shot "as he tried to resolve a dispute" among members of the Abu Suneima family. The group said that he was not ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
'Information-dense' AI responses are most persuasive but these tend to be less accurate, says security report Chatbots can sway people's political opinions but the most persuasive artificial intelligence models deliver "substantial" amounts of inaccurate information in the process, according to the UK government's AI security body. Researchers said the study was the largest and most systematic investigation of AI ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Lawyers for the New York attorney general's office are expected to appear in federal court in Albany on Thursday to try to disqualify a US attorney from investigating the state's civil case against President Donald Trump. New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, is challenging the appointment of John Sarcone, the Trump administration's pick as acting US attorney for the Northern District of New York. ...
Source: aol.com