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Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
– Former President featured prominently in the first batch of files released Friday by the Justice Department stemming from its investigation into convicted , as the White House seized the chance to shift the focus of the highly anticipated documents from President There were several photos of Clinton among the thousands of documents made public. Some showed him on a private plane, including one with a woman, ...
Source: news4jax.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 -
News / Pixabay Trump signs executive order to expedite marijuana rescheduling President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to accelerate the reclassification of marijuana, a move that would ease decades-old restrictions that have classified the drug alongside heroin as having no accepted medical value. The US Controlled Substances Act ranks drugs along a five-tier spectrum based on their potential for ...
Source: jurist.org
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
Sustainability: News about the rapidly growing climate tech sector and other areas of innovation to protect our planet. The $6 billion planned merger between Trump Media & Technology Group and California's TAE Technologies has sent a shock wave through the fusion industry — and is drawing skepticism from competitors in the Pacific Northwest's fusion hub. The partnership aims to site and begin building what it ...
Source: geekwire.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
You are not logged into your account. You have a registered email address and password on pressherald.com, but we are unable to locate a paid subscription attached to these credentials. Please Thank you for your support of local journalism! MaineHealth, the state's largest hospital network, said this week that it would work to find ways to connect minors to gender-affirming care, even if proposed federal rules take ...
Source: pressherald.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
STATESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Federal investigators on Friday will begin sifting through the wreckage of a business jet that crashed in North Carolina and killed all seven people aboard, including retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and his family. The Cessna C550 erupted into a large fire when it hit the ground Thursday. It had departed Statesville Regional Airport, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) north of ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
The Bank of Japan raised its key policy rate to a 30-year high on Friday to help curb inflation, as widely expected, and financial markets took the move in stride. The 0.25 percentage point hike took the BOJ's benchmark short-term rate to 0.75%, its highest level since September 1995. It will raise costs for mortgages and other loans, but also boost yields on savings deposits. "It is highly likely that wages and ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
By Dec. 19 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump on Friday announced that nine of the largest drugmakers in the United States and Europe have agreed to voluntarily sell their medications at lower prices in a "Most Favored Nation" program. In return, the companies won't have tariffs placed on their products during a three-year grace period if they collectively invest at least $150 billion in U.S. manufacturing. All state ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Europe salvages credibility with $105 billion loan for Ukraine but shelves plan to use Russian funds
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
European Union leaders reached a deal early Friday on a $105 billion loan to keep Ukraine's economy and military from a budgetary blackhole through 2027. While it didn't come about in the way some of them wanted, the fact it came about at all has been hailed by top officials as a win for the bloc. "Had we left Brussels divided today, Europe would have walked away from geopolitical relevance," Belgian Prime Minister ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Republican worries about losing their majority in the U.S. House of Representatives next year erupted this week, when four moderates joined Democrats in a last-ditch effort to prevent a spike in healthcare costs for 24 million Americans beginning in less than two weeks. and Mike Lawler of New York - are part of a larger group of about a dozen House Republicans who had been ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Thirty years ago, Claudio Neves Valente and Nuno F.G. Loureiro were classmates with bright futures. Both excelled in physics and made their way from their home country of Portugal to the U.S., settling on the campuses of prestigious East Coast universities. But Neves Valente's path took a darker turn than his former peer. Investigators say the 48-year-old fatally shot two students last ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
Reading time 2 minutes Instacart's month keeps getting worse. The grocery delivery service was hit with another blow on Thursday, when the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the company agreed to issue $60 million in refunds to settle allegations that it engaged in deceptive business practices. The news dropped the same day reports surfaced that the FTC is also probing Instacart's pricing practices , ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
A Wisconsin judge who helped a Mexican immigrant evade federal agents was found guilty of obstruction Thursday. Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan now faces up to five years in prison, the reports. Federal prosecutors had also charged Dugan with concealing an individual to prevent arrest, but the jury acquitted her on that count. Dugan learned in April that immigration officials had come to the Milwaukee ...
Source: abajournal.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
The administration of President Donald Trump has announced it will halt the visa lottery programme that allowed the suspect in the Brown University shooting to enter the United States. The lottery awards approximately 50,000 immigrant visas each year, according to the US government. But Trump has long opposed the Diversity Immigrant Visa Programme, sometimes known as the DV Programme. On Friday, his secretary of ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN, BEN FINLEY and AAMER MADHANI, Associated Press WASHINGTONThe (AP) — The Trump administration launched military strikes Friday in Syria to "eliminate" Islamic State group fighters and weapons sites in retaliation for an ambush attack that killed two U.S. troops and an American civilian interpreter almost a week ago. A U.S. official ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MIAMI — John S. Koch, a radio reporter in North Florida, has been witnessing state executions since the serial killer Ted Bundy's in 1989, not missing one in nearly 37 years. He has never been busier. Florida has executed 19 men this year, shattering the state's previous record of eight executions, set in 1984 and matched in 2014. The 19th execution of 2025 took ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
Key Takeaways A new executive order seeks to preempt state AI laws viewed as inconsistent with administration AI policies and establishes a Litigation Task Force to challenge them. State courts will be a battleground for determining the viability of state laws and establishing new "industry standards" as legal duties for AI technologies. State AI laws that include safe harbors or mitigation mechanisms, or ...
Source: natlawreview.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
A yearslong saga over the future of TikTok in America is nearing its end. The U.S. division of the popular social media app, which is owned by Chinese tech giant ByteDance , will soon be majority-owned by a coalition of U.S. investors that includes Oracle . The agreement was detailed in an internal memo from TikTok CEO Shou Chew, first reported by Axios . Oracle, alongside private equity firm Silver Lake and the ...
Source: observer.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
Protégé™ General AI seamlessly unifies LexisNexis authoritative content, customer legal documents, and open web insights for expanded AI-driven work in a single secure legal AI workflow solution. NEW YORK – LexisNexis ® Legal & Professional , a global leader in private, secure, authoritative, legal AI workflow solutions, announced the next generation of ...
Source: legalreader.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
Sam Darnold connected with Jaxon Smith-Njigba for a touchdown in overtime, then hit a wide-open Eric Saubert for the winning two-point conversion, and the Seattle Seahawks rallied from a 16-point fourth-quarter deficit to stun the Los Angeles Rams 38-37 on Thursday night and take a one-game lead in the NFC West. "It was something we talked about throughout the season and particularly for this game because of the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
PCWorld reports that OpenAI has launched an app store for ChatGPT, allowing developers to submit applications that integrate directly with the AI chatbot platform. This expansion transforms ChatGPT into a more comprehensive platform where developers can even link apps to external sites for purchasing physical goods. OpenAI just announced in a blog post that you can now connect ChatGPT with even more apps. In fact, ...
Source: pcworld.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Sales of previously owned homes rose 0.5% in November from October, reflecting a slowdown, due to high mortgage rates, high prices and less supply. Home sales were 1% lower than November 2024, according to the National Association of Realtors. Sales came in at an annualized rate of 4.13 million units. The numbers are based on closings, so contracts may have been signed in the preceding months when ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
Today is the day that astronomers, amateur stargazers and alien conspiracy theorists alike have been waiting for: interstellar as it will ever get. The strange interloper in our solar system has for months as it whizzed its way . Now, more than five months since it was first discovered, . But lest you think that an extraterrestrial invasion is upon us, know that the comet still is not coming much within about 170 ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
After GLP-1 Shots, This New Pill Helped People Keep the Weight Off In a new trial, people who switched to the experimental daily GLP-1 pill orforglipron were able to keep off most of the weight they had lost taking Wegovy or Zepbound. In a late-stage clinical trial, people who switched from weekly injectable drugs — Wegovy for type 2 diabetes or Zepbound for obesity — to an experimental GLP-1 pill ...
Source: everydayhealth.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military said Thursday that it had conducted two more strikes against boats it said were smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing five people. U.S. Southern Command posted on social media, "Intelligence confirmed that the vessels were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and were engaged in narco-trafficking operations," though it did ...
Source: military.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that his country was "not seeing the willingness from Ukraine" to negotiate a peace deal , again blaming the country he ordered a full-scale invasion of nearly four years ago for the continuation of a war he's refused even to acknowledge is a war. Putin said he was open to a negotiated end to what he calls a "special military operation," but only on his terms, insisting, ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By MICHAEL LIEDTKE Elon Musk, already the world's richest man, scored another huge windfall Friday when the Delaware Supreme Court reversed a decision that deprived him of a $55 billion pay package that Tesla doled out in 2018 as an incentive for its CEO to steer the automaker to new heights. Besides padding Musk's current fortune of $679 billion, the restoration of the ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
Astronomers have witnessed a violent collision between two massive objects and a huge debris cloud, unlike anything in our own solar system. The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare collision in a nearby planetary system. The image was obtained after astronomers directly imaged two separate collisions between rocky objects in the Fomalhaut star system. The reason this has attracted interest in the ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
RFK Jr. is scrutinizing the vaccine schedule – but its safety record is already decades long The views expressed in this commentary are solely those of the writer. CNN is showcasing the work of The Conversation , a collaboration between journalists and academics to provide news analysis and commentary. The content is produced solely by The Conversation. , the grid of colored bars pediatricians share ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Dec 18th, 2025 -
The consumer price index rose at a 2.7% annualized rate last month, a delayed report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed. Economists polled by Dow Jones expected the CPI to have risen 3.1%. The core CPI, which strips out volatile food and energy prices, was also cooler than anticipated, increasing 2.6% over 12 months. People shop for groceries at a store in Port Washington, New York, U.S., Nov. 19, 2025. ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Dec 18th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Package will be the largest-ever U.S. arms sales to Taiwan when approved, dwarfing Biden-era deals The Trump administration has approved one of its largest ever packages of arms sales – worth about $11 billion (£8.2 billion) – to Taiwan , drawing an angry ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Thursday, Dec 18th, 2025 -
"You will live with the guilt and burden of Ana Walshe's death for the rest of your life." A Norfolk Superior Court judge sentenced Brian Walshe to life in prison without the possibility of parole Thursday morning for the murder of his wife, Ana Walshe, closing a case that has drawn national attention since her disappearance on New Year's Day 2023. "Mr. Walshe, you will live with the guilt and burden of Ana ...
Source: boston.com
Thursday, Dec 18th, 2025 -
Go ahead, have that hunk of cheddar or slice of Brie – it may protect you from dementia, new research suggests. The findings are from a study published Dec. 17 in , the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Researchers in Sweden analyzed dietary data from about 27,600 participants in the , who were followed for an average of 25 years. People in the study who consumed 50 grams or more of ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Dec 18th, 2025 -
"A calorie-neutral, drug-free, low-cost, readily available tool for when we need a boost in performance." If you're human, you've probably hollered a curse word or two (or three) when barking your shin on a table edge or hitting your thumb with a hammer. Perhaps you've noticed that this seems to lessen your pain. There's a growing body of scientific evidence that this is indeed the case. The technical term is the " ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Thursday, Dec 18th, 2025 -
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A man who is suspected of killing two and wounding several others at Brown University has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility, officials said. Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a Brown student and Portuguese national, was found dead Thursday evening from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Col. Oscar Perez, the Providence police chief, said at a news conference. From AP's ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Dec 18th, 2025 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times The Powerball jackpot has soared to an estimated $1.5 billion for Saturday night's drawing, the fifth largest in game history and the seventh highest among all lottery jackpots in the United States. The jackpot has an estimated cash value of $686.5 million, according to a Powerball news release. No ticket matched all six numbers drawn ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Thursday, Dec 18th, 2025 -
Dec 18 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump nominated Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd, the deputy commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, as director of the National Security Agency and head of the U.S. Cyber Command, the Pentagon said Thursday in a statement. , Rudd would be elevated to general. He currently serves as the No. 2 at the U.S. military's Indo-Pacific Command, which is ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Dec 18th, 2025 -
The players of the WNBA have spoken. The Women's National Basketball Players' Association executive committee announced Thursday that the players' union has been authorized to call a strike "when necessary" as contentious collective bargaining agreement negotiations remain ongoing. A "historic" 93 percent of the players participated in the vote, with 98 percent voting yes. The WNBPA said the decisive outcome is "an ...
Source: nypost.com
Thursday, Dec 18th, 2025 -
The deal, which is expected to officially close next month, will end years of efforts to force Chinese company ByteDance to divest its US business. TikTok's Chinese owner has signed a deal to sell the company's US arm to American investors – ensuring the video platform can continue operating in the United States. The deal is expected to close on 22 January 2026, according to an internal memo seen by Sky News' ...
Source: news.sky.com