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Top News Stories for Thursday, December 11th 2025
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
RANDOLPH, Minn. (AP) — When Donald Trump promised new while running for president, Gene Stehly worried that trade disputes would jeopardize his international sales of corn, soybeans and wheat. A little more than a year later, Stehly said his fears have become a reality, and Trump's latest promise of federal assistance is insufficient to cover farmers' losses. "Maybe this will all come out to be better at the ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
This image from video posted on Attorney General Pam Bondi's X account, and partially redacted by the source, shows an oil tanker being seized by U.S. forces off the coast of Venezuela, Dec. 10, 2025. Credit - U.S. Attorney General's Office—X/AP The Venezuelan government has called the U.S. seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela "a blatant theft and an act of international piracy." President ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
The newest component of Bigeye's AI Trust Platform, the AI Guardian acts as a control plane to evaluate every AI request against business policies. the leader in enterprise data observability and lineage, announced the launch of the AI Guardian, part of the Bigeye AI Trust Platform. This industry-first solution gives enterprises control over AI data use, enabling them to safely deploy agentic AI at scale. As ...
Source: aithority.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Former Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore was jailed on Wednesday, according to court records, hours after he was fired for what the university said was an "inappropriate relationship with a staff member." According to the Washtenaw County Jail, the 39-year-old Moore had been booked into the facility as of Wednesday evening. The jail's records did not provide any information about ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Three Thai civilians were killed as heavy fighting continued along the country's border with Cambodia, the Thai military said on Thursday. The first civilians have been killed in Thailand as the conflict with Cambodia erupted again, days after a ceasefire pushed by Donald Trump. Three Thai civilians were killed as heavy fighting continued along the border, the Thai military said on Thursday. Nine Thai soldiers have ...
Source: news.sky.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Bjork supported the boycott move ( JTA ) — The public broadcaster of Iceland announced on Wednesday that it will not participate in this year's Eurovision Song Contest after Israel's participation was confirmed by the European Broadcasting Union last week. The decision drew support from prominent Icelandic artists, including the singer Björk and the former Eurovision representative Paul Oscar, as well as ...
Source: forward.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! A sperm donor whose samples helped conceive nearly 200 children across Europe unknowingly carried a cancer-causing genetic mutation — a hidden risk now tied to multiple childhood illnesses and early deaths. An investigation led by the BBC and many other public service broadcasters revealed that the donations were made to Denmark's European Sperm Bank (ESB). Those ...
Source: foxnews.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Oracle shares sank on Wednesday after revenue earnings missed analyst expectations. The database software maker extended losses on Thursday. Other AI-related names fell alongside it. In this article Oracle shares plummeted over 12% in premarket trading on Thursday, extending yesterday's losses after the firm reported disappointing results. The cloud computing and database software maker reported ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
A state of emergency has been declared, and tens of thousands of people have been ordered to leave their homes in western Washington after historic rain left rivers at record levels across the state. Skagit County has ordered everyone in the Skagit River 100-year floodplain to evacuate to higher ground, as authorities have forecast 18 major floods and 15 moderate floods. Gov. Bob Ferguson said late Wednesday, ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Artificial intelligence chatbots are no longer a novelty for U.S. teenagers. They're a habit. A new Pew Research Center survey of 1,458 teens between the ages of 13 and 17 found that 64 percent have used an AI chatbot, with more than one in four using such tools daily. Of those daily users, more than half talked to chatbots with a frequency ranging from several times a day to nearly constantly. The results offer a ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The Federal Reserve takes US borrowing costs down to a near-three year low, but says it's now taking a more cautious approach - a switch that is unlikely to please the White House. The US central bank has signalled a pause in interest rates cuts demanded by the president as it grapples pressures from both elevated inflation and a weak jobs market. The Federal Reserve, which has a dual mandate to promote stable ...
Source: news.sky.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Officials in Kentucky have identified the 19-year-old victim killed in Tuesday's shooting at Kentucky State University. The Franklin County Coroner's Office identified the victim as De'Jon Darrell Fox Jr., according to multiple news reports . He was a student at the school in Frankfort and was the only victim in the incident. He was from Indianapolis, news reports said . Soon after the shooting on ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The Trump administration has reached an agreement that could end President Biden's signature student loan repayment plan, a move that may force millions of borrowers back into repayment. The Education Department on Tuesday announced a proposed settlement with the state of Missouri that it said would terminate the Saving on a Valuable Education, or SAVE, plan, an income-driven repayment plan that tabulates loan ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Washington — A federal judge in New York has granted a request from the Justice Department to unseal more files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In a brief four-page ruling on Wednesday, Judge Richard Berman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered the unsealing of grand jury materials as well as investigative records, documents and communications from the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The Trump administration must stop deploying the California National Guard in Los Angeles and return control of the troops to the state, a federal judge ordered Wednesday in an emphatic ruling. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco granted a preliminary injunction sought by California officials , but also put the decision on hold until Monday, presumably to give the administration a chance to appeal. ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The Supreme Court appeared uncertain about whether it would strike down a major campaign-finance restriction during oral arguments on Tuesday, with some of the court's conservative members questioning a right-wing push to do so. The case, National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission , revolves around a legal challenge to Congress's ban on "coordinated party expenditures." Federal election ...
Source: newrepublic.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
MIAMI (AP) — Democrat Eileen Higgins won the Miami mayor's race on Tuesday, defeating a Republican endorsed by President Donald Trump to end her party's nearly three-decade losing streak and give Democrats a boost in one of the last electoral battles ahead of the 2026 midterms. Higgins, 61, will be the first woman to lead the city of Miami. She spoke frequently in the Hispanic-majority city about Trump's ...
Source: pbs.org
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine was expected to give its latest peace proposals to US negotiators Wednesday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, a day ahead of his urgent talks with leaders and officials from about 30 other countries supporting Kyiv's effort to end the war with Russia on acceptable terms. As tension builds around a US push for a settlement, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, British Prime Minister Keir ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it? Researchers say they've uncovered new evidence in present-day England that could reshape our understanding of those questions. In a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature , the researchers describe how they found ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Tech giants Amazon and Microsoft have announced a combined $52.5bn (£39.4bn) investment plan for India over the coming years. Amazon said on Wednesday it was pumping in $35bn into India by 2030 to advance AI-driven digitisation, export growth and job creation, a day after Microsoft committed $17.5bn strengthen the country's AI ecosystem. India, which is an emerging AI and cloud infrastructure hub, has ...
Source: bbc.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
OSLO, Norway — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado appeared in public for the first time in 11 months early Thursday morning, when she waved to supporters at a hotel in Norway's capital hours after her daughter accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf. Machado had been in hiding since Jan. 9, when she was briefly detained after joining supporters in a protest in Caracas, Venezuela's ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump administration official said, threatening new U.S. sanctions on the court if it did not. If the court does not act on this U.S. demand and two others - dropping investigations of ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The ban comes as new Ofcom figures show 70% of UK 11 to 17-year-olds saw or heard harmful content online over a four-week period. Australia's prime minister has warned that implementing the country's new social media ban for children under 16 – which came into force on Wednesday - will be difficult. Parents across Australia are reported to have found their children distraught after discovering they had been ...
Source: news.sky.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
If NASA is serious about exploring Mars, it's past time to send new missions. NASA has lost contact with one its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars orbiter is perilously close to running out of fuel, and the third mission is running well past its warranty. Ground teams last heard from the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN, spacecraft on Saturday, ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Uterine Fibroids Could Significantly Increase Heart Disease Risk Women younger than 40 with fibroids may face even greater odds of developing heart disease, according to a new study. Scientists say more research is needed to understand the link. As many as 1 in 5 women may have uterine fibroids during their childbearing years — and those abnormal growths may have a connection not just to reproductive ...
Source: everydayhealth.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Conservative justices asked whether the Supreme Court needs to sharpen its guidance on how courts assess intellectual disability in death penalty cases, signaling concern that its precedents are misapplied. The justices on Wednesday heard argument in the case of Joseph Smith, who was sentenced to death in Alabama for a 1997 robbery-murder despite evidence that he may have an intellectual disability. After years of ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Energy drinks might give you wings, unleash the beast or fuel your grind - but chugging too many might pose a serious stroke risk, doctors warn. An otherwise fit and healthy man in his 50s with a daily eight-can habit found out the hard way, a case study published Tuesday in the journal BMJ Case Reports states. This patient suffered permanent damage from a minor stroke caused by extremely high blood pressure, ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
SAN FRANCISCO ( KRON ) – Instacart, the San Francisco-based company that operates its eponymous grocery delivery app, is responding to reports that it charged some customers more than others for the exact same items as part of an artificial intelligence-enabled experiment. The allegations stem from a study conducted by Consumer Reports , an advocacy group known as Groundwork Collaborative, and the non-profit ...
Source: wfla.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Reading time 4 minutes The South Carolina Department of Public Health reported 27 new cases of measles on Tuesday, all identified since last Friday, bringing the total number of identified cases in the state this year to 114. There are currently at least 254 people in quarantine in South Carolina, though the problem isn't just confined to one state. The latest figures from the CDC, which haven't been updated in ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
US Wants Five Years of Some Tourists' Social Media to Enter the Country Digital rights advocates say it's an affront to civil liberties. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. The Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection is planning to require visitors from countries on the Visa Waiver P rogram to provide up to five years of their social media history, along ...
Source: motherjones.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Analysts suggest that agentic browsers create an unacceptable risk for CISOs today, with data exposure now a top security concern - but far from the only one. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Businesses should steer clear of agentic browsers for now, analysts from research firm Gartner have warned. Agentic browsers, otherwise known as AI browsers, are ...
Source: zdnet.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Women are hitting the top of the corporate ladder only to find something waiting for them: exhaustion. According to a report published Tuesday by McKinsey and LeanIn.org, a nonprofit founded by Sheryl Sandberg, burnout among senior-level women is the highest it has been in the past five years. Around 60% of these women said they have frequently felt burned out at work in the past few months, compared with 50% of ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
ORLANDO, Fla. – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis presented on Wednesday his $117 billion budget proposal for fiscal year 2026-2027. DeSantis presented his budget in a news conference in Orlando, where he highlighted that his proposal comes "from a position of fiscal strength." He also said the proposed $117 billion budget includes about $17 billion in reserves. Watch DeSantis' budget presentation in the video player ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered diplomats to revert to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor Antony Blinken's decision to adopt Calibri a "wasteful" diversity move, according to a leaked internal cable. The department switched to Calibri, a modern sans-serif font, in January 2023, saying it was a more accessible font for people with disabilities because it did ...
Source: abc.net.au
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Big 12 Conference commissioner Brett Yormark said Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua was "totally out of bounds" for his comments on the Atlantic Coast Conference this week. Notre Dame have a football scheduling alliance with the ACC and are a full member of the conference in other sports. Bevacqua has claimed the ACC damaged Notre Dame's chances at making the College Football Playoff, instead campaigning ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Egypt and Iran are calling on football's governing body to intervene in the LGBTQ+ Pride celebration planned to coincide with their group stage match in Seattle at the 2026 World Cup . Egypt's Football Association (EFA) said on Tuesday it had sent a letter to Fifa urging them to prevent any LGBTQ+ Pride-related activities during the national team's match against Iran next June. The EFA argues in the letter that ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
A former Donald Trump criminal defense attorney turned controversial DOJ higher-up and then lifetime federal appellate judge faces a judicial misconduct complaint just one day after attending the president's rally in Pennsylvania. Fix the Court, which describes itself as a "nonpartisan" nonprofit advocating "for non-ideological fixes that would make the federal courts, and primarily the U.S. Supreme Court, more ...
Source: lawandcrime.com