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Hegseth won't commit to releasing video of second strike on drug boat: 'We'll see'
- Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article "Whatever we were to decide to release, we'd have to be very responsible about reviewing that right now," Hegseth said. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth refused to commit to releasing video footage of the controversial second strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea. ...

Source: independent.co.uk
Moment fire engulfs Goa superclub
- A massive fire tore through a nightclub in one of India's most popular beach resorts, killing at least 25 people including tourists. Musicians were playing on stage when the fire broke through the ceiling and engulfed the club in a matter of minutes. Guests were heard screaming as they fled the venue in video recorded inside the club as the fire took hold. The blaze started at just after midnight on Sunday ...

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'Thrown under the bus': Salah's future in doubt as he slams Liverpool
- Liverpool's Mohamed Salah said he had been "thrown under the bus" as he tore into the club over his treatment and signalled a potential exit, after watching from the bench as they were held to a 3-3 Premier League draw with Leeds United on Saturday. In his incendiary post-match comments, the 33-year-old Egyptian lashed out at the club and coach Arne Slot, telling journalists he felt he had been scapegoated for ...

Source: aljazeera.com
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RFK Jr.'s vaccine advisory panel is beset by incompetence, bias, and procedural chaos
- Retsef Levi, left, and Raymond Pollak, right, are seen as a presenter from Vaccines for Children speaks during a meeting of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) on Dec. 4, 2025, in Atlanta The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices' (ACIP) meetings used to be a geek's dream: hours of long, maybe dreary presentation of extensive data followed by lengthy discussions that drilled into ...

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Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case That Could End Birthright Citizenship
- The United States Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether US President Donald Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship — as guaranteed under the 14th Amendment for more than 150 years — is constitutional. Next spring, the justices will hear oral arguments in Trump's appeal of a lower court ruling that struck down parts of an executive order — titled Protecting the Meaning and ...

Source: truthout.org
Tyler Adams sets bold goal of farthest US World Cup advancement
- WASHINGTON (AP) — Tyler Adams has set a bold goal for the U.S. soccer team, aiming to reach the World Cup semifinals for the first time since the inaugural tournament in 1930. "Everyone's going to want us to say winning it is obviously the goal," the American midfielder said Friday after the World Cup draw, "but I think setting the benchmark of the furthest the U.S. team has gone is also realistic." The ...

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Federal judge orders release of Jeffrey Epstein grand jury records in Florida
- Federal Judge Orders Release of Jeffrey Epstein Grand Jury Records in Florida The big question is whether, as another judge suspected, this is just a DOJ distraction. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. A Trump-appointed federal judge in Florida has ordered the public release of grand jury transcripts from the first federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of underage ...

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Netflix Makes a Blockbuster Deal for Warner Bros. But Is It a Win for Investors?
- Netflix won the business version of the Squid Game on Friday, beating out Paramount Skydance , Comcast , and possibly others in a bidding war for the Warner Bros. streaming and studios assets of Warner Bros. Discovery . Netflix is now the biggest entertainment company in the world by far, with a market cap of more than $400 billion, and the company that was dismissed by a former Warner Bros. boss as the "Albanian ...

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National Park Service removes free entry on Martin Luther King Jr Day and Juneteenth
- The US National Park Service (NPS) is removing Martin Luther King Jr Day and Juneteenth from its list of fee-free entrance days. The move is part of President Donald Trump's "modernisation" of the park service, which, beginning in 2026, also includes changing the parks' cost structure to favour American citizens over foreign visitors, following a July executive order from Trump. In addition to removing the two ...

Source: bbc.com
4 arrested after protesters throw dessert at Britain's Crown Jewels
- Take Back Power, which describes itself as a new non-violent civil-resistance group, claims it was behind the act at the Tower of London Reading Time: 2 minutes Four protesters have been arrested after custard and apple crumble was thrown at a display case containing the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London. Take Back Power, which describes itself as a new non-violent civil-resistance group, claimed it was behind ...

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Rep. Adelita Grijalva says ICE agents shoved, pepper-sprayed her
- Dec. 6 (UPI) -- Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pushed and pepper-sprayed Rep. Adelita Grijalva during an immigration enforcement action outside a Tucson restaurant on Friday, she alleges. Grijalva, D-Ariz., said she identified herself and was "asking for clarification" after finding about 40 ICE agents and their vehicles in the street outside a restaurant that she frequents, NBC News reported. The ...

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South Africa shooting leaves 12 dead, including young child: Police
- Gunmen have killed at least 12 people, including a three-year-old boy, in a mass shooting at a bar near the South African city of Pretoria, according to police. Athlenda Mathe, spokesperson for the South African Police Service (SAPS), confirmed on Saturday that a total of 25 people were shot in the bar in Saulsville township, 18km (11 miles) west of Pretoria, adding that 14 had been taken to hospital. Police said ...

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Waymo will recall software after its self-driving cars passed stopped school buses
- The autonomous ride-hailing service Waymo plans to file a voluntarily software recall after several reports that its self-driving taxis illegally passed stopped school buses. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) opened an investigation in October in response to "a media report involving a Waymo AV [autonomous vehicle] that failed to remain stopped when approaching a school bus that was stopped ...

Source: npr.org
Lionel Messi, Inter Miami win first-ever MLS Cup title, defeating Vancouver Whitecaps 3-1
- Lionel Messi's legacy was long secured when he came to Inter Miami and joined Major League Soccer. He'd won a World Cup, won dozens of trophies, was generally considered the greatest player in the sport's history. He didn't need an MLS Cup. But he wanted one — and got it. Messi and Inter Miami have completed their ascent, beating the Vancouver Whitecaps 3-1 on Saturday in the MLS Cup final for the franchise's ...

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Trump slams Jimmy Kimmel during Kennedy Center Honors address
- Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article "I'm sure they'll give me great reviews, right?" Trump said. joked that he shouldn't be in office if he can't outperform comedian Jimmy Kimmel when hosting the Kennedy Center Honors this weekend. "I've watched some of the people that host; Jimmy Kimmel was horrible," Trump said on ...

Source: independent.co.uk
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Trump's New Security Strategy Described as 'Far Right Pamphlet'
- A new released by the White House calls for asserting U.S. dominance in the Western Hemisphere and "cultivating resistance" within Europe, while reestablishing "strategic stability" with Russia and accepting the Middle East and its leaders "as they are." The strategy released late Thursday, which builds on President Donald Trump's " America First " maxim, marks a sharp escalation of his Administration's criticism ...

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Indiana House GOP advances 9-0 congressional map, sending plan to state Senate
- that aims to make all nine of the state's U.S. House districts friendly to Republicans, after The bill passed in a 57-41 vote and now heads to the GOP-controlled state Senate, which is reconvening on Dec. 8. A number of vocal Republicans in the Indiana Senate have held out against redistricting, although it's unclear if they are enough to prevent it from passing. President Trump congratulated members of the state ...

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Trump gets FIFA's new peace prize
- Trump takes the spotlight, Peace Prize at FIFA World Cup Draw United States President Donald Trump has been awarded FIFA's newly created peace prize at the draw for the 2026 men's football World Cup. Trump, who has campaigned aggressively for a Nobel Peace Prize, thanked FIFA on Friday and called the award "one of the great honours of my life". The US leader had been heavily favoured to win the football governing ...

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Frank Gehry, renowned architect known for Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and Walt Disney Concert Hall, dies at age 96
- Frank Gehry, the renowned architect who was known for designing the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, has died, a representative confirmed to CBS News. He was 96. Gehry died Friday in his home in Santa Monica, California, after a brief respiratory illness, Meaghan Lloyd, his chief of staff at Gehry Partners LLP, told CBS News in an email.  He won every major ...

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Frank O. Gehry, the architect who changed the civic landscape of his adopted hometown of Los Angeles, has died
- Architect Frank O. Gehry, who brought an alluringly new kind of shape-making to his profession even as he fundamentally changed the reputation and civic landscape of his adopted hometown of Los Angeles in such projects as the shimmering Walt Disney Concert Hall on Grand Avenue, has died. He was 96. Gehry, who arrived in L.A. as an aimless teenager just after World War II and went on to become the most famous and ...

Source: latimes.com