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Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
President Trump's spiteful defamation suit against the Pulitzer Prize Board may backfire, as the latter is now demanding Trump's psychological records, prescription medication records, and tax returns in the discovery process. Trump filed the lawsuit in 2022 after the board refused to revoke 2018 Pulitzer awards from The New York Times and The Washington Post for "perpetuating the absurdly false and ...
Source: newrepublic.com
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
The US jobless rate picked up again in November, hovering at its highest level in four years, official data showed Tuesday in a report underscoring a labor market cooldown in the world's biggest economy. The report, delayed by a lengthy government shutdown, also indicated that the US economy lost 105,000 jobs in October. Hiring picked up again in November with a gain of 64,000 jobs, but this was still a slower pace ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article White House chief of staff labels JD Vance a 'conspiracy theorist' and Elon Musk an 'avowed ketamine' user in revealing interviews throughout the president's chaotic year in office Donald Trump's "ice maiden" and one of the most politically powerful women in the world has offered ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump sued the BBC for at least $10 billion over a misleading edit in a documentary last year that gave the impression he'd made a direct call for violence in a speech leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol by his supporters. The lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corp. was filed Monday in federal court in Miami. The lawsuit includes one claim of alleged defamation and one ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
Nearly 40 states have adopted or enacted artificial intelligence measures this year, and more are expected in 2026. This story was originally published by Stateline . State lawmakers of both parties said they plan to keep passing laws regulating artificial intelligence despite President Donald Trump's efforts to stop them. Trump signed an executive order Thursday evening that aims to override state artificial ...
Source: route-fifty.com
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump says that Russia and Ukraine are closer to peace than they have ever been. Days of intense negotiations ended with the United States, Ukraine and Europe hailing significant progress as Trump pushes for a deal to end the Kremlin's war by Christmas. Washington and Kyiv appear to have made notable shifts to secure progress but huge questions remain, not least whether Moscow will once again ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
The search for a gunman who opened fire at Brown University on Saturday, killing two students and injuring nine others, continued on Tuesday. The Providence Police Department in Rhode Island released enhanced video of a "person of interest" on Tuesday and is asking for the public's help in identifying the person dressed in dark clothing and wearing a black mask and hat. During a on Tuesday evening, Chief of Police ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
Federal authorities in the United States have arrested four members of an antigoverment left-wing group over an alleged bomb plot targeting immigration agents and companies, among others, in California, officials have said. Announcing the arrests on Monday, US Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation had disrupted "a massive and horrific terror plot" being ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday the Pentagon will not publicly release unedited video of a U.S. military strike that killed two survivors of an initial attack on a boat allegedly carrying cocaine in the Caribbean, as questions mounted in Congress about the incident and the overall buildup of U.S. military forces near Venezuela. President Donald Trump further ramped up the ...
Source: wfla.com
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON, Dec 16 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's plan to build a $300 million ballroom on White House grounds faces an early courtroom test on Tuesday after preservationists accused him of illegally tearing down the East Wing in a sweeping makeover critics call an abuse of power. U.S. District Judge Richard Leon scheduled a hearing for 3:30 p.m. (2030 GMT) in a lawsuit filed by the National ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
Hundreds of Arctic rivers and streams are turning bright red-orange, not from chemical pollution, but from naturally occurring iron spilling from long-frozen ground as temperatures warm. The "rusting rivers" phenomenon, which has been documented across the Brooks Range in northern Alaska, offers a vivid example of the effects of climate change in a region that is warming faster than the global average. The finding ...
Source: npr.org
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
Mortgage rates have been on a downward trajectory since the Federal Reserve began cutting rates in September of this year, offering some much-needed relief to homebuyers who've had to weather years of elevated borrowing costs. And, the central bank's third rate cut of the year , announced earlier in December, only continued this trend. The December rate cut brought the federal funds rate down to a range of 3.50% to ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police are set to present a case to prosecutors Tuesday following Nick Reiner's arrest in the killings of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, which stunned their communities in Hollywood and Democratic politics, where both were widely beloved. Prosecutors are set to decide whether and how to charge 32-year-old Nick Reiner , who is being held in jail without bail. ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
In a lawsuit, the state's attorney general, Letitia James, said UPS had "repeatedly and persistently" failed to pay seasonal workers for all of the time they spent on the job. Listen to this article · 3:27 min New York's attorney general, Letitia James, on Monday accused UPS of stealing wages from thousands of seasonal workers in the state. UPS unlawfully withheld millions of dollars of these workers' wages ...
Source: nytimes.com
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
Artificial intelligence leader Nvidia Corp. Monday announced the Nemotron-3 family of models, data and tools, and the release is further evidence of the company's commitment to the open ecosystem, focusing on delivering highly efficient, accurate and transparent models essential for building sophisticated agentic AI applications. Nvidia executives, including Chief Executive Jensen Huang, have talked ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
Meta said Tuesday that the company will begin testing its Instagram for TV app in the U.S. via Amazon's Fire TV streaming devices. The app features the company's TikTok-like Reels videos. Tessa Lyons, Instagram vice president of product, told CNBC that Meta plans to expand the new TV app to other device makers. In this article Instagram has installed a new privacy setting which will default all new and existing ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
– A colleague of the "Judges shouldn't help defendants evade arrest," Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Kristela Cervera testified at Hannah Dugan's trial. The testimony on the second day of trial came after officers involved in the arrest told the jury that Dugan's behavior on April 18 made it more dangerous for them to do their jobs. Dugan is on trial on charges of obstruction and concealment in connection ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
The end of the year brings noise. Your membership ensures our newsroom remains a clear, reliable source of facts for the whole community. Help us keep the signal strong for the year ahead. Already a member? WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday he is ordering a blockade of all "sanctioned oil tankers" into Venezuela, ramping up pressure on the country's authoritarian leader Nicolás ...
Source: huffpost.com
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
– The Trump administration announced Tuesday it was expanding an additional 20 countries and the Palestinian Authority, doubling the number of nations affected by sweeping limits announced earlier this year on who can travel and emigrate to the U.S. The Trump administration included five more countries as well as people traveling on documents issued by the Palestinian Authority to the list of countries facing ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
Designates illicit fentanyl and its core precursor chemicals as Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and directs the use of national security, criminal, sanctions, intelligence, and military-support authorities to combat fentanyl trafficking. Expands enforcement tools against cartels and foreign terrorist organizations involved in fentanyl production and distributions. Additional Documentation Trump Executive Order - ...
Source: jdsupra.com
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
A British driver who injured more than 130 people by speeding his car into a crowd of Liverpool football fans during a championship victory parade in May has been sentenced to 21 and a half years. Paul Doyle , 54, rammed his minivan into the mass of fans in the city of Liverpool simply because he lost his temper, according to prosecutors. Last month, he pleaded guilty to charges , including nine counts of causing ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Steve Cahillane will become the new CEO of The Kraft Heinz Company on Jan. 1, the company announced Tuesday. The company said Cahillane will lead the company through its planned split into two companies in 2026. The split was announced in September. The two companies will be Global Taste Elevation Co. and North American Grocery Co. They will have "greater strategic and operational focus to serve ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
Evacuations have been ordered in Washington state. Officials are warning of a life-threatening flood in Seattle. This comes after historic flooding in the region caused a levee to fail. On December 15, officials issued a flash flood warning in Tukwila, Washington. Flooding in the area caused the Desimone Levee, which holds the Green River, to fail. The levee failed right before lunch on Monday. Officials warned of ...
Source: wideopenspaces.com
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
Follow Earth on Google Glaciers rarely vanish overnight. They thin slowly, creep uphill, fracture into smaller bodies, and eventually fade from maps altogether. For decades, scientists have tracked this process by measuring how much ice is lost along the way. Those measurements matter for sea level rise and water supply. But for communities living beside glaciers, a more direct question often looms larger: When ...
Source: earth.com
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
Jared Kushner's private equity firm says it is dropping out of the group of firms that planned to back Paramount Skydance's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. "With two strong competitors vying to secure the future of this unique American asset, Affinity has decided no longer to pursue the opportunity," a spokesperson for the ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
Three Democratic senators said Tuesday that they are investigating whether and how the operations of technology companies are driving up residential electricity bills. In letters sent Monday to Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and three other companies, the lawmakers said the energy needs of data centers used for artificial intelligence were forcing utilities to spend billions of dollars to upgrade the power grid. ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said that the Pentagon would not release the "top secret, full, unedited video" of the controversial September strike on a suspected drug boat. However, Hegseth said that "appropriate" congressional committees would see the footage. "In keeping with longstanding Department of War policy, Department of Defense policy, of course, we're not ...
Source: foxnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
As we approach 2026, the technology landscape presents a striking paradox: AI adoption has never been higher, and yet success has never been more elusive. The numbers tell a different story than the headlines suggest. MIT's Project NANDA report found that 95% of enterprise AI pilots fail to deliver measurable financial returns — despite $30-40 billion in corporate investment. McKinsey's "State of AI 2025" ...
Source: gritdaily.com
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
GENEVA (AP) — FIFA slashed the price of some World Cup tickets for teams' most loyal fans following a global backlash and some will get $60 seats for the final instead of being asked to pay $4,185. It was a rare climbdown by the soccer body and its president Gianni Infantino after soaking up waves of criticism for World Cup strategies, including top-dollar prices and closer political alignment with U.S. ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
Irresponsibility of retailers has prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to take strict action. On November 11, the ByHeart baby formula extended their voluntary recall period after pulling the product due to risk of infant botulism. The recall period was extended after more infant botulism cases emerged in connection with the baby formula. Surprisingly, many renowned retail stores, including Target, ...
Source: greenmatters.com
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
Mark Chavez, 55, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine. A doctor has been sentenced to eight months of home confinement over the fatal overdose of Friends star Matthew Perry after pleading guilty to a drugs charge. Mark Chavez, whose sentence included three years of supervised release, addressed the judge on Tuesday, saying he had recently lost a loved one and understood the grief that ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
The Most Despicable Lie From the Guns-Over-All Gang No, they're not coming for your guns. A version of the below article first appeared in David Corn's newsletter, Our Land . The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign up for ...
Source: motherjones.com
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
By The 35-year-old company behind the robotic vacuum Roomba, iRobot ( IRBT ), has filed for a pre-packaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy , prompting worry among millions of loyal customers that they're time-saving house cleaner will soon become "a brick." Since the first Roomba launched in 2022, iRobot has sold over 50 million of its vacuum cleaning robots. Its robots perform nearly 25 million missions per year, and as of ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 2025 -
The House voted Monday to re-pass bipartisan legislation aimed at improving how the federal government purchases and uses software. The Strengthening Agency Management and Oversight of Software Assets (SAMOSA) Act aims to streamline software procurement across federal agencies to reduce unnecessary costs. The House previously passed the legislation in December 2024. The late Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly ...
Source: meritalk.com
Monday, Dec 15th, 2025 -
Actors, directors and politicians voice their sadness after bodies of Reiner and wife Michele Singer Reiner were found by authorities Hollywood is in shock after the sudden death of director and actor Rob Reiner, who has been found dead in an apparent homicide at his Los Angeles home with his wife, Michele Singer Reiner. Reiner's peers paid tribute after reports began to emerge on Sunday afternoon that the bodies ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Dec 15th, 2025 -
Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Brian Walshe was found guilty of killing his wife, Ana Walshe, 39, and dismembering and disposing of her body, though her body was never found. On Monday, jurors in Dedham, Mass ., announced their verdict: first-degree murder . Ana Walshe, 39, a real estate executive, had been missing since New Year's Day 2023. Her employer reported her missing on Jan. 4, 2023, but Walshe had said she left for a ...
Source: upi.com
Monday, Dec 15th, 2025 -
Rob Reiner, the son of a comedy giant who became one himself with movies such as "The Princess Bride," "When Harry Met Sally…" and "This is Spinal Tap," is being remembered for his iconic contributions to entertainment following the shocking news of his death. Reiner, 78, and his wife, Michele Singer, were found dead Sunday at their home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, in what police called an ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Monday, Dec 15th, 2025 -
A JetBlue pilot said he nearly had a midair collision with a US Air Force plane on Friday. Flight 1112 was flying from Curaçao to New York. The island country, which is part of the Netherlands, is about 40 miles off the coast of Venezuela. About 20 minutes after takeoff, the JetBlue pilot contacted Curaçao's air traffic control center. "We just had traffic pass directly in front of us, within 5 miles, ...
Source: businessinsider.com