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Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
No, Democrats Shouldn't Give Up On Texas After a string of disappointments, the party is tempted to give up on ever turning the state blue. History shows that that's a mistake. to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. In 2018 U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke broke state fundraising records and sparked national attention with his campaign for a Texas Senate seat. ...
Source: slate.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 -
"Chip War" author Chris Miller is worried about the U.S. losing its advantage over China in artificial intelligence talent. In 2020, China's ranked first in the world at 3.57 million STEM graduates — far more than the U.S. with just 820,000. With advances in tech, Chinese companies have also seen the highest growth rate in U.S.-granted patents last year. This report is from this week's CNBC's The China ...
Source: cnbc.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
– A Dallas congresswoman opened her Senate campaign by telling voters that she "has gone toe to toe with Donald Trump." Her Democratic primary opponent insisted that Americans are tired of "politics as a blood sport." The divergent approach highlights how U.S. Rep. and state Rep. are navigating a race where Democrats hope to break a three-decade losing streak in Texas. It also reflects a broader divide within ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Australia became the first country to enforce a nationwide under-16 social media ban as global regulators watch closely. Platforms face tough age checks amid privacy fears, unreliable tech, and circumvention by teens. Other governments from Europe to Asia are weighing similar moves, positioning Australia as a test case. In this article In this photo illustration, iPhone screens display various social media apps on ...
Source: cnbc.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Miami voters have elected Eileen Higgins its first mayor aligned with the Democratic Party in nearly three decades. With 100% of precincts reporting, Higgins secured nearly 60% of the vote, besting Republican Emilio Gonzalez in the runoff election, according to unofficial results from the Miami-Dade County Elections Supervisor Alina Garcia. A little more than 37,000 votes were cast in the Miami ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Fighting between Thailand and Cambodia has continued for a third day, with cross-border shelling and air raids forcing more than half a million civilians to flee their homes and seek shelter, according to authorities. Officials from the two Southeast Asian neighbours on Wednesday also accused each other of restarting the conflict that has killed at least 13 soldiers and civilians so far this week and led more than ...
Source: aljazeera.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 -
The Federal Reserve is again expected to lower its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point Wednesday, in an effort to support a weakening job market. But stubborn inflation and delayed economic data could complicate the Fed's decision, leading to more-than-usual disagreement within the rate-setting committee. A rate cut could make it slightly cheaper to borrow money to buy a car, expand a business or ...
Source: npr.org
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) — 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, according to a case study published Dec. 9 in the journal . This patient suffered permanent damage from a minor ...
Source: insidenova.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Microsoft patched an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability as part of its monthly security update cycle yesterday. CVE-2025-62221 is an elevation of privilege (EoP) bug in the Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver, which enables a low-privileged user to achieve system-level code execution through a kernel-mode use-after-free flaw. Although no confirmed proof-of-concept (PoC) is available, it's likely ...
Source: infosecurity-magazine.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 -
OSLO, Norway (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado will miss the ceremony to award her the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Wednesday, the head of the Norwegian Nobel Institute said. Machado last appeared in public 11 months ago. Nobel Institute director Kristian Berg Harpviken told public broadcaster NRK the Venezuelan opposition leader was not in the Norwegian capital on the day of the ...
Source: bostonglobe.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 -
Recent research from Gartner encourages organizations to block agentic browsers (or AI browsers). While these browsers could transform user interaction with websites, they could also introduce considerable cybersecurity risks. Therefore, the report asserts that " CISOs must block all AI browsers in the foreseeable future to minimize risk exposure." "There's good reason to be cautious about AI-powered ...
Source: securitymagazine.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Justice Brett Kavanaugh used an interesting choice of phrase when describing the constitutional issues in Trump v. Slaughter , the vividly named case on the president's ability to remove certain federal officials that Congress stipulated could only be fired for cause. "How do you answer the accountability theme, which I think is the theme of the other side, is that independent agencies are not accountable to the ...
Source: newrepublic.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
The Trump administration on Tuesday said it has reached an agreement with seven states to resolve a lawsuit challenging the legality of former President Joe Biden's student loan repayment plan, a deal that could leave millions of borrowers scrambling to find another option to repay their debt. The 7 million people now enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education program, commonly known as Save, will have a ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is heading toward dueling partisan votes on health care this week after Republicans said Tuesday that they had united around a plan, for now, that would allow COVID-era health care subsidies to expire. Both the Republican plan, which would replace the subsidies with new savings accounts, and a Democratic bill to extend the enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits for three years ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
The European Commission has launched a probe into Google over concerns it may be breaching EU competition laws by extracting content from websites without compensation to produce AI-generated search summaries. "The Commission will investigate to what extent the generation of AI Overviews and AI Mode by Google is based on web publishers' content without appropriate compensation for that, and without the possibility ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
MICHAEL R. SISAK 4 min read NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday granted the Justice Department's request to publicly release grand jury transcripts and other material from sex trafficking case, citing a new law that requires the government to open its files on and his longtime confidant, but he cautioned that people shouldn't expect to learn much new information from them. Judge Paul A. Engelmayer, who ...
Source: yahoo.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
One person was killed and another was critically wounded in a shooting at Kentucky State University, the city of Frankfort said Tuesday. A suspect has been arrested, Gov. Andy Beshear and the city said. Both victims are Kentucky State University students, but the suspect is not, according to the city. The shooting occurred outside a residence hall on the school's campus, a spokesperson for the university said. The ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Home » » Gov. Ron DeSantis announced the State of Florida is designating the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) by executive order this week, effective immediately. "Florida agencies are hereby directed to undertake all lawful measures to prevent unlawful activities by these organizations, including denying privileges or resources ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Inside the GenAI Divide — and Why Customer Experience Teams Are Closing It Most AI projects fail fast — except in CX. Here's why customer experience teams are the ones actually closing the GenAI Divide. MIT finds 95% of generative AI pilots flop, yet CX programs repeatedly show measurable ROI because they already run on structured processes and omni-channel data. Validated knowledge, governed tools, and ...
Source: cmswire.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Trump's smoke-and-mirrors farmer bailout won't make this self-inflicted wound disappear, experts warn Trump's USDA chief argues that farmers need a bailout — but insists Trump isn't responsible. The president's critics say his trade war is obviously the reason, writes John ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Dec. 9 (UPI) -- A federal judge in Massachusetts overturned President Donald Trump 's decision to halt all new permits for wind energy projects. The ruling by Judge Patti Saris of the District of Massachusetts on Monday called the ban "arbitrary and capricious and contrary to law" and said there wasn't a good explanation for implementing it. Trump halted all new wind energy project permits in a Jan. 20 executive ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article The app, described as a 'Waze for ICE sightings' and based on publicly available data, was downloaded more than a million times after its launch this year The developer who created a crowd-sourced map that lets users pinpoint the locations of federal agents in their neighborhoods ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Paramount Skydance Monday launched a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, seeking to undo Netflix's purchase of Warner's studio and streaming businesses. Paramount said its $77.9 billion all-cash bid for the whole company, including CNN, offered better value to shareholders than the $72 billion purchase price agreed to by Netflix and Warner on Friday. It was Paramount chief David Ellison's sixth bid for the ...
Source: theweek.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Ongoing reports and analysis Decades of tension between the United States and Mexico over shared water resources turned into an actual water-cum-trade war overnight . In a post on Truth Social, U.S. President Donald Trump made good on earlier promises and threatened additional tariffs on Mexico if the country does not comply with its obligations to send water from the Rio Grande and its tributaries into Texas. ...
Source: foreignpolicy.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Due to the government shutdown, there is no good figure for job openings in September, and the September release was canceled, but "partial data that businesses self-reported electronically" were included in today's October release, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The October data were collected as normal in November. So month-to-month comparisons for October lack a solid base (September data is only ...
Source: wolfstreet.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Residents along Japan's northeast coast were warned to stay alert, as aftershocks continued Tuesday in the aftermath of a major earthquake that has left at least 33 people injured. The U.S. Geological Survey reported a magnitude 6.6 and later a 5.1 quake in the hours after the initial temblor late Monday night local time. The USGS measured the main quake at 7.6 magnitude just off the coast of the city of Misawa in ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reaffirmed his strong refusal to cede any territory, resisting U.S. pressure for painful concessions to Russia as he moved ahead Tuesday to rally more European support for his country. Trump again pressed Ukraine to accept U.S. proposal arguing Moscow has 'upper hand' Listen to this article Estimated 6 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by ...
Source: cbc.ca
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
NEW YORK (AP) — Moments after Luigi Mangione was handcuffed at a Pennsylvania McDonald's, a police officer searching his backpack found a loaded gun magazine wrapped in a pair of underwear. The discovery, recounted in court Monday as Mangione fights to keep evidence out of his New York murder case, convinced police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, that he was the man wanted in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO ...
Source: pbs.org
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Two Chinese men were detained for allegedly smuggling Nvidia chips to China and other restricted locations. A Houston-based company and its owner have already pleaded guilty to routing Nvidia hardware through shell buyers. The latest arrests are part of a broader investigation involving more than $160 million in export-controlled technology. Nvidia H100 chips inside a server room at the Yotta Data Services Pvt. ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
A new investigation has revealed that grocery delivery service Instacart is using a covert, AI-powered dynamic pricing scheme to charge customers different prices for the same items — potentially costing households over $1,000 more a year. Groundwork Collaborative, Consumer Reports, and More Perfect Union collaborated on an experiment with 437 shoppers across four U.S. locations, representing several ...
Source: truthout.org
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
TUESDAY, Dec. 9, 2025 (HealthDay News) — More parents are saying no to vitamin K shots for their newborns, and experts warn babies could be at serious risk. A study published Dec. 8 in found that refusal of vitamin K, a shot given shortly after birth to prevent dangerous bleeding, has skyrocketed in recent years. Researchers reviewed medical records for more than 5 million infants born in 403 hospitals ...
Source: insidenova.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
Congressional efforts to legally place a 10-year moratorium on state artificial intelligence regulation have thus-far failed to garner enough support. President Donald Trump confirmed on Monday that he plans to sign a new executive order focused on ensuring U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence development through "one rule" to counter the spectrum of differing state regulations. Trump said in a post on ...
Source: route-fifty.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
, which includes using our canonical URL and pixel tracker on your story pages whenever possible. . Both Allred, the 2024 Democratic nominee, and Talarico had been running for months, with Allred launching his campaign in July, followed by Talarico in September. The primary is March 3. More than 200 people, including some Dallas-area elected officials and candidates, sat or stood in a roomy gymnasium situated in ...
Source: texastribune.org