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Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday slashed interest rates by a quarter point even as officials remained conflicted over whether to prioritize stubborn inflation or weakness in the labor market. Although they did not reach a full consensus, central bankers lowered rates to a new range of 3.5% to 3.75% as they remained more concerned about underlying strain in employment. Austan Goolsbee and Jeffrey Schmid opposed the ...
Source: nypost.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
As we close the third year of AI's mainstream arrival inside organizations, one thing has become unmistakably clear. The excitement around generative tools has not translated into widespread success. Research after research is showing that only a small portion of enterprise AI initiatives are achieving measurable value. Most companies are deploying pilots, running experiments, and adding new tools to old workflows, ...
Source: forbes.com
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 -
The U.S. military has seized an oil tanker off Venezuela, President Donald Trump told reporters Wednesday as his administration "As you probably know, we've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela," Trump said. "Large tanker, very large, largest one ever seized actually." Trump did not provide details about the seizure but said it was an "interesting day." Asked what would happen to the oil on the ship, ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Judges and prosecutors have cautioned that the materials might not lead to any new revelations Federal judges in New York and Florida have agreed to unseal grand jury documents tied to investigations into Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell , paving the way for the Department of ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump's launch of a nationwide "affordability tour" this week may look to some like an admission that Americans are struggling under the weight of the administration's tariffs and rising utility and grocery costs—but Trump assured one reporter on Tuesday that he would acknowledge no such thing. "I do want to talk about the economy," said Politico 's White House bureau chief, Dasha Burns, in a ...
Source: commondreams.org
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Under the terms of a proposed Education Department settlement announced this week, millions of student loan borrowers would soon have to make payments on their debt again. The agreement centers on borrowers who signed up for the Biden administration-era Saving on a Valuable Education, or SAVE, plan. Here are the options for borrowers who remain in the SAVE forbearance. Millions of student loan borrowers whose ...
Source: cnbc.com
Ukraine to Give Revised Peace Plans to US as Kyiv Readies for More Talks With Its Coalition Partners
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine is expected to hand its latest peace proposals to U.S. negotiators Wednesday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy 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 U.S. President Donald Trump's push for a settlement and his calls for an election ...
Source: military.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 -
WASHINGTON — House Republicans are vowing to vote on a health care plan next week before leaving for the holidays. They just can't agree on what should be in it. Insurance premiums are set to skyrocket for millions of Americans in the new year, if Congress fails to extend subsidies for the Affordable Care Act that are set to expire Dec. 31. Bowing to conservatives, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and his ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A parent of a Kentucky State University student has been charged with murder in an on campus shooting that killed one student and critically injured another. Jacob Lee Bard was at the school's campus in Frankfort on Tuesday and fired shots at the victims at a residence hall, police said in a statement. Investigators said the shooting was isolated, but they have not publicly shared ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The Trump administration is reportedly trying to strongarm the International Criminal Court (ICC) into changing its founding document to carve out an exception for President Donald Trump and his top officials ensuring that they are never prosecuted by the court for potential war crimes. The administration is threatening the ICC with yet more sanctions if they do not amend the Rome Statute, which established the ...
Source: truthout.org
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
NEW DELHI: In what will perhaps be India's single-biggest foreign investment inflow, American e-commerce and tech giant Amazon on Wednesday committed a mega $35 billion to boost its operations in the country as it adds to the $40 billion-plus it has already put into the market since 2010. The new funds will be invested by 2030, and were announced a day after another American tech giant, Microsoft, committed a $17.5 ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
By and Following her decisive victory in Miami's runoff election, Mayor-Elect Eileen Higgins laid out a vision for a new era in Miami politics Wednesday, with promises to end City Hall's "reality TV show" culture and instead focus on tackling major issues plaguing Miami residents. "So first of all, the temperature on the dais has to go down," Higgins told reporters in her first post-election press conference. ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 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? Dec 10 (Reuters) - A federal judge in California on Wednesday ordered an end to Donald Trump 's deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles and directed that they be returned to the control of the state's ...
Source: huffpost.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 -
News Florida governor designates CAIR as foreign terrorist organization Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday signed an executive order designating the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as a foreign terrorist organization. The executive order, an unprecedented step at the state level, cites a supposed connection between the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as the primary justification for the designation. ...
Source: jurist.org
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Reading time 3 minutes While few of us today know how to start a bonfire without matches or a lighter, learning to make fire was one of the most critical developments in human history. New evidence suggests humans figured it out hundreds of thousands of years earlier than previously thought. In a study published today in the journal Nature, a team of researchers claims to have discovered the earliest evidence of ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Banks can now match crypto buyers and sellers through riskless principal trades The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has confirmed that banks will be allowed to act as intermediaries on crypto transactions. The regulator has issued updated guidance stating that banks can take part in crypto transactions without facing additional regulatory scrutiny. These deals, which are already common in ...
Source: bankingexchange.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump's crusade against renewables was dealt a blow on Monday when a federal judge vacated a January executive order that halted wind energy development on public lands. In May, 17 states and the District of Columbia filed suit against Trump over the order, which directed federal agencies to "not issue new or renewed approvals, rights of way, permits, leases, or loans for onshore or offshore wind ...
Source: reason.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 -
The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with whether to allow Alabama to execute a man with low cognitive function, a ruling that could set new rules for states to condemn those with borderline intellectual disabilities to death row. Roughly two hours of intense arguments did not seem to produce a consensus among the justices over how states should assess IQ tests to determine mental disability. In a landmark 2002 ...
Source: abajournal.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Long-term heart disease risk in women diagnosed with uterine fibroids was more than 80% higher than in women without fibroids, according to new independent research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association , an open access, peer-reviewed journal of the American Heart Association. Fibroids are predominately benign growths that develop from the muscle tissue of the uterus. The U.S. ...
Source: news-medical.net
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Iceland on Wednesday became the fifth nation not to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest next year because of Israel's participation in the event, joining Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and the Netherlands. Last week , Israel's national broadcaster was cleared to compete in Vienna, Austria, in May. The European Broadcasting Union, the contest's organizing body, declined to expel Israel over its ...
Source: upi.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 sperm donor with a genetic mutation that increases the risk of cancer by up to 90% fathered at least 197 children across Europe, it was reported. A small number of British women received sperm from a donor with a cancer-causing gene while seeking fertility treatment abroad, a regulator has said. A sperm donor with a genetic mutation that increases the risk of cancer by up to 90% fathered at least 197 children ...
Source: news.sky.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 -
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 -
NASA has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade. Maven, an acronym for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, abruptly stopped communicating with ground stations on Dec. 6. NASA said this week that it was working fine before it went behind the red planet. When it reappeared, there was only silence. Launched in 2013 and having entered Mars' orbit in September 2014, Maven began ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The Michigan Wolverines are firing head football coach Sherrone Moore after he was found to have had an "inappropriate relationship" with a staff member, the school announced Wednesday. "Sherrone Moore has been terminated, with cause, effective immediately," Wolverines athletic director Warde Manuel said in a statement. "Following a university investigation, credible evidence was found that Coach Moore engaged in ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
A conservative United States federal judge was seen attending a political rally hosted by President Donald Trump this week, prompting a nonprofit watchdog group to file an ethics complaint against him. Judge Emil Bove, who serves on the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals, was nominated by Trump in June, and narrowly approved by a deeply divided Senate in a 50-49 vote the following month . Prior to his nomination, ...
Source: truthout.org
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Shares of Oracle Corp. dropped more than 10% in extended trading today after the cloud and database giant missed expectations on quarterly revenue while going full-steam ahead on its ongoing artificial intelligence infrastructure buildout. The company reported second-quarter earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of $2.26 per share, easily beating Wall Street's target of $1.64 per share. However, ...
Source: siliconangle.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 -
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? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is now investigating whether the coronavirus vaccine is linked to deaths in several unspecified age groups, the Department of Health and Human Services told HuffPost. "FDA ...
Source: huffpost.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
We're long past relying only on smartphones for our mobile computing needs. iPhones and Android devices are routinely paired with specific wearable accessories: can also help with the latter, reducing the need to use a wrist wearable. In this crowded ecosystem where ideas often get recycled, wearable company Pebble managed to deliver a surprise accessory; a ring with no health sensors. Instead, is a smart AI ...
Source: bgr.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 -
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 -
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Egypt and Iran, two Middle East nations that target gays and lesbians, have complained to FIFA over a World Cup soccer match in Seattle that is planned to celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride. Leaders in the nation's soccer federations publicly rebuked the idea of playing the match June 26 at Seattle Stadium, which local organizers say will include a "once-in-a-lifetime moment to showcase ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
The EU has opened an investigation into Google over its artificial intelligence (AI) summaries which appear above search results. The European Commission said it would examine whether the firm used data from websites to provide this service - and if it failed to offer "appropriate compensation" to publishers. It is also investigating how YouTube videos may have been used to improve its broader AI systems, and ...
Source: bbc.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
The American Academy of Pediatrics began recommending the shot to newborns starting in 1961. When a baby is born in a medical facility in the U.S., chances are high that they will be offered a range of treatments and tests that are recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics, which includes some of very first shots that are included on the childhood immunization list. Vitamin K is among the first of the ...
Source: greenmatters.com