Wednesday, Feb 12th, 2025 -
After Donald Trump's executive order on plastic straws, one business owner says his company's prospects have "completely switched" while others worry about future consequences on the environment and human body. It's hard to imagine anyone listening to Donald Trump announcing his new policy on straws with a greater sense of glee than Ross Boyajian, the president of a business manufacturing plastic straws in ...
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Wednesday, Feb 12th, 2025 -
BRUSSELS (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday made the first trip to NATO by a member of the new Trump administration, as the allies wait to learn how much military and financial support Washington intends to provide to Ukraine's government . Hegseth held talks with U.K. Defence Secretary John Healey, before a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at NATO headquarters in Brussels. ...
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Wednesday, Feb 12th, 2025 -
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order handing an Elon Musk-led commission sweeping power to oversee federal hiring across non-military departments, entrenching what's been described as a "shadow government" spearheaded by an unelected billionaire. The new order states that the leader of each non-military federal agency "shall develop a data-driven plan" in coordination with the Department ...
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Wednesday, Feb 12th, 2025 -
Almost 100 million people are waking to winter weather alerts and warnings Wednesday morning, as storm systems cause severe conditions, biting cold and travel chaos from coast to coast. The National Weather Service warnings stretch from Colorado to Maine; multiple storms systems have dumped as much as 9 inches of snow in West Virginia and disrupted planned confirmation hearings in Washington, D.C. Back-to-back ...
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Wednesday, Feb 12th, 2025 -
Marc Fogel, an American schoolteacher detained in Russia since 2021, has been released and returned to the United States following negotiations conducted by a White House special envoy. The White House announced on Tuesday that Fogel's release was secured through negotiations led by President Donald Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff. Fogel landed at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Tuesday evening and later met ...
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Wednesday, Feb 12th, 2025 -
Monty, a Giant Schnauzer, was named Best in Show at the 2025 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show on Tuesday. The winner of the Working Group for the past three years at Westminster , Monty becomes the first Giant Schnauzer ever to win Best in Show at the prestigious contest. Monty's triumph broke a long drought for the Working Group, which hadn't produced a Best in Show winner at Westminster since 2004. The ...
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Wednesday, Feb 12th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON — When President Trump said on Sunday night he would direct the Treasury to stop producing the penny in order to cut costs , he may have wagered that the increasingly irrelevant coins wouldn't be missed outside the confines of couch cushions and piggy banks. But there is a constituency for every federal initiative, even the beleaguered penny. And its assorted makers and boosters are anxiously ...
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Wednesday, Feb 12th, 2025 -
Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R) said Tuesday that she believes "two shooters" were involved in the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy. Why It Matters The news comes after President Donald Trump signed an order declassifying government files related to the assassination of JFK, in a move that could upend our understanding of how his assassination went down. Trump has also declassified files ...
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Wednesday, Feb 12th, 2025 -
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived at the ISS in June aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft (AFP) Two American astronauts who have been trapped on the International Space Station since June could return to Earth earlier in March than expected, NASA said Tuesday. Veteran astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were due to spend eight days on the International Space Station (ISS), but have been there for more ...
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Wednesday, Feb 12th, 2025 -
A lighthearted Danish petition is pledging to "bring hygge to Hollywood" by buying the state of California in response to President Donald Trump's talk about taking control of Greenland, a vast and mineral-rich Arctic island, from Denmark. "Have you ever looked at a map and thought, 'You know what Denmark needs? More sunshine, palm trees, and roller skates,'" the petition asks. "Well, we have a once-in-a-lifetime ...
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Wednesday, Feb 12th, 2025 -
Better fit, great sound, noise cancelling, longer battery life and heart rate sensors upgrade just about everything After five years, Apple is back with a full revamp of the earbuds that put its Beats headphones brand on the map for athletes and sports people: the Powerbeats Pro 2. Designed to hook on to the ear and stay put without wires, the original Powerbeats Pro were the best earbuds for working out and were ...
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Wednesday, Feb 12th, 2025 -
"There is a major opportunity for the business community to play a greater role in supporting employees with chronic conditions, improving their well-being and performance, while reducing costly problems like absenteeism and turnover," a on the findings said. 58% reported having a physical chronic health condition. Most said they stayed quiet because they've been able to manage their health without telling anyone ...
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Wednesday, Feb 12th, 2025 -
The big picture: Thus far, no matter what Trump does with trade, it seems to hurt the auto industry more often than anyone else. Tariffs on Mexico and Canada? Most U.S. automakers sell cars with parts that cross those borders a half-dozen times or more during the assembly process, each time potentially incurring a levy . Tariffs on steel and aluminum? It's literally what the cars are made of. What they're saying: " ...
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Wednesday, Feb 12th, 2025 -
Kellen Moore, who oversaw the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles' offense this season, has agreed to return to the site of his latest triumph as the next coach of the New Orleans Saints. The 36-year-old Moore will join an organization that has been floundering since the retirement of quarterback Drew Brees and departure of Super Bowl-winning coach Sean Payton. The Saints haven't made the playoffs since the ...
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Wednesday, Feb 12th, 2025 -
ROME — Around 130 people were arrested on Tuesday in a large-scale sting against the Sicilian Mafia in Palermo, indicating that it has remained a significant criminal force despite setbacks in recent decades. " Cosa Nostra ," the mafia syndicate based in and around Palermo, terrorized Italy in the 1980s and 1990s, but has since been overtaken as Europe's most powerful mob ...
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Wednesday, Feb 12th, 2025 -
Microsoft has been forced to issue security updates for four more zero-day vulnerabilities, including two currently under active exploitation. The tech giant's February Patch Tuesday update round features fixes for over 50 CVEs, including 22 remote code execution (RCE) bugs, 19 elevation of privilege (EoP) flaws and two security feature bypass vulnerabilities. The CVEs under active exploitation include ...
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Wednesday, Feb 12th, 2025 -
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the so-called cop on the beat protecting Americans from financial abuse, is now under strict orders to do nothing. "Please do not perform any work tasks," Russell Vought, the acting director, wrote on Monday to CFPB staff in an email obtained by CNN that announced the headquarters would be closed this week. That is on top of an expanded freeze on activities that he ordered ...
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Wednesday, Feb 12th, 2025 -
California's plan that provides insurance to homeowners who can't get private coverage needs $1 billion more to pay out claims related to the Los Angeles wildfires, the state Insurance Department said Tuesday. The FAIR Plan is an insurance pool that all the major private insurers pay into, and the plan then issues policies to people who can't get private insurance because their properties are deemed too risky to ...
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Wednesday, Feb 12th, 2025 -
News FilipFilipovic / Pixabay Rights groups challenge Trump's executive order suspending refugee admissions in court A coalition of advocacy organizations and individuals filed a lawsuit Monday, challenging US President Donald Trump's executive order suspending refugee admissions. The complaint, filed by HIAS, Inc., Church World Service, Inc., and Lutheran Community Services Northwest, alongside multiple individual ...
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Wednesday, Feb 12th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Musk gave no evidence to support his claim From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light ...
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Wednesday, Feb 12th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration will present an unforgiving argument for dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development to a federal judge Wednesday: USAID is rife with "insubordination" and must be shut down for the administration to decide what pieces of it to salvage. The argument, made in an affidavit by political appointee and deputy USAID administrator Pete Marocco, comes as the ...
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Tuesday, Feb 11th, 2025 -
Days after the Trump administration announced billions of dollars in cuts to biomedical research funding, a federal judge has granted temporary restraining orders after several groups sued to block the change. Universities and research organizations are still reeling from the implications. The National Institutes of Health said Friday that it was "vital to ensure that as many funds as possible go towards direct ...
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Tuesday, Feb 11th, 2025 -
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Tuesday, Feb 11th, 2025 -
A voluntary recall has been issued for some canned tuna products —sold across the country at stores including Trader Joe's, Walmart and Costco — due to a pull tab defect that could lead to potentially fatal botulism food poisoning. Tri-Union Seafoods issued a voluntary recall for select lots of canned tuna products that are sold under brand names like Genova, Van Camp's, Trader Joe's and H-E-B, the ...
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Tuesday, Feb 11th, 2025 -
R ep. Nancy Mace, the firebrand South Carolina Republican who is considering a run for governor, made headlines Monday when she gave a highly unusual speech on the U.S. House floor accusing four men—including her former fiancé—of rape, physical abuse, and sexual misconduct. Speaking for nearly an hour, Mace said she was "going scorched earth" to "call out the cowards who think they can prey on ...
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Tuesday, Feb 11th, 2025 -
Federal investigators were working Tuesday to find out what led a pair of private jets to collide on a runway at a small airport in Scottsdale, Arizona, killing one person and injuring several others. The crash occurred at Scottsdale Airport on Monday afternoon, when a Learjet arriving from Austin, Texas, veered off the runway and hit a parked Gulfstream jet, officials said, adding that it appears the plane's ...
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Tuesday, Feb 11th, 2025 -
Author, 77, to take stand in trial of Hadi Matar, 27, after prosecution alleges suspect came close to killing him Salman Rushdie is expected to take the stand in the trial of the man accused of attempting to kill him at a literary gathering in western New York in August 2022, more than 35 years after he was first placed under a death warrant by Iranian religious leaders. Rushdie, 77, has agreed to testify for the ...
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Tuesday, Feb 11th, 2025 -
A federal judge has implemented a temporary restraining order forcing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to restore several webpages and datasets that had been previously taken down in response to a White House executive order "defending women from gender ideology extremism." President Donald Trump's executive ...
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Tuesday, Feb 11th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump on Monday granted a full and unconditional pardon to Rod Blagojevich, the disgraced former governor of Illinois who was convicted on multiple charges of corruption in 2011, including trying to sell President Barack Obama's vacated Senate seat. Blagojevich had served nearly eight years in prison before Trump, in his first term as president, commuted his sentence. "He was set up by a lot of bad ...
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Tuesday, Feb 11th, 2025 -
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., accused Kash Patel, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the FBI, of personally directing an alleged "ongoing purge" of civil servants at the agency. Durbin urged Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz to investigate. "If these allegations are true," Durbin wrote in a letter to Horowitz, Patel "may have perjured himself" at his recent Senate confirmation hearing. Kash ...
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Tuesday, Feb 11th, 2025 -
U.S. District Judge George O'Toole reportedly said he was considering converting the existing temporary restraining order blocking the administration from advancing its deferred resignation program into a preliminary injunction, but he did not indicate how he would rule in the case. A federal judge on Monday extended his order blocking the Trump administration from implementing Trump and Elon Musk's controversial ...
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Tuesday, Feb 11th, 2025 -
T he price of eggs is expected to skyrocket by another 20% this year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Prices rose from $2.52 per-dozen for large, grade A eggs in January 2024 to $4.15 by that December, a nearly 65% change in just twelve months, per data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The shell-shocking price increase of eggs is due to the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), ...
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Tuesday, Feb 11th, 2025 -
There was a bit of a lull in the annual conflict between sharks and humans. 2024 was an "exceptionally quiet year" for shark bites around the world, with far fewer than usual, according to a new report released Tuesday by the International Shark Attack File . Worldwide, there were only 47 unprovoked attacks, down 22 from the previous year and well below the 10-year average of 70. Of course, that doesn't mean you ...
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Tuesday, Feb 11th, 2025 -
A dairy worker in Nevada has been infected with a strain of H5N1 bird flu—genotype D1.1—that has newly spilled over to cows, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed. The worker experienced conjunctivitis (pink eye) as the only symptom and is recovering, according to a separate press release by the Central Nevada Health District Monday. The bird flu strain H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b, ...
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Tuesday, Feb 11th, 2025 -
A rare ring of light surrounding a galaxy nearly 590 million light-years away from Earth has been discovered by a space telescope that scientists hope will uncover more cosmic phenomena throughout the universe, the European Space Agency announced on Monday. The ring of light, known as an Einstein Ring, was discovered in September 2023 by Euclid , a space telescope on a six-year mission to map out the cosmos by ...
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Tuesday, Feb 11th, 2025 -
The U.S. winter virus season is in full force, and by one measure is the most intense in 15 years. One indicator of flu activity is the percentage of doctor's office visits driven by flu-like symptoms. Last week, that number was clearly higher than the peak of any winter flu season since 2009-2010, when a swine flu pandemic hit the nation, according to data posted Friday morning by the Centers for Disease Control ...
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Tuesday, Feb 11th, 2025 -
The inspector general of the US Agency for International Development was fired on Tuesday, a day after his office released a report critical of the Trump administration's efforts to dismantle the agency, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. Paul Martin was informed by an email from the deputy director of the Office of Presidential Personnel on Tuesday evening that his position as inspector general of USAID ...
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Tuesday, Feb 11th, 2025 -
An appeals court on Tuesday refused to halt a judge's order requiring the Trump administration to release billions in federal cash. The ruling follows an order from US District Court Judge John McConnell in Rhode Island on Monday, who is presiding over a lawsuit from nearly two dozen states filed after the White House issued a memo purporting to halt all grants and loans, worth trillions of dollars. Earlier in the ...
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Tuesday, Feb 11th, 2025 -
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida lawmakers on Tuesday took a major step toward settling a between term-limited Gov. and fellow Republicans who control the Statehouse, as they gaveled in another special session on immigration aimed at leveraging state and local resources to carry out President 's mass deportation agenda. DeSantis, who is widely expected to have presidential aspirations in 2028, has been locked ...
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Tuesday, Feb 11th, 2025 -
The Justice Department said it plans to appeal a federal judge's decision to temporarily allow the recently fired special counsel Hampton Dellinger, a leader of a government agency overseeing federal corruption, to stay in his role through at least Thursday as a fight over his ouster by President Donald Trump continues. Dellinger sued Trump and several other White House and administration officials Monday in ...
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Tuesday, Feb 11th, 2025 -
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Tuesday the central bank doesn't "need to be in a hurry" to resume its interest rate cutting campaign, noting officials reduced the rate significantly last year and the economy remains sturdy. "With our policy stance now significantly less restrictive than it had been and the economy remaining strong, we do not need to be in a hurry to adjust our policy stance," Powell said ...
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Tuesday, Feb 11th, 2025 -
An international law-enforcement collaboration has taken down two Russian nationals and two unidentified women in Thailand who ran Phobos ransomware affiliate platforms. Law enforcement agencies from 14 countries collaborated in an investigation against the related Phobos and 8Base ransomware operations, arresting four suspects and seizing 27 servers, including the data leak and ransom negotiation websites. On ...
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Tuesday, Feb 11th, 2025 -
The manufacturer of 60 recalled baked food products says the recall was initiated over concerns of a potential listeria risk at one of its facilities. The voluntary recall was issued as a precaution and no products or food contact services were known to have tested positive for listeria, FGF Brands, a pastry wholesaler that distributes baked goods within the U.S. and Canada, said in a statement to USA TODAY. ...
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Tuesday, Feb 11th, 2025 -
T he second full moon of 2025, dubbed the "snow moon" will be at its peak this week. The moon, named after the winter season's heavy snowfall, arrives just as much of the U.S. is expected to be impacted by back-to-back snowstorms. Here's what to know about the snow moon. When is the snow moon? The snow moon will reach peak illumination Wednesday morning at 8:53 a.m. EST, according to earthsky.org . The ...
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Tuesday, Feb 11th, 2025 -
Eric Council Jr. from Alabama has pleaded guilty to being a co-conspirator in the unauthorized takeover of the US Securities and Exchange Commission's Twitter account last year. In early January 2024, SEC's official X account tweeted that bitcoin ETFs had been approved "for listing on all registered national securities exchanges," but SEC Chair Gary Gensler quickly announced that the agency's account was ...
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Tuesday, Feb 11th, 2025 -
Perhaps never before have two initials together captivated the masses like A and I have. Artificial Intelligence has become so buzzworthy as to simultaneously amaze and alarm, with working people on one hand thirsting to utilize its extraordinary powers while on the other worrying whether their job skills might soon be rendered obsolete. It's fully the former for those in the residential real estate industry, as ...
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Feb. 11 (UPI) -- A teacher in South Korea is in recovery after fatally stabbing a student to death this week then attempting to take her own life. Police are investigating the fatal stabbing which took place Monday at an elementary school in Daejeon in west-central South Korea. The victim, identified as 8-year-old Kim Ha-neul, was reported missing Monday evening after her bus driver notified school officials that ...
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