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Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article The U.S. House Oversight Committee Democrats has received 95,000 photos from the Epstein estate, with two tranches posted online Friday said newly released photos showing he and Jeffrey Epstein mingling with several women were "no big deal," but later claimed he had not seen them. ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
BALTIMORE (AP) — Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose mistaken deportation helped galvanize opposition to President Donald Trump's , was released from immigration detention on Thursday, and a judge has any further efforts to detain him. Abrego Garcia currently can't be deported to his home country of El Salvador thanks to a 2019 immigration court order that found he had a "well founded fear" of danger there. However, ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
The activist was detained in the city of Mashhad during a memorial ceremony for another activist, raising concern from the Norwegian Nobel Committee and human rights groups about her safety and health. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, who was awarded the prestigious honour in 2023 for her work defending women's rights and human rights in Iran, has been "violently" detained, according to her ...
Source: news.sky.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said that Kevin Hassett and Kevin Warsh are his top choices to lead the US Federal Reserve and that he expects the next chair of the central bank to consult with him on interest rates. Trump, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Friday, indicated that Warsh, a former Fed governor, has climbed up the short list of contenders to challenge Hassett, the White House ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By JESSE BEDAYN President Donald Trump is considering pressuring states to stop regulating artificial intelligence in a draft executive order obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, as some in Congress also consider whether to temporarily block states from regulating AI. Trump and some Republicans argue that the limited regulations already enacted by states, and others ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
House Republicans unveiled a new health care proposal Friday as they aim to address concerns about rising health insurance costs just weeks before enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies expire. The legislation would codify and expand health plans for small businesses, fund reductions of premiums for low-income people in the individual health insurance market, and increase transparency in prescription drug pricing, ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
By Perry Stein, Jasmine Golden, Salvador Rizzo and Jeremy Roebuck, The Washington Post The Justice Department once again failed to persuade a grand jury to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James, an embarrassing loss for a law enforcement agency that has repeatedly tried to charge the president's foe in a mortgage fraud case that career prosecutors have long viewed as weak. The refusal by the grand jury in ...
Source: abajournal.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
Politics The Last MAGA Prisoner Trump desperately wants Tina Peters released but can't make it happen without help. Illustration by Alicia Tatone. Source: David Zalubowski / AP. December 12, 2025, 5:27 PM ET Save Listen − 1.0x + 0:00 18:19 Listen to more stories on the Noa app. T ina Peters is supposed to spend the next eight years of her life in prison. The former Colorado county clerk was convicted last ...
Source: theatlantic.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
The National Trust for Historic Preservation wants to change or stop plans for the new ballroom that would be nearly double the size of the White House. Donald Trump is being sued by a preservation group which wants a federal court to halt the construction of a new ballroom at the White House until it goes through multiple independent reviews and wins approval from Congress. The National Trust for Historic ...
Source: news.sky.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
Dec. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. Southern Command leader Adm. Alvin Holsey relinquished his command on Friday amid his pending retirement from the Navy after 37 years of service. Holsey announced his pending retirement in October without giving a reason, CBS News reported. He relinquished his command over military forces in South America during a ceremony Friday at Southern Command headquarters. "We have worked hard and ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
LONDON — Three weeks ago, President Trump sent shock waves across Europe with a 28-point peace plan for Ukraine that strongly echoed Russian talking points. Now, Ukraine's leaders have responded with a counterproposal that demands legal guarantees of protection against future Russian aggression, according to descriptions of the plan by European leaders and diplomats. The 20-point Ukrainian plan for ending ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was engaged in the familiar routine of congressional hearings Thursday, basking in Republican praise and fending off attacks from Democrats over the administration's immigration tactics, when Rhode Island Representative Seth Magaziner broke up the traditional back and forth. Magaziner, a Democrat on the House Committee on Homeland Security, began to grill Noem about whether ...
Source: bostonglobe.com