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Top News Stories for Thursday, December 11th 2025
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The Supreme Court on Tuesday wrestled over whether to lift limits on how much political parties can spend in cooperation with candidates. The case could significantly shift the balance of political power between the parties and outside groups such as Super PACs. Republican leaders are asking the court to remove limits on how much parties can spend in coordination with federal candidates on items such as ...
Source: abajournal.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The U.S. has seized a tanker off the coast of Venezuela, President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday, amid escalating tensions between the administration and the South American nation. "It's been a very interesting day, from the standpoint of news. As you probably know, we've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela," Trump said as he kicked off a roundtable event at the White House. "Large tanker, very ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
NEW YORK (AP) — Secret grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein's 2019 sex trafficking case can be made public, a judge ruled on Wednesday, joining two other judges in granting the Justice Department's requests to unseal material from investigations into the late financier's sexual abuse. U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman reversed his earlier decision to keep the material under wraps , citing a new law ...
Source: apnews.com
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 -
Kyiv, Ukraine – United States President Donald Trump bristled at a question about his Ukrainian counterpart on Wednesday during an interview with media outlet Politico. Admonishing Volodymyr Zelenskyy for failing to hold a presidential election, he accused him of not ending the war with Russia as an excuse to cling to power. "They talk about a democracy, but it gets to a point where it's not a democracy any ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Home » » WASHINGTON – Republican Sens. Mike Crapo and Bill Cassidy unveiled a bill that would deposit $1,000 to $1,500 into health savings accounts for qualifying customers. The proposal aims to be an alternative to the extension of the Affordable Care Act . Subsidies granted during the COVID-19 pandemic for the Affordable Care Act , also known as "Obamacare," expire this month. Americans will ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
FILE PHOTO: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, U.S. President Donald Trump and Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez attend a meeting of the North Atlantic Council during a NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium July 11, 2018. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir/File Photo The U.S. government threatened sanctions against the International Criminal Court unless the body vowed not to prosecute President Donald Trump . Officials in the ...
Source: rawstory.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 -
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 -
Maria Corina Machado has not been seen in public since 9 January, when she was briefly detained during a protest in Caracas. The daughter of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf, hours after officials said her mother would miss the ceremony. Ms Machado has been in hiding to protect her safety, and has not been seen publicly since 9 January, when she was ...
Source: news.sky.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
A former Donald Trump criminal defense attorney turned controversial DOJ higher-up and then lifetime federal appellate judge faces a judicial misconduct complaint just one day after attending the president's rally in Pennsylvania. Fix the Court, which describes itself as a "nonpartisan" nonprofit advocating "for non-ideological fixes that would make the federal courts, and primarily the U.S. Supreme Court, more ...
Source: lawandcrime.com