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Top News Stories for Friday, December 12th 2025
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
U.S. President Donald Trump reacts after signing an executive order to create a White House Olympics task force to handle security and other issues related to the LA 2028 summer Olympics in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 5, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst Republican state senators in Indiana have declined to pass a heavily gerrymandered redistricting map despite ...
Source: rawstory.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a resident of Maryland who has become a symbol of the Trump administration's policy of mass deportations, was freed from immigration detention Thursday afternoon, his attorney confirmed to NPR. Garcia, who was deported to El Salvador in the spring due to an "administrative error" admitted to by Immigration and Customs Enforcement , was held in a notorious prison there and eventually brought ...
Source: npr.org
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
The Senate on Thursday rejected legislation to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, essentially guaranteeing that millions of Americans will see a steep rise in costs at the beginning of the year. Senators rejected a Democratic bill to extend the subsidies for three years and a Republican alternative that would have created new health savings accounts — an unceremonious end to a monthslong effort by ...
Source: latimes.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday ordered Kilmar Abrego, whose wrongful deportation became a flashpoint in President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, released from immigration detention as he awaits a potential second deportation. The order from U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis means that Abrego will at least temporarily be allowed to return to his Maryland home despite ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Dec. 11 (UPI) -- For the second time, a grand jury has declined to issue a new indictment against New York Attorney General Leticia James. James, a political opponent of President Donald Trump , has been a frequent target of the president on social media. Trump has said multiple times that James should face legal jeopardy for alleged mortgage fraud . The Justice Department presented its case against James in an ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that the United States is pushing for Ukraine to withdraw its forces from the Donetsk region to establish a "free economic zone" in the Kyiv-held parts of eastern Ukraine that Moscow wants to control. Zelenskyy confirmed on Thursday that his country had presented the US with a 20-point set of counter-proposals for peace amid discussions on security guarantees with top US ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump signed an order aimed at thwarting state-level regulation of artificial intelligence through lawsuits and funding cuts, handing a win to tech industry leaders who've pressed for preemption of local rules. Trump said the measure was necessary to bolster the emerging technology and counter a patchwork of state-level rules the industry worries will hamper its growth. "You have to have a central ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
The US trade deficit narrowed unexpectedly in September to the smallest since 2020, delayed government data showed Thursday, with imports rising just slightly as President Donald Trump's new tariffs set in. The overall trade deficit fell 10.9 percent to $52.8 billion, the lowest since mid-2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. This came as exports rose 3.0 percent to $289.3 billion, while imports edged up 0.6 percent ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it plans to create a militarized zone along the U.S.-Mexico border in California to support border security operations for three years, the latest in a controversial series of moves aimed at securing the border amid the government's immigration crackdown. that the agency plans to transfer about 760 acres of public land in San Diego and Imperial counties to the ...
Source: bradenton.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
The proposal follows the exodus of hundreds of thousands government employees — including AI and tech talent — under the Trump administration's push to shrink the government workforce. A bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers introduced legislation Wednesday meant to modernize how the government hires technical talent, especially those specializing in artificial intelligence. The AI Talent Act ...
Source: nextgov.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The Trump administration must stop deploying the California National Guard in Los Angeles and return control of the troops to the state, a federal judge ordered Wednesday in an emphatic ruling. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco granted a preliminary injunction sought by California officials , but also put the decision on hold until Monday, presumably to give the administration a chance to appeal. ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
OSLO, Norway — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado appeared in public for the first time in 11 months early Thursday morning, when she waved to supporters at a hotel in Norway's capital hours after her daughter accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf. Machado had been in hiding since Jan. 9, when she was briefly detained after joining supporters in a protest in Caracas, Venezuela's ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
A federal judge in New York on Wednesday granted the Justice Department's request to unseal grand jury records in Jeffrey Epstein's 2019 sex trafficking case. The move comes a day after a separate judge ordered the release of grand jury records related to Ghislaine Maxwell. In his order, U.S. District Judge Richard Berman cited the law that Congress passed last month that required the DOJ to release all of its ...
Source: nbcnews.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 -
President Trump went after The New York Times late Tuesday over "seditious" reporting about his health. "The New York Times, and some others, like to pretend that I am 'slowing up,' am maybe not as sharp as I once was, or am in poor physical health, knowing that it is not true, and knowing that I work very hard, probably harder than I have ever worked before," Trump wrote in a lengthy Truth Social post. "I will ...
Source: thehill.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
US Wants Five Years of Some Tourists' Social Media to Enter the Country Digital rights advocates say it's an affront to civil liberties. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. The Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection is planning to require visitors from countries on the Visa Waiver P rogram to provide up to five years of their social media history, along ...
Source: motherjones.com