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Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
for the U.S. government and American companies. boasted of brokering peace in some of the world's most entrenched conflicts — another chance to tout himself as a dealmaker extraordinaire on the global stage and make the case that . The U.S. leader hasn't been shy about his desire to receive the honor. Lauded by the White House as a "historic" agreement brokered by Trump, the pact between Tshisekedi and Kagame ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
The Roberts Court Just Helped Trump Rig the Midterms The Supreme Court reinstated the Trump-inspired congressional map in Texas. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. The Supreme Court on Thursday reinstated the Trump-inspired gerrymandered congressional map in Texas after it was blocked by a lower court, with the Roberts court once again putting its thumb on the scale to weaken ...
Source: motherjones.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
This year, the holidays don't feel celebratory for many Americans who've been negatively affected by the Trump administration's decisions. We're here to make sure those people do not go unheard. Help us hold the administration accountable. Already a member? Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth risked endangering U.S. military personnel when he used the commercial messaging app Signal to discuss real-time war plans, a ...
Source: huffpost.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article New footage and images released by Democrats as lawmakers ask for update on Epstein files from the Justice Department Leer en Español Never-before-seen photos and videos, released Wednesday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee , reveal details of late sex offender ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Challenger, Gray & Christmas said layoff plans totaled 71,321 in November, a step down from the massive cuts announced in October but still enough to bring the 2025 total up to 1.17 million. The most-cited reason for the month was restructuring, followed by closings and market or economic conditions. A sign at a NYS Department Of Labor job fair at the Downtown Central Library in Buffalo, New York, US, on Wednesday, ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Pentagon, attempting to overturn new rules imposed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that have led to most mainstream media outlets being banished from the building. The newspaper said the rules violate the Constitution's freedom of speech and due process provisions, since they give Hegseth the power to determine on his own whether a ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Trump's Prosecutor Picks Are Backfiring, Badly to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Donald Trump has been successful in weaponizing the judicial system in some big ways, but in one area, his tactics are backfiring. Over the past few months, Republican- and Democratic-appointed judges across the country have repeatedly ruled that the president's ...
Source: slate.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Hundreds of U.S. Border Patrol agents are reportedly set to begin a major immigration crackdown across much of southeast Louisiana and southern Mississippi this week as part of what has been dubbed operation "Swamp Sweep." The planned action follows similar surges in Chicago (operation "Midway Blitz") and Charlotte, North Carolina (operation "Charlotte's Web"), where agents have been accused of using overly ...
Source: truthout.org
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
5 min read A grand jury declined to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James after being asked to look at the mortgage fraud case against her a second time, 10 days after a federal judge threw out the initial charges against her, according to a person familiar with the development Thursday. Another source familiar with the situation said there should be no premature celebration, because the Justice Department ...
Source: edition.cnn.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Washington — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Thursday that Democrats will offer a clean three-year extension of enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits for a vote next week, when the issue that was at the center of the shutdown fight comes center stage. "This is the bill, a clean three-year extension of ACA tax credits, that Democrats will bring to the floor of the Senate for a vote next ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
The White House has brought in a new architect to work on President Donald Trump's "vision" for his massive $300 million ballroom project, officials said Thursday. Shalom Baranes, head of Shalom Baranes Associates, has "joined the team of experts to carry out President Trump's vision on building what will be the greatest addition to the White House since the Oval Office — the White House Ballroom," White ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Renaming 'adds insult to injury' says lawyer for staff fired from non-profit thinktank by Trump administration The Trump administration has renamed the US Institute of Peace after Donald Trump and has planted the president's name on the organization's headquarters despite an ongoing fight over the institute's control. It is the latest twist in a seesaw court battle over who controls the US Institute of Peace, a ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
The leader of an anti-Hamas group that was armed and backed by Israel has been killed in Gaza, the group confirmed Thursday, in a potential blow to Israel's post-war plans in the shattered territory. Yasser Abu Shabab, who led a militia controlling a patch of territory in Rafah in southern Gaza, was killed while trying to "de-escalate a conflict" between members of a family in a public square, the organization ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow would seize the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine "in any case," including by military means, digging in on one of his key demands as Ukrainian officials prepare for more peace talks that have yet to yield a deal. Putin is set to arrive in New Delhi on Thursday where he will be hosted by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, two days after a meeting at the Kremlin with a ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign received a legal setback on Tuesday when a federal judge issued yet another preliminary injunction against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). For the second time in as many months, the agency has been ordered to stop conducting warrantless immigration arrests without probable cause, this time in Washington, D.C., and to report on the facts surrounding these ...
Source: reason.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
U.S. prosecutors have charged two Virginia brothers arrested on Wednesday with allegedly conspiring to steal sensitive information and destroy government databases after being fired from their jobs as federal contractors. Twin brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, both 34, were also sentenced to several years in prison in June 2015, after pleading guilty to accessing U.S. State Department systems without ...
Source: bleepingcomputer.com
Europe's plan to use $105 billion of frozen Russian assets tantamount to war, says Russia's Medvedev
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
The European Commission is considering using frozen Russian assets held in Europe to support Ukraine. It plans to unlock $105 billion for the effort through a reparations loan or international borrowing, though favors the former. Russia's Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said that it could be tantamount to an act justifying war. Russia's security council chief warned on Thursday that ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
By Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida House Republicans appear ready to throw Florida into a mid-decade redistricting battle. But they don't agree on when to start. Over the summer, President Donald Trump began pushing for red states to redraw their maps to protect the House Republican majority in the upcoming midterm elections and add more GOP-leaning seats. At the time, DeSantis was coy, telling people to "stay tuned" ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
The number of children who die before age 5 is expected to rise for the first time this century, amid sweeping cuts to global health funding by high-income countries, according to a new report from the Gates Foundation. Child mortality around the world is projected to reach an estimated 4.8 million deaths in 2025, an increase of 200,000 preventable deaths compared with last year, the Gates Foundation said in its ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia's leader said Wednesday that it was "better not to respond" a day after President Trump called Somali immigrants "garbage" during a xenophobic tirade. "We are not the only country that Trump insults," Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre told an audience at an innovation summit in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, in response to a question about Trump's comments, according to video ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Dec. 3 (UPI) -- The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday subpoenaed former special counsel Jack Smith to have him testify during a closed-door hearing on Dec. 17. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan , R-Ohio, wrote Smith on Wednesday to inform him of the subpoena as the committee investigates Smith's and the Biden administration's efforts to prosecute President Donald Trump . Separate investigations ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
When President Donald Trump was asked about how Afghans legally in the United States might feel about his decision to pause issuing visas for them after the suspected shooter of National Guard members was identified as an Afghan national, he took aim at another country in the same breath: Somalia. "They can't be happy because what's taking place between that and, if you look at Somalia, they're taking over ...
Source: aol.com