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Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article The attack comes just hours after Admiral Frank 'Mitch' Bradley briefed concerned lawmakers about the September 'double tap' strike Defense secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S military to carry out an attack on an alleged drug boat on Thursday, killing four occupants, amid the ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected the Trump administration's bid to halt an order requiring it to release millions of dollars in grants meant to address the The mental health program, which was funded by Congress after the 2022 , included grants meant to help schools hire more counselors, psychologists and social workers, with a focus on rural and underserved areas of the ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Dec. 5 (UPI) -- A federal grand jury has rejected the Justice Department's bid to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James , according to reports, dealing a blow to President Donald Trump 's effort to prosecute political opponents. The Norfolk, Va., grand jury decision comes less than two weeks after a federal judge threw out criminal cases against James and FBI Director James Comey . "The grand jury's ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Russian President Putin said Russia could provide "uninterrupted" shipments of fuel to India. India has been scaling back on importing Russian oil amid U.S. sanctions on Russian companies like Rosneft and Lukoil. India received 38% of Russian crude exports in October, research shows, but the U.S. imposed a tariff on New Delhi for doing so. Russian President Vladimir Putin is welcomed by Indian Prime Minister ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's use of commercial messaging app Signal to discuss strikes on Yemen could have put troops at risk. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's use of commercial messaging app Signal to discuss strikes on Yemen risked compromising sensitive information and could have put troops at risk, the Pentagon's independent watchdog said Thursday. The report piles further pressure on Hegseth, who is ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
November saw 71,321 job cuts announced, down 53% from October but pushing yearly total up 54% Layoffs announced by employers declined on a monthly basis in November but still pushed the 2025 total to the highest level since the wave of pandemic-induced layoffs in 2020, new data from Challenger, Gray & Christmas shows. The report found that U.S. employers announced 71,321 layoffs in November — down 53% from ...
Source: foxbusiness.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 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Melania Trump lit the National Christmas Tree on a chilly Thursday night in the nation's capital. At the annual tree lighting on the Ellipse, just south of the White House, President Donald Trump told the crowd, "The first lady is going to do the honors." He counted down from five to zero. Melania then stepped forward and pressed a button that made the tree behind them sparkle ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The New York Times filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Department of Defense for violating the constitutional rights of journalists by adding restrictions on reporting about the military. The suit accuses the Pentagon and Secretary Pete Hegseth of violating the First Amendment by creating the new restrictions on reporting. They "seek to restrict journalists' ability to do what journalists have ...
Source: upi.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 -
Defendants were convicted of similar crimes a decade ago. How were they cleared again? Two sibling contractors convicted a decade ago for hacking into US State Department systems have once again been charged, this time for a comically hamfisted attempt to steal and destroy government records just minutes after being fired from their contractor jobs. The Department of Justice on Thursday said that Muneeb Akhter and ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Alina Habba said she was the acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey. President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi agreed. All three were wrong, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit ruled this week. That unanimous decision , which was issued by a three-judge panel that included two George W. Bush appointees, highlights a disturbing pattern of conduct that extends beyond New Jersey to New York , ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
A series of multimillion-dollar alleged fraud schemes in Minnesota has drawn the Trump administration's attention in recent weeks, vaulting an issue that has brewed in state politics for years into the national conversation. President Trump has attacked Democratic Gov. Tim Walz over the fraud cases, calling Minnesota a "hub of fraudulent money laundering activity" and lashing out against the state's Somali ...
Source: cbsnews.com