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Top News Stories for Wednesday, December 10th 2025
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump's lawyer argued on Monday for far-reaching power that would go well beyond his ability to fire officials at the Federal Trade Commission and other independent agencies. Liberal Justice Elena Kagan warned US Solicitor General D. John Sauer, "Once you're down this road, it's a little bit hard to see how you stop." Sauer rejoined, "So it isn't that we have gone down this road. I think the court ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — At least two of several agreements aimed at ending global conflicts that President Donald Trump has hailed as evidence of his negotiating prowess are in trouble and at risk of collapsing. to end their border conflict, The developments have caused international alarm, which on Tuesday resulted in urgent calls to halt the renewed violence from countries involved in the African Great Lakes ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
inside a commuter train in November. Gov. JB Pritzker's office said in an email to The Associated Press on Tuesday that Trump is politicizing "a heinous tragedy" while doing nothing to make Illinois communities safer. Federal Transit Authority Administrator Marc Molinaro sent a letter Monday to Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson demanding the Chicago Transit Authority develop and implement an updated safety plan by ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
ATLANTA (AP) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is finally scheduled to appear on Dec. 17 to testify before a examining her prosecution of President Donald Trump, but lawyers aren't done arguing over lawmakers' power to haul her in. Lawyers for Willis and the state Senate committee appeared Tuesday before the Georgia Supreme Court to contest whether a 2024 subpoena can still compel Willis to ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is heading toward dueling partisan votes on health care this week after Republicans said Tuesday that they had united around a plan, for now, that would allow COVID-era health care subsidies to expire. Both the Republican plan, which would replace the subsidies with new savings accounts, and a Democratic bill to extend the enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits for three years ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Although tech companies often don't directly manufacture these toys, their absolutist ideological opposition to any legal safeguards on AI is making kids emotionally, mentally, and physically vulnerable. Julie Scelfo is a journalist and the founder and executive director of Mothers Against Media Addiction. Tim Wu is a professor of law, science, and technology at Columbia Law School and author of "The Age of ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
A federal judge in New York on Tuesday granted a Justice Department request to release grand jury material related to Ghislaine Maxwell's case. U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer said in his ruling that he has taken great care to "put in place a mechanism to protect victims from the inadvertent release of materials within the discovery in this case that would identify them or otherwise invade their privacy." ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared that Ukraine will not give up any territory to Russia and said components of a plan to end the war between the countries are ready to be presented to the U.S. "Russia is insisting that we give up territories, but we don't want to cede anything," Zelenskyy said in an online press conference Monday, the AFP news agency reported. "We have no legal right to do so, under ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Last night, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled that Donald Trump's executive order banning wind projects in the United States was unlawful and vacated the order. Donald Trump issued an executive order on the first day of his administration that paused all leasing, permitting and approvals for wind projects, killing tens of thousands of jobs across the country. Since then, the ...
Source: commondreams.org
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
U.S. President Donald Trump sits in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 7, 2025. REUTERS/Leah Millis TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY Donald Trump believes "dark and sinister" forces want to dismantle the US economy, which he claims is the "strongest" in the world. In a post to Truth Social earlier today (November 9), the president made two posts. The first post had him share a news story on ...
Source: rawstory.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
The Federal Reserve is poised to deliver its third straight interest rate cut Wednesday, while simultaneously firing a warning shot about what's ahead. The rate-setting FOMC is split between members who favor cuts to head off further weakness in the labor market against those who think easing has gone far enough and threatens to aggravate inflation. In addition to the rate decision and the statement, investors will ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
President did same thing his administration is now calling 'mortgage fraud' in case against Fed governor Lisa Cook Donald Trump signed mortgage documents in the 1990s claiming two separate Florida properties would each serve as his principal residence – the same thing his administration is calling "mortgage fraud" when done by political rivals, records show. ProPublica unearthed documents demonstrating that ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Dec. 9 (UPI) -- A federal judge has ordered two senior Justice Department attorneys, including one fired by the Trump administration, to testify before the court in its inquiry into a March deportation flight that proceeded in defiance of court orders. Chief Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., on Monday ordered Erez Reuveni, a former Justice Department attorney-turned-whistleblower, ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Hamas has said the ceasefire cannot move forward while Israel continues its violations of the agreement, with Gaza authorities saying the truce has been breached at least 738 times since taking effect in October. Husam Badran, a Hamas official, called on mediators to increase pressure on Israel to fully implement its existing commitments. "The next phase cannot begin as long as the [Israeli] occupation continues ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a Democrat and fierce Trump critic, announced Monday she was launching a high-stakes U.S. Senate campaign in Texas, the same day Democratic primary opponent Colin Allred dropped out. Crockett, who filed just hours before the deadline , will face Democratic Rep. James Talarico of Austin in the March 3rd primary , as she tries to turn incumbent Republican Sen. John Cornyn 's ...
Source: upi.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tells 60 Minutes she blames President Donald Trump after receiving a pipe bomb threat at her home in first major interview about imminent departure from Congress Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene , who has announced her intention to ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump said he is "disappointed" with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy , who he said had not read the latest plan to end Russia's war. Trump's criticism adds to mounting U.S. pressure on Kyiv as Zelenskyy prepared to meet Monday with top European leaders, amid fears on the continent that Washington was pushing a peace deal that was favorable to the Kremlin. Russia has not publicly supported a plan and ...
Source: nbcnews.com