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Top News Stories for Friday, December 12th 2025
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
The Indiana Senate failed to pass a new GOP-favored House map on Thursday, dealing a major blow to President Trump after he had publicly pressured state lawmakers to approve the new lines. The upper chamber voted against the map on a 19-31 vote, drawing applause from some within the chamber. Its rejection of the aggressive 9-0 House map leaves the Hoosier State's redistricting effort in limbo. The result was not ...
Source: thehill.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a wrongfully deported Salvadoran immigrant, was released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention Thursday following a federal judge's order. Garcia is facing U.S. charges by the Trump administration. His attorneys confirmed that he had been released by Thursday afternoon. Immigration Customs Enforcement officials sought to deport Abrego Garcia to an African nation ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
More people appear to be walking away from Affordable Care Act coverage or switching to cheaper plans for 2026 compared to this time last year, according to early enrollment data from several states. State health officials in New York, Pennsylvania, Idaho, Colorado and California shared numbers from the first month of ACA open enrollment, which began Nov. 1 and runs through Jan. 15 in most states. Idaho opened two ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - A U.S. travel association, a top Democrat, and would-be travelers from Europe and Australia are bristling at President Donald Trump's new plan to require Europeans and other visitors using the visa waiver program to provide social media handles used over the past five years. The change, announced in a U.S. government notice this week and effective February 8, would ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
A grand jury, for a second time, declined to bring a new indictment against Letitia James, the New York attorney general who defeated President Donald Trump and his company in court, according to multiple sources. The Justice Department presented its case against James to grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, Thursday — a week after a different grand jury in Norfolk declined to bring charges. Of the five cases ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Ukrainian president says plan would not be fair without guarantees that Russia would not simply take over zone The US wants Ukraine to withdraw its troops from the Donbas region, and Washington would then create a "free economic zone" in the parts Kyiv currently controls, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. Previously, the US had suggested Kyiv should hand over the parts of Donbas it still controlled to Russia, but the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Reading time 5 minutes Cast your mind back to May of this year: Congress was in the throes of debate over the massive budget bill . Amidst the many seismic provisions, Senator Ted Cruz dropped a ticking time bomb of tech policy: a ten-year moratorium on the ability of states to regulate artificial intelligence. To many, this was catastrophic. The few massive AI companies seem to be swallowing our economy whole: ...
Source: gizmodo.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 end of the year brings noise. Your membership ensures our newsroom remains a clear, reliable source of facts for the whole community. Help us keep the signal strong for the year ahead. Already a member? Dec 10 (Reuters) - A federal judge in California on Wednesday ordered an end to Donald Trump 's deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles and directed that they be returned to the control of the state's ...
Source: huffpost.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado appeared in public for the first time in 11 months early Thursday morning local time, 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 capital. ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer Tuesday cleared the way for the release of potentially hundreds of thousands of documents from the sex trafficking case against Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell. "unambiguously applies" to the Maxwell grand jury testimony and "voluminous" other records from the case, Engelmayer ruled, including evidence not used in the 2021 trial that resulted in Maxwell's 20-year ...
Source: theweek.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Exclusive reporting by Reuters on Wednesday cites an anonymous government official who says that the Trump administration has privately reached out to the International Criminal Court in order to threaten new sanctions against the ICC unless it pledges not to prosecute President Donald Trump for any crimes he may have committed. According to the news agency: The Trump administration official, speaking on the ...
Source: commondreams.org
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Danny KEMP 3 min read US President Donald Trump has been seen closing his eyes periodically at a number of events (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS) US President Donald Trump has blasted media reports questioning his state of health as "seditious, perhaps even treasonous," sparking pushback Wednesday by one of the major outlets behind the stories. In a long, late-night social media post, the oldest elected president in US ...
Source: yahoo.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The Trump administration is proposing to ask visitors from several dozen nations that enjoy visa-free travel to the U.S. to submit additional personal information before entering the country, including five years of their social media history, the Department of Homeland Security said in a notice this week. Citizens of 42 countries enrolled in the visa waiver program can generally come to the U.S. for up to 90 days ...
Source: cbsnews.com