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Top News Stories for Thursday, December 11th 2025
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
RANDOLPH, Minn. (AP) — When Donald Trump promised new while running for president, Gene Stehly worried that trade disputes would jeopardize his international sales of corn, soybeans and wheat. A little more than a year later, Stehly said his fears have become a reality, and Trump's latest promise of federal assistance is insufficient to cover farmers' losses. "Maybe this will all come out to be better at the ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
This image from video posted on Attorney General Pam Bondi's X account, and partially redacted by the source, shows an oil tanker being seized by U.S. forces off the coast of Venezuela, Dec. 10, 2025. Credit - U.S. Attorney General's Office—X/AP The Venezuelan government has called the U.S. seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela "a blatant theft and an act of international piracy." President ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
A federal judge in New York has ruled the US Department of Justice can publicly release grand jury records from Jeffrey Epstein's 2019 sex trafficking case. US District Judge Richard Berman's ruling reverses his previous decision to keep the material sealed. He cited a new law passed by Congress requiring the justice department to release files about Epstein. In his latest ruling, Judge Berman said the victims have ...
Source: bbc.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The Supreme Court appeared uncertain about whether it would strike down a major campaign-finance restriction during oral arguments on Tuesday, with some of the court's conservative members questioning a right-wing push to do so. The case, National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission , revolves around a legal challenge to Congress's ban on "coordinated party expenditures." Federal election ...
Source: newrepublic.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Miami voters have elected Eileen Higgins its first mayor aligned with the Democratic Party in nearly three decades. With 100% of precincts reporting, Higgins secured nearly 60% of the vote, besting Republican Emilio Gonzalez in the runoff election, according to unofficial results from the Miami-Dade County Elections Supervisor Alina Garcia. A little more than 37,000 votes were cast in the Miami ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine was expected to give its latest peace proposals to US negotiators Wednesday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, a day ahead of his urgent talks with leaders and officials from about 30 other countries supporting Kyiv's effort to end the war with Russia on acceptable terms. As tension builds around a US push for a settlement, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, British Prime Minister Keir ...
Source: bostonglobe.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 -
The Trump administration is reportedly trying to strongarm the International Criminal Court (ICC) into changing its founding document to carve out an exception for President Donald Trump and his top officials ensuring that they are never prosecuted by the court for potential war crimes. The administration is threatening the ICC with yet more sanctions if they do not amend the Rome Statute, which established the ...
Source: truthout.org
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
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
A former Donald Trump criminal defense attorney turned controversial DOJ higher-up and then lifetime federal appellate judge faces a judicial misconduct complaint just one day after attending the president's rally in Pennsylvania. Fix the Court, which describes itself as a "nonpartisan" nonprofit advocating "for non-ideological fixes that would make the federal courts, and primarily the U.S. Supreme Court, more ...
Source: lawandcrime.com