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Top News Stories for Wednesday, December 31st 2025
Tuesday, Dec 30th, 2025 -
Ukraine has denied an allegation by Russia that it launched a drone strike on one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's "official residences." Russia made the claims on Monday, saying it would revise its stance in peace talks. Ukraine said the allegation was a "complete fabrication." In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting of the ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Dec 30th, 2025 -
The United States hit and destroyed a docking area for alleged Venezuela drug boats, President Donald Trump said Monday, in what could amount to the first land strike of the military campaign against trafficking from Latin America. The US leader's confirmation of the incident comes as he ramps up a pressure campaign against Venezuela's leftist President Nicolas Maduro, who has accused Trump of seeking regime ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Tuesday, Dec 30th, 2025 -
A federal judge has ordered that the Trump administration must allow funding for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to continue. The watchdog, which supporters say protects US consumers from financial harm by powerful banks, lenders and corporations, is at risk of collapsing after Donald Trump vowed to shutter it since he returned to office this year. The agency's acting director, Russell Vought, said ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Dec 30th, 2025 -
The Department of Health and Human Services said Tuesday it has frozen federal child care funding for the state of Minnesota, citing viral fraud allegations . Deputy HHS Secretary Jim O'Neill announced the move in a post on X , writing that "blatant fraud ... appears to be rampant in Minnesota and across the country." "We have turned off the money spigot and we are finding the fraud," he wrote. O'Neill cited ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 30th, 2025 -
Saudi Arabia publicly accused close ally the United Arab Emirates of "highly dangerous" actions in Yemen as it led "limited" airstrikes on the country's Mukalla port Tuesday morning following accusations that two ships from the UAE had delivered weapons and combat vehicles to separatist forces. The UAE rejected the accusations, expressed surprise at the strikes and stated that the vehicles were intended for ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Dec 30th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump has sought to remake the storied John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in his image, stocking the board of trustees with allies who later green-lit the addition of his name to the center and personally serving as the host for its annual marquee program, the Kennedy Center Honors. Trump's increasing control of the Kennedy Center led some artists to disassociate themselves from the ...
Source: nymag.com
Tuesday, Dec 30th, 2025 -
Israel says it will suspend more than three dozen humanitarian organisations, including Doctors Without Borders, for failing to meet its new rules for aid groups working in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip. Organisations facing bans starting on Thursday didn't meet new requirements for sharing information on their staffs, funding and operations, Israeli authorities said. Other major organisations affected include the ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Dec 30th, 2025 -
The Trump administration filed a federal preemption lawsuit on Monday against the Commonwealth of Virginia over a policy that provides in-state tuition for immigrants who live in the Old Dominion. In February, President Donald Trump signed an executive order entitled " Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Open Borders ." The order aimed to keep "taxpayer-funded benefits" away from immigrants and directed officials to ...
Source: lawandcrime.com
Tuesday, Dec 30th, 2025 -
A federal judge has found evidence that high-level Department of Justice officials may have played a role in the government's push for criminal charges against Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran migrant who became a symbol of President Donald Trump 's hard-line immigration policies. The government has previously said Robert McGuire, the acting US Attorney for Middle Tennessee, made the decision to seek a ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Tuesday, Dec 30th, 2025 -
A federal judge in California this week allowed officials to share some Medicaid information — including addresses and phone numbers — with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to help that agency in its efforts to identify, arrest and deport immigrants suspected of living in the U.S. illegally. The ruling amounts to a partial legal victory for the Trump administration and its efforts to carry out a ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Monday, Dec 29th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article White House's handling of the economy and its deportation policy raising concern among Trump supporters A growing number of Americans who voted for President Donald Trump to return to the White House are starting to disagree with him on some key issues ahead of next year's midterm ...
Source: independent.co.uk