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Top News Stories for Thursday, December 4th 2025
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
The Trump administration launched immigration enforcement operations in New Orleans and Minneapolis on Wednesday, a day after President Donald Trump said he would be about the New Orleans operation that it is "targeting criminal aliens roaming free thanks to sanctuary policies that force local authorities to ignore U.S. immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrest detainers," or requests to hold people ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
and announced plans to issue regulations for "Trump Accounts," which are a new type of individual retirement account for children created by Congress earlier this year. Parents and guardians can create Trump Accounts for children under 18, although contributions to the accounts cannot be made before July 4, 2026, and are limited to $5,000 annually in aggregate, according to the IRS. The federal government will also ...
Source: bankingjournal.aba.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Washington — The Pentagon's internal watchdog determined Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth jeopardized sensitive military information and could have endangered American service members when he shared certain details about U.S. military operations in Yemen in a private Signal group chat earlier this year, according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the report's findings. The individuals who spoke to ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Democrats on the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday released never-before-seen photos and videos of Jeffrey Epstein's infamous private island , offering what they called a "disturbing look" into the world of the late convicted sex offender. The newly released material includes dozens of short videos and still photographs of the compound , including one showing a ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Washington — A bipartisan deal on health care remains elusive in the Senate with a key vote on Affordable Care Act tax credits set for next week. "The conversations continue," Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Tuesday. "I don't think at this point we have a clear path forward, I don't think the Democrats have a clear path forward — and they're the ones that are going to have to put forward ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said this week that the federal government would start withholding money to help run the SNAP food aid program from states that don't provide data on participants, including their immigration status. The department said the government needs the data to spot fraud in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which helps 42 million Americans, or about 1 in 8, buy ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine and its European allies accused Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday of feigning interest in peace efforts after five hours of talks with U.S. envoys at the Kremlin produced no breakthrough. The Russian leader "should end the bluster and the bloodshed and be ready to come to the table and to support a just and lasting peace," said U.K. Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper. ...
Source: military.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
2 min read Jim Jordan, the Republican Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said he has issued a subpoena to former Special Counsel Jack Smith to privately testify before the committee in mid-December. The subpoena follows Smith's continued calls to allow him to testify publicly about his investigations and cases against President Donald Trump. In the letter to Smith, which Jordan shared on X on Wednesday , ...
Source: edition.cnn.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Dec. 3 (UPI) -- The Trump administration on Tuesday announced a pause on immigration application processing for nationals from 19 countries and said it would re-examine immigration and asylum cases approved during the Biden administration. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced the hold and review of all pending asylum applications and USCIS benefits applications filed by immigrants from the ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
This year, the holidays don't feel celebratory for many Americans who've been negatively affected by the Trump administration's decisions. We're here to make sure those people do not go unheard. Help us hold the administration accountable. Already a member? The White House on Tuesday attacked after for using her music in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest video. In a reference-filled attempt to diminish ...
Source: huffpost.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article At least eight judges purged from New York City after another five judges in San Francisco were terminated has fired or forced out roughly 100 immigration judges since the president took office, including more than a dozen in the last two weeks alone. The administration purged at ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he is issuing a "full and unconditional" pardon to Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife, Imelda, using a lengthy social media post to accuse the Biden administration of targeting political opponents, even within its own party. "One of the clearest examples of this was when Crooked Joe used the FBI and DOJ to 'take out' a member of his own Party after Highly ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Dec 2nd, 2025 -
President Trump formally pardoned former president Juan Orlando Hernández of Honduras on Monday evening, fulfilling a vow he had made days before to free an ex-president who was at the center of what authorities had characterized as "one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world." Trump pledged to issue the pardon last week, after Hernández sent him a four-page letter ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Dec 2nd, 2025 -
A Republican senator has introduced a bill to ban Americans from holding dual citizenship, in the latest attempt by the right to attack immigrants and tighten the rules around what is permissible with regards to American citizenship. Sen. Bernie Moreno, a Republican from Ohio, introduced the legislation , entitled the "Exclusive Citizenship Act," on Tuesday. The bill makes the sweeping assertion that people with ...
Source: truthout.org
Tuesday, Dec 2nd, 2025 -
When the suspect in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare Chief Executive Brian Thompson was arrested last year after a high-profile five-day manhunt, many people had a question: What was Luigi Mangione doing at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania? One of the first officers on the scene was doubtful he would actually find the suspect inside the restaurant, he testified Tuesday, after responding to a 911 call ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Dec 2nd, 2025 -
Netflix and 50 Cent's harrowing new series looks back at the disgraced music mogul's rise to fame and fall from grace The controversial Netflix docuseries Sean Combs: The Reckoning had already been called a "shameful hitpiece" by the disgraced mogul's lawyers after a trailer was released on Monday. Now after all four episodes have been dropped on Netflix, it's been called " grimly necessary " and a " relentless" ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Dec 2nd, 2025 -
NEW YORK (AP) — Starbucks will pay about $35 million to more than 15,000 New York City workers to settle claims it denied them stable schedules and arbitrarily cut their hours, city officials announced Monday, hours before Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders visited striking baristas on a picket line. The development came amid a continuing strike by Starbucks' union that began last month ...
Source: pbs.org