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Top News Stories for Sunday, December 14th 2025
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article The U.S. House Oversight Committee Democrats has received 95,000 photos from the Epstein estate, with two tranches posted online Friday said newly released photos showing he and Jeffrey Epstein mingling with several women were "no big deal," but later claimed he had not seen them. ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
Op-Ed: Favors for the rich kids — US executive order against state AI regulation is an incredibly stupid mistake The world is tired of trying to tolerate this insanity. The last thing anyone expects from the US is realism or competence on any level. Total trade, diplomatic, and socioeconomic failure apparently isn't enough, though. Trump's much-hyped executive order is to pre-empt and "target" states that ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
US Central Command reports an ambush on Saturday, the first attack to inflict US casualties since fall of Bashar al-Assad Two US army soldiers and one American civilian interpreter have been killed and several other people wounded in an ambush on Saturday by the Islamic State group in central Syria, the Pentagon said. The attack on US troops in Palmyra is the first to inflict casualties since the fall of the former ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 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? WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate failed to get anywhere on the health care issue this week. Now it's the House's turn to show what it can do. Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled a Republican alternative late Friday, ...
Source: huffpost.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
Belarusian authorities have released Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ales Bialiatski and key opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova from prison, Pavel Sapelka, human rights advocate with the Viasna rights group, confirmed to the AP. Their release comes as authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko seeks to improve relations with Washington. The U.S. earlier on Saturday announced lifting sanctions on the country's potash ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
BALTIMORE (AP) — Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whose mistaken deportation helped galvanize opposition to President Donald Trump's , was released from immigration detention on Thursday, and a judge has any further efforts to detain him. Abrego Garcia currently can't be deported to his home country of El Salvador thanks to a 2019 immigration court order that found he had a "well founded fear" of danger there. However, ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
The activist was detained in the city of Mashhad during a memorial ceremony for another activist, raising concern from the Norwegian Nobel Committee and human rights groups about her safety and health. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, who was awarded the prestigious honour in 2023 for her work defending women's rights and human rights in Iran, has been "violently" detained, according to her ...
Source: news.sky.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump's pledge to pardon Tina Peters, a former Colorado county clerk convicted of tampering with voting machines, touched off a new battle Friday over the fate of perhaps the last high-profile 2020 election denier still behind bars. Democratic leaders in Colorado dismissed the pardon as an empty attempt to bully a Democratic state into freeing one of the president's political allies. They argued ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
Raed Saad's death is the highest-profile killing of a senior Hamas figure since the ceasefire came into effect in October. A senior Hamas commander who was one of the architects of the 7 October 2023 attacks on Israel has been killed in a strike on Gaza City, according to the country's military. Raed Saad was targeted in response to an attack by Hamas in which an explosive device injured two soldiers on Saturday, ...
Source: news.sky.com
Saturday, Dec 13th, 2025 -
(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said that Kevin Hassett and Kevin Warsh are his top choices to lead the US Federal Reserve and that he expects the next chair of the central bank to consult with him on interest rates. Trump, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Friday, indicated that Warsh, a former Fed governor, has climbed up the short list of contenders to challenge Hassett, the White House ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 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? President Donald Trump was sued on Friday by preservationists seeking an architecture review and congressional approval over his White House ballroom project . The National Trust for Historic Preservation is ...
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Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
Doral, Florida — The admiral overseeing U.S. military forces in South America relinquished command Friday, as the U.S. continues its buildup of ships and military assets off Venezuela and carries out strikes against alleged drug boats. "We have worked hard and tirelessly to build relationships and understand requirements across the region," Adm. Alvin Holsey said during a relinquishment of command ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article The White House press secretary has declined to comment on future plans, but said the U.S. is 'not going to stand by and watch sanctioned vessels sail the seas with black market oil' President Donald Trump further escalated tensions with Venezuela after he announced the U.S. had ...
Source: independent.co.uk