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Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
Pediatricians say panel's decision will create confusion and access issues, and condemn 'parody of public health' The entire US childhood vaccine schedule is now open for scrutiny, experts say, after government vaccine advisers took up discussions of the safety and efficacy of the vaccines and their components and changed its recommendations on one crucial prevention. Several of the vaccine advisers are longtime ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
With the White House's push for states to draw new maps ahead of the midterms not going as smoothly as planned, the Sunshine State is now entering the fray. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida could be the final state the White House can count on to pick up additional seats as part of the rare mid-decade redistricting cycle it has pushed ahead of the midterm elections. The Republican-controlled state officially ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 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? WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military opened fire on two people clinging to the wreckage of a boat allegedly carrying drugs, congressional lawmakers learned ...
Source: huffpost.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
Netflix won the business version of the Squid Game on Friday, beating out Paramount Skydance , Comcast , and possibly others in a bidding war for the Warner Bros. streaming and studios assets of Warner Bros. Discovery . Netflix is now the biggest entertainment company in the world by far, with a market cap of more than $400 billion, and the company that was dismissed by a former Warner Bros. boss as the "Albanian ...
Source: fool.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
The more persuasive a model is trained to be, the higher the likelihood that it'll hallucinate, researchers find. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Most of us feel a sense of personal ownership over our opinions: "I believe what I believe, not because I've been told to do so, but as the result of careful consideration." "I have full control over how, when, and why I ...
Source: zdnet.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
For babies born in the next few years, "Trump accounts" could be a financial game changer. And for the policymakers and advocates who conceived of the idea, the accounts have another potential benefit: Improving capitalism's reputation, especially among young people. "What I'm really excited about is, we are creating a new generation of capitalists," Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said at the White House on ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk , a newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team's latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. In today's edition, we break down the findings from our focus groups with voters who backed President Donald Trump in 2024, but went for Democrats in last month's gubernatorial elections. Plus, Kristen Welker ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
The United States Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether US President Donald Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship—as guaranteed under the 14th Amendment for more than 150 years—is constitutional. Next spring, the justices will hear oral arguments in Trump's appeal of a lower court ruling that struck down parts of an executive order —titled Protecting the Meaning and ...
Source: commondreams.org
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
By Perry Stein and Gregory S. Schneider, The Washington Post A grand jury in Virginia on Thursday rejected Justice Department efforts to charge New York Attorney General Letitia James with mortgage fraud, declining to indict her again after a judge dismissed the charges last week, according to two people familiar with the matter, who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak about the ...
Source: abajournal.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article James McCrery II will remain on the project in a 'consulting' role, the White House has said President Donald Trump replaced the original architect tapped to oversee his $300 million ballroom due to the massive size of the president's project, according to a report. James McCrery ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva of Arizona said she was pepper-sprayed and "pushed around" by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during a raid at a Tucson restaurant on Friday. In a video statement posted on X , Grijalva said it happened as local Tucsonans gathered to stop a group of roughly 40 ICE agents, many of them masked and in several vehicles, stationed in the middle of a street near a restaurant ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON, Dec 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court next week weighs the legality of Donald Trump's firing of a Federal Trade Commission member in a major test of presidential power over agencies set up by Congress to be insulated from White House control in a case that could imperil a 90-year-old legal precedent. The court hears arguments on Monday in the Justice Department's appeal of a lower ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Federal regulators said they are expanding an investigation into Waymo this week, following reports that the company's self-driving cars navigated around school buses stopped on the road in Austin, Texas. In a letter to Waymo dated Dec. 3, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said it will investigate the performance of the autonomous vehicles and their ability to follow traffic safety ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
The quiet calm of a weekday morning in a Woodbridge, Virginia, neighborhood was suddenly interrupted Thursday by a loud siren, two Humvee-style vehicles and a group of SWAT-like figures in camouflage, rifles trained on a house. "This is the FBI. We have a federal search warrant," the voice coming over a loudspeaker said, according to a neighbor. "Come out of the house with your hands up." The ensuing arrest of a ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Mortgage interest rates may still drop this year. Following two Federal Reserve interest rate cuts that caused mortgage rates to fall to multiple 3-year lows , the central bank is poised to cut rates again when it meets on December 10. That, in turn, could cause mortgage rates to fall again. And it may even happen pre-emptively , as the last two big mortgage rate drops actually occurred in the hours preceding a Fed ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Employers announced 71,321 job cuts last month: Report Only third time since 2008 that Nov. layoff plans topped 70K Markets expect Fed to cut interest rates at the next meeting TAMPA, Fla. ( NewsNation ) — U.S. employers have announced more than 1.1 million job cuts so far this year, the most since 2020, according to new data from Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The outplacement firm said this year's tally is ...
Source: wfla.com