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Top News Stories for Thursday, September 18th 2025
Thursday, Sep 18th, 2025 -
By The Federal Reserve voted to lower interest rates by a quarter percentage point on Wednesday while signaling that it might pursue two additional rate cuts later this year. The decision brings rates to a range of 4% to 4.25% and marks the first time this year the Fed has lowered its benchmark interest rate. Weighing inflation, which Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said "remains slightly elevated," against a cooling ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Sep 18th, 2025 -
The already tumultuous landscape of U.S. vaccine policy faces more turmoil in what's anticipated to be a politically charged two-day meeting of a recently overhauled advisory panel to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is an independent panel of experts that has traditionally met three times a year to make science-based recommendations about who ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Thursday, Sep 18th, 2025 -
Speed: 0.5x Speed: 1x Speed: 1.5x Speed: 2x 🎙️ Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur. President Donald Trump praised the British novelist George Orwell at the state banquet at Windsor Castle on Wednesday amid growing concerns over a crackdown on free speech. "A fifth of all of humanity speaks, writes, thinks and prays in the language born on these isles and perfected in the pages of ...
Source: newsweek.com
Thursday, Sep 18th, 2025 -
Corporate America may have lost its way a long time ago. But the cofounders of Ben & Jerry's have never wandered . Nearly half a century after they started their global ice cream brand in Burlington, Vt., Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield hold fast to the progressive values that defined their company. They were devoted to making the world's best ice cream and making the world a better place, and they still are. Even ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Sep 18th, 2025 -
Three police officers were shot dead and two wounded on Wednesday in southern Pennsylvania in the United States before the attacker was shot down, authorities said. It was one of the deadliest days for police, not only in Pennsylvania, but in the US, in recent times. Here is what we know: What happened in Pennsylvania? The shooting took place a little after 2pm (18:00 GMT) on Wednesday at a farmhouse off a quiet ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Sep 18th, 2025 -
Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account's 'Saved for Later' section. Congressional Democrats are understandably unhappy with what happened last time they faced a government-shutdown crisis. In March, Republicans forced them into a trap where they either had to vote for another GOP-sponsored stopgap-spending measure, which offered Democrats zero concessions, or obstruct it and trigger a ...
Source: nymag.com
Thursday, Sep 18th, 2025 -
Speed: 0.5x Speed: 1x Speed: 1.5x Speed: 2x 🎙️ Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur. Media giant Sinclair called on Jimmy Kimmel to apologize directly to Charlie Kirk's family over remarks he made about the conservative activist's killing, and to give both them and Turning Point USA a "meaningful personal donation." Sinclair, which owns a number of ABC affiliates, had told ABC that it ...
Source: newsweek.com
Thursday, Sep 18th, 2025 -
Sept. 18 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump said he will designate Antifa as a terrorist organization, after vowing to punish groups linked to political violence originating from the left following the shooting death of conservative provocateur Charlie Kirk. Trump made the statement early Thursday on his Truth Social media platform from Britain where he is on a state visit. "I am pleased to inform our many U.S.A. ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
Like millions of other Americans, Robinson's mother in southern Utah had been following Kirk's shooting. On Thursday, she noticed that the images of the gunman that were released to aid the search looked disturbingly familiar. In the chaotic hours after an assassin's gunshot rang out at Utah Valley University last Wednesday, Tyler Robinson texted his roommate and romantic partner back home 250 miles away and said, ...
Source: boston.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Many teens and young adults become radicalized by online forums, which lead to violent attacks driven by ideology, FBI Director Kash Patel told the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. Patel testified before the House committee a day after testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee and affirmed that the FBI investigates political violence regardless of the source or who is victimized. ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
David Pittman, a Florida man convicted of killing his estranged wife's sister and parents and setting their house on fire in 1990, was executed by lethal injection Wednesday evening at Florida State Prison. Pittman, 63, was pronounced dead at 6:12 p.m., according to the Department of Corrections. His execution marked the 12th in Florida this year — the most in a single year since the state reinstated ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
JACKSON, Miss. — Police on Tuesday were investigating the death of a Black college student found hanging from a tree on the campus of Delta State University in Mississippi, stirring online rumors that evoked the state's history of Jim Crow-era racist violence even as authorities said there was no initial evidence of a crime. The campus police chief said there are no signs of foul play in the death of the ...
Source: cleveland.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
Maine's Department of the Secretary of State has received no notification of the lawsuit, and the Oregon Secretary of State's Office also said that it hasn't seen a court filing. This story was originally published by the Maine Morning Star. The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it sued Maine and Oregon for declining to turn over personal voter information. "Maine has some of the best ...
Source: route-fifty.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
for assistance. The family sued the AI firm following the tragic event, and the case is ongoing. In the wake of this incident, OpenAI is rolling out its new parental control features this month. The company said in Among the new safety features coming to ChatGPT soon, there's one AI capability that might stir some controversy. OpenAI will let ChatGPT predict the user's age to determine how it should respond to ...
Source: bgr.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
Costco is recalling its Kirkland brand Signature Prosecco Valdobbiadene, warning that bottles of the sparkling wine could deliver a different sort of pop than customers are used to. The discount chain said unopened bottles of the wine could shatter before being handled or used, according to a recall notice posted on its website. The prosecco, marketed under Costco's private label, was sold in 12 states ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Federal health officials are cracking down on telehealth companies' promotion of unapproved versions of prescription drugs, including popular weight loss medications. On Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released more than 100 warning letters aimed at both drugmakers and online health companies. Among them: , a telehealth platform that has made a ...
Source: insidenova.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
Ex-president says US in 'dangerous moment', after White House response to killings of Kirk and Melissa Hortman Barack Obama addressed the recent killing of Charlie Kirk and told a crowd in Pennsylvania on Tuesday the country was "at an inflection point", but that political violence "is not new" and "has happened at certain periods" in US history. Obama added that despite history, political violence was "anathema to ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California judge has rejected a request for a new trial for Erik and Lyle Menendez, shutting down another possible path to freedom for the brothers who have served decades in prison for killing their parents in 1989 at their Beverly Hills mansion. The ruling Monday by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William C. Ryan comes just weeks after the brothers were denied parole. Ryan denied a May ...
Source: wfla.com