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Top News Stories for Saturday, December 20th 2025
Saturday, Dec 20th, 2025 -
The Justice Department released thousands of new records on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, but at least 550 pages in the documents are fully redacted, CBS News has found. The newly released files included photos of several prominent people in Epstein's orbit, images from his homes and investigative records that detail disturbing allegations against the late sex offender. But the heavy redactions ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Dec 20th, 2025 -
Elon Musk , the justices split on parts of the liability analysis but agreed that rescinding the entire package was "an inappropriate remedy" given Tesla's subsequent performance and shareholder support. The decision effectively clears the way for Musk to exercise options on about 303 million Tesla shares (split‑adjusted), a stake values at roughly $139 billion based on the stock's latest closing price. To ...
Source: bradenton.com
Saturday, Dec 20th, 2025 -
The mayor of Providence is asking FBI Director Kash Patel to give the $50,000 reward offered for information in the Brown University mass shooting to a local tipster who provided a detailed account of the suspect. The man, only identified by authorities in a criminal complaint as "John," provided the Providence Police Department with the most detailed account of the suspect, later identified as 48-year-old Carlos ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington donned a new name — the Trump-Kennedy Center — on the exterior of the building Friday, just a day after President Donald Trump's hand-picked board voted to change the arts institution's name. on Thursday voted unanimously to approve the name change. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he was "surprised" and "honored" that the board, of ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
UPDATE : Yesterday, President Trump signed a long-anticipated executive order (EO) directing the Attorney General to "take all necessary steps to complete the rulemaking process related to rescheduling marijuana to Schedule III of the CSA in the most expeditious manner in accordance with Federal law, including 21 U.S.C. 811." The announcement was made during an Oval Office meeting with Health and Human ...
Source: jdsupra.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
HHS has announced proposed regulations that, if finalized, would limit access to gender-affirming care in minors and penalizing health care providers who do not comply. CMS is proposing to ban hospitals from performing — including hormone therapy, puberty blockers and surgical operations — on children aged younger than 18 years as a condition of Medicare and Medicaid program participation, according to ...
Source: healio.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Republican worries about losing their majority in the U.S. House of Representatives next year erupted this week, when four moderates joined Democrats in a last-ditch effort to prevent a spike in healthcare costs for 24 million Americans beginning in less than two weeks. and Mike Lawler of New York - are part of a larger group of about a dozen House Republicans who had been ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
Decades before this week's manhunt through New England ended with the discovery of his body in a storage facility, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente had been an academic powerhouse in his home country of Portugal. Enrolled at one of the country's most prestigious engineering schools, Neves Valente graduated at the top of his class, seemingly poised for a bright future. Now, Neves Valente is dead at age 48, suspected of ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
Grocery delivery company denies wrongdoing, says it provides 'transparent pricing and fees' Grocery delivery giant Instacart will pay $60 million in consumer refunds under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) after the agency accused the company of misleading shoppers and driving up grocery costs for Americans. The FTC alleged Thursday that Instacart falsely advertised free delivery on first orders, ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan was arrested by the FBI and charged in April amid Trump's immigration crackdown A jury has found a Wisconsin judge accused of helping a Mexican immigrant dodge federal authorities guilty of obstruction, in a closely watched case that brought Donald Trump's anti-immigration agenda into the spotlight. Federal prosecutors had charged Milwaukee county circuit judge Hannah Dugan with ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
775,399 19,813 Market yield on U.S. treasury securities at 10-year constant maturity. Updated daily. Welcome, + Existing home sales have risen for three months, reaching a nine-month high as mortgage rates fell and inventory increased. AI Summary Existing home sales have been trending higher since June, when the monthly sales print bottomed at 3,930,000 for 2025. The question is: can this continue? Back in ...
Source: housingwire.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
Key Takeaways A new executive order seeks to preempt state AI laws viewed as inconsistent with administration AI policies and establishes a Litigation Task Force to challenge them. State courts will be a battleground for determining the viability of state laws and establishing new "industry standards" as legal duties for AI technologies. State AI laws that include safe harbors or mitigation mechanisms, or ...
Source: natlawreview.com
Thursday, Dec 18th, 2025 -
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A man who is suspected of killing two and wounding several others at Brown University has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility, officials said. Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a Brown student and Portuguese national, was found dead Thursday evening from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Col. Oscar Perez, the Providence police chief, said at a news conference. From AP's ...
Source: apnews.com