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Top News Stories for Wednesday, December 10th 2025
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Conservative justices seem ready to back Trump control of independent agencies. The Supreme Court's conservative justices appear ready to overturn a 90-year-old precedent that said the president cannot fire a Federal Trade Commission member without cause. A ruling for Trump would give him more power over the FTC and potentially other independent agencies such as the Federal Communications Commission. Former FTC ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Paramount Skydance Monday launched a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, seeking to undo Netflix's purchase of Warner's studio and streaming businesses. Paramount said its $77.9 billion all-cash bid for the whole company, including CNN, offered better value to shareholders than the $72 billion purchase price agreed to by Netflix and Warner on Friday. It was Paramount chief David Ellison's sixth bid for the ...
Source: theweek.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 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? President Donald Trump was apparently up late on Monday evening, posting a series of middle-of-the-night messages on his Truth Social platform focused on his ...
Source: huffpost.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 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 Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in its latest campaign finance case with a challenge to existing limits on how much a political party can spend in ...
Source: huffpost.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is heading toward dueling partisan votes on health care this week after Republicans said Tuesday that they had united around a plan, for now, that would allow COVID-era health care subsidies to expire. Both the Republican plan, which would replace the subsidies with new savings accounts, and a Democratic bill to extend the enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits for three years ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
The Trump administration announced an agreement on Tuesday to officially kill the SAVE plan for federal student loans. The announcement, included in an Education Department filing to settle an ongoing legal challenge, will result in millions of borrowers being forced into "For four years, the Biden Administration sought to unlawfully shift student loan debt onto American taxpayers, many of whom either never took ...
Source: forbes.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Although tech companies often don't directly manufacture these toys, their absolutist ideological opposition to any legal safeguards on AI is making kids emotionally, mentally, and physically vulnerable. Julie Scelfo is a journalist and the founder and executive director of Mothers Against Media Addiction. Tim Wu is a professor of law, science, and technology at Columbia Law School and author of "The Age of ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Homeowners have been leaning on their equity more often this year, and not just for big renovations, either. With interest rates gradually easing after the Federal Reserve's recent cuts, and household budgets still feeling the effects of years of elevated inflation, tapping home equity has become a popular way to consolidate debt, manage unexpected expenses or even lock in money for future goals. And as borrowers ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
NEW YORK (AP) — The clock is ticking for the U.S. government to open up its files on Jeffrey Epstein . After months of rancor and recriminations, Congress has passed and President Donald Trump has signed legislation compelling the Justice Department to give the public everything it has on Epstein — and it has to be done before Christmas. On Tuesday, a federal judge said the department could release ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Last night, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts ruled that Donald Trump's executive order banning wind projects in the United States was unlawful and vacated the order. Donald Trump issued an executive order on the first day of his administration that paused all leasing, permitting and approvals for wind projects, killing tens of thousands of jobs across the country. Since then, the ...
Source: commondreams.org
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Florida's governor has designated the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) a "foreign terrorist organisation". Ron DeSantis posted his executive order to list the United States-based Muslim civil rights and advocacy group on social media on Monday. The move follows a similar declaration by the Republican governor of Texas last month. CAIR has rejected the labelling by both states and mounted legal ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
The Federal Reserve is poised to deliver its third straight interest rate cut Wednesday, while simultaneously firing a warning shot about what's ahead. The rate-setting FOMC is split between members who favor cuts to head off further weakness in the labor market against those who think easing has gone far enough and threatens to aggravate inflation. In addition to the rate decision and the statement, investors will ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
President did same thing his administration is now calling 'mortgage fraud' in case against Fed governor Lisa Cook Donald Trump signed mortgage documents in the 1990s claiming two separate Florida properties would each serve as his principal residence – the same thing his administration is calling "mortgage fraud" when done by political rivals, records show. ProPublica unearthed documents demonstrating that ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett is associate professor of family medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, vice chair of primary care innovation & transformation at Boston Medical Center, and communications fellow at Primary Care Collaborative. As a family medicine physician, I have the privilege of caring for patients from the earliest days of pregnancy contemplation through pregnancy ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Job openings inched up slightly in October, despite fears of shrinkage. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its government shutdown-delayed October Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary Tuesday, showing a small uptick in job openings that month. But the job market isn't rosy quite yet. Hiring stalled, layoffs increased and employees did not quit their jobs. The voluntary quits rate was at a ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
On a Thursday in early September, more than 40 strangers logged in to Instacart, the grocery-shopping app, to buy eggs and test a hypothesis. Connected by videoconference, they simultaneously selected the same store — a Safeway in Washington, D.C. — and the same brand of eggs. They all chose pickup rather than delivery. The only difference was the price they were offered: $3.99 for a couple of lucky ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
By Jeff Green, Bloomberg News After years spent leaning in to get ahead at work, professional women are leaning out. Women are less interested than men in getting promoted to the next level, reversing a decade-long trend, according to a new study released Tuesday by advocacy group LeanIn.org and consultant McKinsey & Co. Some 69% of entry-level women, 82% of mid-career, and 84% of senior female executives reported ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, launched her run for Senate on Monday, shaking up the Democratic primary just before the state's filing deadline. Crockett joins the race to take on GOP Sen. John Cornyn, who is facing multiple primary challengers himself. The two-term congresswoman's decision also comes as her Dallas-based House seat was redrawn in a GOP-led redistricting effort. "There are a lot of people that ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Nominees for the 2026 Golden Globe Awards have been announced and "One Battle After Another" is this year's leading nominee. Here's the list of who's nominated for this year's awards, which will be held Jan. 11 at the Beverly Hilton. Nikki Glaser will host the ceremony. Movies Best motion picture, drama "Frankenstein" ; "Hamnet" ; "It Was Just An Accident" ; "The Secret Agent"; ...
Source: apnews.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
( The Hill ) – Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) doubled down on her criticism of President Trump in an interview on CBS's "60 Minutes" on Sunday, less than a month after the longtime Trump ally announced she would resign from Congress amid her public feud with the president. In the interview, Greene stood by the defiant stances she's taken against the president in recent months and said some of her GOP ...
Source: wfla.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
A new strain of mpox, previously called monkeypox, has been detected in a person in England, say UK health officials. The virus is a mix of two major types of the mpox virus, and was found in someone who recently returned from travelling in Asia. Officials say they are still assessing the significance of the new strain. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) says it is normal for viruses to evolve. Getting ...
Source: bbc.com