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Top News Stories for Thursday, December 4th 2025
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
US House and Senate lawmakers to meet with top admiral on Thursday about double strike on boats from Venezuela As the Trump administration continues military strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean, several Republican lawmakers are ramping up scrutiny on the administration over a double strike in early September. The strikes on suspected drug boats from Venezuela have drawn pushback from both ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Topics More from TechCrunch Can any company, big or small, really topple Nvidia's AI chip dominance? Maybe not. But there are hundreds of billions of dollars of revenue for those who can even peel off a chunk of it for themselves, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said this week. As expected, the company revealed at the AWS re:Invent conference the next generation of its Nvidia-competitor AI chip, Trainium3, which is 4x faster ...
Source: techcrunch.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
and announced plans to issue regulations for "Trump Accounts," which are a new type of individual retirement account for children created by Congress earlier this year. Parents and guardians can create Trump Accounts for children under 18, although contributions to the accounts cannot be made before July 4, 2026, and are limited to $5,000 annually in aggregate, according to the IRS. The federal government will also ...
Source: bankingjournal.aba.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
President Trump on Wednesday announced a proposal to weaken vehicle mileage rules for the auto industry, loosening pressure on automakers to control pollution from gasoline-powered cars and trucks. The plan, expected to be finalized next year, would significantly reduce fuel efficiency standards for new vehicles in model year 2031. At that time, the average for new light-duty vehicles would be roughly 34.5 miles ...
Source: latimes.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — A dozen prior leaders of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration — appointed by Republicans and Democrats alike — issued a scathing denunciation of new FDA assertions casting doubt on vaccine safety. The former officials say the agency's plans to revamp how life-saving vaccines for flu, COVID-19 and other respiratory diseases are handled — outlined in an internal FDA memo ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article The classified report, conducted by the Inspector General, was sent to Congress Tuesday night risked endangering U.S. troops by sharing highly-sensitive information about military operations on a Signal group chat earlier this year, a report has found. The classified report, ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Washington — Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said Wednesday that the committee has received financial records related to Jeffrey Epstein from JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank, while releasing "never-before-seen" photos and videos of Epstein's private island in the Caribbean. The financial documents could offer a window into Epstein's extensive business dealings and ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Affordable Care Act subsidies that help millions of Americans pay for health insurance will expire in less than a month. But razor-thin margins in Congress, partisan division and competing plans are making it less and less likely that lawmakers will find a bipartisan deal to keep the assistance going - which means some households will probably face spiking insurance costs next year. Senate Republicans promised ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said this week that the federal government would start withholding money to help run the SNAP food aid program from states that don't provide data on participants, including their immigration status. The department said the government needs the data to spot fraud in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which helps 42 million Americans, or about 1 in 8, buy ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Kraft Heinz, Coca-Cola among companies sued over ultra-processed foods linked to diabetes, cancer The city of San Francisco is suing 10 major food manufacturers — including Kraft Heinz and Coca-Cola — accusing them of knowingly fueling a public health crisis with ultra-processed foods. City Attorney David Chiu filed the lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court on Tuesday, arguing that ultra-processed ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Great Lakes Cheese Co products shipped to Target, Walmart and Aldi across 31 states affected by supplier issue Hundreds of thousands of cases of cheese sold nationwide are being recalled over the possibility that they may be contaminated with metal fragments. Ohio-based Great Lakes Cheese Co. Inc. recalled seven cheese products that were shipped to major retailers, including Target, Walmart and Aldi ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
WASHINGTON - House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan on Wednesday issued a subpoena to former Special Counsel Jack Smith, demanding he appear for a private deposition related to his prosecutions of President Donald Trump. Jordan, an Ohioan from Champaign County, is leading the GOP effort to scrutinize Smith's investigations into Trump's attempts to overturn results of the 2020 election and his handling of ...
Source: cleveland.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article At least eight judges purged from New York City after another five judges in San Francisco were terminated has fired or forced out roughly 100 immigration judges since the president took office, including more than a dozen in the last two weeks alone. The administration purged at ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Follow Earth on Google Public-health decisions sometimes create natural experiments that reveal things no lab could plan. The country of Wales unintentionally produced one of those moments when a routine shingles vaccine – given only to people hitting a very narrow age window – appeared to protect long-term memory. The unexpected pattern caught the attention of Stanford Medicine researchers, who combed ...
Source: earth.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 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 said he will issue a preemptive pardon for Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) on Wednesday, effectively voiding Cuellar's 2024 indictment for ...
Source: huffpost.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Staff at a Virginia liquor store got a shock on Saturday when they came into work to find a raccoon had burgled the store, drinking its way through the spirits section. The "masked bandit" was found passed out in the bathroom between the toilet and bin having helped itself to bottles on a bottom shelf. Animal control officer Samantha Martin transported the "suspect" for questioning at Hanover County Animal ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Ritz cracker manufacturer Mondelēz Global has recalled 70 cases of peanut butter sandwich crackers in eight states due to a mislabeling issue that could lead to severe allergic reactions. Mondelēz Global LLC recalled 20-count Ritz Peanut Butter Cracker Sandwiches on Nov. 28 that were sold in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Missouri, New York, New Jersey, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania. According to the company, ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Dec 2nd, 2025 -
Netflix's four-part docuseries chronicles the rise and fall of Combs, also known as Diddy, as he goes from hip-hop mogul and . He was acquitted of the most serious charges, including RICO conspiracy and sex trafficking by force or fraud, and is set to be Not only does the series feature interviews with many who have been inside Diddy's inner circle, including Bad Boy Records cofounder Kirk Burrowes, actor Mark ...
Source: insider.com
Tuesday, Dec 2nd, 2025 -
NEW YORK (AP) — Starbucks will pay about $35 million to more than 15,000 New York City workers to settle claims it denied them stable schedules and arbitrarily cut their hours, city officials announced Monday, hours before Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders visited striking baristas on a picket line. The development came amid a continuing strike by Starbucks' union that began last month ...
Source: pbs.org