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Top News Stories for Wednesday, December 10th 2025
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The Supreme Court appeared uncertain about whether it would strike down a major campaign-finance restriction during oral arguments on Tuesday, with some of the court's conservative members questioning a right-wing push to do so. The case, National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission , revolves around a legal challenge to Congress's ban on "coordinated party expenditures." Federal election ...
Source: newrepublic.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump administration official said, threatening new U.S. sanctions on the court if it did not. If the court does not act on this U.S. demand and two others - dropping investigations of ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
– A Dallas congresswoman opened her Senate campaign by telling voters that she "has gone toe to toe with Donald Trump." Her Democratic primary opponent insisted that Americans are tired of "politics as a blood sport." The divergent approach highlights how U.S. Rep. and state Rep. are navigating a race where Democrats hope to break a three-decade losing streak in Texas. It also reflects a broader divide within ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Miami voters on Tuesday elected Democrat Eileen Higgins as mayor, ending a nearly three-decade dry spell for her party after she defeated a Republican endorsed by Donald Trump in the predominantly Hispanic city. While the election was officially nonpartisan, the race took on national significance, pitting Higgins against Republican Emilio Gonzalez, a former Miami city manager, in a contest closely watched by both ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The Federal Reserve is again expected to lower its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point Wednesday, in an effort to support a weakening job market. But stubborn inflation and delayed economic data could complicate the Fed's decision, leading to more-than-usual disagreement within the rate-setting committee. A rate cut could make it slightly cheaper to borrow money to buy a car, expand a business or ...
Source: npr.org
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Women are hitting the top of the corporate ladder only to find something waiting for them: exhaustion. According to a report published Tuesday by McKinsey and LeanIn.org, a nonprofit founded by Sheryl Sandberg, burnout among senior-level women is the highest it has been in the past five years. Around 60% of these women said they have frequently felt burned out at work in the past few months, compared with 50% of ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered diplomats to revert to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor Antony Blinken's decision to adopt Calibri a "wasteful" diversity move, according to a leaked internal cable. The department switched to Calibri, a modern sans-serif font, in January 2023, saying it was a more accessible font for people with disabilities because it did ...
Source: abc.net.au
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Politics The Trump Administration Actually Backed Down Alina Habba's resignation is a sign that some checks are still checking. John Taggert / Redux December 9, 2025, 12:39 PM ET Save Listen − 1.0x + 0:00 7:29 Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Yesterday, Alina Habba turned—where else?—to X, the Trump administration's second-favorite social-media app, to announce her resignation from a job she ...
Source: theatlantic.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON – It's official: Former President Joe Biden 's is over. And the clock is ticking for millions of borrowers to enroll in another program. On Dec. 9, the federal Education Department a proposed legal agreement meant to kill the program known as the Saving on a Valuable Education, or SAVE, plan. The agency said it settled with several red states who in March 2024. If approved by the courts, the ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
is considering a Republican-led drive, backed by President Donald Trump's administration, to overturn a quarter-century-old decision and erase limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president. they would overturn a 90-year-old decision limiting the president's power to fire independent agency heads, the court on Tuesday is revisiting a 2001 decision that ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
A federal judge in New York on Tuesday granted a Justice Department request to release grand jury material related to Ghislaine Maxwell's case. U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer said in his ruling that he has taken great care to "put in place a mechanism to protect victims from the inadvertent release of materials within the discovery in this case that would identify them or otherwise invade their privacy." ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Florida has designated the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations as foreign terrorist organizations, becoming the second GOP-led state in as many months to move against the Islamic groups. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said in a Monday statement that the designations were "EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY." "Florida agencies are hereby directed to undertake all lawful measures to prevent ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
17 states and DC successfully challenged the order as 'arbitrary and capricious' A federal judge on Monday struck down an order by President Donald Trump that blocked the development of wind energy projects. Trump issued the order, known as the "Temporary Withdrawal of All Areas on the Outer Continental Shelf from Offshore Wind Leasing and Review of the Federal Government's Leasing and Permitting Practices for Wind ...
Source: foxbusiness.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 -
Due to the government shutdown, there is no good figure for job openings in September, and the September release was canceled, but "partial data that businesses self-reported electronically" were included in today's October release, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The October data were collected as normal in November. So month-to-month comparisons for October lack a solid base (September data is only ...
Source: wolfstreet.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
A new investigation has revealed that grocery delivery service Instacart is using a covert, AI-powered dynamic pricing scheme to charge customers different prices for the same items — potentially costing households over $1,000 more a year. Groundwork Collaborative, Consumer Reports, and More Perfect Union collaborated on an experiment with 437 shoppers across four U.S. locations, representing several ...
Source: truthout.org
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
, which includes using our canonical URL and pixel tracker on your story pages whenever possible. . Both Allred, the 2024 Democratic nominee, and Talarico had been running for months, with Allred launching his campaign in July, followed by Talarico in September. The primary is March 3. More than 200 people, including some Dallas-area elected officials and candidates, sat or stood in a roomy gymnasium situated in ...
Source: texastribune.org