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Top News Stories for Wednesday, December 24th 2025
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
Notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein purportedly wrote a letter to a fellow child sex offender claiming that President Donald Trump shared their love of "young, nubile girls." But hours after the Justice Department released the letter containing the explosive claim, the department issued a statement saying it was fake. "Dear L.N. as you know by now, I have taken the 'short route' home. Good Luck! We share one thing ...
Source: thedailybeast.com
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
Wyoming's lone U.S. representative is running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Cynthia Lummis, who isn't seeking reelection. Rep. Harriet Hageman, a Republican, on Tuesday became first to announce for Senate in Wyoming after Lummis, also a Republican, said Friday she "I will always defend Wyoming's ability to access, manage and use our natural resources to fuel our economy," Hageman said in a statement ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
Reading time 3 minutes On Monday, President Donald Trump paused the leases for five major offshore wind projects due to "national security risks." The renewable energy industry isn't the only sector that will be impacted by this decision. After more than a decade of little change, U.S. energy consumption is rising again. That's largely due to the power demand of AI data centers , which is projected to increase 22% ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
The US Supreme Court refused to let President Donald Trump start deploying National Guard troops in Chicago, dealing a setback to his drive to use the military in liberal cities across the country. Rejecting a Trump request in a 6-3 decision, the court on Tuesday left in force a judge's ruling that has blocked the deployment since Oct. 9. The president wanted to use hundreds of troops to aid immigration enforcement ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article 'It's not a part-time job," Scott Pelley said during a Monday afternoon meeting. Following Bari Weiss' much-derided decision to spike a 60 Minutes segment on the Trump administration shipping Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison, correspondent Scott Pelley ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
showed that Instacart was running AI price experiments in the app, charging some consumers as much as 23% more than others for the same goods. While Instacart disputed some of the findings initially, announced on Monday that it will end all AI price experiments. Buyers may continue to see price differences for the same products between different retailers, similar to what happens in brick-and-mortar stores, but ...
Source: bgr.com
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
The U.S. economy grew at a robust 4.3% annual pace in the third quarter, marking the strongest growth in two years, according to new government data released Tuesday. The growth in gross domestic product — the nation's output of goods and services — between July and September far outstripped the forecast for 3% growth, according to economists polled by financial data firm FactSet. The latest figure, ...
Source: cbsnews.com
'Cruel, Unnecessary, and Irresponsible': Trump Admin to Resume Garnishing Wages of Student Borrowers
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
The US Education Department confirmed Monday that, starting next month, it will resume seizing the pay of student loan borrowers in default as the Trump administration wages a broader war on debt relief and cancellation efforts. The department, led by billionaire Linda McMahon—who is working to gut the agency from the inside— told the Washington Post that "it will notify about 1,000 defaulted borrowers ...
Source: commondreams.org
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Flu cases are on the rise across the country, as well as in the state of Florida. The State Department of Health's website shows that the positivity rate and number of flu-related ER visits are already increasing, and doctors fear cases will only get worse with the holidays. In December, doctors with Tampa General Hospital said they have already seen 426 Influenza A cases across their ...
Source: wfla.com
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
Defenders of reproductive rights on Tuesday responded with alarm after President Donald Trump's administration quietly imposed an abortion ban at the US Department of Veterans Affairs following a legal opinion penned by a deputy assistant attorney general. After the 2022 Roe v. Wade reversal, the Biden administration allowed the VA to provide abortion counseling and care for service members and beneficiaries in ...
Source: commondreams.org
Oklahoma instructor who gave student a zero on gender essay barred from teaching duties, school says
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
The University of Oklahoma said Monday that the graduate teaching assistant who assigned a failing grade to a student for a psychology essay on gender stereotypes will "no longer have instructional duties" at the university. A graduate teaching assistant for an online psychology class was "arbitrary in the grading of this specific paper" and therefore will "no longer have instructional duties," the university said ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Former Sen. Ben Sasse announced Tuesday he's been diagnosed with stage-four pancreatic cancer, what he described as "a death sentence." The conservative who represented Florida for eight years in the Senate made the announcement in a post on X . "This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I'll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
( NewsNation ) — Authorities in Georgia are searching for three escaped inmates who escaped from the DeKalb County Jail. In a Facebook post , the DeKalb County Sheriff's Department said the inmates, including one who was charged with murder, were discovered missing early Monday morning during a routine security check. The department said it is working with other local law enforcement agencies to find them. ...
Source: wfla.com
Tuesday, Dec 23rd, 2025 -
A coalition of attorneys general from across the US sued White House budget chief Russell Vought on Monday over his effort to completely starve the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau of funding, a ploy that—if successful—would eliminate a key path of recourse for Americans harmed by corporate abuses. The lawsuit was filed in a federal court in Portland, Oregon by the top law enforcement officials of ...
Source: commondreams.org
Monday, Dec 22nd, 2025 -
Barry Manilow, the singer-songwriter known for hits like "Copacabana," announced Monday that he was recently diagnosed with lung cancer and will need to reschedule January concert dates in order to have surgery. Manilow, 82, said in a statement on Instagram that an MRI scan detected "a cancerous spot" on one of his lungs after he suffered a lengthy bout of bronchitis in the midst of a residency in ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Monday, Dec 22nd, 2025 -
In the rush to build colossal data-processing centers for Silicon Valley's suddenly booming artificial intelligence industry, San Jose is positioning itself as the Bay Area's epicenter for data center development. (TNS) — In the rush to build colossal data-processing centers for Silicon Valley's suddenly booming artificial intelligence industry, San Jose is positioning itself as the Bay Area's epicenter for ...
Source: govtech.com