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Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Admiral Frank 'Mitch' Bradley briefed lawmakers about the 'double strike' strike on a boat and answered questions in a closed-door briefing A high-ranking U.S. Navy admiral who oversaw the "double tap" strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean told lawmakers Thursday morning ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Robert Malone, a committee member and vice chair of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, during a meeting of the committee on December 4, 2025. The influential panel of U.S. vaccine advisers is expected to reverse a long-standing recommendation that babies receive a hepatitis B shot hours after birth, a change public health experts say is all but certain to ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Washington (AP) — House Speaker Mike Johnson is imploring his fellow Republicans to stop venting their frustrations in public and bring their complaints to him directly. "They're going to get upset about things. That's part of the process," Johnson told reporters Thursday. "It doesn't bother me. But when there is a conflict or concern, I always ask all members to come to me, don't go to social media." ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Jim Farley says customers will get to choose what they want instead of being 'forced' into EVs The CEO of Ford Motor Co. is revved up for the Trump administration's plan to make automobiles affordable, as he expressed his praise for helping to bring car prices back down. "What you should know is that this is a victory for affordability and common sense. As the president said, we will be able to offer more ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's use of commercial messaging app Signal to discuss strikes on Yemen could have put troops at risk. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's use of commercial messaging app Signal to discuss strikes on Yemen risked compromising sensitive information and could have put troops at risk, the Pentagon's independent watchdog said Thursday. The report piles further pressure on Hegseth, who is ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article New footage and images released by Democrats as lawmakers ask for update on Epstein files from the Justice Department Leer en Español Never-before-seen photos and videos, released Wednesday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee , reveal details of late sex offender ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Today, the moon has reached its peak illumination at 100%, meaning the entire Earth-facing side of the moon is lit up by the sun. This full moon will rise in the sign of Taurus, then quickly enter Gemini early in the morning. According to Moongiant, "The Moon will be visible throughout the night sky, rising at sunset in the east and setting with the sunrise the next morning in the west." technically , during this ...
Source: vice.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Consulting firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas said Thursday that U.S. job cuts bumped past the 1 million threshold for 2025 in November. Chicago-headquartered Challenger indicated that corporate restructuring acts , artificial intelligence and U.S. President Donald Trump 's tariffs have largely driven down job rolls. For November, Challenger further stated layoff plans accounted for 71,321 jobs. It ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
The recall includes multiple brands of cheese sold across more than two dozen states. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has shared a recall , and this time it involves shredded cheese. More than a million bags of the dairy essential are being recalled due to concerns that the cheese had become contaminated with non-food items. The recall includes several different brands of cheese that had been ...
Source: greenmatters.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Times filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Pentagon, attempting to overturn new rules imposed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that have led to most mainstream media outlets being banished from the building. The newspaper said the rules violate the Constitution's freedom of speech and due process provisions, since they give Hegseth the power to determine on his own whether a ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Artificial Intelligence (AI) took the world by storm when OpenAI released its chatbot, dubbed ChatGPT, for public use back in November 2022. Since then, multiple companies have launched their own chatbots to try to claim a piece of the growing market. Even with multiple players in the market, , ChatGPT users mainly use the chatbot for assistance in everyday tasks and "three-quarters of conversations focus on ...
Source: bgr.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Lawyers for the New York attorney general's office are expected to appear in federal court in Albany on Thursday to try to disqualify a US attorney from investigating the state's civil case against President Donald Trump. New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, is challenging the appointment of John Sarcone, the Trump administration's pick as acting US attorney for the Northern District of New York. ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Hundreds of U.S. Border Patrol agents are reportedly set to begin a major immigration crackdown across much of southeast Louisiana and southern Mississippi this week as part of what has been dubbed operation "Swamp Sweep." The planned action follows similar surges in Chicago (operation "Midway Blitz") and Charlotte, North Carolina (operation "Charlotte's Web"), where agents have been accused of using overly ...
Source: truthout.org
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
A popular snack cracker is being pulled from shelves after it was discovered to contain a potentially deadly allergen. The Ritz Cracker recall was first shared on Nov. 28, 2025 in a statement from the parent company. In the days that followed the recall notice was shared far and wide in an effort to make sure that customers who purchased these crackers were aware of issue with the label that could cause those who ...
Source: greenmatters.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Decision comes less than two weeks after judge ruled similar case against New York attorney general unlawful A grand jury declined to indict Letitia James on Thursday, according to a source familiar with the decision, a decision that came less than two weeks after a judge ruled that a similar mortgage fraud case brought by federal prosecutors against the New York attorney general was unlawful. The move by the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 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? WASHINGTON — As Republicans spent most of the year on legislation to drastically cut taxes for the wealthy and slash Medicaid, then took a weekslong break ...
Source: huffpost.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
The White House has brought in a new architect to work on President Donald Trump's "vision" for his massive $300 million ballroom project, officials said Thursday. Shalom Baranes, head of Shalom Baranes Associates, has "joined the team of experts to carry out President Trump's vision on building what will be the greatest addition to the White House since the Oval Office — the White House Ballroom," White ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump's mass deportation campaign received a legal setback on Tuesday when a federal judge issued yet another preliminary injunction against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). For the second time in as many months, the agency has been ordered to stop conducting warrantless immigration arrests without probable cause, this time in Washington, D.C., and to report on the facts surrounding these ...
Source: reason.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! Two Virginia twin brothers were arrested for their alleged roles in deleting government databases hosted by a federal government contractor, the Justice Department announced on Wednesday. Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, both 34, were indicted last month for allegedly conspiring to delete databases used to store U.S. government information, the DOJ said in a news release. The ...
Source: foxnews.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
In an interview on Monday, Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis indicated that he will likely call a special session of the state legislature in the near future to redraw congressional boundaries, as many GOP-led states across the country have already done in order to benefit the Republican Party. In his comments to The Floridian , DeSantis was unforthcoming about the partisan nature of his plan, framing the move ...
Source: truthout.org
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage fell again this week, slipping close to its low point so far this year. The decline brings the average long-term mortgage rate to 6.19% from 6.23% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. A year ago, the rate averaged 6.69%. This is the second straight weekly drop in the average rate ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account's 'Saved for Later' section. It's well known that Donald Trump loves to send taxpayer dollars directly to voters with packaging intended to make the bounty seem like a gift from his own self. So it's not surprising that his signature One Big Beautiful Bill Act had a provision creating something called "Trump accounts" that would be set up for all ...
Source: nymag.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
This article originally appeared on PolitiFact . President Donald Trump has recently claimed his tariffs will generate so much money that Americans could soon stop paying federal income taxes. But experts say he's overpromised. "Over the next couple of years, I think we'll … be cutting income tax — could be almost completely cutting it, because the money we're taking in is going to be so large," Trump ...
Source: pbs.org
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Dogs may boost mental health by subtly reshaping the microbes in our bodies. "Adolescent children who keep dogs exhibit higher mental well-being, and we also found that dog ownership alters the gut microbiota," Takefumi Kikusui, one of the study authors and a professor at Azabu University in Japan, said . If this is the case, then it could change how we think about the benefits of pet ownership — not just as ...
Source: zmescience.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
In the 25 years since the Gates Foundation was established by Bill Gates and his then-wife Melinda French Gates , the organization has helped drive a steady decline in global child mortality rates. In 2000, more than 10 million children died before the age of five—a number that has since been more than halved. This year, however, a concerning reversal has begun to emerge. Child deaths are forecast to rise in ...
Source: observer.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
A series of multimillion-dollar alleged fraud schemes in Minnesota has drawn the Trump administration's attention in recent weeks, vaulting an issue that has brewed in state politics for years into the national conversation. President Trump has attacked Democratic Gov. Tim Walz over the fraud cases, calling Minnesota a "hub of fraudulent money laundering activity" and lashing out against the state's Somali ...
Source: cbsnews.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 -
– Even for a president who has long made clear he's no fan of Somalia, the latest round of White House contempt was a shock Wednesday in the country's "They contribute nothing. I don't want them in our country," President Donald Trump told reporters during a Tuesday Cabinet meeting. "We can go one way or the other, and we're going to go the wrong way if we keep taking in garbage into our country." Trump ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
A man was shot and killed in what police called a targeted shooting on Wednesday, Dec. 3, inside the MGM National Harbor casino's food court. The shooting happened at the MGM National Harbor casino in Prince George's County, Maryland. Police said officers were called around noon to reports of a shooting. In a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, Prince George's County Police Chief George Nader said the shooting ...
Source: aol.com