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Top News Stories for Thursday, December 11th 2025
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
RANDOLPH, Minn. (AP) — When Donald Trump promised new while running for president, Gene Stehly worried that trade disputes would jeopardize his international sales of corn, soybeans and wheat. A little more than a year later, Stehly said his fears have become a reality, and Trump's latest promise of federal assistance is insufficient to cover farmers' losses. "Maybe this will all come out to be better at the ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Artificial intelligence chatbots are no longer a novelty for U.S. teenagers. They're a habit. A new Pew Research Center survey of 1,458 teens between the ages of 13 and 17 found that 64 percent have used an AI chatbot, with more than one in four using such tools daily. Of those daily users, more than half talked to chatbots with a frequency ranging from several times a day to nearly constantly. The results offer a ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Fed's third interest rate cut comes despite inflation remaining above policymakers' 2% target The Federal Reserve on Wednesday announced its third interest rate cut of the year as policymakers moved forward with the cut to support the labor market despite elevated inflation. Fed policymakers voted to lower the benchmark federal funds rate by 25 basis points to a new range of 3.5% to 3.75%. The move follows ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The Trump administration has reached an agreement that could end President Biden's signature student loan repayment plan, a move that may force millions of borrowers back into repayment. The Education Department on Tuesday announced a proposed settlement with the state of Missouri that it said would terminate the Saving on a Valuable Education, or SAVE, plan, an income-driven repayment plan that tabulates loan ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
NEW YORK—A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the public release of potentially hundreds of thousands of pages of documents from the case against Ghislaine Maxwell, saying that access to the records is required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which Congress approved last month. U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer said the new law covers grand jury testimony as well as "voluminous" other records from the ...
Source: abajournal.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Judge ordered the guard, deployed to the city in June, returned to the control of the California governor A US judge on Wednesday morning blocked the deployment by the federal government of national guard troops in Los Angeles and ordered the guard returned to the control of the California governor, a court filing showed. The Trump administration is being challenged in federal court over its authority and rationale ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The Supreme Court on Tuesday wrestled over whether to lift limits on how much political parties can spend in cooperation with candidates. The case could significantly shift the balance of political power between the parties and outside groups such as Super PACs. Republican leaders are asking the court to remove limits on how much parties can spend in coordination with federal candidates on items such as ...
Source: abajournal.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
MIAMI (AP) — Democrat Eileen Higgins won the Miami mayor's race on Tuesday, defeating a Republican endorsed by President Donald Trump to end her party's nearly three-decade losing streak and give Democrats a boost in one of the last electoral battles ahead of the 2026 midterms. Higgins, 61, will be the first woman to lead the city of Miami. She spoke frequently in the Hispanic-majority city about Trump's ...
Source: pbs.org
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
will hear arguments Wednesday in a case that could make it harder for convicted murderers to show their lives should be spared because they are intellectually disabled. The justices are taking up an appeal from Alabama, which wants to put to death a man who found is intellectually disabled and shielded from execution. The Supreme Court prohibited execution of intellectually disabled people in a landmark ruling in ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
SAN FRANCISCO ( KRON ) – Instacart, the San Francisco-based company that operates its eponymous grocery delivery app, is responding to reports that it charged some customers more than others for the exact same items as part of an artificial intelligence-enabled experiment. The allegations stem from a study conducted by Consumer Reports , an advocacy group known as Groundwork Collaborative, and the non-profit ...
Source: wfla.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Connecticut has confirmed its first measles case of the year, involving an unvaccinated child in Fairfield County, according to state health officials. The case was reported on Wednesday in an announcement from the Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH). The child, who is under the age of 10, recently traveled internationally before developing symptoms several days later, according to DPH. Symptoms included ...
Source: bnonews.com
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 -
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – A month out from the start of the regular legislative session, Gov. Ron DeSantis has announced his final budget priorities. One of the items includes enough funds, if needed, to offset lost funds for counties if voters choose to eliminate non-school related property taxes. "I've put in the budget enough money to completely, 100%, reimburse any homestead property tax reduction for those ...
Source: wfla.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
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
A former Donald Trump criminal defense attorney turned controversial DOJ higher-up and then lifetime federal appellate judge faces a judicial misconduct complaint just one day after attending the president's rally in Pennsylvania. Fix the Court, which describes itself as a "nonpartisan" nonprofit advocating "for non-ideological fixes that would make the federal courts, and primarily the U.S. Supreme Court, more ...
Source: lawandcrime.com