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Top News Stories for Friday, December 12th 2025
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Americans are deeply skeptical of President Donald Trump's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, though he is shoring up support among his core Republican followers who have long focused on the case, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found. The poll, completed on Monday, found that most Americans believe Trump's administration is covering up information about the late sex ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
An executive order aims to tackle state regulation on artificial intelligence. An Obamacare exodus occurs before premium hikes. And, major flooding in the Pacific Northwest. Here's what to know today. Trump signs executive order seeking to ban states from regulating AI companies President Donald Trump signed an executive order that seeks to limit states' ability to regulate artificial intelligence and upend ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
The Justice Department's mortgage fraud investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James is on life support after a grand jury, for the second time, rejected an indictment that would have revived charges against her. Lindsey Halligan , appointed by President Donald Trump to run the office, now faces the decision on whether to try again next week or pull the plug and risk the wrath of the president who ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
's declaration that he has granted former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters a "full pardon" saying it 'is a matter for the courts to decide". Peters, who was convicted in 2024 on multiple state charges-including attempting to influence a public servant and criminal impersonation-remains incarcerated at La Vista Correctional Facility while her appeal proceeds. In a post on X Thursday, Polis wrote that Peters "was ...
Source: bradenton.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
The US Food and Drug Administration intends to put a "black box" warning on Covid-19 vaccines, according to two people familiar with the agency's plans. A boxed warning, which appears at the top of prescribing information for medicines, is the agency's most serious, designed to warn about risks such as death or life-threatening or disabling reactions that should be weighed against the intervention's benefits. They ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Dec 12th, 2025 -
FDA reports cases have increased from 39 last week with illnesses spanning multiple months At least 51 babies have been hospitalized in a growing botulism outbreak tied to contaminated baby formula, federal health officials announced Wednesday. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said suspected and confirmed cases have now been reported in 19 states among infants who consumed ByHeart formula ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
The central bank's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) cut rates a third and final time in 2025, reducing the target range for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to a 3.5% to 3.75% range. This reduction will help reduce financing costs of builder and developer loans. Separate from policy considerations, as Chair Powell explicitly noted, the Fed will initiate purchases of short-term Treasury securities on ...
Source: nahb.org
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
The Affordable Care Act's subsidies are a few weeks from expiring. This is a crisis in the lives of thousands of our fellow citizens. It apparently was not a crisis in the United States Senate, at least not on Thursday. From Politico: Senators voted 51-48 on advancing a GOP health care plan that would have expanded health savings accounts as an alternative to the expiring tax credits. Democrats' plan to extend the ...
Source: esquire.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
South Carolina is the epicenter of what state officials call an "accelerating" measles outbreak. Hundreds of people are in quarantine, and the outbreak has sickened at least 111 individuals, most of whom—105—were not vaccinated against the disease. The rash of cases is merely the latest in a string of measles outbreaks across the U.S. this year. Each of these outbreaks has brought the country ever ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! The heirs of an 83-year-old woman who was killed by her son inside their Connecticut home have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against ChatGPT maker OpenAI and its business partner Microsoft, claiming the AI chatbot amplified his "paranoid delusions." Stein-Erik Soelberg, a 56-year-old former Yahoo executive, spoke to OpenAI's popular chatbot before the murder-suicide ...
Source: foxnews.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Ex-Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries is competent to stand trial on federal sex trafficking charges, prison officials said — just months after he was declared mentally unfit due to his dementia and late on-set Alzheimer's disease. The 81-year-old millionaire — who is accused of organizing sex parties where male models were paid for sex and plied with drugs — was initially deemed unfit because ...
Source: nypost.com