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Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump's furious effort to force Indiana Republicans to adopt a new congressional map designed to eliminate the state's only two House seats held by Democrats failed on Thursday after enough Republican state senators voted against it. The final vote was 19-31. Trump's failure in Indiana is a huge loss for his bid to rig the House by forcing GOP-run states to engage in unprecedented mid-cycle ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Federal Reserve chair signals cautious approach as inflation remains above 2% target Federal Reserve policymakers cut interest rates for the third straight meeting on Wednesday while signaling there may be only one cut next year as rates get closer to a neutral level. The Fed lowered the benchmark federal funds rate by 25 basis points to a range of 3.5% to 3.75%, and its announcement was accompanied by a summary of ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Kilmar Abrego Garcia was released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody on Thursday afternoon following a federal judge's order. District Judge Paula Xinis ordered Abrego Garcia's release from ICE custody "immediately," Thursday in a court filing , a significant development in the case concerning the El Salvadoran man mistakenly deported this year before being returned to the United States. Abrego ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Thursday rejected legislation to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits, essentially guaranteeing that millions of Americans will see a steep rise in costs at the beginning of the year. As Republicans and Democrats have failed to find compromise, senators voted on two partisan bills instead that they knew would fail — the Democratic bill to extend the subsidies, and a ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
As AI takes center stage, the real win is making sure we can actually trust its decisions — and that's why verifiable AI is becoming non-negotiable. A few years ago, a model we had integrated for customer analytics produced results that looked impressive, but no one could explain how or why those predictions were made. When we tried to trace the source data, half of it came from undocumented pipelines. That ...
Source: cio.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account's 'Saved for Later' section. The federal government's pursuit of legal action against President Donald Trump 's political enemies hit a significant stumbling block last month as a federal judge dismissed the Justice Department's indictments against New York attorney general Letitia James and former FBI director James Comey following the ...
Source: nymag.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 -
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study released Thursday finds that Covid vaccines continue to protect healthy children from severe illness — a conclusion top federal health officials have questioned in recent months. From late August 2024 to early September 2025, the vaccines reduced the risk of Covid-related emergency room and urgent care visits by 76% among children ages 9 months to 4 years and ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Trump's Education Dept. Just Axed Biden's Student Loan Plan One in six adults in the country has federal student loan debt. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. The Department of Education announced Tuesday that it reached a settlement agreement with the state of Missouri to end former President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness program. The Saving on a Valuable ...
Source: motherjones.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
The proposal follows the exodus of hundreds of thousands government employees — including AI and tech talent — under the Trump administration's push to shrink the government workforce. A bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers introduced legislation Wednesday meant to modernize how the government hires technical talent, especially those specializing in artificial intelligence. The AI Talent Act ...
Source: nextgov.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
OpenAI and its investor Microsoft Corp. were sued over a Connecticut murder-suicide in the latest case to blame the popular ChatGPT chatbot for dangerous psychological manipulation of users. The lawsuit turns on the actions of a 56-year-old man who lived with his 83-year-old mother in Greenwich, Connecticut, and had been conversing for months with the chatbot over his fear that he was under surveillance and people ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
SACRAMENTO — A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Wednesday to immediately end its current deployment of California National Guard troops in Los Angeles, ruling that the federal government had illegally kept them in the city long after intense street protests had ended in the summer. The ruling by Judge Charles R. Breyer of the US District Court in San Francisco applies to about 100 National ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Washington — A federal judge in New York has granted a request from the Justice Department to unseal more files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In a brief four-page ruling on Wednesday, Judge Richard Berman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered the unsealing of grand jury materials as well as investigative records, documents and communications from the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The New York Times, attacked by President Donald Trump for reporting about his physical condition , said on Wednesday that it wouldn't be deterred by "false and inflammatory language" that distorts the role of a free press. The president had posted on his Truth Social platform that he believed it was "seditious, perhaps even treasonous" for the Times and other media outlets to do "FAKE" reports on his health . ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
ORLANDO, Fla. – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis presented on Wednesday his $117 billion budget proposal for fiscal year 2026-2027. DeSantis presented his budget in a news conference in Orlando, where he highlighted that his proposal comes "from a position of fiscal strength." He also said the proposed $117 billion budget includes about $17 billion in reserves. Watch DeSantis' budget presentation in the video player ...
Source: news4jax.com