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Top News Stories for Friday, December 5th 2025
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
The quiet calm of a weekday morning in a Woodbridge, Virginia, neighborhood was suddenly interrupted Thursday by a loud siren, two Humvee-style vehicles and a group of SWAT-like figures in camouflage, rifles trained on a house. "This is the FBI. We have a federal search warrant," the voice coming over a loudspeaker said, according to a neighbor. "Come out of the house with your hands up." The ensuing arrest of a ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Drinking water for at least one of every seven Americans – about 49.5 million people – contains unsafe levels of "forever chemicals," according to new test results the Environmental Protection Agency published in November. Since the EPA last updated these records in August, over 100 additional public drinking water systems have reported yearly averages of PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
ACIP vote follows two postponements and contentious meeting and comes as RFK Jr pushes for vaccine delay After a delay and an unusually contentious meeting, a federal vaccine advisory panel was expected to vote on Friday whether to change the longstanding recommendation that all newborns be immunized against hepatitis B. The first day of the meeting of the advisory committee on immunization practices (ACIP) on ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Dec. 5 (UPI) -- A federal grand jury has rejected the Justice Department's bid to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James , according to reports, dealing a blow to President Donald Trump 's effort to prosecute political opponents. The Norfolk, Va., grand jury decision comes less than two weeks after a federal judge threw out criminal cases against James and FBI Director James Comey . "The grand jury's ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Car prices have been climbing for years. In September, Kelly Blue Book reports , the average transaction price of vehicles reached $50,000 for the first time ever. This was partly due to consumers rushing to purchase more costly electric vehicles (E.V.s) before federal tax incentives ran out , and the average transaction price has fallen slightly since then. But it remains stubbornly high, hitting $49,766 in ...
Source: reason.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
The United States Inspector General report reviewing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's text messaging mess recommends a single change to keep classified material secure. A United States Inspector General report publicly released today found that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth could have put US troops and military operations at risk by using the consumer messaging service Signal to share sensitive, real-time ...
Source: wired.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
living under President Donald Trump are being laid off at a rate not seen since the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new data. In November alone, 71,321 were announced, taking the total to 1.17 million in 2025. It comes despite Trump repeatedly bragging about his success in addressing the cost of living, creating jobs, firing up domestic production, and standing up for working people. The November ...
Source: thedailybeast.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: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
The paper says new rules limiting questions, movement and sourcing violate press freedoms and chill independent reporting The New York Times said on Thursday it is suing the US defense department and the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth , after the Trump administration imposed restrictions for the press on access privileges and source-based reporting at the Pentagon. Journalists assigned to cover the Pentagon were ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Artificial intelligence chatbots are very good at changing peoples' political opinions, according to a study published Thursday , and are particularly persuasive when they use inaccurate information. The researchers used a crowd-sourcing website to find nearly 77,000 people to participate in the study and paid them to interact with various AI chatbots, including some using AI models from OpenAI, Meta and xAI. The ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
U.S. prosecutors have charged two Virginia brothers arrested on Wednesday with allegedly conspiring to steal sensitive information and destroy government databases after being fired from their jobs as federal contractors. Twin brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, both 34, were also sentenced to several years in prison in June 2015, after pleading guilty to accessing U.S. State Department systems without ...
Source: bleepingcomputer.com
Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Trump's Prosecutor Picks Are Backfiring, Badly to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Donald Trump has been successful in weaponizing the judicial system in some big ways, but in one area, his tactics are backfiring. Over the past few months, Republican- and Democratic-appointed judges across the country have repeatedly ruled that the president's ...
Source: slate.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 ORLEANS (AP) — Trump administration officials overseeing the immigration crackdown launched this week in New Orleans are aiming to make 5,000 arrests, a target that some city leaders who oppose the operation say is unrealistic and would require detainining more than just violent offenders. It's an ambitious goal that would surpass the number of arrests during a two-month enforcement blitz this fall around ...
Source: aol.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
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 -
By Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida House Republicans appear ready to throw Florida into a mid-decade redistricting battle. But they don't agree on when to start. Over the summer, President Donald Trump began pushing for red states to redraw their maps to protect the House Republican majority in the upcoming midterm elections and add more GOP-leaning seats. At the time, DeSantis was coy, telling people to "stay tuned" ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Salvador Plasencia did not provide the drugs that killed the actor, the judge says, but he exploited Perry's addiction for his own profit Reading Time: 2 minutes A doctor who pleaded guilty to selling ketamine to Matthew Perry in the weeks before the Friends star's overdose death was sentenced to 2½ years in prison on Wednesday. Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett handed down the sentence plus two years of ...
Source: scmp.com
Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article "It's not even a nation," Trump said of Somalia. "It's just people walking around killing each other." has called for immigrants from Somalia — including Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar — to "be thrown the hell out" of the U.S., escalating his rhetoric against a ...
Source: independent.co.uk
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