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Top News Stories for Saturday, July 12th 2025
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting President Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship from being enforced anywhere in the United States. According to The Associated Press, the ruling was issued early on Thursday by U.S. District Judge Joseph LaPlante. The New Hampshire-based judge's order was issued after an hour-long hearing, with a seven-day stay allowing time for ...
Source: legalreader.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
Speed: 0.5x Speed: 1x Speed: 1.5x Speed: 2x 🎙️ Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur. Democratic Representative Jared Moskowitz has called for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to be investigated over the Federal Emergency Management Agency's response to catastrophic flooding in Texas. "As a former Emergency Management Director of Florida, I am alarmed by reports that the Federal ...
Source: newsweek.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump's pressure campaign against the Federal Reserve and Chair Jerome Powell to lower interest rates entered a new front this week. The latest line of attack comes from Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought, who wrote to Powell on Thursday to call out the renovation of the Federal Reserve's Washington headquarters. "The President is extremely troubled by your mismanagement of the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
We haven't talked about the numbers in America's measles outbreak in a couple of months, but that certainly doesn't mean the problem has gone away. It was back in April that we wrote about how the numbers were on pace to eclipse the outbreak in 2019, which was largely driven by unvaccinated religious groups in New York State, in large part due to both the long-term advocacy against vaccination by people like RFK ...
Source: techdirt.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
By ERIC TUCKER WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department and FBI are struggling to contain the fallout and appease the demands of far-right conservative personalities and influential members of President Donald Trump's base after the administration's decision this week to withhold records from the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking investigation. The move, which included the acknowledgment that one particular ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
Speed: 0.5x Speed: 1x Speed: 1.5x Speed: 2x 🎙️ Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur. Former White House chief strategist and longtime MAGA loyalist Steve Bannon issued a warning to Republicans ahead of the 2026 midterm election over the controversy surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein files. Speaking on his War Room podcast, Bannon argued that a perceived cover-up surrounding the files risks ...
Source: newsweek.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
A week after , authorities and volunteers on the ground Friday as residents in hard-hit areas mourned the dead and President Donald Trump was expected to visit the region. At least 120 people have been recovered since heavy rainfall overwhelmed the Guadalupe River and flowed through homes and summer camps in the . Ninety-six of those killed were in the hardest-hit county in central Texas, Kerr County, where ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
Three customers struck in face by Ozark Trail bottle lids, two suffered permanent vision loss About 850,000 water bottles sold at Walmart are being recalled after customers reported being struck in the face with the lid, causing some to permanently lose their vision. The lid of the Ozark Trail 64 oz. Stainless Steel Insulated Water Bottles can forcefully eject, causing "serious impact and laceration ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
The Texas county where nearly 100 people were killed and more than 160 remain missing had the technology to turn every cellphone in the river valley into a blaring alarm, but local officials did not do so before or during the early-morning hours of July 4 as river levels rose to record heights, inundating campsites and homes, a Washington Post examination found. Kerr County officials, who have come under increasing ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
Speed: 0.5x Speed: 1x Speed: 1.5x Speed: 2x 🎙️ Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur. Republicans appear to be changing their views on immigration policies , while the majority still support President Donald Trump in the way he is handling the issue. A new poll from Gallup Friday shows a steep drop among Republicans wanting immigration levels into the U.S. decreased – falling from 88 ...
Source: newsweek.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
Recruit Holdings, the parent company of career sites Indeed and Glassdoor, is laying off 1,300 employees across the two sites. The job cuts represent about 6% of Recruit's overall global workforce and will especially impact U.S. employees working on the research and development, people operations, and sustainability teams, per CBS . The news was announced in a leaked internal email, viewed by TechCrunch , which ...
Source: entrepreneur.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
Ford is recalling 850,000 of its cars in the United States to fix defective fuel pumps in its pickup trucks and sports-utility vehicles. Affected vehicles include the 2021-2023 Bronco, Explorer, Aviator and some F-series pickup trucks, according to a filing from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The 2022 Expedition and 2021 to 2022 Mustang and Navigator were also listed as part of the recall. ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
A Donald Trump-backed effort to gerrymander Texas would boost the GOP's attempts to cling to its razor-thin House majority in next year's midterms — but it also runs a serious risk of backfiring. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott asked the state legislature to redraw the map during its special session this summer, following a push from the White House and the Justice Department. Ohio is also required by state law to ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
Missouri's Republican governor on Thursday signed legislation repealing the paid sick leave portion of a ballot measure that the state's voters approved with nearly 60% support in the 2024 election. The short-lived provision, which will officially be repealed on August 28, required Missouri employers to provide workers with an hour of paid sick time for every 30 hours of work. Businesses with 15 or more employees ...
Source: truthout.org
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
On July 8, a panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit issued a significant decision in the case of Custom Communications, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The panel vacated the FTC's amended Negative Option Rule aka the "click-to cancel" rule, citing procedural deficiencies in the rulemaking process. Specifically, the panel found that the FTC failed to conduct a required preliminary ...
Source: jdsupra.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
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Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
A confrontation erupted Thursday between protesters and federal officials carrying out a raid on a Southern California farm, with authorities throwing canisters that sprayed what looked like smoke into the air to disperse the crowd. Vehicles from Border Patrol and U.S. Customs and Border Protection blocked the road in a largely agricultural area of Camarillo lined with fields and greenhouses. There were ...
Source: military.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
The production combo sounds prettay, prettay, prettay good ( JTA ) — After his beloved and extremely Jewish sitcom "Curb Your Enthusiasm" ended after 12 seasons last year, many fans undoubtedly had the same thought: Would this be the last of Larry David on TV? The notorious curmudgeon's answer: Absolutely not. On Thursday, David announced that he will be partnering with Barack and Michelle Obama's production ...
Source: forward.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
By Launched in 2006 amid the chain's attempts to reach more drive-thru customers, the McDonald's ( MCD ) Snack Wrap spent 10 years on the menu before eventually getting discontinued in 2016. At the time, the fast-food giant's corporate team wanted to speed up back-of-house operations and felt that the time it took employees to assemble the chicken, lettuce, shredded cheddar and Monterrey cheese and choice of ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
A federal appeals court has rejected a challenge to a New York gun nuisance law that imposes liability for injuries stemming from misconduct in the sale or marketing of firearms. In a , the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at New York affirmed dismissal of the lawsuit filed by the National Shooting Sports Foundation and 14 of its members. The 2021 state law is not preempted by federal law, it does not violate ...
Source: abajournal.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
The billionaire's latest venture into U.S. politics points to cracks in the two-party system—even if it might flop. For this week's Fault Lines column, Jon Allsop is filling in for Jay Caspian Kang. There have been several political groupings called the American Party, or something similar, in U.S. history. Perhaps most famously, this was the official name of the Know Nothings, the once secret society ...
Source: newyorker.com
Friday, Jul 11th, 2025 -
The millions of Americans with student loans, who have already experienced whiplash in federal policy since the pandemic, must again brace for change. The "big, beautiful bill" that President Trump signed into law on July 4 overhauls the federal student loan system by reducing the number of repayment plan options down to two from seven and capping the amount individuals can borrow for higher education. Here's ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Jul 10th, 2025 -
In the first Trump Administration, "they didn't say 'Fuck you' to the courts," Erez Reuveni said. In the early days of the first Trump Administration, Erez Reuveni, a lawyer for the Department of Justice, went to court to defend the new President's travel ban on foreign nationals from seven predominantly Muslim countries. He told the federal judge hearing the case to ignore the unpleasant fact that, as a candidate, ...
Source: newyorker.com
Thursday, Jul 10th, 2025 -
President Trump late Wednesday announced he was putting Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy in charge of NASA as its new interim chief. "Sean is doing a TREMENDOUS job in handling our Country's Transportation Affairs, including creating a state-of-the-art Air Traffic Control systems, while at the same time rebuilding our roads and bridges, making them efficient, and beautiful, again," Trump wrote on a post on Truth ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Thursday, Jul 10th, 2025 -
The robot was said to have operated with the expertise of a skilled human surgeon, according to Johns Hopkins University researchers in the US. A robot has performed realistic surgery on its own with 100% accuracy, researchers have announced. Warning: Graphic images of the surgery below In a "major leap" towards using more robots in operating theatres, a machine trained on the videos of surgeries was able to remove ...
Source: news.sky.com
Thursday, Jul 10th, 2025 -
July 10 (UPI) -- Twenty-seven workers were rescued after they became trapped inside a Los Angeles tunnel that collapsed Wednesday night, officials said. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass reported that all workers who were trapped "are now out and accounted for." "I just spoke with many of the workers who were trapped," she said on X. "Thank you to all of our brave first responders who acted immediately. You are L.A.'s ...
Source: upi.com