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Top News Stories for Saturday, December 20th 2025
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
As the US Department of Justice announced it would miss Friday's legal deadline to hand Congress all files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna vowed to prosecute any officials who obstruct the documents' disclosure. Khanna (D-Calif.)—who along with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) introduced the Epstein Files Transparency Act— told CBS News Friday that the DOJ "had ...
Source: commondreams.org
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington donned a new name — the Trump-Kennedy Center — on the exterior of the building Friday, just a day after President Donald Trump's hand-picked board voted to change the arts institution's name. on Thursday voted unanimously to approve the name change. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he was "surprised" and "honored" that the board, of ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
If on Thursday, the practical policy impact on the federal level will be somewhat limited, as cannabis would remain illegal. But lawmakers in states like Pennsylvania and Tennessee say the political effect could ultimately prove more impactful as they work to enact local reforms in the next year. The executive order Trump signed directs the attorney general to complete a process to move cannabis from Schedule I to ...
Source: marijuanamoment.net
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
Home » » WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced on Thursday many regulatory moves aimed at banning gender-affirming care for minors nationwide. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, announced the measures in a press conference. The conference took place at the HHS Headquarters in ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
The Bank of Japan raised its key policy rate to a 30-year high on Friday to help curb inflation, as widely expected, and financial markets took the move in stride. The 0.25 percentage point hike took the BOJ's benchmark short-term rate to 0.75%, its highest level since September 1995. It will raise costs for mortgages and other loans, but also boost yields on savings deposits. "It is highly likely that wages and ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Republican worries about losing their majority in the U.S. House of Representatives next year erupted this week, when four moderates joined Democrats in a last-ditch effort to prevent a spike in healthcare costs for 24 million Americans beginning in less than two weeks. and Mike Lawler of New York - are part of a larger group of about a dozen House Republicans who had been ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
Reading time 2 minutes Instacart's month keeps getting worse. The grocery delivery service was hit with another blow on Thursday, when the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced the company agreed to issue $60 million in refunds to settle allegations that it engaged in deceptive business practices. The news dropped the same day reports surfaced that the FTC is also probing Instacart's pricing practices , ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
A Wisconsin judge who helped a Mexican immigrant evade federal agents was found guilty of obstruction Thursday. Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan now faces up to five years in prison, the reports. Federal prosecutors had also charged Dugan with concealing an individual to prevent arrest, but the jury acquitted her on that count. Dugan learned in April that immigration officials had come to the Milwaukee ...
Source: abajournal.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MIAMI — John S. Koch, a radio reporter in North Florida, has been witnessing state executions since the serial killer Ted Bundy's in 1989, not missing one in nearly 37 years. He has never been busier. Florida has executed 19 men this year, shattering the state's previous record of eight executions, set in 1984 and matched in 2014. The 19th execution of 2025 took ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
Texas' new law regulating AI is set to take effect Jan. 1, two months after Trump's executive order threatening to cut off some federal money if states pass "onerous" AI laws. An executive order by President Donald Trump may bring Texas into conflict with the federal government over a new state law regulating the use of artificial intelligence. Trump signed an executive order last week that threatens to cut off ...
Source: route-fifty.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
Housing inventory fell 5.9% in November from October. The median price of a home sold in November, meanwhile, was $409,200, an increase of 1.2% from November 2024. Homes are staying on the market longer, at 36 days compared with 32 days last November. High home prices, stubbornly high mortgage rates and now less supply are all weighing on potential homebuyers. Sales of previously owned homes rose just 0.5% in ...
Source: cnbc.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By MICHAEL LIEDTKE Elon Musk, already the world's richest man, scored another huge windfall Friday when the Delaware Supreme Court reversed a decision that deprived him of a $55 billion pay package that Tesla doled out in 2018 as an incentive for its CEO to steer the automaker to new heights. Besides padding Musk's current fortune of $679 billion, the restoration of the ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Friday, Dec 19th, 2025 -
Over the last year, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his appointees have taken tentative steps toward his long-standing goal of remaking the childhood vaccination schedule. But emboldened by a directive from President Donald Trump, Kennedy is now poised to make a seismic shift. He is expected to announce in the new year that American children should be immunized according to a different schedule with ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Dec 18th, 2025 -
By U.S. inflation eased in November in what economists said likely reflected distortions caused by the government shutdown, creating an uncertain picture for the Federal Reserve as it simultaneously contends with rising unemployment. The latest consumer price index, released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Thursday, rose 2.7% from the same time last year. That fell short of the previous 3% pace and was well ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Dec 18th, 2025 -
Authorities said Thursday that they're looking into a connection between last weekend's mass shooting at Brown University and one two days later near Boston that killed a professor at another elite school, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. That is according to three people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to discuss an investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity. Two of the people ...
Source: theguardian.com