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Top News Stories for Thursday, December 11th 2025
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By CORA LEWIS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point Wednesday for the third time since September, bringing its key rate to about 3.6%, the lowest in nearly three years. Before September, it had gone nine months without a cut. The benchmark rate is the rate at which banks borrow and lend to one ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Can AI scale without breaking trust? How HPE and SHI are redesigning resilience Can the technology industry really achieve secure AI integration? This is the central question being asked in organizations around the world as AI adoption continues to march steadily forward. Sensitive records are moving through multimodal AI systems and applications are becoming more autonomous with agentic AI. Trust, compliance and ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
No, Democrats Shouldn't Give Up On Texas After a string of disappointments, the party is tempted to give up on ever turning the state blue. History shows that that's a mistake. to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. In 2018 U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke broke state fundraising records and sparked national attention with his campaign for a Texas Senate seat. ...
Source: slate.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The United States has seized a crude oil tanker accused of transporting sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran, according to Attorney General Pamela Bondi. The vessel was taken in a coordinated operation involving multiple federal agencies. The seizure occurred on Wednesday off the coast of Venezuela, where personnel from the FBI, Homeland Security Investigations, and the U.S. Coast Guard, with support from the ...
Source: bnonews.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer Tuesday cleared the way for the release of potentially hundreds of thousands of documents from the sex trafficking case against Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell. "unambiguously applies" to the Maxwell grand jury testimony and "voluminous" other records from the case, Engelmayer ruled, including evidence not used in the 2021 trial that resulted in Maxwell's 20-year ...
Source: theweek.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump's launch of a nationwide "affordability tour" this week may look to some like an admission that Americans are struggling under the weight of the administration's tariffs and rising utility and grocery costs—but Trump assured one reporter on Tuesday that he would acknowledge no such thing. "I do want to talk about the economy," said Politico 's White House bureau chief, Dasha Burns, in a ...
Source: commondreams.org
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Under the terms of a proposed Education Department settlement announced this week, millions of student loan borrowers would soon have to make payments on their debt again. The agreement centers on borrowers who signed up for the Biden administration-era Saving on a Valuable Education, or SAVE, plan. Here are the options for borrowers who remain in the SAVE forbearance. Millions of student loan borrowers whose ...
Source: cnbc.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine was expected to give its latest peace proposals to US negotiators Wednesday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, a day ahead of his urgent talks with leaders and officials from about 30 other countries supporting Kyiv's effort to end the war with Russia on acceptable terms. As tension builds around a US push for a settlement, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, British Prime Minister Keir ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese welcomed a world-first social media ban for children younger than 16 that took effect Wednesday as families taking back power from tech giants but warned the implementation would be difficult. Many children posted farewell messages, while parents reported distraught children discovering they'd been shut out of platforms as the landmark law ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The end of the year brings noise. Your membership ensures our newsroom remains a clear, reliable source of facts for the whole community. Help us keep the signal strong for the year ahead. Already a member? WASHINGTON — Democratic senators who bucked their party and voted to end the longest government shutdown in history last month are at peace with their decision even as the Senate stares at a pair of failed ...
Source: huffpost.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A parent of a Kentucky State University student has been charged with murder in an on campus shooting that killed one student and critically injured another. Jacob Lee Bard was at the school's campus in Frankfort on Tuesday and fired shots at the victims at a residence hall, police said in a statement. Investigators said the shooting was isolated, but they have not publicly shared ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
FILE PHOTO: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, U.S. President Donald Trump and Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez attend a meeting of the North Atlantic Council during a NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium July 11, 2018. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir/File Photo The U.S. government threatened sanctions against the International Criminal Court unless the body vowed not to prosecute President Donald Trump . Officials in the ...
Source: rawstory.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Amazon plans to invest $35 billion in India through 2030 to support business expansion, artificial intelligence (AI) digitization, export growth and job creation. This will build on the $40 billion the company has already invested in India in terms of compensation to employees and development of infrastructure, it said in a Wednesday (Dec. 10) press release . Amazon's investments to date have built fulfillment ...
Source: pymnts.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
By and Following her decisive victory in Miami's runoff election, Mayor-Elect Eileen Higgins laid out a vision for a new era in Miami politics Wednesday, with promises to end City Hall's "reality TV show" culture and instead focus on tackling major issues plaguing Miami residents. "So first of all, the temperature on the dais has to go down," Higgins told reporters in her first post-election press conference. ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Washington — A federal judge in California blocked the Trump administration from deploying members of the California National Guard in Los Angeles and directed it to return control of the Guard to Gov. Gavin Newsom. The decision Wednesday from U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer is the second in which he has ruled against the Trump administration in its efforts to federalize the California National Guard, ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
– Renewed border fighting between showed no signs of abating Wednesday, leaving hundreds of thousands of displaced people in both countries living in strained conditions as more flooded into Associated Press reporters on the Thai side of the border heard sounds of outgoing, indirect fire Wednesday. About 400,000 people have been evacuated from affected areas in Thailand and around 700 schools closed while ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
News Florida governor designates CAIR as foreign terrorist organization Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Monday signed an executive order designating the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as a foreign terrorist organization. The executive order, an unprecedented step at the state level, cites a supposed connection between the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as the primary justification for the designation. ...
Source: jurist.org
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
An excavation in Suffolk, UK, has uncovered pyrite and flint that appear to have been used by ancient humans to light fires some 400,000 years ago Around 400,000 years ago, a band of Neanderthals, or their ancestors, in Britain struck flint with pyrite and built a fire repeatedly in the same spot. Archaeologists studying the site think it is the earliest evidence of humans starting fires ever found. Early humans ...
Source: newscientist.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
U.S. banking regulators are warming up to cryptocurrency in a way never seen before. For much of the digital asset sector's history, crypto companies have accused U.S. regulators of regulatory arbitrage by enforcement, while regulators accused the industry of racing ahead of basic risk controls. Banks, caught in the middle, largely stayed on the sidelines, experimenting quietly while waiting for a clearer signal. ...
Source: pymnts.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump's crusade against renewables was dealt a blow on Monday when a federal judge vacated a January executive order that halted wind energy development on public lands. In May, 17 states and the District of Columbia filed suit against Trump over the order, which directed federal agencies to "not issue new or renewed approvals, rights of way, permits, leases, or loans for onshore or offshore wind ...
Source: reason.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Energy drinks might give you wings, unleash the beast or fuel your grind - but chugging too many might pose a serious stroke risk, doctors warn. An otherwise fit and healthy man in his 50s with a daily eight-can habit found out the hard way, a case study published Tuesday in the journal BMJ Case Reports states. This patient suffered permanent damage from a minor stroke caused by extremely high blood pressure, ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Wednesday to hear a bid by Alabama officials to pursue the execution of an inmate convicted of a 1997 murder who a lower court found to be intellectually disabled and thus ineligible for the death penalty. President Donald Trump's administration has backed the Republican-led state's appeal of the lower court's determination ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Long-term heart disease risk in women diagnosed with uterine fibroids was more than 80% higher than in women without fibroids, according to new independent research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association , an open access, peer-reviewed journal of the American Heart Association. Fibroids are predominately benign growths that develop from the muscle tissue of the uterus. The U.S. ...
Source: news-medical.net
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Iceland on Wednesday became the fifth nation not to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest next year because of Israel's participation in the event, joining Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and the Netherlands. Last week , Israel's national broadcaster was cleared to compete in Vienna, Austria, in May. The European Broadcasting Union, the contest's organizing body, declined to expel Israel over its ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Trump's odd Nvidia reversal may open the door for China to demand Blackwell access. Donald Trump's decision to allow Nvidia to export an advanced artificial intelligence chip, the H200, to China may give China exactly what it needs to win the AI race, experts and lawmakers have warned. The H200 is about 10 times less powerful than Nvidia's Blackwell chip, which is the tech giant's currently most advanced chip that ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Sperm donor with cancer-causing gene fathered nearly 200 children across Europe, investigation finds
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
London — Sperm from a donor who unknowingly carried a cancer-causing gene has been used to conceive nearly 200 babies across Europe, an investigation by 14 European public service broadcasters, including CBS News' partner network BBC News, has revealed. Some children conceived using the sperm have already died from cancer, and the vast majority of those who inherited the gene will develop cancer in ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Daughter accepts Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado's Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Oslo, Norway — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado missed the ceremony to award her the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Wednesday, but said she was on her way to the Norwegian capital and would arrive soon to embrace her family for the first time in months. Machado, who's fight against the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, whom she, the U.S. and many other ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
SAN FRANCISCO ( KRON ) – Instacart, the San Francisco-based company that operates its eponymous grocery delivery app, is responding to reports that it charged some customers more than others for the exact same items as part of an artificial intelligence-enabled experiment. The allegations stem from a study conducted by Consumer Reports , an advocacy group known as Groundwork Collaborative, and the non-profit ...
Source: wfla.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Space agency is investigating after Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekend Nasa has lost contact with a spacecraft that has orbited Mars for more than a decade, though the US space agency said it was trying to re-establish a communications link. Maven abruptly stopped communicating to ground stations over the weekend. Nasa said this week that the spacecraft had been working fine ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The Michigan Wolverines are firing head football coach Sherrone Moore after he was found to have had an "inappropriate relationship" with a staff member, the school announced Wednesday. "Sherrone Moore has been terminated, with cause, effective immediately," Wolverines athletic director Warde Manuel said in a statement. "Following a university investigation, credible evidence was found that Coach Moore engaged in ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
A conservative United States federal judge was seen attending a political rally hosted by President Donald Trump this week, prompting a nonprofit watchdog group to file an ethics complaint against him. Judge Emil Bove, who serves on the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals, was nominated by Trump in June, and narrowly approved by a deeply divided Senate in a 50-49 vote the following month . Prior to his nomination, ...
Source: truthout.org
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Oracle's quarterly earnings topped expectations, but revenue came up short. Investors have question whether the company's artificial intelligence investments are justified. Oracle picked up commitments from Meta and Nvidia during the quarter, as its remaining performance obligations soared 438% from a year earlier. In this article Larry Ellison, Oracle's co-founder and chief technology officer, appears at the ...
Source: cnbc.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Women are hitting the top of the corporate ladder only to find something waiting for them: exhaustion. According to a report published Tuesday by McKinsey and LeanIn.org, a nonprofit founded by Sheryl Sandberg, burnout among senior-level women is the highest it has been in the past five years. Around 60% of these women said they have frequently felt burned out at work in the past few months, compared with 50% of ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The end of the year brings noise. Your membership ensures our newsroom remains a clear, reliable source of facts for the whole community. Help us keep the signal strong for the year ahead. Already a member? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is now investigating whether the coronavirus vaccine is linked to deaths in several unspecified age groups, the Department of Health and Human Services told HuffPost. "FDA ...
Source: huffpost.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
We're long past relying only on smartphones for our mobile computing needs. iPhones and Android devices are routinely paired with specific wearable accessories: can also help with the latter, reducing the need to use a wrist wearable. In this crowded ecosystem where ideas often get recycled, wearable company Pebble managed to deliver a surprise accessory; a ring with no health sensors. Instead, is a smart AI ...
Source: bgr.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered diplomats to revert to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor Antony Blinken's decision to adopt Calibri a "wasteful" diversity move, according to a leaked internal cable. The department switched to Calibri, a modern sans-serif font, in January 2023, saying it was a more accessible font for people with disabilities because it did ...
Source: abc.net.au
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Big 12 Conference commissioner Brett Yormark said Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua was "totally out of bounds" for his comments on the Atlantic Coast Conference this week. Notre Dame have a football scheduling alliance with the ACC and are a full member of the conference in other sports. Bevacqua has claimed the ACC damaged Notre Dame's chances at making the College Football Playoff, instead campaigning ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The measles outbreak in South Carolina is "accelerating" with no end in sight following Thanksgiving and other large gatherings, state health officials said Wednesday. As of Wednesday, 111 measles cases had been reported in what's known as upstate South Carolina — an area in the northwest of the state that includes Greenville and Spartanburg. "We are faced with ongoing transmission that we anticipate will go ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Egypt and Iran, two Middle East nations that target gays and lesbians, have complained to FIFA over a World Cup soccer match in Seattle that is planned to celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride. Leaders in the nation's soccer federations publicly rebuked the idea of playing the match June 26 at Seattle Stadium, which local organizers say will include a "once-in-a-lifetime moment to showcase ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
The European Commission has launched a probe into Google over concerns it may be breaching EU competition laws by extracting content from websites without compensation to produce AI-generated search summaries. "The Commission will investigate to what extent the generation of AI Overviews and AI Mode by Google is based on web publishers' content without appropriate compensation for that, and without the possibility ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
The American Academy of Pediatrics began recommending the shot to newborns starting in 1961. When a baby is born in a medical facility in the U.S., chances are high that they will be offered a range of treatments and tests that are recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics, which includes some of very first shots that are included on the childhood immunization list. Vitamin K is among the first of the ...
Source: greenmatters.com