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Top News Stories for Friday, December 12th 2025
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene argued President Trump lacks self-awareness as he continues to hurl insults at the conservative firebrand who was once one of his fiercest allies in Congress. "I actually am starting to feel very sorry for President Trump," the Georgia Republican told CBS News in an interview Wednesday. "It's actually a very poor reflection on him that he chooses to speak about me that way." Mr. ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Borrowing six figures' worth of home equity may not seem like the most obvious borrowing choice on the surface. But with the average home equity amount worth hundreds of thousands of dollars right now and cumulative home equity levels in the country hitting a record high this year, it can be a viable borrowing option worth investigating right now. And that's especially true considering that interest rates on home ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Make your own AI Mickey Mouse — Disney embraces new tech Walt Disney and OpenAI announced a three-year licensing deal Thursday that will allow users to create short videos featuring beloved Disney characters through artificial intelligence. The deal marks the first time a major entertainment company has embraced generative AI at this scale, licensing its fiercely protected characters — from Mickey Mouse ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
PHILIPSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Kilmar Abrego Garcia was freed from immigration detention on a judge's order Thursday while he fights to stay in the U.S., handing a major victory to the immigrant whose wrongful deportation to a notorious prison in El Salvador made him a flashpoint of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in Maryland ordered Immigration and Customs ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
The Affordable Care Act's subsidies are a few weeks from expiring. This is a crisis in the lives of thousands of our fellow citizens. It apparently was not a crisis in the United States Senate, at least not on Thursday. From Politico: Senators voted 51-48 on advancing a GOP health care plan that would have expanded health savings accounts as an alternative to the expiring tax credits. Democrats' plan to extend the ...
Source: esquire.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 -
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was engaged in the familiar routine of congressional hearings Thursday, basking in Republican praise and fending off attacks from Democrats over the administration's immigration tactics, when Rhode Island Representative Seth Magaziner broke up the traditional back and forth. Magaziner, a Democrat on the House Committee on Homeland Security, began to grill Noem about whether ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Sherrone Moore was being held in jail Thursday while police investigate the situation that led to his arrest hours after the once-promising coach was fired at Michigan for what the school said was an inappropriate relationship with a staff member. Authorities have yet to release details on Moore's arrest, other than to say he has been held since Wednesday night in the Washtenaw County Jail ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Turns out the ability to use fire might have started long before our species, with Neanderthal ancestors. The old cliché goes like this: humans mastered fire, and with it, we conquered the world. But a plot twist is emerging from the sediment of history. What if it wasn't Homo sapiens who figured this out first? What if it was the Neanderthals, or their ancestors? According to groundbreaking findings from ...
Source: zmescience.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
A grand jury, for a second time, declined to bring a new indictment against Letitia James, the New York attorney general who defeated President Donald Trump and his company in court, according to multiple sources. The Justice Department presented its case against James to grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, Thursday — a week after a different grand jury in Norfolk declined to bring charges. Of the five cases ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Fighting between Thailand and Cambodia entered its fourth day on Thursday as both sides waited for a promised telephone call from U.S. President Donald Trump , who says he believes he can again end the conflict between the two Southeast Asian nations. On Wednesday, clashes at more than a dozen locations along the 500-mile Thai-Cambodian border saw some of the most intense fighting since a five-day battle in July, ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Time magazine is spotlighting key players in the artificial intelligence revolution for its 2025 Person of the Year, the magazine announced Thursday. "The architects of AI" are the latest recipients of the designation, which for more than a century has been given out on an annual basis to an influential person, group of people or, occasionally, a defining cultural theme or idea. Previous ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Thanksgiving travel and low vaccination rates have contributed to 27 new cases in state during past week South Carolina health officials have reported an "accelerating" measles outbreak in the state in the wake of Thanksgiving travel and a lack of vaccinations, with hundreds of people in quarantine. The outbreak, which appears centered on a single church and several schools in Spartanburg county in the state's ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
KYIV -- President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday that a compromise peace plan backed by the United States still called for Ukraine to withdraw from the eastern Donbas region, a concession that Zelensky said his country would not make. Speaking to reporters in Kyiv, Zelensky made clear that territorial questions remained a major unresolved issue, a day after Ukrainian and European leaders sent to the United States ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Bjork supported the boycott move ( JTA ) — The public broadcaster of Iceland announced on Wednesday that it will not participate in this year's Eurovision Song Contest after Israel's participation was confirmed by the European Broadcasting Union last week. The decision drew support from prominent Icelandic artists, including the singer Björk and the former Eurovision representative Paul Oscar, as well as ...
Source: forward.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Artificial intelligence is rushing into our lives at a breakneck pace. And the AI mavens know it: In the merging language of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill, they like to describe our present state of affairs as a "race." There are reports that the technology can now execute large-scale cyberattacks , that it can engineer bioweapons . AI chatbots are melting our brains while AI video generators churn out deepfake ...
Source: newrepublic.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Announcement, and lack of details in the weeks following, represents major departure from previous FDA priorities As the US's top vaccine officials come under pressure from lawmakers and former leaders, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says it will release information "soon" about changes to regulations following unconfirmed claims of deaths after Covid vaccination. It's part of a sweeping effort, led by ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Sometimes they even leave the dolphins scraps. Off the coast of British Columbia, researchers have reported something that looks a lot like teamwork between two predators that don't usually get credit for cooperating: Orcas (a.k.a. killer whales) and Pacific white-sided dolphins . In observations around Vancouver Island in August 2020, a small group of northern resident orcas repeatedly did an about-face after ...
Source: zmescience.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! A sperm donor whose samples helped conceive nearly 200 children across Europe unknowingly carried a cancer-causing genetic mutation — a hidden risk now tied to multiple childhood illnesses and early deaths. An investigation led by the BBC and many other public service broadcasters revealed that the donations were made to Denmark's European Sperm Bank (ESB). Those ...
Source: foxnews.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
On Wednesday, through a legally dubious executive order, President Donald Trump launched the "Trump Card," a means by which wealthy immigrants or their corporate backers can expedite their visa process and gain entry into the United States. "THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT'S TRUMP GOLD CARD IS HERE TODAY!" Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Wednesday . "A direct path to Citizenship for all qualified and vetted ...
Source: truthout.org
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
The new model performs 'at or above a human expert level,' according to OpenAI. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways GPT-5.2 is built for professional tasks and rivals experts. After a week of teasing , OpenAI's latest model, GPT-5.2, has landed -- and it can apparently rival your professional skills. The company called GPT-5.2 "the most capable ...
Source: zdnet.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
NASCAR reached a settlement Thursday of the bruising antitrust lawsuit filed against the stock car series by two of its race teams, including one co-owned by NBA great Michael Jordan. "Today's a good day," Jordan said as he waited in the gallery for attorneys to announce the deal. Details were not immediately released. The settlement came on the ninth day of the trial before U.S. District Judge Kenneth Bell, who ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — Washington state was under a state of emergency Thursday from a barrage of torrential rain that has sent rivers flowing over their banks, caused a mudslide to crash down on a highway and trapped people in floodwaters. Tens of thousands of residents could face evacuation orders. Heavy rain continued to fall over parts of the state Thursday morning, prompting road closures, water ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
The tools enable tasks like background blurring, brightness adjustments, PDF conversion, and design creation using Adobe's extensive creative libraries through conversational commands. Adobe has launched special versions of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Express and Adobe Acrobat for ChatGPT . This gives users access to a wide range of features directly in the popular chatbot at no cost, including image editing and the ...
Source: pcworld.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Oracle shares sank on Wednesday after revenue earnings missed analyst expectations. The database software maker extended losses on Thursday. Other AI-related names fell alongside it. In this article Oracle shares plummeted over 12% in premarket trading on Thursday, extending yesterday's losses after the firm reported disappointing results. The cloud computing and database software maker reported ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Eli Lilly said its next-generation obesity drug delivered what appears to be the highest weight loss seen so far in a late-stage trial and reduced knee arthritis pain, clearing the first of several upcoming studies on the weekly injection. The drugmaker is betting big on the treatment, retatrutide, as the next pillar of its obesity portfolio after its weight loss injection Zepbound and its upcoming ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
The age-old desire to automate online work is driving a new arms race in Silicon Valley: the agentic browser. With today's (Dec. 11) launch of Opera's Neon artificial intelligence (AI) browser, available for $20 a month, the field of competitors is expanding, promising an AI assistant that can browse, click, and reason on a user's behalf. These new tools, like Neon's ability to analyze videos, draft text, and ...
Source: pymnts.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
"Ripping the SAVE plan away from student loan borrowers now without access to a clear and affordable alternative is reckless and short-sighted, creating even more needless confusion, uncertainty, and financial stress for millions of Americans already struggling with the rising cost of living," said Abby Shafroth, managing director of advocacy at the National Consumer Law Center in a statement this week following ...
Source: forbes.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson are reportedly set to return to the Hunger Games in next year's highly anticipated prequel. The pair last starred together in Mockingjay - Part 2, the climactic installment of the original film series. US magazines The Hollywood Reporter and reported that Lawrence, 35, returns as Katniss Everdeen while Hutcherson, 33, will reprise his role of Peeta Mellark in The Hunger Games: ...
Source: bbc.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
As President Donald Trump announced a $12 billion farm aid package this week to help U.S. farmers hurt by tariffs, he placed responsibility for the U.S. agricultural trade deficit on former President Joe Biden. But in casting blame elsewhere, he is ignoring other factors, including his own role. Currently, farmers — especially those that produce soybeans and sorghum — have had a hard time selling their ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
SANTA FE, N.M. — The Trump administration is adding another militarized zone to the southern U.S. border to support border security operations — this time in California. The Department of Interior on Wednesday said it would transfer jurisdiction along most of California's international border with Mexico to the Navy to reinforce "the historic role public lands have played in safeguarding national ...
Source: military.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 -
The heirs of an 83-year-old Connecticut woman are suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI and its business partner Microsoft for wrongful death, alleging that the artificial intelligence chatbot intensified her son's "paranoid delusions" and helped direct them at his mother before he died by suicide. Police said Stein-Erik Soelberg, 56, a former tech industry worker, fatally beat and strangled his mother, Suzanne Adams, and ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
In its latest splurge, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will spend nearly $140 million on six Boeing 737 planes to deport immigrants. The new DHS planes are intended to cut costs "by allowing ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] to operate more effectively," Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin told The Washington Post . The planes will be purchased with funding granted by the One ...
Source: reason.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? Dec 10 (Reuters) - A federal judge in California on Wednesday ordered an end to Donald Trump 's deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles and directed that they be returned to the control of the state's ...
Source: huffpost.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado appeared in public for the first time in 11 months early Thursday morning local time, when she waved to supporters at a hotel in Norway's capital hours after her daughter accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf . Machado had been in hiding since Jan. 9, when she was briefly detained after joining supporters in a protest in Caracas, Venezuela's capital. ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
If NASA is serious about exploring Mars, it's past time to send new missions. NASA has lost contact with one its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars orbiter is perilously close to running out of fuel, and the third mission is running well past its warranty. Ground teams last heard from the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN, spacecraft on Saturday, ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Heart disease has long been the top killer of women in the United States, but new research suggests uterine fibroids, which many may not even be aware they have, could be putting them at a significantly greater risk. A large, 10-year study found that women with leiomyomas had an 81% higher long-term risk of heart disease than those without the common condition. Women with fibroids — generally benign tumors ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
NEW YORK (AP) — Secret grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein's 2019 sex trafficking case can be made public, a judge ruled on Wednesday, joining two other judges in granting the Justice Department's requests to unseal material from investigations into the late financier's sexual abuse. U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman reversed his earlier decision to keep the material under wraps , citing a new law ...
Source: apnews.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 -
Danny KEMP 3 min read US President Donald Trump has been seen closing his eyes periodically at a number of events (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS) US President Donald Trump has blasted media reports questioning his state of health as "seditious, perhaps even treasonous," sparking pushback Wednesday by one of the major outlets behind the stories. In a long, late-night social media post, the oldest elected president in US ...
Source: yahoo.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Gov. Ron DeSantis rolled out his "Floridians First" budget proposal Wednesday in Orlando, calling for more than $1.5 billion in funding for teacher pay increases and a continuation of his key environmental and law enforcement initiatives. As he approaches his final year in office, DeSantis said he wants a $117 billion spending plan, about the same as the current year's ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Foreigners who are allowed to come to the United States without a visa could soon be required to submit information about their social media, email accounts and extensive family history to the Department of Homeland Security before being approved for travel. The notice published Wednesday in the Federal Register said Customs and Border Protection is proposing collecting five years worth of ...
Source: pbs.org
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Amazon.com Inc. today announced plans to invest $35 billion in India through the end of the decade. Executives detailed the initiative at the sixth edition of a business event the company holds annually in New Delhi. According to Amazon, the investment will support "all its businesses." That suggests some of the funds could go toward growing Amazon Web Services Inc.'s local presence. AWS inaugurated its first cloud ...
Source: siliconangle.com