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Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
Pediatricians say panel's decision will create confusion and access issues, and condemn 'parody of public health' The entire US childhood vaccine schedule is now open for scrutiny, experts say, after government vaccine advisers took up discussions of the safety and efficacy of the vaccines and their components and changed its recommendations on one crucial prevention. Several of the vaccine advisers are longtime ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
With the White House's push for states to draw new maps ahead of the midterms not going as smoothly as planned, the Sunshine State is now entering the fray. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida could be the final state the White House can count on to pick up additional seats as part of the rare mid-decade redistricting cycle it has pushed ahead of the midterm elections. The Republican-controlled state officially ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
This year, the holidays don't feel celebratory for many Americans who've been negatively affected by the Trump administration's decisions. We're here to make sure those people do not go unheard. Help us hold the administration accountable. Already a member? WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military opened fire on two people clinging to the wreckage of a boat allegedly carrying drugs, congressional lawmakers learned ...
Source: huffpost.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
Hollywood moguls once dismissed the outsize ambitions of Netflix's executives. "Is the Albanian army going to take over the world?" former Time Warner Chairman Jeff Bewkes asked a reporter 15 years ago . "I don't think so." Think again. On Friday, Netflix co-Chief Executive Ted Sarandos pulled off an audacious $82-billion deal to buy much of Bewkes' old haunts: the Warner Bros. film and TV studios in Burbank, and ...
Source: latimes.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
Each nation's World Cup is defined, for good or bad, by huge, indelible moments. With a favorable draw, the onus is now on the US to create them C hristian Pulisic vividly remembers watching it with his family. So does Tyler Adams, who saw it with his friends from soccer camp. Memories of Tim Howard catching an Algerian header in Pretoria, and hurling it upfield to ignite the counterattack that would lead to Landon ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
The Trump administration will be expanding its ban on travel for citizens of certain countries to more than 30, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said, in the latest restriction to come since a man from Afghanistan was accused of shooting two National Guard members. The expansion would build on a travel ban already announced in June by the Republican administration, which barred ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
The more persuasive a model is trained to be, the higher the likelihood that it'll hallucinate, researchers find. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Most of us feel a sense of personal ownership over our opinions: "I believe what I believe, not because I've been told to do so, but as the result of careful consideration." "I have full control over how, when, and why I ...
Source: zdnet.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — Many of the voices were frantic and desperate. A few were steady and calm amid mounting, frightening danger, and in some cases, inescapable doom. They came from families huddled on rooftops to escape rising, swirling waters, mothers panicked for the wellbeing of their children and onlookers who heard people yell for help through the dark as they clung to treetops. One man, stuck high ...
Source: apnews.com
Saturday, Dec 6th, 2025 -
For babies born in the next few years, "Trump accounts" could be a financial game changer. And for the policymakers and advocates who conceived of the idea, the accounts have another potential benefit: Improving capitalism's reputation, especially among young people. "What I'm really excited about is, we are creating a new generation of capitalists," Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas said at the White House on ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Voters who backed Democratic governors in New Jersey and Virginia this year after voting for President Donald Trump in 2024 have a message for both parties: reject your party's extremes and run campaigns about more than just Trump. In new focus groups, 14 swing voters from New Jersey and Virginia revealed sharply negative views of both parties — and of politicians broadly. They explained that they were drawn ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Washington — The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide the legality of President Trump's executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship , which automatically grants citizenship to anyone born in the U.S. Issued at the start of his second term, the plan is the first from Mr. Trump's immigration agenda that the Supreme Court will evaluate on the legal merits. The justices have been asked to ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
US District Judge Rodney Smith on Friday ordered the release of grand jury transcripts from the Florida investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein . Judge Smith said in a brief order that the Epstein Files Transparency Act mandates their release. The Justice Department requested the unsealing after President Donald Trump signed a bill last month requiring the public release of all govt records ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
By Perry Stein and Gregory S. Schneider, The Washington Post A grand jury in Virginia on Thursday rejected Justice Department efforts to charge New York Attorney General Letitia James with mortgage fraud, declining to indict her again after a judge dismissed the charges last week, according to two people familiar with the matter, who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized to speak about the ...
Source: abajournal.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
The European Union hit Elon Musk's X with a 120-million-euro ($140-million) fine for breaking its digital rules. The European Union hit Elon Musk's X with a 120-million-euro ($140-million) fine Friday for breaking its digital rules, in a move that risks a fresh clash with US President Donald Trump's administration. The high-profile probe into the social media platform was seen as a test of the bloc's resolve to ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article James McCrery II will remain on the project in a 'consulting' role, the White House has said President Donald Trump replaced the original architect tapped to oversee his $300 million ballroom due to the massive size of the president's project, according to a report. James McCrery ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Vladimir Putin arrives in New Delhi with a large trade delegation and wants to protect trade and defence ties from US sanctions over the war in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin was given a red carpet ceremonial welcome as he arrived in New Delhi for the 23rd India-Russia summit. Breaking protocol, India's prime minister Narendra Modi greeted the Russian leader on the tarmac on Thursday evening, ...
Source: news.sky.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Four countries have announced that they are boycotting the Eurovision Song Contest in 2026 because of the organizers' much-criticized decision to allow Israel to continue participating in the competition, despite its genocide. Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands are pulling out of the competition for next year, after the body behind the competition, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), refused to hold a ...
Source: truthout.org
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva of Arizona said she was pepper-sprayed and "pushed around" by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during a raid at a Tucson restaurant on Friday. In a video statement posted on X , Grijalva said it happened as local Tucsonans gathered to stop a group of roughly 40 ICE agents, many of them masked and in several vehicles, stationed in the middle of a street near a restaurant ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
By The Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare experienced an issue early Friday that brought down some of the world's most popular websites for a few hours before a fix was deployed. The company, whose software is used to manage and secure traffic for about 20% of the Internet, said just after 9:00 a.m. London time, its dashboard and related application program interfaces started to experience issues, The ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
AI Security Leader Joins HPE Unleash AI Partner Program to Enable Secure AI Adoption Worldwide a leading AI data security platform provider, announced it has joined the HPE Unleash AI partner program. This collaboration brings pre-validated AI security capabilities to HPE Private Cloud AI, co-developed with NVIDIA as part of NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE portfolio. Now, Daxa's runtime AI security platform integrates ...
Source: aithority.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Dec. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. presidents have the power to fire members of the National Labor Relations Board and the Merit Systems Protection Board, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday. A three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled 2-1 that NLRB and MSPB positions are at-will and can be ended at any time without cause. The ruling overturns several lower court rulings to the ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article FIFA said the president had 'championed the unifying power of football on the world stage' Soccer fans reacted with outrage and incredulity as Donald Trump accepted the newly created "FIFA Peace Prize" during the 2026 World Cup draw. "This is pathetic," wrote one user, responding ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Topics More from TechCrunch Waymo plans to voluntarily issue a software recall with federal safety regulators related to how its robotaxis operate around school buses, the Alphabet-owned company told TechCrunch. The voluntary software recall will be filed early next week, according to the company. Waymo said as soon as the issue was identified it updated its software on November 17. The company contends ...
Source: techcrunch.com
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 -
The average mortgage rate in November continued to trend lower to its lowest level in over a year. According to Freddie Mac , the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 6.24% in November, 2 basis points (bps) lower than in October. Meanwhile, the 15-year rate increased 3 bps to 5.51%. Both the 30-year and 15-year rates remain lower than a year ago, dropping by 57 bps and 52 bps year-over-year, respectively. The ...
Source: eyeonhousing.org
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Police officers have been watching the suspect closely for six days and recovered the pendant after it came out the other end without medical intervention. The man is due to appear in Auckland District Court on Monday and will remain in police custody until then. New Zealand Police say they have recovered a James Bond-inspired Fabergé pendant after six days of closely watching the man accused of swallowing ...
Source: abc.net.au
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Perhaps someday, the will allow women to serve as deacons. But that time, a Vatican commission has decided, is not now. In a letter submitted to and released this week, a Vatican group formed in 2020 under to mull the issue said historical and theological research "excludes the possibility" of considering allowing women to the diaconate. "In light of Sacred Scripture, Tradition, and ecclesiastical teaching, this ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Frank Gehry, the architect whose undulating, titanium-sheathed museum turned little-known Bilbao, Spain, into an international travel destination and ushered in an era of spectacular form-making, has died. He was 96. He died on Friday at his home in Santa Monica, California, the New York Times reported, citing Meaghan Lloyd, his chief of staff. He lived in Santa Monica with his wife, Berta, in a house that was one ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
This newsroom tells stories that reflect real lives and real stakes. Your support ensures that work continues. Join as a member today and close the year by strengthening independent reporting for all. Already a member? LOS ANGELES (AP) — Frank Gehry, who designed some of most imaginative buildings ever constructed and achieved a level of worldwide acclaim seldom afforded any architect, has died. He was 96. ...
Source: huffpost.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration set forth a new national security strategy that paints European allies as weak and aims to reassert America's dominance in the Western Hemisphere. The document released Friday by the White House is sure to roil long-standing U.S. allies in Europe for its scathing critiques of their migration and free speech policies, suggesting they face the "prospect ...
Source: military.com
Friday, Dec 5th, 2025 -
Employers announced 71,321 job cuts last month: Report Only third time since 2008 that Nov. layoff plans topped 70K Markets expect Fed to cut interest rates at the next meeting TAMPA, Fla. ( NewsNation ) — U.S. employers have announced more than 1.1 million job cuts so far this year, the most since 2020, according to new data from Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The outplacement firm said this year's tally is ...
Source: wfla.com