Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Business Policy Why Trump Accounts Are A Game-Changer For U.S. Children And Families Steve Forbes praises the new "Trump Accounts" and points to the $6.5 billion donation by Michael and Susan Dell to help fund those of 25 million American children. The exciting, stunning announcement The Dells want to expand the reach of a program Congress passed last summer, which would set up special savings accounts for ...
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Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article New footage and images released by Democrats as lawmakers ask for update on Epstein files from the Justice Department Leer en Español Never-before-seen photos and videos, released Wednesday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee , reveal details of late sex offender ...
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Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Israeli and Thai officials said Thursday that remains handed over to Israel by militants in Gaza had been identified as the last Thai hostage taken during the Hamas-led, Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack that sparked the war. The Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it was notified by Israeli authorities that the remains of a hostage returned on Wednesday were identified as Sudhisak Rinthalak, a Thai national who was ...
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Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory panel meets Thursday for the first of two days of discussions about childhood vaccine schedules and recommendations. The panel will focus on the hepatitis B vaccine and vote on whether to continue recommending it be given to all children at birth or delay the first dose. The hepatitis B vaccine has been universally recommended for ...
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Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
The Center for Internet Security , Astrix Security , and Cequence Security announced a strategic partnership to develop new cybersecurity guidance tailored to the unique risks of AI and agentic systems. This collaborative initiative builds on the CIS Critical Security Controls ( CIS Controls ), extending its principles into AI environments where autonomous decision‑making, tool and API access, and automated ...
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Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
NEW DELHI — India 's telecoms ministry on Wednesday rolled back its order for smartphone manufacturers to preinstall a government-run cybersecurity app on new devices. The Ministry of Communications on Monday asked smartphone makers to install the government's "Sanchar Saathi" app within 90 days and to prevent users from disabling it. It also required manufacturers to push the app onto older models through a ...
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Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Killing of survivors sparks outrage – but entire US 'drug boat' war is legally shaky Pentagon's Law of War manual clearly prohibits attack, but justification for whole campaign also faces tough questions Graphic depictions of two survivors being killed by a second US military strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug ferrying boat have provoked outrage where previously there was none – or at least relatively ...
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Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Vinay Prasad memo said at least 10 children had died from Covid vaccination – but offered scant evidence for claim America's top vaccines official promised, in a long and argumentative memo to staff on Friday, to revamp vaccine regulation after claiming that at least 10 children died from Covid vaccination – but he offered no evidence for that allegation and scant details on the new approach. The ...
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Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
Steve Cropper, the prodigious guitarist, songwriter and producer who played a pivotal role in shaping the lean gutbucket soul music made at Memphis' Stax Records in the 1960s and '70s, died on Wednesday in Nashville, Tennessee. He was 84. His death, at a rehabilitation facility, was confirmed by his wife, Angel Cropper, who did not specify the cause. As a member of Booker T. & the MG's, the house rhythm section at ...
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Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Skywatchers in Northeast Ohio and beyond will get a bright send-off to 2025's lunar calendar this week when December's "cold moon" rises as the last supermoon of the year. The cold moon officially peaks at 6:14 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4, but it will appear full for several nights. The cold moon is December's traditional name for the 12th and final full moon of the year. This time, it doubles as ...
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Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
The European Commission is considering using frozen Russian assets held in Europe to support Ukraine. It plans to unlock $105 billion for the effort through a reparations loan or international borrowing, though favors the former. Russia's Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said that it could be tantamount to an act justifying war. Russia's security council chief warned on Thursday that ...
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Thursday, Dec 4th, 2025 -
U.S. President Donald Trump holds up a letter from former President Joe Biden as he issues executive orders and pardons for January 6 defendants in the Oval Office at the White House on inauguration day in Washington, U.S., January 20, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria A law expert has said Donald Trump cannot revoke the pardons, executive orders, or proclamations made by president Joe Biden . Trump has insisted that ...
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Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
President Donald Trump's administration is set to revoke tougher fuel-economy standards put in place by his predecessor Joe Biden, in a move it says will lower car prices, an official said Wednesday. Trump will be joined in the Oval Office mid-afternoon by the CEOs of Ford and Stellantis, and a General Motors' official, to announce the rollback — with the presence of the so-called "Big Three" automakers ...
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Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
National Security Pentagon Report: Hegseth Risked Endangering Troops With Signal Messages The inspector general finds that the defense secretary violated his department's policies. , , , , and Illustration by Ben Kothe / The Atlantic. Sources: Win McNamee / Getty; Andrew Harnik / Getty. December 3, 2025, 1:02 PM ET Save Listen − 1.0x + 0:00 11:30 Listen to more stories on the Noa app. This article was ...
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Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 will resume on Dec. 30, the country's Transport Ministry announced Wednesday, more than a decade after the airplane's mysterious disappearance over the Indian Ocean. The Malaysian government said that Texas-based marine robotics company Ocean Infinity is set to begin a 55-day targeted deep-sea search for the missing aircraft in the ...
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Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
After unveiling a major expansion of the Nova foundation model platform to encompass frontier artificial intelligence reasoning on Tuesday, Amazon Web Services Inc. today shifted its focus to the tools and platforms supporting agents. A key element for AWS is ease of use, a recognition that AI's inherent complexity can be an obstacle to enterprise deployment and affect confidence in an agent's ability to ...
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Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
A doctor who supplied "Friends" star Matthew Perry with ketamine in the months before he fatally overdosed, musing to a fellow physician over "how much this moron will pay" for the drug, was jailed in California on Wednesday. Salvador Plasencia, 44, is the first of five people to face justice over Perry's 2023 death in the hot tub of his Los Angeles home. Plasencia was ordered to serve 30 months in prison for ...
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Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth attends a North Atlantic Council meeting as NATO Defense Ministers meet at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels, Belgium October 15, 2025. REUTERS/Yves Herman The family of a Colombian fisherman has filed a formal complaint accusing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of murder. Alejandro Andres Carranza Medina was killed Sept. 15 in a U.S. military strike on a boat in the ...
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Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Washington — A bipartisan deal on health care remains elusive in the Senate with a key vote on Affordable Care Act tax credits set for next week. "The conversations continue," Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Tuesday. "I don't think at this point we have a clear path forward, I don't think the Democrats have a clear path forward — and they're the ones that are going to have to put forward ...
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Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said this week that the federal government would start withholding money to help run the SNAP food aid program from states that don't provide data on participants, including their immigration status. The department said the government needs the data to spot fraud in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which helps 42 million Americans, or about 1 in 8, buy ...
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Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
San Francisco is going after food brands that produce "ultra-processed foods," accusing the companies of fueling a public health crisis. The 64-page lawsuit, filed on December 2 by San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu, accused some of the country's biggest food brands of selling dangerous, ultra-processed foods to residents of San Francisco. It named 11 brands as defendants: The Kraft Heinz Company, Mondelez ...
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Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
There is a recall for more than 260,000 cases of shredded cheese sold in 31 states and Puerto Rico because of the potential for metal fragment contamination, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The FDA said that the various shredded cheeses were recalled by Great Lakes Cheese Co. The cheese products are sold under private store-brand labels at several retailers, including Target, Walmart and Aldi. ...
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Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Texas A&M fell four spots from No. 3 to No. 7 in the next-to-last College Football Playoff rankings after the Aggies' loss to Texas. The Aggies are still safely in the field and in line to host a first-round game. Behind A&M, Notre Dame dropped a spot to No. 10 after beating Stanford while Alabama moved up to No. 9 with its win over Auburn. Both Ohio State and Indiana stayed in their spots at the top of the ...
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Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Dec. 3 (UPI) -- The Trump administration on Tuesday announced a pause on immigration application processing for nationals from 19 countries and said it would re-examine immigration and asylum cases approved during the Biden administration. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced the hold and review of all pending asylum applications and USCIS benefits applications filed by immigrants from the ...
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Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
2 min read Jim Jordan, the Republican Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said he has issued a subpoena to former Special Counsel Jack Smith to privately testify before the committee in mid-December. The subpoena follows Smith's continued calls to allow him to testify publicly about his investigations and cases against President Donald Trump. In the letter to Smith, which Jordan shared on X on Wednesday , ...
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Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Police in New Zealand are waiting for nature to take its course after a man allegedly tried to smuggle a 33,000 New Zealand dollar ($19,000) pendant out of a jewelry store by swallowing it. The 32-year-old man, who has not been publicly named, is accused of eating an ornate Fabergé octopus pendant at Partridge Jewelers in Auckland on Nov. 28. Evidence of the alleged theft has yet to emerge, police said ...
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Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
More than half a million satellites are planned to launch by the end of the 2030s, and simulations suggest they will have a severe impact on space-based astronomy One in three images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope could be ruined if space companies' plans to launch hundreds of thousands of satellites go ahead. More than three-quarters of the nearly 14,000 satellites currently in orbit around Earth were ...
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Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Ritz cracker manufacturer Mondelēz Global has recalled 70 cases of peanut butter sandwich crackers in eight states due to a mislabeling issue that could lead to severe allergic reactions. Mondelēz Global LLC recalled 20-count Ritz Peanut Butter Cracker Sandwiches on Nov. 28 that were sold in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Missouri, New York, New Jersey, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania. According to the company, ...
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Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 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? The White House on Tuesday attacked after for using her music in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrest video. In a reference-filled attempt to diminish ...
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Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal agents began hitting the streets of New Orleans on Wednesday in the Trump administration's latest immigration crackdown across the U.S., looking to round up immigrants accused of violent crimes, a Homeland Security official said. Masked agents patrolled a heavily Hispanic suburb in marked and unmarked vehicles, and a resident told The Associated Press he watched agents arresting men ...
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Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Dec. 3 (UPI) -- At least one person is dead following a targeted shooting Wednesday in the food court of MGM National Harbor hotel and casino in Maryland, according to authorities who are hunting for the gunman. Police responded to reports of the shooting shortly before noon Wednesday, arriving at the scene to find a male victim, who was later pronounced dead, Prince George 's County Police Chief George Nader said ...
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Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
The US members-only warehouse retailer Costco has sued President Donald Trump's administration, demanding a refund for tariffs it has paid on imported goods, according to a lawsuit reviewed by AFP. The suit, filed on Friday in the US Court of International Trade, says the tariffs are illegal. It does not specify how much reimbursement the multinational company is seeking on tariffs paid since they took effect ...
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Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Staff at a Virginia liquor store got a shock on Saturday when they came into work to find a raccoon had burgled the store, drinking its way through the spirits section. The "masked bandit" was found passed out in the bathroom between the toilet and bin having helped itself to bottles on a bottom shelf. Animal control officer Samantha Martin transported the "suspect" for questioning at Hanover County Animal ...
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Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Follow Earth on Google Public-health decisions sometimes create natural experiments that reveal things no lab could plan. The country of Wales unintentionally produced one of those moments when a routine shingles vaccine – given only to people hitting a very narrow age window – appeared to protect long-term memory. The unexpected pattern caught the attention of Stanford Medicine researchers, who combed ...
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Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
New research announced by NASA on Tuesday details a bevy of exciting discoveries from asteroid dust that could provide clues to how life developed in our neck of the cosmos, including the sugars required for basic life forms, a mysterious gum-like substance and a surprising amount of stardust from supernovae. NASA's robot spacecraft, Osiris-Rex, scooped up rocks and dust from the asteroid Bennu in ...
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Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
Apple Inc.'s head of user interface design, Alan Dye, is leaving the company after almost 20 years and will now join Meta Platforms Inc. to head a new creative studio that will bring together design, fashion and technology. A major hire for Meta, Dye (pictured) was a lead executive on Liquid Glass , a key feature discussed in the launch of iOS 26. He had joined Apple in 2006, working on software for the iPhone, ...
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Wednesday, Dec 3rd, 2025 -
President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he is issuing a "full and unconditional" pardon to Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar and his wife, Imelda, using a lengthy social media post to accuse the Biden administration of targeting political opponents, even within its own party. "One of the clearest examples of this was when Crooked Joe used the FBI and DOJ to 'take out' a member of his own Party after Highly ...
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Tuesday, Dec 2nd, 2025 -
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