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Top News Stories for Wednesday, September 17th 2025
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
The US Federal Reserve is poised to make its first interest rate cut of 2025 on Wednesday. The US Federal Reserve is poised to make its first interest rate cut of 2025 on Wednesday, but it battles competing forces in the path forward — with heightened political pressure and likely divisions among its ranks. There is little doubt that the US central bank will lower rates at the end of its two-day policy ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
Tyler Robinson , who is accused of killing prominent conservative political activist Charlie Kirk , with aggravated murder on Tuesday and announced they would seek the death penalty. Kirk's assassination six days ago at an event at Utah Valley University sent shockwaves across the country and is the tearing through American politics. Utah County prosecutors charged Robinson through an information document rather ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
People across political spectrum, including prominent US conservatives, criticize attorney general's comments US attorney general Pam Bondi 's pledge that the Trump administration will "absolutely target" people who use "hate speech" in the wake of the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has prompted criticism of the idea from across the political spectrum, including from prominent conservatives. Bondi ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
Así es como China lidia con la guerra comercial de EE. UU. Los aranceles del presidente Trump provocaron un desplome de las exportaciones chinas a Estados Unidos, pero sus ventas a otras regiones están aumentando. La guerra comercial de este año entre China y Estados Unidos empezó con mucha fuerza, una escalada rápida y furiosa de aranceles hasta niveles astronómicos. En ...
Source: nytimes.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Trump's lawsuit comes less than a week after the New York Times said it had been threatened with legal action by the White House is bringing a $15bn defamation and libel lawsuit against the New York Times , which he has described as "one of the worst and most degenerate newspapers in the History of our ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
Israeli forces pressed on with a new ground offensive in Gaza City Wednesday as strikes overnight across the Palestinian territory killed at least 16 people, including women and children, hospital officials said. Hundreds of thousands remained in the city, the territory's largest and already in ruins from nearly two years of war and struggling with a famine. The latest Israeli operation, which started Tuesday, ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
The odds of a government shutdown are rising after Democratic leaders on Tuesday swiftly rejected a 91-page stopgap funding proposal unveiled by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and fellow House Republicans because it was put together with little Democratic input and doesn't extend generous health care subsidies under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Democrats voted more than a dozen times to extend federal funding with ...
Source: thehill.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
2:05 p.m. Sept. 17 Live Updates: U.K. Gives Trump a Royal Welcome in 2nd State Visit With a carriage ride at Windsor Castle and dinner with King Charles III, Britain tries to appeal to a president who has seemed intent on upending the post-World War II order. President Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, were greeted by the British royal family on Wednesday at Windsor Castle outside London, beginning a two-day ...
Source: nytimes.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
Agentic AI functions like an autonomous operator rather than a system that is why it is important to stress test it with AI-focused red team frameworks. As more enterprises deploy agentic AI applications, the potential attack surface increases in complexity and reach. As we wrote about this topic earlier , there are numerous ways to circumvent AI model guardrails, pollute an existing knowledge base that is used to ...
Source: csoonline.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump never seems to run out of sacred cows to gore. On Monday, his target was corporate transparency : "Subject to SEC Approval, Companies and Corporations should no longer be forced to 'Report' on a quarterly basis (Quarterly Reporting!), but rather to Report on a 'Six (6) Month Basis,'" the president posted on Truth Social . He added: "This will save money, and allow managers to focus on ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
The co-founder of Ben & Jerry's has resigned from the ice cream brand after saying his company know for its social activism has lost "the independence to pursue our values" under the ownership of British giant Unilever. Jerry Greenfield's announcement follows the company's failure in 2022 to block Unilever from selling its ice cream in West Bank settlements, which Ben & Jerry's said would run counter to its ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
Tropical depression 7 emerged in the Central Tropical Atlantic Wednesday morning as a cluster of showers and thunderstorms continued to develop around an area of low pressure about 1,100 miles east of the Northern Leeward Islands. The tropical system is moving to the west at 10 to 15 miles per hour and is expected to strengthen further into Tropical Storm Gabrielle later today, making it the seventh named storm of ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
By Travelers like Miami International Airport better than a year ago, according to a respected survey measuring passenger satisfaction. J.D. Power's 2025 North America Airport Satisfaction Study ranked MIA 8th of 20 airports in the mega airport category, said the survey, released on Wednesday. That's an improvement over last year when the county-run airport tied for 10th place with Boston's Logan International ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
R elations between the U.S. and Colombia—longtime security allies—have frayed after President Donald Trump said the Latin American country has failed to crack down on cocaine production. Trump decertified Colombia as a partner in the war on drugs and listed the country as a rogue drug nation, joining the ranks of Afghanistan, Bolivia, Myanmar , and . The move, which comes amid a global cocaine boom and ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
In a shocking new report, a joint investigation by The Washington Post and KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation), has found that every 1 in 6 parents are skipping or delaying routine childhood vaccines for their kids, one may think that the number is not so bad, is it? but health experts are warning that this growing trend over the years could set the precedent for serious public health consequences. Routine childhood ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
Federal auto safety regulators opened an investigation Tuesday into possible defects in Tesla doors that have reportedly left parents with children trapped in the back seat and forced to break windows to get them out. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said the preliminary probe is focused on 2021 Tesla Model Ys after receiving nine reports of electronic door handles not working possibly due to low ...
Source: wfla.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
The packages were injected with malicious code to harvest secrets, dump them to a public repository, and make private repositories public. More than 180 NPM packages were hit in a fresh supply chain attack that uses self-replicating malware to steal secrets, publish them on GitHub, and make private repositories public. As part of the attack, hackers compromised over 40 developer accounts and published more than 700 ...
Source: securityweek.com
Wednesday, Sep 17th, 2025 -
Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Authorities in London have arrested four adults accused of being responsible for the projection of photos and videos of President Donald Trump with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein onto Windsor Castle on Tuesday night. Uncorroborated video of the projection posted online shows it appeared to be a video detailing the connections and friends between Trump and Epstein involving videos and ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
Speed: 0.5x Speed: 1x Speed: 1.5x Speed: 2x 🎙️ Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur. President Donald Trump gave a fresh warning to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro after another U.S. strike on a drug boat in the Caribbean—the third now, he said—in his war against the cartels. Trump said that the U.S. had now "knocked off three boats". Two had only been confirmed publicly ...
Source: newsweek.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
Some of the newest members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine recommendations committee have questioned established medical research on immunizations and the COVID-19 pandemic. In a press release shared Monday, the CDC and Department of Health and Human Services said five new members were appointed to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP — just days ahead of ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
Man accused of killing Brian Thompson will not face state terrorism-related murder charges but others will stand Luigi Mangione scored a major legal victory on Tuesday as a judge dismissed the two top state charges against him: first-degree murder and second-degree murder, both of which prosecutors had argued were terrorism crimes. Mangione still faces an additional second-degree murder charge, as well as a federal ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
In a major move aimed at curbing crime in Tennessee, President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order establishing the Memphis Safe Task Force, which will send National Guard troops to the city alongside federal law enforcement agencies. Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump said the effort would replicate the administration's ongoing military-led response to urban crime in Democratic-run cities. "We're ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
Trump appointee insists he is staying in post despite reports of White House doubts over his leadership A defiant Kash Patel on Tuesday denied Democratic senators' accusations that the firings of top FBI agents were politically motivated and insisted he was staying as the bureau's director despite reports that the White House had grown concerned with his leadership. "I'm not going anywhere. If you want to criticize ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
A United Nations commission of inquiry says Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. A new report says there are reasonable grounds to conclude that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out since the start of the war with Hamas in 2023: killing members of a group, causing them serious bodily and mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions ...
Source: bbc.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
Movie star and film visionary Robert Redford died at his home in Utah on Tuesday. He was 89 years old. Inevitably, one word comes up when discussing Robert Redford: golden. Redford gleamed through more than 80 movies, many of them classics. His life included decades of activism and founding the Sundance Institute that profoundly shaped decades of independent film. Fittingly, Redford's history started in Los ...
Source: npr.org
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
Washington — For a fourth time, President Trump has pushed back enforcing a bipartisan law that would effectively ban TikTok over the video-sharing app's failure to cut ties with ByteDance, its China-based parent company. The president signed an executive order Tuesday extending the pause on enforcing the law until at least Dec. 16. The move comes on the heels of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Judge slams 'cavalier acceptance' of deportation scheme sending African nationals to Ghana, only for the country to send them elsewhere Donald Trump's administration appears to have deliberately deported five West African men to Ghana knowing they would be sent to "dire circumstances" in countries where ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
YouTube said it has paid out over $100 billion to creators, artists and media companies since 2021. The number of YouTube channels making more than $100,000 from TV screens jumped 45% year over year, the company said. The company also announced new artificial intelligence tools for YouTube Shorts, its short-form vertical video product. In this article A Youtube podcast microphone is seen at the Variety Podcasting ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. President calls Fulton County district attorney a 'criminal' and slams 'weaponization' despite his own felony convictions and threats to prosecute opponents Georgia's highest court rejected an appeal from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willi s in her efforts to return to her sprawling election ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
Wyze's latest home security product locks your home and turns you into the key. The Palm Lock features hand-scanning biometric technology that can read the unique pattern of veins underneath your skin to unlock the door. The new smart lock mechanism works by having homeowners hover their hand in front of the reader to disengage the Palm Lock. Wyze says this technology will be quicker to use than fingerprint ...
Source: cnet.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
Black Friday is preeminent among shopping events -- the big kahuna of sales, the top dog of deals. But you won't have to wait all the way until November to score some epic deals, especially if you're an Amazon Prime member . Amazon on Tuesday confirmed the dates for this year's Prime Big Deal Days: Oct. 7 and 8. That's about three weeks away, and there are already some early deals live now . Shop early ...
Source: cnet.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
Chatbot will "default to the under-18 experience" when age is uncertain after teen suicide lawsuit. On Tuesday, OpenAI announced plans to develop an automated age-prediction system that will determine whether ChatGPT users are over or under 18, automatically directing younger users to a restricted version of the AI chatbot. The company also confirmed that parental controls will launch by the end of September. In a ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
Former Democratic vice-presidential nominee's decision comes amid rumors he would seek higher office for 2028 Tim Walz , the governor of Minnesota and the Democratic vice-presidential nominee last year, announced on Tuesday that he is running for a third term as governor in 2026. The announcement comes after speculation that he could seek higher office in 2028 instead of a third term in the state. In a video posted ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
The retailer said the unopened bottles should be wrapped in paper towels and placed in a plastic bag before being discarded. Listen to this article · 3:07 min When it comes to a bottle of bubbly, the bigger pop the better, except when it's the bottle that's doing the popping. Costco Wholesale is recalling bottles of its Kirkland brand prosecco, citing a risk that the unopened glass containers could ...
Source: nytimes.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
Early adopters of AI tended to be men, with around 80% of weekly users having typically masculine first names in the months after ChatGPT was released, according to new data. Most people are using ChatGPT to ask questions and get advice, new data from its developer OpenAI has revealed. Although AI bots can do anything from coding to drafting emails or even helping users to imagine and play, around 49% of the ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
A Los Angeles Superior judge has denied the Menendez brothers' petition for a new trial, saying the new alleged evidence they presented would not have changed the initial decision that put them away for life. On Monday, LA Superior Court Judge William Ryan denied the writ of habeas corpus filed by Erik and Lyle Menendez in May 2023. The petition claimed that two new pieces of evidence proved the brothers' father, ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
In the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination, the Pennsylvania governor said political violence 'tears at the fabric of American society' Sign up for Antisemitism Decoded , the Forward 's guide through the news and noise about Jewish safety, brought to you biweekly by investigative journalist Arno Rosenfeld. Josh Shapiro decried violence aimed at silencing political speech, citing the assassination of conservative ...
Source: forward.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
Investigation uncovers documents and satellite imagery that confirm children being taken to sites for patriotic indoctrination, weapons training and combat drills Russia is running an extensive network of more than 200 camps to re-educate, Russify and militarise Ukrainian children, a new investigation has found. The facilities, across Russia and occupied Ukraine , include camps as well as schools, military bases, ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Sep 16th, 2025 -
Every spring and fall, the clock shifts forward or backward one hour, throwing off sleep patterns and daily routines. A new analysis suggests that daylight saving time harms human health beyond the one or two days it normally takes for internal body clocks to adjust. Researchers at Stanford Medicine modeled how three policies – permanent standard time, permanent daylight saving time, and the twice-yearly ...
Source: earth.com
Monday, Sep 15th, 2025 -
Florida's attorney general is telling law enforcement that open carry of firearms is "the law of the state" following a court decision last week. Attorney General James Uthmeier, in a memo sent Monday to Florida law enforcement agencies and prosecutors, said the First District Court of Appeal's ruling that the state's open carry Some county sheriff's offices had already announced they wouldn't arrest people solely ...
Source: bradenton.com