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Top News Stories for Wednesday, December 10th 2025
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump's lawyer argued on Monday for far-reaching power that would go well beyond his ability to fire officials at the Federal Trade Commission and other independent agencies. Liberal Justice Elena Kagan warned US Solicitor General D. John Sauer, "Once you're down this road, it's a little bit hard to see how you stop." Sauer rejoined, "So it isn't that we have gone down this road. I think the court ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
With each side blaming the other for starting Monday's renewed clashes, it was unclear how or if a fragile ceasefire brokered by Trump in July could be salvaged. Fighting between Cambodia and Thailand escalated along their contested border on Tuesday, as the Southeast Asian neighbors both said they would not back down in defending their sovereignty. With each side blaming the other for starting Monday's renewed ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
is considering a Republican-led drive, backed by President Donald Trump's administration, to overturn a quarter-century-old decision and erase limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president. they would overturn a 90-year-old decision limiting the president's power to fire independent agency heads, the court on Tuesday is revisiting a 2001 decision that ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON, Dec 9 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's approval rating edged up to 41% in the past week as Republicans warmed to his handling of the cost of living, a sign the administration's new focus on affordability might be supporting his popularity, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. The six-day poll, which closed on Monday, showed approval of the president rising from 38% late ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump said Monday he had reached an agreement with President Xi Jinping to allow US chip giant Nvidia to export advanced artificial intelligence chips to China. The announcement marked a significant shift in US export policy for advanced AI chips, which Joe Biden's administration had heavily restricted over national security concerns about Chinese military applications. Democrats in Congress ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Although tech companies often don't directly manufacture these toys, their absolutist ideological opposition to any legal safeguards on AI is making kids emotionally, mentally, and physically vulnerable. Julie Scelfo is a journalist and the founder and executive director of Mothers Against Media Addiction. Tim Wu is a professor of law, science, and technology at Columbia Law School and author of "The Age of ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
i10X.ai Unveils Agent Index: Mapping the Future of AI-Powered Work The comprehensive knowledge platform helps businesses navigate the emerging agentic AI landscape , the unified AI platform consolidating leading LLMs, image, video models and specialized agents under one subscription, announced the launch of its Agent Index – an ambitious knowledge ecosystem designed to map the rapidly evolving world of AI ...
Source: aithority.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Residents along Japan's northeast coast were warned to stay alert, as aftershocks continued Tuesday in the aftermath of a major earthquake that has left at least 33 people injured. The U.S. Geological Survey reported a magnitude 6.6 and later a 5.1 quake in the hours after the initial temblor late Monday night local time. The USGS measured the main quake at 7.6 magnitude just off the coast of the city of Misawa in ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
The Federal Reserve has one more decision in 2025 — and it will set the tone for where interest rates will go in the new year. On Wednesday, leaders at the central bank will decide whether to continue cutting rates or put a pause on loosening monetary policy. The call will have ripple effects across consumer prices, the job market , and Corporate America. CME FedWatch predicted the Fed had a roughly 90% ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett is associate professor of family medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, vice chair of primary care innovation & transformation at Boston Medical Center, and communications fellow at Primary Care Collaborative. As a family medicine physician, I have the privilege of caring for patients from the earliest days of pregnancy contemplation through pregnancy ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
met with in Rome on Tuesday, as Kyiv said it was preparing to send updated proposals to the United States for ending the war with Russia . Less than 24 hours after he reiterated that Ukraine would not cede land to Russia , Zelenskyy met with the pontiff before holding talks with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, a day after he met with the leaders of Britain, France and Germany in London. Thanking Leo for the ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Dec. 9 (UPI) -- Florida has designated the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations as foreign terrorist organizations, becoming the second GOP-led state in as many months to move against the Islamic groups. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said in a Monday statement that the designations were "EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY." "Florida agencies are hereby directed to undertake all lawful measures to prevent ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
On Monday, OpenAI published its first report on the state of enterprise AI, and based on the 9,000 surveyed workers across 100 companies, three-quarters said that AI has improved the speed and quality of their work. Here are the survey results: The report comes a week after Anthropic published its own findings, which said its Claude assistant cut task-completion time by 80%, based on 100,000 user conversations. ...
Source: insider.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
LONDON (AP) — Google faces fresh antitrust scrutiny from European Union regulators, who opened an investigation Tuesday into the company's use of online content for its and services. The flurry of regulatory flexing by Brussels that has targeted Big Tech risks antagonizing President Donald Trump's administration, though EU officials denied they were singling out American companies. The European Commission, ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Reading time 3 minutes Vaccines aren't the only near-miraculous medical intervention some Americans are turning their backs on. New research out today finds that more newborns are not receiving a safe supplement that protects them from serious bleeding. Doctors at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) studied the medical records of newborns. In recent years, they found, an increasing number of children ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Dec. 9 (UPI) -- A federal judge has ordered two senior Justice Department attorneys, including one fired by the Trump administration, to testify before the court in its inquiry into a March deportation flight that proceeded in defiance of court orders. Chief Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., on Monday ordered Erez Reuveni, a former Justice Department attorney-turned-whistleblower, ...
Source: upi.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
Dec. 8 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump suggested Sunday night that the $82.7 billion merger between Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery may face difficulties being completed. As it is subject to regulatory approval, the merger has "to go through a process, and we'll see what happens," a black bow-tie-clad Trump told reporters Sunday night from the red carpet of the Kenned Center Honors in Washington, D.C. "Netflix ...
Source: upi.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
Reading time 2 minutes Two months ago, Apple removed , an app that allowed immigrants to track Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity through user sightings. Trump's Attorney General Pam Bondi proudly took credit for the removal. At the time, ICEBlock vowed to fight the decision, and on Monday, they followed through on that promise. ICEBlock's developer Joshua Aaron filed a lawsuit against Trump ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
The Treasury market – and the mortgage market with it – has gotten a little ruffled since the tranquility of Thanksgiving week ended, despite the widespread assumption that the Fed will deliver another rate cut this week. The 30-year Treasury yield has risen by 17 basis points since the day before Thanksgiving, including 2 basis points today, to 4.81%, the highest since September 4. Since the rate cut ...
Source: wolfstreet.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, launched her run for Senate on Monday, shaking up the Democratic primary just before the state's filing deadline. Crockett joins the race to take on GOP Sen. John Cornyn, who is facing multiple primary challengers himself. The two-term congresswoman's decision also comes as her Dallas-based House seat was redrawn in a GOP-led redistricting effort. "There are a lot of people that ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump's crusade against political foes he claims have all coincidentally committed mortgage fraud may have just boomeranged and hit him square in the face. Records show himself has done the very thing he has now routinely claimed constitutes "fraud" when it's done by his critics, according to a new ProPublica investigation. Years before his rise to the White House, the president signed two weeks ...
Source: thedailybeast.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
Luigi Mangione pumped his fist in court on Monday as body-camera footage allegedly showed officers finding a loaded magazine tucked inside wet underwear in the suspect's backpack. The video was aired during day 5 of the hearings at Manhattan Criminal Court to decide whether some evidence should be excluded from his trial. Mangione is accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024. He ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
IBM said it is acquiring Confluent in a deal worth $11 billion. The addition of Confluent will strengthen IBM's artificial intelligence portfolio. IBM will pay $31 per share in cash for all of the issued and outstanding common shares of the company. In this article IBM announced Monday it is acquiring data streaming platform Confluent in a deal valued at $11 billion. Shares of Confluent soared 29%. IBM's stock ...
Source: cnbc.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 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? Donald Trump is angry that Rep. Henry Cuellar is running again as a Democrat rather than switch parties after the president pardoned the Texas congressman and ...
Source: huffpost.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
All the nominees for the awards ceremony due to take place on 11 January, the 83rd edition of the film and television gongs Film Best film – drama Frankenstein Hamnet It Was Just an Accident The Secret Agent Sentimental Value Sinners Best film – musical or comedy Blue Moon Bugonia Marty Supreme No Other Choice Nouvelle Vague One Battle After Another Best female actor in a film – drama Jessie ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
Benin's President Patrice Talon has claimed that the situation is "completely under control" in the Western African nation after the government thwarted an attempted coup on Sunday. Calm returned on Monday to Cotonou, Benin's administrative centre, after sporadic gunshots were heard across the city throughout Sunday, but a heavy presence of soldiers remained on the streets. Early on Sunday, soldiers calling ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 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? President Donald Trump declared he was "disappointed" in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after claiming he hasn't read a U.S.-brokered peace proposal ...
Source: huffpost.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
A new strain of mpox, previously called monkeypox, has been detected in a person in England, say UK health officials. The virus is a mix of two major types of the mpox virus, and was found in someone who recently returned from travelling in Asia. Officials say they are still assessing the significance of the new strain. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) says it is normal for viruses to evolve. Getting ...
Source: bbc.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another" topped the Golden Globe nominations on Monday, a victory for Warner Bros. just after struck a deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming business. With nine nominations, the film lead Joachim Trier's "Sentimental Value," which gained eight, and Ryan Coogler's "Sinners," with seven. New this year was a best podcast category, too, whose nominees ...
Source: aol.com