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Top News Stories for Wednesday, December 10th 2025
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The Supreme Court appeared uncertain about whether it would strike down a major campaign-finance restriction during oral arguments on Tuesday, with some of the court's conservative members questioning a right-wing push to do so. The case, National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission , revolves around a legal challenge to Congress's ban on "coordinated party expenditures." Federal election ...
Source: newrepublic.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump administration official said, threatening new U.S. sanctions on the court if it did not. If the court does not act on this U.S. demand and two others - dropping investigations of ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
"Chip War" author Chris Miller is worried about the U.S. losing its advantage over China in artificial intelligence talent. In 2020, China's ranked first in the world at 3.57 million STEM graduates — far more than the U.S. with just 820,000. With advances in tech, Chinese companies have also seen the highest growth rate in U.S.-granted patents last year. This report is from this week's CNBC's The China ...
Source: cnbc.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
– A Dallas congresswoman opened her Senate campaign by telling voters that she "has gone toe to toe with Donald Trump." Her Democratic primary opponent insisted that Americans are tired of "politics as a blood sport." The divergent approach highlights how U.S. Rep. and state Rep. are navigating a race where Democrats hope to break a three-decade losing streak in Texas. It also reflects a broader divide within ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
It's day one of the social media ban and, unsurprisingly, it hasn't been a smooth launch. Many children have already been able to get around the ban in various ways, with age assurance systems misclassifying users and workarounds such as VPNs and make-up tricks being used. The government admitted the ban would not be perfect or instantaneous, but said the loopholes that allowed teens to circumvent the ban would not ...
Source: abc.net.au
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Miami voters on Tuesday elected Democrat Eileen Higgins as mayor, ending a nearly three-decade dry spell for her party after she defeated a Republican endorsed by Donald Trump in the predominantly Hispanic city. While the election was officially nonpartisan, the race took on national significance, pitting Higgins against Republican Emilio Gonzalez, a former Miami city manager, in a contest closely watched by both ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Fighting between Thailand and Cambodia has continued for a third day, with cross-border shelling and air raids forcing more than half a million civilians to flee their homes and seek shelter, according to authorities. Officials from the two Southeast Asian neighbours on Wednesday also accused each other of restarting the conflict that has killed at least 13 soldiers and civilians so far this week and led more than ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Tech giants Amazon and Microsoft have announced a combined $52.5bn (£39.4bn) investment plan for India over the coming years. Amazon said on Wednesday it was pumping in $35bn into India by 2030 to advance AI-driven digitisation, export growth and job creation, a day after Microsoft committed $17.5bn strengthen the country's AI ecosystem. India, which is an emerging AI and cloud infrastructure hub, has ...
Source: bbc.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The Federal Reserve is again expected to lower its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point Wednesday, in an effort to support a weakening job market. But stubborn inflation and delayed economic data could complicate the Fed's decision, leading to more-than-usual disagreement within the rate-setting committee. A rate cut could make it slightly cheaper to borrow money to buy a car, expand a business or ...
Source: npr.org
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Energy drinks might give you wings, unleash the beast or fuel your grind — but chugging too many might pose a serious stroke risk, doctors warn. An otherwise fit and healthy man in his 50s with a daily eight-can habit found out the hard way, according to a case study published Dec. 9 in the journal . This patient suffered permanent damage from a minor ...
Source: insidenova.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Microsoft patched an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability as part of its monthly security update cycle yesterday. CVE-2025-62221 is an elevation of privilege (EoP) bug in the Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver, which enables a low-privileged user to achieve system-level code execution through a kernel-mode use-after-free flaw. Although no confirmed proof-of-concept (PoC) is available, it's likely ...
Source: infosecurity-magazine.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Women are hitting the top of the corporate ladder only to find something waiting for them: exhaustion. According to a report published Tuesday by McKinsey and LeanIn.org, a nonprofit founded by Sheryl Sandberg, burnout among senior-level women is the highest it has been in the past five years. Around 60% of these women said they have frequently felt burned out at work in the past few months, compared with 50% of ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
– Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado's daughter accepted the in Norway on her mother's behalf Wednesday, and said in a speech written by Machado that Venezuela shows the world "we must be willing to fight for freedom." Machado has been in hiding and hasn't been seen in public since Jan. 9, when she was briefly detained after joining supporters in a protest in Caracas, Venezuela's ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered diplomats to revert to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor Antony Blinken's decision to adopt Calibri a "wasteful" diversity move, according to a leaked internal cable. The department switched to Calibri, a modern sans-serif font, in January 2023, saying it was a more accessible font for people with disabilities because it did ...
Source: abc.net.au
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Recent research from Gartner encourages organizations to block agentic browsers (or AI browsers). While these browsers could transform user interaction with websites, they could also introduce considerable cybersecurity risks. Therefore, the report asserts that " CISOs must block all AI browsers in the foreseeable future to minimize risk exposure." "There's good reason to be cautious about AI-powered ...
Source: securitymagazine.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
The US Supreme Court's liberal justices warned of far-reaching consequences affecting entities like the Tax Court should their conservative colleagues grant the president control over dozens of traditionally independent agencies. The possibility of specialized Article I courts created by Congress losing their independence was driven by Justice Elena Kagan at Monday's arguments over Donald Trump's attempt to fire ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
(NEXSTAR) — If you're enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education plan, or SAVE, to pay off your federal student loans, you may soon need to switch your repayment option. On Tuesday, the Department of Education announced it had reached an agreement with Missouri to end the SAVE plan established under the Biden administration. Some student loan borrowers have had monthly payments as low as $0 as part of the ...
Source: wfla.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is heading toward dueling partisan votes on health care this week after Republicans said Tuesday that they had united around a plan, for now, that would allow COVID-era health care subsidies to expire. Both the Republican plan, which would replace the subsidies with new savings accounts, and a Democratic bill to extend the enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits for three years ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By KELVIN CHAN 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 artificial intelligence models and services. The latest regulatory flexing by Brussels risks antagonizing President Donald Trump's administration, though EU officials denied they were ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
NEW YORK (AP) — The clock is ticking for the U.S. government to open up its files on Jeffrey Epstein . After months of rancor and recriminations, Congress has passed and President Donald Trump has signed legislation compelling the Justice Department to give the public everything it has on Epstein — and it has to be done before Christmas. On Tuesday, a federal judge said the department could release ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
One person was killed and another was critically wounded in a shooting at Kentucky State University, the city of Frankfort said Tuesday. Both victims are Kentucky State University students, but the suspect is not. The shooting occurred outside the Young Hall student dormitory on the south side of the school's campus, authorities said. The suspect was arrested and later identified as Jacob Lee Bard of ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Florida's governor has designated the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) a "foreign terrorist organisation". Ron DeSantis posted his executive order to list the United States-based Muslim civil rights and advocacy group on social media on Monday. The move follows a similar declaration by the Republican governor of Texas last month. CAIR has rejected the labelling by both states and mounted legal ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
The Agentic AI Foundation launches to support MCP, AGENTS.md, and goose. Big Tech has spent the past year telling us we're living in the era of AI agents, but most of what we've been promised is still theoretical. As companies race to turn fantasy into reality, they've developed a collection of tools to guide the development of generative AI. A cadre of major players in the AI race, including Anthropic, Block, and ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Throttled by U.S. President Donald Trump's sweeping trade war, U.S. farmers are finally seeing some temporary—and long-promised—relief in the form of a $12 billion bailout. The Trump administration on Monday unveiled the hefty aid package, which is aimed at making amends with a key voter base that has become collateral damage in Trump's trade war with China and other top economic partners. ...
Source: foreignpolicy.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Home » » WASHINGTON – A federal judge struck down President Donald Trump 's executive order blocking wind energy projects. On Monday, Dec. 8, the judge stated that the order's attempts to halt nearly all leasing of wind farms on federal lands and waters were "arbitrary and capricious." Judge Patti Saris of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts rejected Trump 's Jan. 20 ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article The app, described as a 'Waze for ICE sightings' and based on publicly available data, was downloaded more than a million times after its launch this year The developer who created a crowd-sourced map that lets users pinpoint the locations of federal agents in their neighborhoods ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Paramount Skydance Monday launched a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, seeking to undo Netflix's purchase of Warner's studio and streaming businesses. Paramount said its $77.9 billion all-cash bid for the whole company, including CNN, offered better value to shareholders than the $72 billion purchase price agreed to by Netflix and Warner on Friday. It was Paramount chief David Ellison's sixth bid for the ...
Source: theweek.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Tuesday that her country intends to send more water to the United States, but not immediately, even as U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to raise tariffs by 5% on Mexican imports if more water is not delivered as part of a water-sharing agreement. Sheinbaum said Mexico is proposing a water delivery this month and another one in the coming years. ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Job Openings Reached Five-Month High In October—As Hiring Slowed Job listings in the U.S. rose to a five-month high in October, according to delayed federal data released Tuesday, as Federal Reserve officials have warned about a cooling labor market in recent months. The number of job openings increased to 7.67 million in October, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported, well above August's 7.2 ...
Source: forbes.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
TOKYO (AP) — Japan was assessing damage Tuesday and cautioning people of potential aftershocks after a late-night 7.5 magnitude earthquake caused injuries, light damage and a tsunami in Pacific coastal communities. At least 34 people were injured, one seriously, the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said. Most of them were hit by falling objects, public broadcaster NHK reported. Prime Minister Sanae ...
Source: pbs.org
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared that Ukraine will not give up any territory to Russia and said components of a plan to end the war between the countries are ready to be presented to the U.S. "Russia is insisting that we give up territories, but we don't want to cede anything," Zelenskyy said in an online press conference Monday, the AFP news agency reported. "We have no legal right to do so, under ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
NEW YORK (AP) — Moments after Luigi Mangione was handcuffed at a Pennsylvania McDonald's, a police officer searching his backpack found a loaded gun magazine wrapped in a pair of underwear. The discovery, recounted in court Monday as Mangione fights to keep evidence out of his New York murder case, convinced police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, that he was the man wanted in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO ...
Source: pbs.org
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Dec. 9 (UPI) -- A Texas-based businessman has pleaded guilty and two others have been charged in a scheme to smuggle artificial intelligence technology to China in violation of U.S. export laws, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas said the three men trafficked or attempted to traffic more than $160 million in Nvidia AI chips, which require special ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Instacart customers may be surprised to discover they are unwittingly paying more for the same items sold by some of America's major retail chains than their fellow shoppers. A months-long investigation by the nonprofit organizations Consumer Reports and Groundwork Collaborative found that identical grocery items on Instacart could differ in price by as much as 23% from one customer to the next. That's due to the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
( The Hill ) – More American newborns are not receiving vitamin K shots, according to a study published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study found that from January 2017 to December 2024, 3.92 percent of the more than 5 million newborns in a U.S.-based electronic database did not receive a vitamin K shot. The share of newborns who did not receive the shot rose from 2.92 ...
Source: wfla.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
As a presidential Executive Order aimed at preempting state artificial intelligence laws now appears imminent, one of the world's most influential AI companies may have already undermined the legal foundation for that effort—with a simple footnote. This morning, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that he "will be doing a ONE RULE Executive Order this week" to preempt state AI laws. While this will ...
Source: natlawreview.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
Dec. 8 (UPI) -- Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a Democrat and fierce Trump critic, announced Monday she was launching a high-stakes U.S. Senate campaign in Texas, the same day Democratic primary opponent Colin Allred dropped out. Crockett, who filed just hours before the deadline , will face Democratic Rep. James Talarico of Austin in the March 3rd primary , as she tries to turn incumbent Republican Sen. John Cornyn 's ...
Source: upi.com