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Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Justice Brett Kavanaugh used an interesting choice of phrase when describing the constitutional issues in Trump v. Slaughter , the vividly named case on the president's ability to remove certain federal officials that Congress stipulated could only be fired for cause. "How do you answer the accountability theme, which I think is the theme of the other side, is that independent agencies are not accountable to the ...
Source: newrepublic.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Each side has blamed the other for renewed clashes, which have derailed a ceasefire brokered by Donald Trump Deadly clashes have escalated along the disputed Thailand-Cambodia border as both sides blamed each other for the fighting and vowed to defend their territories. Seven civilians have been killed and 20 wounded in Cambodia and three Thai soldiers have been killed in the fiercest fighting since a five-day ...
Source: theguardian.com
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 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Trump's smoke-and-mirrors farmer bailout won't make this self-inflicted wound disappear, experts warn Trump's USDA chief argues that farmers need a bailout — but insists Trump isn't responsible. The president's critics say his trade war is obviously the reason, writes John ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a case that could eliminate limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with federal candidates — a challenge brought by Vice President JD Vance and former Cincinnati congressman Steve Chabot that seeks to overturn restrictions that have been in place since the 1970s. The case highlighted divisions between Democrats and ...
Source: cleveland.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump said Monday that the US 'will allow NVIDIA to ship its H200 products to approved customers in China' Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., accused President Donald Trump on Tuesday of "selling out America" for announcing that the U.S. will allow Nvidia to export its artificial-intelligence chips to China and other countries. Trump said Monday that the U.S. will gain a 25% ...
Source: foxbusiness.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 -
Biden rolled out the SAVE plan in July 2023, which was intended to provide student-loan borrowers with affordable monthly payments and a condensed timeline for debt relief. In April 2024, Missouri joined other GOP-led states in filing a lawsuit that, should the court approve the settlement, the department will not enroll any new borrowers in SAVE, deny pending applications, and move all enrolled borrowers to ...
Source: insider.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Next year will bring a complex mix of evolution, correction and convergence when it comes to AI. It will become more powerful, more personal and more ubiquitous — and also more expensive, more autonomous and more disruptive. As artificial intelligence accelerates into every sector of society, 2026 is shaping up to be a defining year — one marked by rapid innovation, market corrections and increasing ...
Source: govtech.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 -
All eyes turn toward the Federal Reserve today as the central bank meets for its final meeting of 2025. Hope for another interest rate cut is now high. A cut in the form of 25 basis points is expected to be issued on Wednesday as the bank makes a continuing effort to stimulate the economy amid unemployment concerns. A cut there, the third such one in four months, could continue to result in lower interest rates for ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Dec. 9 (UPI) -- A federal judge in New York on Tuesday granted a Justice Department request to release the grand jury files from the indictment hearing of convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell's attorney David Oscar Markus had argued against releasing the grand jury evidence. In a filing, Markus wrote that Maxwell "does not take a position" on the Justice Department's request to unseal the material, ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
The EU has opened an investigation into Google over its artificial intelligence (AI) summaries which appear above search results. The European Commission said it would examine whether the firm used data from websites to provide this service - and if it failed to offer "appropriate compensation" to publishers. It is also investigating how YouTube videos may have been used to improve its broader AI systems, and ...
Source: bbc.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 -
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 -
ROME (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reaffirmed his strong refusal to cede any territory, resisting U.S. pressure for painful concessions to Russia as he moved ahead Tuesday to rally more European support for his country. "Undoubtedly, Russia insists for us to give up territories. We, clearly, don't want to give up anything. That's what we are fighting for," Zelenskyy told reporters in a ...
Source: pbs.org
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
17 states and DC successfully challenged the order as 'arbitrary and capricious' A federal judge on Monday struck down an order by President Donald Trump that blocked the development of wind energy projects. Trump issued the order, known as the "Temporary Withdrawal of All Areas on the Outer Continental Shelf from Offshore Wind Leasing and Review of the Federal Government's Leasing and Permitting Practices for Wind ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Home » » The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), alongside its Florida chapter, announced it plans to sue Gov. Ron DeSantis in response to an executive order that labeled the civil rights group as a foreign terrorist organization, calling it "defamatory and unconstitutional" in a statement this week. In their statement, CAIR National and CAIR Florida accused the governor of being "an Israel ...
Source: floridianpress.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Kentucky State University is on lockdown. Shooting reported on campus Tuesday afternoon. Emergency crews need full access to south campus residence halls. FRANKFORT, Ky. ( WDKY ) — One person is dead and another is in critical condition after a shooting at Kentucky State University in Frankfort, authorities have confirmed. The alleged shooter has been apprehended. Police in Frankfort said shortly after 3:30 ...
Source: wfla.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Ongoing reports and analysis Decades of tension between the United States and Mexico over shared water resources turned into an actual water-cum-trade war overnight . In a post on Truth Social, U.S. President Donald Trump made good on earlier promises and threatened additional tariffs on Mexico if the country does not comply with its obligations to send water from the Rio Grande and its tributaries into Texas. ...
Source: foreignpolicy.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 -
President did same thing his administration is now calling 'mortgage fraud' in case against Fed governor Lisa Cook Donald Trump signed mortgage documents in the 1990s claiming two separate Florida properties would each serve as his principal residence – the same thing his administration is calling "mortgage fraud" when done by political rivals, records show. ProPublica unearthed documents demonstrating that ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
San Jose, the symbolic capital of Silicon Valley, is now ground zero in California's battle over how to govern the rise of data centers used to power artificial intelligence. The county seat of Santa Clara is touting its partnership with Pacific Gas & Electric, claiming the city is "the West Coast's premier destination for data center development." The investor-owned utility now estimates it has enough capacity in ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
The American Academy of Pediatrics began recommending the shot to newborns starting in 1961. When a baby is born in a medical facility in the U.S., chances are high that they will be offered a range of treatments and tests that are recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics, which includes some of very first shots that are included on the childhood immunization list. Vitamin K is among the first of the ...
Source: greenmatters.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 -
OpenAI says it's boosting productivity . 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: 87% of IT workers said they can solve IT issues faster, 85% of marketing and product say they can execute campaigns faster, 75% of ...
Source: businessinsider.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 -
Microsoft has pledged $17.5 billion for artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing in India. The investment, which the company called its largest ever in Asia, was announced Tuesday (Dec. 9) after CEO Satya Nadella met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss the country's AI vision. "Microsoft's investment in India focuses on three pillars—scale, skills and ...
Source: pymnts.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
By Jarrell Dillard, Bloomberg News U.S. job openings picked up in October to the highest level in five months, though less hiring and more layoffs pointed to a continued slowdown in the labor market. The number of available positions rose slightly to 7.67 million in October from 7.66 million in the prior month, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data published Tuesday. Vacancies exceeded all estimates in a ...
Source: miamiherald.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 -
New research shows men and women are equally committed to doing their best at work, but there's a growing ambition gap among women who want to get ahead — and companies rolling back commitments to women's career advancement, sponsorship and stretch opportunities could be to blame. That's according to Lean In and McKinsey & Company's latest Women in the Workplace report , now in its 11th year, which looked at ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Follow Earth on Google New research points to a strong link between hot nights and poor sleep. The study helps explain how rising temperatures disturb rest and why some groups face stronger effects. Researchers used long-term sleep records from the All of Us program . These records show clear connections between hotter air, lighter sleep, more waking, and personal factors such as age, income, or health. The ...
Source: earth.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Operation Gatekeeper Targets Illegal Export of Nvidia Processors to China An alleged smuggling ring illegally sold at least $160 million in advanced Nvidia artificial intelligence chips to China, U.S. federal prosecutors said Monday while announcing charges against found individuals. A Houston business owner pleaded guilty to charges of smuggling and unlawful export activities. Alan Hao Hsu, also known as Haochun ...
Source: cuinfosecurity.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
. Eyewear firms Warby Parker and Gentle Monster are also collaborators on the AI glasses. But neither Google nor Samsung mentioned launch plans for their Android XR products. That changes this week, as Google held a livestream event on its where it unveiled new Galaxy XR capabilities and teased Android XR smart glasses experiences that should be available to consumers next year. The list includes Project ...
Source: bgr.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
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
JERUSALEM (AP) — A Hamas leader on Tuesday threatened to not move into the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement until more pressure is put on Israel to open a key border crossing, cease deadly strikes and allow more aid into the Palestinian territory. The accusation came as Israel's government says it is ready to move into the next and more complicated phase of the ceasefire deal, while calling on the ...
Source: pbs.org
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
, which includes using our canonical URL and pixel tracker on your story pages whenever possible. . Both Allred, the 2024 Democratic nominee, and Talarico had been running for months, with Allred launching his campaign in July, followed by Talarico in September. The primary is March 3. More than 200 people, including some Dallas-area elected officials and candidates, sat or stood in a roomy gymnasium situated in ...
Source: texastribune.org
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
And… we're off! The list of nominees for the 2026 Golden Globes , set for Sunday, January 11, 2026, has landed—giving us our clearest sense yet of the state of the 2026 awards race. So, which films, television series, and podcasts (!) will be competing for a Globe in a few weeks? See the full list below. Best Motion Picture – Drama Frankenstein Hamnet It Was Just an Accident The Secret Agent ...
Source: vogue.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article 'It's the most toxic political culture and it's not helping the American people,' the Georgia Republican says A 60 Minutes interview turned fiery after Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and the host engaged in a tense exchange, in which each accused the other of ...
Source: independent.co.uk
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 -
IBM The tech giant is scooping up data-streaming dynamo Confluent Under the terms of the deal announced Monday, IBM will purchase Confluent for $11 billion in cash. That amounts to $31 per share, a premium of 34% compared to the stock's closing price on Friday. "IBM and Confluent together will enable enterprises to deploy generative and agentic AI better and faster by providing trusted communication and data flow ...
Source: fool.com
Monday, Dec 8th, 2025 -
Virus caught by person who travelled to Asia combines more severe form of mpox with less virulent type Health officials have identified a new variant of mpox in England after a person who recently travelled to Asia was tested for the virus. Genome sequencing showed that the virus was a "recombinant" form containing elements of two types of mpox currently in circulation: the more severe clade 1, and the less ...
Source: theguardian.com