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Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
The breakthrough cease-fire reached in Egypt this week follows two years of unprecedented bloodshed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—marked by levels of cruelty and violence that have shaken the world's conscience. Although the agreement's terms have not been fully disclosed, what has been alluded to—and what can be inferred from context—raises serious doubts that the vague framework outlined ...
Source: foreignpolicy.com
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Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Lindsey Halligan presented evidence to a grand jury herself after Trump called for swift prosecutions of his enemies Donald Trump's personal attorney, now serving as one of the top federal prosecutors in Virginia, reportedly went above the heads of the Department of Justice when ...
Source: independent.co.uk
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Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Stocks had been dropping all day after Trump announced a 'massive increase of Tariffs on Chinese products,' to counter the country's new export controls on rare earth minerals President Donald Trump has sent the market tumbling while escalating his trade war with China and ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
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Source: zdnet.com
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National Guard troops were expected Friday to begin patrolling in Memphis, a day after a federal judge in Illinois blocked the deployment of troops in the Chicago area for at least two weeks. The on-again, off-again deployments stem from a political and legal battle over President Donald Trump's push to send the National Guard to several U.S. cities. His administration claims crime is rampant in those cities, ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
It's day 10 of the government shutdown, and the Trump administration is finally starting to make good on its plans to permanently lay off federal workers. "RIFs have begun," Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought wrote in a X post on Friday, using the acronym for "reductions for force"—the technical jargon for government layoffs. The RIFs have begun. — Russ Vought (@russvought) ...
Source: reason.com
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON ― Some Republicans say they may have to take drastic measures and go "nuclear" by changing the U.S. Senate's filibuster rules to pass a funding bill if the government shutdown drags on for a while and federal workers and military troops miss successive paychecks. For two decades, HuffPost has been fearless, unflinching, and relentless in pursuit of the truth. Support our mission to keep us around ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
Emma Woollacott is a freelance journalist The Competition and Markets Authority has given Google 'strategic market status', putting it under a stricter set of regulations within the UK's new digital markets competition regime, which came into force at the beginning of this year. After concluding that Google has "substantial and entrenched market power" in general search and search advertising, it's applied the new ...
Source: forbes.com
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
Sister Jean Dolores Bertha Schmidt, the beloved Catholic nun who, at age 98, skyrocketed to fame with a maroon and gold scarf fluttering from her neck as chaplain of the Loyola University Chicago men's basketball team during its Cinderella run to the 2018 NCAA Final Four — has died. She was 106. "In many roles at Loyola over the course of more than 60 years, Sister Jean was an invaluable source of wisdom and ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.com
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U.S. Central Command is reportedly establishing a "civil-military coordination center" in Israel, staffed with hundreds of troops, to monitor the newly implemented ceasefire in Gaza, U.S. officials have said. U.S. outlets have reported that the military is slated to send 200 troops to Israel for the effort, with some having already been sent. The troops are there, officials said, primarily to provide "security" ...
Source: truthout.org
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
A Tennessee explosives plant blew up Friday morning in a deadly, "devastating blast" that left as many as "19 souls" missing, authorities said. Officials have said that multiple people were killed at Accurate Energetic Systems near McEwen, but Humphreys County Sheriff Chris Davis declined to give a number. The sheriff appeared to be choking back tears as he spoke to reporters on Friday afternoon about the blast at ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
Republican Winsome Earle-Sears presses Abigail Spanberger over fellow Democrat's 'abhorrent' texts Democrat Abigail Spanberger faced off against Virginia's lieutenant governor, Winsome Earle-Sears, in the only public debate in that state's governor's race on Thursday, days after the Democratic nominee for attorney general was embroiled in a texting and misconduct controversy relating to his opponents. Spanberger, a ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump had what he has described as a "semiannual physical" at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday. The visit, which the White House announced earlier this week, comes as Trump is preparing to travel to the Middle East on the heels of a ceasefire deal in the Israel-Hamas war. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt described it as a "routine yearly ...
Source: military.com
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
Ukraine's leader has estimated that more than 200,000 Ukrainian children have been deported to Russia or territories it controls since the war began more than three years ago. WASHINGTON — First lady Melania Trump said Friday that she has been working with Russian President Vladimir Putin on reuniting Ukrainian children who were believed to be kidnapped into Russia during the war. Speaking from the White ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian drone and missile strikes wounded at least 20 people in Kyiv, damaged residential buildings and caused blackouts across swathes of Ukraine early Friday, authorities said. A child was also killed in separate attacks in the southeast of the country. In the heart of the Ukrainian capital, rescue crews pulled more than 20 people out of a 17-story apartment building as flames engulfed ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
New federal tax changes for 2026 may affect what families may owe and the refunds they may receive. The IRS has released new updates on thresholds affecting families, including the child tax credit, earned income tax credit, adoption credit and annual gift tax exclusion. The IRS has announced new tax inflation adjustments for 2026. Those changes may affect just how much federal taxes families pay in taxes or ...
Source: cnbc.com
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
In the rap battle between the pair, which saw them hurl personal insults at each other, the judge called Not Like Us "the metaphorical killing blow". Drake's defamation lawsuit over Kendrick Lamar's diss track Not Like Us has been dismissed by a federal judge. Judge Jeannette A Vargas said Lamar's lyrics accusing Drake of being a paedophile were not defamatory because they were "nonactionable opinion". The Canadian ...
Source: news.sky.com
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Two powerful offshore earthquakes struck the same region in the southern Philippines hours apart on Friday. The first one, a 7.4 magnitude quake in the morning, killed at least five people, set off landslides, damaged hospitals and schools and prompted evacuations of coastal areas nearby because of a tsunami warning, which was later lifted. The second one had a preliminary 6.9 ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump is moving fast with his direct-to-customer pharmaceutical venture. On Friday, he shared from the Oval Office that he struck a deal with AstraZeneca to offer the US a "most-favored-nation" drug pricing policy that would lower prescription costs. As part of the deal, AstraZeneca has pledged to invest $50 billion in the US over the next five years in research and development of new drugs and ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
reading time 2 minutes The company belonging to a former Republican election official has reportedly bought Dominion Voting Systems. The election vendor, which endured a slew of baseless MAGA conspiracy theories in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, has been acquired by a company called Liberty Vote, according to a press release from the company. Liberty Vote is a new company that is owned by Scott ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
Congress leader José Jerí sworn in as interim president as majority of lawmakers initiate impeachment against Boluarte Lawmakers in Peru have voted to remove the president, Dina Boluarte, whose term has been marked by protests and accusations of failing to stem crime. Boluarte refused to appear before Congress on Friday for an overnight hearing after a majority of lawmakers, including some once loyal ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
NHTSA cites 18 complaints involving vehicles that ran red lights or veered into opposing lanes Tesla has been placed under federal investigation over numerous reports alleging that its Full Self-Driving (FSD) software violated multiple traffic laws, leading to at least six crashes, four of which resulted in injuries. In a report dated Oct. 7, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) cited at ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
MIAMI — Tropical Storm Jerry churned Thursday in the Atlantic on its approach to the Leeward Islands as Tropical Storm Priscilla and Tropical Storm Raymond moved along Mexico's Pacific coast , threatening heavy rain and flooding in their paths, forecasters said. Tropical Storm Raymond was announced midday Thursday by the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami, making it the third system now off the western ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested there may be a link between autism and circumcision while reasserting the unproven theory that Tylenol causes the disorder — and medical experts are pushing back against the claims. "There's two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It's highly likely because they are given Tylenol," Kennedy stated during a ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
reading time 3 minutes Sean Duffy, the former reality TV host and current Secretary of Transportation, is upset with air traffic controllers who are calling out sick during the government shutdown, which has caused a surge in delays at airports across the country . On Thursday, Duffy threatened to fire those who aren't showing up to work, calling them "problem children." "I think what's happening here, 90% of the ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
In mid-September, SonicWall reported a security incident in its cloud backup service. It's now clear that all customers are affected. On Sept. 17, security vendor SonicWall announced that cybercriminals had stolen backup files configured for cloud backup. At the time, the company claimed the incident was limited to "less than five percent" of its customers. Now, the firewall provider has admitted that "all ...
Source: csoonline.com
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
Follow Earth on Google The night sky always keeps secrets. Scientists have just exposed one of its wildest. After almost 25 years of work, researchers finally confirmed that Europe's biggest bat, the greater noctule, doesn't just snack on insects. The bat hunts small birds more than a kilometer above the ground and eats them while flying. No landing, no pause, just midair hunting and feeding. This discovery solves ...
Source: earth.com
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. ( WWSB ) – Manatee County Schools announced that two more schools will potentially have their campuses occupied by the Miami-based Schools of Hope for-profit charter school operator, Mater Academy . On Wednesday, October 8, Manatee County school officials notified families that Sara Scott Harllee Center and Lincoln Middle School could be co-locations for Mater Academy for the ...
Source: mysuncoast.com
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
Artificial intelligence is changing the world of software even faster than its many proponents predicted. This week we saw several big moves by major companies to leverage AI to transform — let's call it embrace and extend, as one software giant used to put it — the $900 billion enterprise software market. First up was OpenAI, which announced ChatGPT apps — potentially building a lock-in ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
An interest rate cut issued in September was widely anticipated by a wide range of Americans, but arguably most strongly by current homeowners. This group, specifically those who purchased a home after 2022, has largely suffered under the burden of elevated mortgage interest rates . In many cases, the rate they secured was exponentially higher than what they would have been offered at the beginning of the decade, ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
The US has finalised an agreement that will allow Qatar to build an air force facility in Idaho, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced. He said the facility - where pilots from the Gulf state would be trained to fly F-15 fighter jets - would be established at the Mountain Home Airbase in the north-western US state. "It's just another example of our partnership," Hegseth said during a meeting with his ...
Source: bbc.com
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
Other universities still mulling proposal while MIT's president said it would compromise academic freedom The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has become the first US university to formally turn down a Trump administration proposal that would overhaul university policies in return for preferential access to federal funding. MIT's president, Sally Kornbluth, disclosed the decision in a Friday letter to ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Oct 10th, 2025 -
By Ryan Woo, Lisa Baertlein and Arathy Somasekhar BEIJING/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -China will slap port fees on U.S.-owned, operated, built, or flagged vessels on Tuesday as a countermeasure to U.S. port fees on China-linked ships starting the same day, China's transport ministry said on Friday. Later in the day, U.S. President Donald Trump said he was raising tariffs on Chinese exports to the U.S. to 100% and ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Oct 9th, 2025 -
HOUSTON (AP) — Texas' top criminal court on Thursday again paused the execution of Robert Roberson , just days before he was set to become the first person in the U.S. put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome . This was the third execution date that Roberson's lawyers have been able to stay since 2016 , including one scheduled nearly a year ago due to an unprecedented ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Oct 9th, 2025 -
Hackers have stolen user information from Discord , the popular voice, video and text communication platform, through a third-party customer service provider, and government ID photos were among the information stolen. Discord posted about the breach on Oct. 3 and updated the post on Wednesday. In the statement, Discord said that about 70,000 users may have had their government ID photos exposed. Those ID photos ...
Source: cnet.com