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Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
No, Democrats Shouldn't Give Up On Texas After a string of disappointments, the party is tempted to give up on ever turning the state blue. History shows that that's a mistake. to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. In 2018 U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke broke state fundraising records and sparked national attention with his campaign for a Texas Senate seat. ...
Source: slate.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
By Humeyra Pamuk 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 ...
Source: aol.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 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — 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. are navigating a race where Democrats hope to break a three-decade losing streak in Texas. It also reflects a broader divide ...
Source: news.yahoo.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 -
Analysts suggest that agentic browsers create an unacceptable risk for CISOs today, with data exposure now a top security concern - but far from the only one. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Businesses should steer clear of agentic browsers for now, analysts from research firm Gartner have warned. Agentic browsers, otherwise known as AI browsers, are ...
Source: zdnet.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Alina Habba, President Donald Trump's embattled pick as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey, said Monday that she is resigning after a protracted legal battle over the legitimacy of her appointment. Habba disclosed her decision a week after a federal appeals court panel ruled that she has been serving unlawfully as acting U.S. attorney. She will transition to a new role as a senior Justice Department adviser ...
Source: abajournal.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Washington — The U.S. Department of Education announced a proposed agreement Tuesday that would permanently axe an income-driven student loan repayment plan in which more than 7 million student loan borrowers are enrolled. Under a joint proposal with seven Republican-led states that challenged the program, the department would not enroll any new borrowers in the Saving on a Valuable Education, or SAVE, plan, ...
Source: truthout.org
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Majority Leader John Thune announced that the Senate will vote Thursday on a Republican-led alternative to Democrats' three-year extension of soon-to-expire enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits. Neither bill, however, is expected to get the 60 votes needed to advance. Republicans have accused Democrats of a "show vote" with their proposal, and Democrats were quick to dismiss the GOP-led plan as a nonstarter. ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
Australia launches a social media ban – and is AI a bubble about to pop? Under-16s to be banned from social media in Australia, and analysts continue to monitor the massive investment in AI Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I'm your host, Blake Montgomery, writing to you from a New York City that feels much colder than last December. 🥶 Australia starts under-16 social media ban In a world first, ...
Source: theguardian.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 -
One student is dead and another was in critical condition after a shooting at Kentucky State University, officials said Tuesday. A person who is not a student was taken into custody in connection with the gunfire, which Frankfort Police Department Assistant Chief Scott Tracy described as an "isolated incident." During a briefing Tuesday night, Tracy said there were no "active safety concerns." He did not identify ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
ORLANDO, Fla. – A day after Gov. Ron DeSantis as a "foreign terrorist organization," leaders of the group's Florida chapter on Tuesday promised a lawsuit and said the state had no legal basis for such a declaration. The governor's executive order against the Council on American-Islamic Relations was an attack based on conspiracy theories, similar to those aimed in past decades at other minority groups like ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, Dec 9th, 2025 -
The Linux Foundation , the nonprofit supporting open-source projects such as the Linux operating system kernel, today announced the formation of the Agentic Artificial Intelligence Foundation alongside major contributions of innovative AI technology. Major software technology companies Anthropic PBC, OpenAI Group PBC and Block Inc. joined the launch as founding members with contributions of innovative AI projects. ...
Source: siliconangle.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 -
Clean energy advocates have scored at least a temporary victory after a federal judge on Monday threw out President Donald Trump's executive order that banned new wind power projects in the US. As reported by CNBC , Judge Patti Saris of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts tossed Trump's executive order in its entirety after finding it "arbitrary and capricious and contrary to law," and arguing ...
Source: commondreams.org
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 -
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 by 5% on Mexican imports if more water is not delivered as part of a water-sharing agreement. said Mexico is proposing a water delivery this month and another one in the coming years. The proposal will be discussed in a virtual meeting with U.S. officials ...
Source: news.yahoo.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 -
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 -
ROME — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with the pope near Rome on Tuesday as he continued to rally European support for Ukraine while resisting U.S. pressure for a painful compromise with Russia. Answering reporters' questions in a WhatsApp chat, Zelenskyy reaffimed his firm refusal to cede any territory, saying that "we clearly don't want to give up anything," even as "the Americans are looking ...
Source: military.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 -
On a Thursday in early September, more than 40 strangers logged in to Instacart, the grocery-shopping app, to buy eggs and test a hypothesis. Connected by videoconference, they simultaneously selected the same store — a Safeway in Washington, D.C. — and the same brand of eggs. They all chose pickup rather than delivery. The only difference was the price they were offered: $3.99 for a couple of lucky ...
Source: bostonglobe.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
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 -
, 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