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Top News Stories for Thursday, December 11th 2025
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
RANDOLPH, Minn. (AP) — When Donald Trump promised new while running for president, Gene Stehly worried that trade disputes would jeopardize his international sales of corn, soybeans and wheat. A little more than a year later, Stehly said his fears have become a reality, and Trump's latest promise of federal assistance is insufficient to cover farmers' losses. "Maybe this will all come out to be better at the ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
This image from video posted on Attorney General Pam Bondi's X account, and partially redacted by the source, shows an oil tanker being seized by U.S. forces off the coast of Venezuela, Dec. 10, 2025. Credit - U.S. Attorney General's Office—X/AP The Venezuelan government has called the U.S. seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela "a blatant theft and an act of international piracy." President ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
, a next-generation AI consulting and solutions firm, announced its official launch, introducing a research-backed, operations-focused approach to enterprise AI implementation. Established to help organizations cut through the noise, identify where AI truly adds value, and deploy systems that work in harmony with their existing business architecture, Xspark.ai's methodology is rooted in research and refined by ...
Source: aithority.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Sherrone Moore's time at Michigan is suddenly over. The Wolverines fired their head football coach Wednesday afternoon. The school fired Moore for cause due to an investigation of Moore, saying Wednesday the coach "engaged in an inappropriate relationship with a staff member." Further specifics of that relationship, or when the investigation actually started, are unknown. "U-M head football coach Sherrone Moore has ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Renewed fighting between Thailand and Cambodia has entered its fourth day , as deaths rise on both sides, with both countries accusing one another of violating international law as they await a promised phone call from United States President Donald Trump. Three Thai civilians were killed as heavy combat continued along the country's border, the Thai military said on Thursday, marking the country's first civilian ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Bjork supported the boycott move ( JTA ) — The public broadcaster of Iceland announced on Wednesday that it will not participate in this year's Eurovision Song Contest after Israel's participation was confirmed by the European Broadcasting Union last week. The decision drew support from prominent Icelandic artists, including the singer Björk and the former Eurovision representative Paul Oscar, as well as ...
Source: forward.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! A sperm donor whose samples helped conceive nearly 200 children across Europe unknowingly carried a cancer-causing genetic mutation — a hidden risk now tied to multiple childhood illnesses and early deaths. An investigation led by the BBC and many other public service broadcasters revealed that the donations were made to Denmark's European Sperm Bank (ESB). Those ...
Source: foxnews.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Oracle shares sank on Wednesday after revenue earnings missed analyst expectations. The database software maker extended losses on Thursday. Other AI-related names fell alongside it. In this article Oracle shares plummeted over 12% in premarket trading on Thursday, extending yesterday's losses after the firm reported disappointing results. The cloud computing and database software maker reported ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — Washington state was under a state of emergency Thursday from a barrage of torrential rain that has sent rivers flowing over their banks, caused a mudslide to crash down on a highway and trapped people in floodwaters. Tens of thousands of residents could face evacuation orders. Heavy rain continued to fall over parts of the state Thursday morning, prompting road closures, water ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Dec 11th, 2025 -
Artificial intelligence chatbots are no longer a novelty for U.S. teenagers. They're a habit. A new Pew Research Center survey of 1,458 teens between the ages of 13 and 17 found that 64 percent have used an AI chatbot, with more than one in four using such tools daily. Of those daily users, more than half talked to chatbots with a frequency ranging from several times a day to nearly constantly. The results offer a ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The Federal Reserve cut interest rates on Wednesday, as was widely expected. Heading into the meeting, there was a roughly 90% probability of a cut to the federal funds rate priced into the markets. The federal funds rate is now at a target range of 3.5%-3.75%, which is a quarter of a percentage point below the previous range. This is the third rate cut of 2025, which followed three rate cuts in 2024 as inflation ...
Source: fool.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Officials in Kentucky have identified the 19-year-old victim killed in Tuesday's shooting at Kentucky State University. The Franklin County Coroner's Office identified the victim as De'Jon Darrell Fox Jr., according to multiple news reports . He was a student at the school in Frankfort and was the only victim in the incident. He was from Indianapolis, news reports said . Soon after the shooting on ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The Trump administration has reached an agreement that could end President Biden's signature student loan repayment plan, a move that may force millions of borrowers back into repayment. The Education Department on Tuesday announced a proposed settlement with the state of Missouri that it said would terminate the Saving on a Valuable Education, or SAVE, plan, an income-driven repayment plan that tabulates loan ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
NEW YORK—A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the public release of potentially hundreds of thousands of pages of documents from the case against Ghislaine Maxwell, saying that access to the records is required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which Congress approved last month. U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer said the new law covers grand jury testimony as well as "voluminous" other records from the ...
Source: abajournal.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article The decision is on hold through the weekend, until Monday A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to cease deploying the California National Guard in Los Angeles , returning control to the state. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco granted a ...
Source: independent.co.uk
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 -
Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Miami election was a 'shot in the arm' for Dems but careful calling it a comeback | Opinion By the Miami Herald Editorial Board The analysis and punditry of the results of Miami's Tuesday night election started even before Eileen Higgins, a Democrat, won the mayoral race. There's no doubt this was a good ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials were expected to hand their latest peace proposals to United States negotiators Wednesday, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who also said Ukraine would be ready for elections within three months if partners can guarantee a safe vote during wartime and if its electoral law can be altered. Zelenskyy was responding to comments by U.S. President Donald Trump in ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Set aside your matches or lighter and try to start a fire —chances are you'd be left cold and hungry. But as early as 400,000 years ago, ancient hominins may have had the skills to conjure flame, according to groundbreaking new evidence of fire making that is 350,000 years older than scientists' previous earliest example. Investigators looking to understand our ancestors have long been interested in the ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
NEW DELHI: In India's biggest foreign investment, American e-commerce and tech giant Amazon on Wednesday committed to pump in $35 billion (over Rs 3.1 lakh crore) to boost its operations in the country as it adds to the $40 billion-plus it has already put into the market since 2010. The investment is planned by 2030 and came a day after Microsoft committed another $17.5 billion. At its annual 'Smbhav' summit in the ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
OSLO, Norway (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado will miss the ceremony to award her the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Wednesday, the head of the Norwegian Nobel Institute said. Machado last appeared in public 11 months ago. Nobel Institute director Kristian Berg Harpviken told public broadcaster NRK the Venezuelan opposition leader was not in the Norwegian capital on the day of the ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The Trump administration is reportedly trying to strongarm the International Criminal Court (ICC) into changing its founding document to carve out an exception for President Donald Trump and his top officials ensuring that they are never prosecuted by the court for potential war crimes. The administration is threatening the ICC with yet more sanctions if they do not amend the Rome Statute, which established the ...
Source: truthout.org
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The ban comes as new Ofcom figures show 70% of UK 11 to 17-year-olds saw or heard harmful content online over a four-week period. Australia's prime minister has warned that implementing the country's new social media ban for children under 16 – which came into force on Wednesday - will be difficult. Parents across Australia are reported to have found their children distraught after discovering they had been ...
Source: news.sky.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
If NASA is serious about exploring Mars, it's past time to send new missions. NASA has lost contact with one its three spacecraft orbiting Mars, the agency announced Tuesday. Meanwhile, a second Mars orbiter is perilously close to running out of fuel, and the third mission is running well past its warranty. Ground teams last heard from the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN, spacecraft on Saturday, ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
writer and reports on health care, new research, and public policy, with a particular interest in mental health, gender-affirming care, and LGBTQ+ patient communities. You can reach Theresa on Signal at theresagaff.97. Get your daily dose of health and medicine every weekday with STAT's free newsletter Morning Rounds. Sign up here . Good morning. It's so cold in Boston. Send tips for insulation, warming, and ...
Source: statnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The Supreme Court on Wednesday wrestled with whether to allow Alabama to execute a man with low cognitive function, a ruling that could set new rules for states to condemn those with borderline intellectual disabilities to death row. Roughly two hours of intense arguments did not seem to produce a consensus among the justices over how states should assess IQ tests to determine mental disability. In a landmark 2002 ...
Source: abajournal.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
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, a case study published Tuesday in the journal BMJ Case Reports states. This patient suffered permanent damage from a minor stroke caused by extremely high blood pressure, ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
SAN FRANCISCO ( KRON ) – Instacart, the San Francisco-based company that operates its eponymous grocery delivery app, is responding to reports that it charged some customers more than others for the exact same items as part of an artificial intelligence-enabled experiment. The allegations stem from a study conducted by Consumer Reports , an advocacy group known as Groundwork Collaborative, and the non-profit ...
Source: wfla.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
Connecticut has confirmed its first measles case of the year, involving an unvaccinated child in Fairfield County, according to state health officials. The case was reported on Wednesday in an announcement from the Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH). The child, who is under the age of 10, recently traveled internationally before developing symptoms several days later, according to DPH. Symptoms included ...
Source: bnonews.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
The Trump administration is proposing to ask visitors from several dozen nations that enjoy visa-free travel to the U.S. to submit additional personal information before entering the country, including five years of their social media history, the Department of Homeland Security said in a notice this week. Citizens of 42 countries enrolled in the visa waiver program can generally come to the U.S. for up to 90 days ...
Source: cbsnews.com
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
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 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Gov. Ron DeSantis rolled out his "Floridians First" budget proposal Wednesday in Orlando, calling for more than $1.5 billion in funding for teacher pay increases and a continuation of his key environmental and law enforcement initiatives. As he approaches his final year in office, DeSantis said he wants a $117 billion spending plan, about the same as the current year's ...
Source: orlandosentinel.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 -
Big 12 Conference commissioner Brett Yormark said Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua was "totally out of bounds" for his comments on the Atlantic Coast Conference this week. Notre Dame have a football scheduling alliance with the ACC and are a full member of the conference in other sports. Bevacqua has claimed the ACC damaged Notre Dame's chances at making the College Football Playoff, instead campaigning ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Egypt and Iran, two Middle East nations that target gays and lesbians, have complained to FIFA over a World Cup soccer match in Seattle that is planned to celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride. Leaders in the nation's soccer federations publicly rebuked the idea of playing the match June 26 at Seattle Stadium, which local organizers say will include a "once-in-a-lifetime moment to showcase ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Dec 10th, 2025 -
A former Donald Trump criminal defense attorney turned controversial DOJ higher-up and then lifetime federal appellate judge faces a judicial misconduct complaint just one day after attending the president's rally in Pennsylvania. Fix the Court, which describes itself as a "nonpartisan" nonprofit advocating "for non-ideological fixes that would make the federal courts, and primarily the U.S. Supreme Court, more ...
Source: lawandcrime.com