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Lead On December 4, 2025, Apple announced that Jennifer Newstead will join the company as senior vice president in January and will become Apple’s general counsel on March 1, 2026. The company said Newstead will take over duties from Kate Adams, who has served as Apple’s general counsel since 2017 and plans to retire late … Read more

Lead Newly released federal records through Oct. 15 show that sweeping Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in major cities this year detained large numbers of people without prior criminal convictions. The data cover high‑profile deployments in Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and multiple operations across Massachusetts and compare those local crackdowns with ICE activity … Read more

December 4, 2025 — The U.S. government announced a new U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) policy that shortens the maximum validity of employment authorization documents for refugees, asylees and immigrants with pending asylum or green card applications to 18 months, down from five years. The rule, unveiled Thursday, applies to applications filed after Dec. … Read more

Paramount has formally told Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) that rival bids from Netflix and Comcast would encounter serious regulatory obstacles and likely fail to close. In a counsel letter submitted with Paramount’s second‑round offer on Monday, the David Ellison‑backed studio argued it alone has “a clear path to closing based upon decades of legal precedent.” … Read more

Lead On Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) postponed a contentious vote at CDC headquarters in Atlanta that would have reconsidered the long-standing recommendation to give hepatitis B vaccine to all newborns. Committee members cited shifting language in the ballot and insufficient time to … Read more

Consumer Reports’ Dec. 4, 2025 brand survey shows U.S. automakers again lagging behind Asian peers in new-car reliability, though Buick and Ford made measurable gains. Toyota, Subaru, Lexus and Honda held the top four reliability positions, while Rivian finished last at No. 26. The ranking is drawn from data on 380,000 individual vehicles submitted by … Read more

Lead On Dec. 4, 2025, a USGS ShakeAlert message reporting a magnitude-5.9 earthquake in western Nevada briefly triggered mass cellphone warnings before the agency removed the notice and said it was sent in error. The automatic alert, issued at about 8:06 a.m. local time, propagated through regional emergency systems and reached as far as the … Read more

Lead Several public broadcasters, including Ireland’s RTÉ, Spain’s RTVE, the Netherlands’ AVROTROS and Slovenia’s RTV, announced they will not participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 after the European Broadcasting Union allowed Israel to compete. The decision followed a Thursday meeting of roughly 50 EBU member broadcasters in Geneva where members voted to adopt new … Read more

In a chaotic Thursday session at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the agency’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) postponed a scheduled vote on changes to the hepatitis B vaccine recommendation until Friday morning. The meeting, held in the CDC’s broadcast studio under bright lights and cameras, featured disputed presentations and confusion over … Read more

An 88-year-old Army veteran in Brighton, Michigan, who was working full time at a Meijer grocery store to cover living and medical expenses is set to receive more than $1.5 million after a GoFundMe campaign went viral this week. Australian influencer Samuel Weidenhofer posted a short video of Ed Bambas describing lost pension benefits and … Read more

Lead As the 2026 World Cup pots were confirmed ahead of March’s final playoffs, England, Scotland, the United States and Australia face plausible “worst-case” group draws that would sharply raise the difficulty of progressing. The draw rules — including a maximum of two European teams per group and exceptions for hosts — shape which matchups … Read more

Lead On Dec. 4, 2025, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services updated its Policy Manual to shorten maximum validity periods for certain Employment Authorization Documents (EADs), tightening the frequency of eligibility checks for noncitizen workers in the United States. The change returns some categories from a five-year maximum to an 18-month term and implements one-year limits … Read more

Lead Law enforcement officials confirmed the arrest of a suspect in the pipe-bomb placements near the Republican and Democratic National Committee offices that were left on 5 January 2021, nearly five years after the devices were found and safely deactivated. Authorities identified 30-year-old Brian Cole of Woodbridge, Virginia, after re‑examining existing evidence; officials say the … Read more

Spotify’s year-end Wrapped rolled out in early December 2025 with a new, attention-grabbing metric: a user’s “listening age,” an estimate of which historical era of music a listener engaged with more than their peers. The feature identifies a five-year span of songs that a person played disproportionately and converts that period into an implied age, … Read more

On Dec. 4, 2025 (updated 2:10 p.m. ET), the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) postponed a decisive vote on whether to change the long-standing recommendation that newborns receive a hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth. Committee members raised sharp objections to the evidence presented, accusing some speakers of selective use of … Read more