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Somalia’s prime minister said it was “better not to respond” a day after President Donald Trump described Somali immigrants as “garbage” during a White House cabinet meeting on Dec. 2, 2025. The comment, and Mr. Trump’s additional remark that Somalia “stinks,” prompted anger among some Somalis and questions about the government’s public stance. Prime Minister … Read more
Lead: On Dec. 3, 2025, Pentagon investigators concluded that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared sensitive U.S. military information in a private Signal group earlier this year, a move the inspector general says breached department rules and could have placed American service members at risk. The finding, conveyed to Congress in a classified report, traces key … Read more
Lead On December 3, 2025, Meta Platforms hired Alan Dye, Apple’s longtime head of user-interface design, in a high-profile recruitment that signals the social-media giant’s intensified move into AI-equipped consumer hardware. Dye led Apple’s UI design team since 2015 and is widely regarded as a central figure in the company’s software aesthetics and interaction work. … Read more
Lead Two separate nationwide cheese recalls announced in early December 2025 affect hundreds of thousands of shredded mozzarella and multi‑cheese packages and several grated Pecorino Romano products. Great Lakes Cheese recalled multiple shredded mozzarella and multi‑cheese blends after potential metal fragments were found; the FDA upgraded that action to a Class II risk. Separately, The … Read more
Lead Republican Rep Jim Jordan, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, issued a subpoena on December 3, 2025 compelling former special counsel Jack Smith to give closed-door testimony on December 17 and to produce documents by December 12. The move is part of a GOP oversight probe into Smiths teams prosecutions of President Donald Trump, … Read more
Lead On 3 December 2025 House Democrats publicly released a set of photos and walk-through videos taken on Jeffrey Epstein’s private Caribbean estate, providing a rare visual record of the properties where prosecutors have said trafficking occurred. The materials, collected by law enforcement in the US Virgin Islands in 2020, include interior shots of living … Read more
President Donald Trump is expected to unveil a proposal on Wednesday in Washington to weaken federal vehicle fuel-economy requirements through the 2031 model year, loosening regulatory pressure on automakers to limit gasoline-powered tailpipe pollution. The outline — disclosed to reporters by people familiar with White House plans who spoke on condition of anonymity — would … Read more
NEW YORK — A federal vaccine advisory panel this week is expected to revisit long-standing guidance that all newborns receive a hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth. The committee, chaired under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is scheduled to discuss a change at a Thursday meeting that would depart from decades of … Read more
President Donald Trump announced he would grant a “full and unconditional” pardon to Democratic Representative Henry Cuellar of Texas and to his wife, Imelda Cuellar, after federal charges last year accused the couple of accepting about $600,000 in illicit payments. The announcement came on social media alongside claims that the prosecution was politically motivated; Cuellar … Read more
Lead: Israel on Wednesday received human remains that could belong to one of the final hostages held in Gaza and said it will soon allow Palestinians to exit the territory through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt. The remains, found by militants in northern Gaza and handed to the Red Cross, will undergo forensic testing … Read more
Lead: A new genomic analysis finds that human groups living in southern Africa remained largely isolated for roughly 100,000 years, producing genetic profiles that lie outside the range seen in most living people. Researchers sequenced and compared genomes from skeletons dated between about 10,200 and 1,400 years ago — including a 7,900-year-old Matjes River specimen … Read more
Lead On Dec. 3, 2025, two papers published in Nature reported null results for additional neutrino types long hypothesized by some physicists. The MicroBooNE experiment at Fermilab and the KATRIN experiment in Karlsruhe each probed different signatures that a so-called sterile neutrino would leave, and neither found convincing evidence. The findings align closely with the … Read more
Lead: On Dec. 3, 2025, Fanatics rolled out Fanatics Markets, a new prediction-market platform, with an initial launch across 24 U.S. states including California, Texas, Florida and Washington. The platform lets users trade contracts tied to sports, finance, economics and politics immediately, with plans to add crypto, stocks, tech and music contracts early next year. … Read more
On Dec. 3, 2025, during the early signing window that runs Wednesday through Friday, programs across the country finalized scholarship agreements that reshaped the Class of 2026. Live coverage and real-time updates—including a CBS Sports/247Sports broadcast that began at 10 a.m. ET—tracked commitments, flips and ranking movement as top prospects either locked in their choices … Read more
Federal agents launched coordinated immigration enforcement actions in New Orleans and Minneapolis on Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and law enforcement officials said. The operations, announced a day after President Donald Trump said he would deploy National Guard troops to Louisiana, focus on individuals DHS describes as criminal noncitizens and those alleged to … Read more
