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Supreme Court sides with immigration judges in speech case for now, rebuffing Trump administration

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST
Dec 19, 2025 7:16 pm - The Supreme Court sided with immigration judges on Friday, rebuffing the Trump administration for now in a case with possible implications for federal workers as the justices weigh expanding presidential firing power.
US plans to stop recommending most childhood vaccines, defer to doctors

By Lena H. Sun and Rachel Roubein
Dec 19, 2025 7:11 pm - The Trump administration plans to shift the federal government away from directly recommending most vaccines for children and suggest they receive fewer shots to more closely align with Denmark’s immunization model, according to two people familiar with the matter.
EU agrees to loan Ukraine $105B after bid to use Russian assets fails

By Ellen Francis and Beatriz Ríos
Dec 19, 2025 7:07 pm - European leaders agreed Friday to finance Ukraine’s state and army with a $105 billion loan backed by the E.U. budget after the failure of a last-ditch effort to tap Russia’s frozen assets.
Trump announces lower drug price deals with 9 pharmaceutical companies

By SALLY HO
Dec 19, 2025 6:57 pm - U.S. President Donald Trump announced Friday that nine drugmakers have agreed to lower the cost of their prescription drugs in the U.S. Pharmaceutical companies Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, Boehringer Ingelheim, Genentech, Gilead Sciences, GSK, Merck, Novartis and Sanofi will now rein in Medicaid drug prices to match what they charged in other developed countries.
US military launches strikes in Syria targeting Islamic State fighters after American deaths

By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN, BEN FINLEY and AAMER MADHANI
Dec 19, 2025 5:11 pm - The Trump administration launched military strikes Friday in Syria to “eliminate” Islamic State group fighters and weapons sites in retaliation for an ambush attack that killed two U.S. troops and an American civilian interpreter almost a week ago.
US military to stop shooting pigs and goats as a way to train medics for the battlefield

By BEN FINLEY
Dec 19, 2025 4:12 pm - The U.S. military will stop its practice of shooting pigs and goats to help prepare medics for treating wounded troops in a combat zone, ending an exercise made obsolete by simulators that mimic battlefield injuries.
Pope names pro-immigrant pastor bishop of Florida diocese where Trump’s Mar-a-Lago is located

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO
Dec 19, 2025 4:04 pm - Pope Leo XIV on Friday named the Rev. Manuel de Jesús Rodríguez, currently pastor of a predominantly Hispanic church in the Queens borough of New York City, as bishop of ...
Justice Department begins releasing long-awaited files tied to Epstein sex trafficking investigation

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, ERIC TUCKER and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
Dec 19, 2025 3:11 pm - The Justice Department on Friday began releasing its files on Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender and wealthy financier known for his connections to some of the world’s most influential people, including Donald Trump, who as president had tried to keep the files sealed.
States faces a choice on whether to embrace Trump’s tax cuts on tips, overtime and more

By DAVID A. LIEB
Dec 19, 2025 11:15 am - To tax tips or not? That is a question that will confront lawmakers in states across the U.S. as they convene for work next year.
Man suspected in Brown University shooting and MIT professor’s killing is found dead, officials say

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, ERIC TUCKER and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM
Dec 19, 2025 8:06 am - A frantic search for the suspect in last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University ended at a New Hampshire storage facility where authorities discovered the man dead inside and then revealed he also was suspected of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor.

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