Nation and World
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Social media ban for children under 16 starts in Australia
Dec 10, 2025 6:59 am - Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese welcomed a world-first social media ban for children younger than 16 that took effect Wednesday as families taking back power from tech giants but warned the implementation would be difficult.
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Machado's daughter accepts Nobel Peace Prize in Venezuelan opposition leader's absence
Dec 10, 2025 6:55 am - Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado 's daughter accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on her mother's behalf Wednesday, hours after officials said Machado would miss the ceremony.
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Ukraine can hold elections within months if security is ensured, Zelenskyy says
Dec 10, 2025 6:53 am - 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.
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Federal Reserve cuts key rate but signals higher bar for future reductions
Dec 10, 2025 6:49 am - The Federal Reserve reduced its key interest rate for the third time in a row Wednesday but signaled that it may leave rates unchanged in the coming months, a move that could attract ire from President Donald Trump, who has demanded steep reductions to borrowing costs.
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Rights groups sue administration for release of memo justifying boat strikes
Dec 09, 2025 7:19 pm - A group of civil rights advocacy organizations filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Trump administration, seeking the release of a legal memo and other documents related to lethal U.S. military strikes on boats suspected of trafficking drugs from Latin America.
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Trump’s speech on combating inflation turns to grievances about immigrants from ‘filthy’ countries
Dec 09, 2025 7:13 pm - President Donald Trump is road-testing his claims that he's tackling Americans' affordability woes at a Tuesday rally in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania — shifting an argument made in Oval Office appearances and social media posts to a campaign-style event.
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Justice Dept. says a court ruling is blocking efforts to reindict Comey
Dec 09, 2025 6:56 pm - Justice Department lawyers said Tuesday that a recent ruling barring their access to key evidence has effectively crippled their efforts to reindict former FBI director James B. Comey, two weeks after their original case against him was dismissed.
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Illinois law protects immigrants from arrest near courthouses, hospitals or colleges
Dec 09, 2025 5:20 pm - Immigrants living in Illinois, among the states hit hardest by the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, are now shielded from federal enforcement near courthouses, hospitals, university campuses and day cares under a law Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker signed Tuesday.
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The EPA is wiping mention of human-caused climate change from its website
Dec 09, 2025 3:58 pm - The Environmental Protection Agency has removed references to human-caused climate change from its website - tweaking some pages to focus on the “natural processes” driving climate change and wiping other pages from the internet.
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Pope criticizes US bid to ‘break apart’ US-Europe alliance, insists on Europe role in Ukraine peace
Dec 09, 2025 3:46 pm - Pope Leo XIV insisted Tuesday that Europe must have a role in any Ukraine peace deal and criticized what he said was the Trump administration’s effort to “break apart” the long-standing U.S.-European alliance.