47 min ago - Tue 16 Dec 2025 05.51 EST First published on Tue 16 Dec 2025 03.46 EST The BBC has vowed to defend itself against the $10bn lawsuit that the US president, Donald Trump filed against it. In a complaint filed on Monday evening, Trump sought $5bn in da ... (The Guardian)

1 hr ago - 12/15/2025 10:16 PM EST NEW YORK — Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s bid for a new libel trial against The New York Times was rejected Monday by a New York federal judge who also refused Palin’s request that the judge re ... (Politico/AP)

2 hrs ago - President Trump's chief of staff said she tried to get him to end his "score settling" against political enemies after 90 days in office, but acknowledged that the administration's still ongoing push for prosecutions has been fueled in part by the pr ... (NY Times)

2 hrs ago - PR Newswire ADP National Employment Report Preliminary Estimate November 29, 2025 PR Newswire Tue, December 16, 2025 at 8:15 AM EST * 3 min read ROSELAND, N.J., Dec. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- For the four weeks ending November 29, 2025, U.S. private e ... (PR Newswire, via Yahoo!Finance)

2 hrs ago - Published Tue, Dec 16 2025 8:32 AM EST Updated 28 Min Ago Nonfarm payrolls grew slightly more than expected in November but slumped in October while unemployment hit its highest in four years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday in number ... (CNBC)

2 hrs ago - Updated 12:02 AM EST, December 16, 2025 Starting Tuesday, the U.S. Capitol will display a statue of a teenaged Barbara Rose Johns as she protested poor conditions at her segregated Virginia high school, a pointed replacement for a statue of Confedera ... (AP)

3 hrs ago - Updated 9:26 PM CST, December 15, 2025 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — More than a dozen people were hurt when a San Francisco cable car abruptly stopped Monday afternoon. Fifteen people had injuries ranging from minor to moderate, the San Francisco Fire D ... (AP)

3 hrs ago - December 15, 2025 8:00PM ET An attorney representing Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) fired off a warning letter to the Department of Defense on Monday, saying the senator is prepared to take whatever legal action is necessary to stop what they regard as an il ... (Raw Story)

3 hrs ago - 12h Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) said any voter, regardless of party affiliation, is welcome to support her campaign to be one of the Lone Star State’s senators. “I’m a Texan, and so at the end of the day, I think people are trying ... (msn/The Hill)

3 hrs ago - Sonja Sharp - Los Angeles Times (TNS) 12 hrs ago LOS ANGELES — Dozens of California National Guard troops under President Trump’s command apparently slipped out of Los Angeles under cover of darkness early Sunday morning, ahead of ... (swoknews.com)

3 hrs ago - Tue 16 Dec 2025 05.22 EST Last modified on Tue 16 Dec 2025 06.18 EST Nearly 90 flights linked to Jeffrey Epstein reportedly arrived at and departed from UK airports, some with British women onboard who allege they were abused by the convicted child s ... (The Guardian)

4 hrs ago - Updated Dec. 15, 2025, 6:41 p.m. ET Heath Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised a renewed focus on the “diagnostic efforts” for tick-borne Lyme disease, describing it on Dec. 15 as an “invisible” illness that he claims has been ... (USA Today)

4 hrs ago - The US military says it has carried out strikes on three boats it has accused of trafficking drugs in the Pacific Ocean, killing eight people. The US Southern Command posted footage of the strikes on social media and said the vessels were "transiting ... (BBC)

4 hrs ago - Published December 15, 2025 7:27PM (EST) Kash Patel’s troubled tenure as Donald Trump’s FBI director may be “at its end,” according to multiple sources, in the wake of the recent mass shooting at Brown University along with a seri ... (Salon)

5 hrs ago - Posted December 15, 2025 at 6:06pm ​Whole milk is poised to return to the menu for schools participating in the National School Lunch Program for the first time in over a decade. The House cleared a bill Monday for the president’s desk th ... (Roll Call)

5 hrs ago - Published Dec 15, 2025 at 02:36 PM EST updated Dec 15, 2025 at 05:22 PM EST U.S. Southern Command said it is reviewing reports of a near midair collision after a JetBlue pilot said his aircraft was forced to halt its climb Friday to avoid a U.S. Air ... (Newsweek)

5 hrs ago - Dec. 15, 2025 4:56 p.m. ET WASHINGTON – A top official at the U.S. Department of Education has been keeping a controversial flag linked to Christian nationalism and the Jan. 6 insurrection hung outside his office, according to the agency's union ... (USA Today)

6 hrs ago - 12/15/25 6:24 PM ET The Senate on Monday cleared a key procedural hurdle as it looks to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) before lawmakers leave town for the holidays at the end of the week. Senators voted 76-20 to put the annual def ... (The Hill)

6 hrs ago - December 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM EST Jared Kushner's private equity firm, Affinity Partners, dropped its plans for a hotel in Serbia, after tensions around the project culminated in the indictment of a government official who helped clear a path for its ... (Bloomberg)

7 hrs ago - 12h WASHINGTON — In April, President Donald Trump nominated Mark Walker, a former Baptist minister and congressman who had served on the House Republican leadership team, to head his administration’s efforts on global religious freedom. &# ... (msn/NBC News)