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Transportation Department threatens $73M for New York's highways over commercial driver's licenses

12/12/25 3:19 PM ET ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) -- The federal government ordered New York to stop granting trucking licenses to foreign drivers or lose millions of dollars in highway aid. Transportation officials said their review found that the state is likelier to break the law than to follow it when issuing "non-domiciled" commercial driver's licenses (CDLs). Non-domiciled CDLs are special permits for those who live in other countries or have temporary legal status in the U.S. and dr ...

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Trump says 'starting' land strikes over drugs in latest warning

11h (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said the US would be “starting” land strikes on drug operations in Latin America, though again declined to provide details on when and where the escalation of his military campaign would actually begin, or if countries could still do anything to avert the threatened action. “We knocked out 96% of the drugs coming in by water, and now we’re starting by land, and by land is a lot easier, and that’s going to start happening,” Trump told reporters Friday ...

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The TSA is providing airline passenger data to ICE to aid Trump's deportation efforts, report says

Friday 12 December 2025 19:43 EST The Trump administration’s Transportation Security Administration is reportedly giving immigration officials details of all air travelers as part of the president’s push to carry out an unprecedented mass deportation campaign. As part of the program, the TSA shares the data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement multiple times per week, according to The New York Times. Individuals in the TSA data who were later found in ICE databases had a high rate of eve ...

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Senior US Democrats urge release of Venezuela boat strike video

December 12, 2025 4:06 PM EST Updated 11 hours ago WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Democratic members of the "Gang of Eight" of U.S. congressional and intelligence committee leaders called on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Friday to make public the full, unedited video of the September 2 strikes on a suspected drug trafficking boat in the Caribbean. "As some of the few members of Congress who have seen the complete, unedited video of the strikes on September 2 against a ma ...

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Appeals court pauses contempt hearings over administration's AEA deportations

December 12, 2025, 7:58 PM A federal appeals court on Friday granted an emergency motion sought by the Justice Department to pause contempt hearings that were scheduled to begin next week over the Trump administration's deportation of Venezuelan migrants under the Alien Enemies Act. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg last Monday ordered top DOJ attorney Drew Ensign and former DOJ attorney Erez Reuveni to testify next week as part of an inquiry into why the administration continued to transpor ...

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New coins to commemorate 250th anniversary of American independence. Here's how they'll look

Friday 12 December 2025 03:49 EST The U.S. Mint has unveiled coins designs for America's 250th independence anniversary next year, featuring classical depictions of founding documents and the Revolutionary War. Donald Trump is notably absent, despite a push from allies for his image. These designs abandon concepts from Joe Biden’s presidency, which highlighted women's suffrage and civil rights, instead favouring traditional American themes. The coins, part of America 250 celebrations marking ...

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Navy investigation finds Osprey safety issues were allowed to grow for years

By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN Updated 1:36 PM CST, December 12, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — After a spate of deadly accidents that have claimed the lives of 20 service members in the past four years, a Navy report acknowledges that the military failed to address a growing series of issues with the V-22 Osprey aircraft since it took flight almost 20 years ago. “The cumulative risk posture of the V-22 platform has been growing since initial fielding,” according to the report by Naval Air Systems Command rel ...

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The Justice Department has now sued 18 states in an effort to access voter data

December 12, 2025 1:43 PM ET The Department of Justice has filed lawsuits against four more states as part of the Trump administration's attempt to access sensitive voter data. The DOJ is also suing one Georgia county, seeking records from the 2020 election. The department has now filed suit against 18 states — mostly Democratic-led, and all states that President Trump lost in the 2020 election — as part of its far-reaching litigation. For months, the Justice Department has been demanding ce ...

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Growing number of House Republicans sign on to effort to force vote on ACA subsidies -- defying Speaker Johnson

December 12, 2025, 10:33 AM As House Speaker Mike Johnson eyes a vote next week on a to-be-announced health care package, a growing number of House Republicans are revolting against leadership by trying to force a vote on extending the expiring Affordable Care Act enhanced subsidies. Nearly a dozen Republicans -- many from swing districts -- have signed onto dueling bipartisan discharge petitions to extend and reform the subsidies in the hopes of bypassing leadership and triggering a vote on ...

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Scoop: House Democrat seeks impeachment hearings into DHS Secretary Kristi Noem

5h Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) is pressing the House Judiciary Committee to begin impeachment hearings into Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Axios has learned. Why it matters: House Democrats are increasingly turning to impeachment as their go-to cudgel against not only President Trump himself, but many of his Cabinet officials. Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) filed articles of impeachment against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week on a litany of cha ...

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VA plans to abruptly eliminate tens of thousands of health care jobs

39 min ago - December 13, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. EST The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to abruptly eliminate as many as 35,000 health care positions this month, mostly unfilled jobs including doctors, nurses and support staff, according to an internal memo, VA ... (Washington Post)

Bacon calls Trump 'the new Chamberlain' over Russia policy

1 hr ago - Posted December 12, 2025 at 8:53pm Rep. Don Bacon, a senior member of House Armed Services Committee who does not plan to run for reelection next year, has long taken exception to Donald Trump’s approach to Russia — but the Nebraska Republi ... (Roll Call)

Appeals court pauses contempt hearings over administration's AEA deportations

1 hr ago - December 12, 2025, 7:58 PM A federal appeals court on Friday granted an emergency motion sought by the Justice Department to pause contempt hearings that were scheduled to begin next week over the Trump administration's deportation of Venezuelan migr ... (ABC News)

The TSA is providing airline passenger data to ICE to aid Trump's deportation efforts, report says

2 hrs ago - Friday 12 December 2025 19:43 EST The Trump administration’s Transportation Security Administration is reportedly giving immigration officials details of all air travelers as part of the president’s push to carry out an unprecedented mass d ... (The Independent)

Trump says 'starting' land strikes over drugs in latest warning

2 hrs ago - 11h (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said the US would be “starting” land strikes on drug operations in Latin America, though again declined to provide details on when and where the escalation of his military campaign would actually be ... (msn/Bloomberg)

Sen. Ruben Gallego Joins Starbucks Picket Line In Arizona

3 hrs ago - Dec 12, 2025, 05:16 PM EST | Updated 8 hours ago Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) joined Starbucks baristas at a picket line in Arizona in solidarity with their ongoing strike against the multibillion-dollar coffee company after going years without a uni ... (Huff Post)

Judge in Missouri redistricting lawsuit will not make ruling until signature verification is complete

3 hrs ago - December 12, 2025 5:04 PM Published December 12, 2025 4:41 PM COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The judge in a lawsuit surrounding Missouri’s new redistricting proposal has opted to not rule on the case until collected signatures are verified. Cole County J ... (KMIZ-TV Colombia, MO)

Redistricting fight shifts to Wisconsin, where judicial panels may pick new maps

3 hrs ago - Dec. 12, 2025, 5:00 AM EST / Updated Dec. 12, 2025, 4:46 PM EST Wisconsin has quietly emerged as the latest front in the national redistricting fight — and a never-before-used legal process seems likely to determine the state's congressional lin ... (NBC News)

Senior US Democrats urge release of Venezuela boat strike video

4 hrs ago - December 12, 2025 4:06 PM EST Updated 11 hours ago WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Democratic members of the "Gang of Eight" of U.S. congressional and intelligence committee leaders called on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Friday to make public ... (Reuters)

Munition used in Sept. 2 boat strike was intended to kill people, top Democrat says

4 hrs ago - December 12, 2025, 4:03 PM Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, told reporters on Friday that the type of munitions used by the military in a Sept. 2 boat strike -- including on survivors in a second strike -- were ... (ABC News)

Transportation Department threatens $73M for New York's highways over commercial driver's licenses

5 hrs ago - 12/12/25 3:19 PM ET ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) -- The federal government ordered New York to stop granting trucking licenses to foreign drivers or lose millions of dollars in highway aid. Transportation officials said their review found that the state is ... (The Hill)

Doug Jones launches rematch with Tuberville eight years after shocking win on promise of lottery, Medicaid

7 hrs ago - Former U.S. Sen. Doug Jones greeted thousands of loud supporters in Birmingham on Friday night to launch his longshot run to be elected governor of Alabama as a Democrat, promising to fight for a state lottery and Medicaid expansion if he’s elec ... (The Birmingham News)

Record floods in Washington state trigger dramatic rescues and evacuations

9 hrs ago - By CEDAR ATTANASIO and CLAIRE RUSH Updated 7:10 PM CST, December 12, 2025 Leer en español BURLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Record floodwaters began slowly receding in Washington state on Friday after triggering evacuations, inundating communitie ... (AP)

Tanning beds mutate skin cells far beyond the reach of ordinary sunlight, study shows

9 hrs ago - Tanning bed use is tied to almost a three-fold increase in melanoma risk, and for the first time, scientists have shown how these devices cause melanoma-linked DNA damage across nearly the entire skin surface, reports a new study led by Northwestern ... (Medical XPress)

White House pulls pick for NSA deputy director

12 hrs ago - 12/12/25 2:31 PM ET The White House is withdrawing its pick for deputy director of the National Security Agency (NSA), adding to a looming leadership void atop the department. Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) posted on social platform X that the administratio ... (The Hill)

This holiday season isn't very merry for consumers, an AP-NORC poll finds

12 hrs ago - WASHINGTON (AP) — This holiday season isn’t quite so merry for American shoppers as large shares are dipping into savings, scouring for bargains and feeling like the overall economy is stuck in a rut under President Donald Trump, a new AP-N ... (AP)

US House passes bill to fast-track natural gas pipeline permitting

12 hrs ago - December 12, 2025 2:19 PM EST Updated 5 hours ago WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday voted 213-184 to pass a bill that aims to speed up federal permitting of interstate natural gas pipelines by designating the ... (Reuters)

Speaker Johnson unveils health care plan as divided Republicans scramble for alternative

12 hrs ago - WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate failed to get anywhere on the health care issue this week. Now it's the House's turn to show what it can do. Speaker Mike Johnson unveiled a Republican alternative late Friday, a last-minute sprint as his party refus ... (AP)

These are the 37 donors helping pay for Trump's $300 million White House ballroom

12 hrs ago - WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says his $300 million White House ballroom will be paid for “100% by me and some friends of mine.” The White House released a list of 37 donors, including crypto billionaires, charitable organiz ... (AP)

Trump administration freezes federal funding for South Texas migrant shelter

12 hrs ago - The Trump administration is pulling federal funding from Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, which operates a McAllen migrant shelter. The South Texas charity is part of Catholic Charities USA and is a branch of the Diocese of Brownsville. I ... (Texas Tribune)