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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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White House on the defensive when asked how billionaire Trump can tell average Americans to limit kids' Christmas gifts

(The Independent) With an estimated net worth between $5 billion and $7 billion and a penchant for coating every surface in the White House with what he claims to be 18-karat gold leaf paint, President Donald Trump isn’t exactly an expert on personal cost-cutting. But after the uber-wealthy ex-real estate developer claimed that record-high toy prices caused by his tariffs are just fine because young girls “don’t need 37 dolls” and can make do with “two or three” instead, his official spokesperson was left scrambling when asked to defend the eyebrow-raising remarks.

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'We don't have a lot of time': Congress comes to terms with an all-but-certain lapse in Obamacare subsidies

(Politico) Hopes for a quick patch saving millions of Americans from sharply higher health insurance premiums have given way to expectations of a long slog on Capitol Hill. It is now all but certain that enhanced Obamacare subsidies first implemented by Democrats as a Covid relief measure will expire Dec. 31 after the Senate voted down competing partisan health plans Thursday and House GOP leaders indicated they had no plans to bring an extension up for a vote this year.

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

(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-NORC poll finds. The vast majority of U.S. adults say they’ve noticed higher than usual prices for groceries, electricity and holiday gifts in recent months, according to the survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

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'Roads Will Not Be Paved': GOP Think Tank Says Trump Will Cut Off All Funding to Red State Unless It Passes New Map

(Mediaite) The GOP-aligned Heritage Foundation think tank sparked a wave of condemnation on Thursday after it posted a threat from President Donald Trump to defund Indiana if the state doesn’t pass his gerrymander. “President Trump has made it clear to Indiana leaders: if the Indiana Senate fails to pass the map, all federal funding will be stripped from the state,” wrote Heritage Action on X, adding: "Roads will not be paved. Guard bases will close. Major projects will stop. These are the stakes and every NO vote will be to blame."

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

28 min 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

58 min 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

1 hr 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

1 hr 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

1 hr 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

2 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

2 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

3 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

5 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

7 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

8 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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

10 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)

U.S. could owe businesses $168 billion if Supreme Court rules against Trump tariffs, analysis finds

11 hrs ago - Updated on: December 12, 2025 / 12:46 PM EST The U.S. government could owe businesses as much as $168 billion if the Supreme Court rules that the Trump administration improperly invoked a federal emergency powers law earlier this year in hitting doze ... (CBS News)

Green card applicants married to U.S. citizens face new uncertainty amid arrests

11 hrs ago - Dec. 12, 2025, 3:13 PM EST A British mother holding an infant, a Ukrainian refugee, the wife of a Navy veteran, a German man about to celebrate his first wedding anniversary. These are some of the spouses of U.S. citizens who were recently detained b ... (NBC News)

Republicans Holding On To Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Conspiracy Theory

12 hrs ago - Dec 12, 2025, 02:33 PM EST | Updated 4 hours ago WASHINGTON — For years, far-right Republicans have claimed the federal government’s failure to catch the Jan. 6 pipe bomber showed the whole insurrection was some sort of “inside job ... (Huff Post)