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Hassett says Federal Reserve can reject Trump's views if he is chair

Updated 3:53 PM EST, December 14, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — A leading candidate to be President Donald Trump’s choice for Federal Reserve chair said that he would present the president’s views to Fed officials for their consideration but they could reject them if they chose when making decisions on interest rates. Kevin Hassett, in an interview Sunday on CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” said he would continue to speak with Trump if he becomes the Fed chair. But when asked if Trump’s opinions on inte ...

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Congress races against the clock to avert skyrocketing health care costs for millions

PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2025, 5:54 PM ET Lawmakers are scrambling to address skyrocketing health care costs in the final days before Congress leaves Washington for the holidays, with enhanced tax credits that make insurance premiums more affordable for millions of Americans set to expire at the end of the month. After the Senate failed to advance health care plans spearheaded by each party last week, it’s the House’s turn to take up proposals with similarly uncertain outcomes. Speaker Mike Johnson ...

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Police to release person of interest in Brown University shooting

PROVIDENCE, R.I.—The manhunt continues for a suspect in Saturday’s shooting at Brown University. The person of interest in police custody will be released, said Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said Sunday night. . . Earlier Sunday, the FBI had detained a person of interest in a hotel room in Coventry, a city outside Providence, the agency said. There wasn’t enough evidence to prosecute the person in custody, officials said. . . Providence and Brown’s campus will have an enhanced law enforceme ...

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US tariffs are having an uneven effect on holiday prices and purchases

December 14, 2025, 7:22 PM NEW YORK -- The Ah Louis Store in San Luis Obispo, California, turns into a winter wonderland every holiday season. Green garlands, giant nutcrackers, baubles and bows go up in early November on the historic downtown building that houses the gift shop. Inside, customers can choose from over 500 different types of ornaments and a variety of holiday gift baskets. “We really just make it a magical spot,” co-owner Emily Butler said. “Whether you come in or not, we want ...

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Democrats Remember Sandy Hook Shooting and Renew Calls for Gun Reform

Dec 14, 2025 at 04:32 PM EST As many remember the tragic 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary shooting, in which a shooter killed 20 children and six adults on scene, as well as himself and his mother, Democrats are renewing calls for gun reform. The posts come amid news of two horrific mass shootings this weekend, one at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where two people died and another at a Hannukah celebration in Sydney that killed 16 people, and dozens more injured. Why It Matters On ...

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Trump Vows 'Truckloads' of Evidence the 2020 Election Was 'Rigged' Is Coming Out

Dec 14th, 2025, 2:14 pm President Donald Trump said his administration has “truckloads” of evidence to show Democrats “rigged” the 2020 election on Sunday. “We have all the ammunition, all the stuff, and you’ll see it come out,” Trump said. “It’s coming out in truckloads.” The president made the remark while hosting a Christmas reception at the White House. Trump said the Democrats are “professionals at cheating,” especially when it comes to elections, and said that was obvious in 2020 when ...

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Trump Is Already Weighing Pardons for His Inner Circle

Published Dec. 14 2025 2:30PM EST Donald Trump is reportedly planning to pardon advisers, policymakers, and others as his administration weathers piling criminal allegations. Three Trump insiders told the outlet Zeteo that Trump has said “they had to” pardon members of his inner circle and that it’s a “good idea” to do so before he leaves office. The conversations have been sporadic, they said, but have involved the president, senior aides, and federal appointees. It’s not clear how expansi ...

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Sen. Rand Paul says redistricting efforts could lead to political violence

Dec. 14, 2025, 10:25 AM EST WASHINGTON — Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said Sunday that he believes mid-decade redistricting is a “mistake” by both parties that could eventually lead to more political violence. “I think that it’s going to lead to more civil tension and possibly more violence in our country,” he said on NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” casting blame on both parties for redrawing maps to boost their prospects in next year’s midterm elections. Paul pointed to how members of the minority pa ...

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Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by ICE

Updated on: December 14, 2025 / 1:31 PM EST / CBS Minnesota Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar said federal immigration agents pulled over her son on Saturday and asked him to prove his citizenship. "Yesterday, after he made a stop at Target, he did get pulled over by [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement] agents, and once he was able to produce his passport ID, they did let him go," Omar said in an interview with Esme Murphy on WCCO Sunday Morning. WCCO has reached out to I ...

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JetBlue flight near Venezuela avoids 'midair collision' with US Air Force tanker

Updated 2:44 PM EST, December 14, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — A JetBlue flight from the small Caribbean nation of Curaçao halted its ascent to avoid colliding with a U.S. Air Force refueling tanker on Friday, and the pilot blamed the military plane for crossing his path. “We almost had a midair collision up here,” the JetBlue pilot said, according to a recording of his conversation with air traffic control. “They passed directly in our flight path. ... They don’t have their transponder turned on, ...

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US tariffs are having an uneven effect on holiday prices and purchases

24 min ago - December 14, 2025, 7:22 PM NEW YORK -- The Ah Louis Store in San Luis Obispo, California, turns into a winter wonderland every holiday season. Green garlands, giant nutcrackers, baubles and bows go up in early November on the historic downtown buildi ... (ABC News/AP)

Jan. 6 police hero becomes go-to witness for Democrats in Congress to counter Trump

51 min ago - Updated on: December 14, 2025 / 9:55 PM EST Daniel Hodges thinks of himself as an introvert — he's soft-spoken and says he's averse to the spotlight. At night, he's a local police officer in Washington, D.C. But during his off-duty hours this ye ... (CBS News)

California Hires Former C.D.C. Officials Who Criticized Trump Administration

1 hr ago - Dec. 14, 2025, 7:58 p.m. ET Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to announce on Monday that California has hired two former leaders of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who accused the Trump administration of abandoning scientific standards. One is ... (New York Times)

Congress races against the clock to avert skyrocketing health care costs for millions

1 hr ago - PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2025, 5:54 PM ET Lawmakers are scrambling to address skyrocketing health care costs in the final days before Congress leaves Washington for the holidays, with enhanced tax credits that make insurance premiums more affordable for mil ... (CNN Politics)

Republicans pitch second, smaller partisan bill to address affordability

2 hrs ago - Sun, December 14, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. EST Some Republicans are hoping to pursue another partisan legislative package to boost the party ahead of the midterm elections, but President Trump and GOP leaders are signaling that nothing will come close to th ... (Yahoo! News/The Hill)

Democrats Remember Sandy Hook Shooting and Renew Calls for Gun Reform

2 hrs ago - Dec 14, 2025 at 04:32 PM EST As many remember the tragic 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary shooting, in which a shooter killed 20 children and six adults on scene, as well as himself and his mother, Democrats are renewing calls for gun reform. The posts com ... (Newsweek)

Gang of Eight member unsure about US goal in Venezuela: 'I do not know'

3 hrs ago - 12/14/25 4:03 PM ET Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) is unsure about what President Trump’s endgame is in Venezuela, but he certainly does not want troops on the ground. “I do not know what this president’s goal vis-a-vis Venezuela is,” W ... (The Hill)

Hassett says Federal Reserve can reject Trump's views if he is chair

4 hrs ago - Updated 3:53 PM EST, December 14, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) — A leading candidate to be President Donald Trump’s choice for Federal Reserve chair said that he would present the president’s views to Fed officials for their consideration but ... (AP)

Police to release person of interest in Brown University shooting

5 hrs ago - PROVIDENCE, R.I.—The manhunt continues for a suspect in Saturday’s shooting at Brown University. The person of interest in police custody will be released, said Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said Sunday night. . . Earlier Sunday, the FBI h ... (Wall Street Journal via MSN)

Former Hong Kong pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai convicted in landmark national security trial

7 hrs ago - HONG KONG (AP) — Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media mogul and outspoken critic of Beijing, was convicted in a landmark national security trial in the city’s court on Monday, which could send him to prison for the rest of hi ... (Associated Press)

Trump says building DC triumphal arch is domestic policy chief's 'primary thing'

9 hrs ago - Trump praises Vince Haley, his ex-speechwriter tasked with creating Arc de Triomphe knockoff amid affordability crisis Robert Mackey Sun 14 Dec 2025 17.46 EST Amid concerns that he has failed to address a worsening affordability crisis, with healt ... (the guardian)

Major win for ultra-conservative gives Chile its most right-wing president in decades

9 hrs ago - SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chile’s ultra-conservative former lawmaker José Antonio Kast secured a stunning victory in the presidential election Sunday, defeating the candidate of the center-left governing coalition and setting the stage ... (AP)

Rob Reiner and His Wife Michele Were Killed by Their Son (Exclusive Sources)

9 hrs ago - Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were killed by their son, Nick, multiple sources confirm to PEOPLE. On Sunday, Dec. 14, at about 3:30 p.m., the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) was called to a home to provide medical aid, the LAFD t ... (PEOPLE)

Person of interest in Brown University shooting is 24-year-old from Wisconsin, officials say

10 hrs ago - snip 8:20 p.m. Person of interest planned transfer to Brown, online profile says 7:41 p.m. Brown University person of interest was on high school wrestling team snip ... (Washington Post)

Fifth La Nina in Six Years to Disrupt Crops and Supply Chains

11 hrs ago - December 14, 2025 at 2:33 PM EST Deadly flooding in Asia and early snowstorms across the US are signaling the return of a weather-roiling La Nia, a cooling of Pacific waters that can disrupt economies and trigger disasters worldwide. In recent La Nia ... (Bloomberg)

Murphy: Trump on 'deliberate campaign to make violence more likely'

11 hrs ago - 12/14/2025 10:26 AM EST Updated: 12/14/2025 12:22 PM EST Sen. Chris Murphy on Sunday accused President Donald Trump of a “deliberate campaign” to make violence more common across the country, just hours after a gunman was taken into custody ... (Politico)

Tennessee religious charter school fight could tee up next Supreme Court showdown

12 hrs ago - 12h A new religious charter school fight is brewing in Tennessee that has the potential to challenge a deadlock vote at the Supreme Court earlier this year that denied the creation of a similar institution in Oklahoma. A lawsuit was recently filed i ... (msn/The Hill)

Trump Vows 'Truckloads' of Evidence the 2020 Election Was 'Rigged' Is Coming Out

13 hrs ago - Dec 14th, 2025, 2:14 pm President Donald Trump said his administration has “truckloads” of evidence to show Democrats “rigged” the 2020 election on Sunday. “We have all the ammunition, all the stuff, and you’ll see it ... (MEDIAite)

Trump Is Already Weighing Pardons for His Inner Circle

13 hrs ago - Published Dec. 14 2025 2:30PM EST Donald Trump is reportedly planning to pardon advisers, policymakers, and others as his administration weathers piling criminal allegations. Three Trump insiders told the outlet Zeteo that Trump has said “they ... (Daily Beast)

5 Michigan health systems defy federal vaccine panel's advice

14 hrs ago - Some of Michigan's largest health systems say they will not follow the recommendations of a federal vaccine advisory panel handpicked by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., which voted in early December to change longstand ... (Detroit Free Press)

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