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Dec 5, 2025 - World

Elon Musk's social media company X was fined 120 million euros ($140 million) by EU tech regulators on Friday for breaching EU online content rules, the first sanction under landmark legislation which will likely draw the US government's ire.

Dec 5, 2025 - World

Starmer hails child poverty strategy as a ‘moral mission’ which will include measures to help with childcare and getting families out of temporary housingReaders may be aware, going into the weekend, that Edinburgh airport had to temporarily suspend flights this morning due to technical issues.The delays lasted about an hour. A report here: Continue reading...

Dec 5, 2025 - World

Advocates demand public health officials ‘listen to autistic voices’ after health secretary’s debunked vaccine claimsWhen the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) altered its website last month to reflect US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s belief of a causal link between vaccines and autism – a claim that has been debunked by dozens of scientific studies – autism advocates sprang into action.Leaders at the Association of University Centers on Disabilities demanded online that public health officials “listen to autistic voices”. Continue reading...

Dec 5, 2025 - World

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced the ongoing corruption case against him as a "Bugs Bunny trial" and defended his controversial pardon request in a video published on social media.

Dec 5, 2025 - World

The largest House Democrat ideological caucus has called for the defense secretary to ‘resign immediately before his actions cost American lives’Pentagon announces it has killed four men in another boat strike in PacificLauren Gambino and Melody SchreiberAfter a delay and an unusually contentious meeting, a federal vaccine advisory panel is expected to vote today whether to change the longstanding recommendation that all newborns be immunized against hepatitis B. Continue reading...