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RFK Jr to urge Americans to eat more saturated fats, alarming health experts

Sat 25 Oct 2025 08.00 EDT Last modified on Sat 25 Oct 2025 14.39 EDT Robert F Kennedy Jr, the health and human services (HHS) secretary, is planning to issue guidance encouraging Americans to eat more saturated fats, contradicting decades of dietary recommendations and alarming experts. “My response and sort of counsel to myself was to stay calm, and let’s see what happens, because there was no indication given as to how, why, when this potential shift would occur,” said Cheryl Anderson, an A ...

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June Lockhart, beloved mother figure from 'Lassie' and 'Lost In Space,' dies at 100

By BOB THOMAS and BETH HARRIS Updated 2:33 PM CDT, October 25, 2025 LOS ANGELES (AP) — June Lockhart, who became a mother figure for a generation of television viewers whether at home in “Lassie” or up in the stratosphere in “Lost In Space,” has died. She was 100. Lockhart died Thursday of natural causes at her home in Santa Monica, family spokesman Lyle Gregory, a friend of 40 years, said Saturday. “She was very happy up until the very end, reading the New York Times and LA Times everyday,” ...

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Newsom Says Trump Is 'Rigging the Election' With Federal Poll Monitors

Oct 24, 2025 Updated Oct 25, 2025 Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday accused the Trump administration of “rigging the election” by dispatching federal poll monitors to five California counties, as voters cast ballots on Newsom’s Proposition 50 redistricting measure. The Department of Justice announced Friday that it would deploy personnel to polling sites in Fresno, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties to “ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law,” ahead of t ...

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Trump announces additional 10-per-cent tariff on Canada over Ontario ad

U.S. President Donald Trump has announced an additional 10-per-cent tariff on Canada over an ad by the Ontario government. The tariff will be “over and above what they are paying now,” Trump said Saturday on his social media platform Truth Social. The Ontario government launched a $75-million anti-tariff ad campaign featuring former U.S. president Ronald Regan that was being broadcast in the U.S. and was scheduled to run until the end of January. Late Thursday, Trump announced he was ending t ...

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Gavin Newsom Rips Key Trump Vibe: Being 'Anti-Woke' Is 'Just Anti-Black'

Oct 25th, 2025, 2:17 pm California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) said that if you oppose “woke” policies like Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs that means you are undoubtedly “anti-Black,” before trashing President Donald Trump’s administration, saying it was looking to “reverse” American racial relations to a “pre-1960s world.” The prominent Democrat made those provocative claims on the All the Smoke podcast, hosted by ex-NBA players Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson, on Saturday. ...

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House Democrat Declares, 'Mike Johnson Has Effectively Dissolved the United States House of Representatives'

Oct 24th, 2025, 9:11 pm Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) said Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has “effectively dissolved” the House. The House remains out of session amid the ongoing shutdown that began on Oct. 1. Ahead of the shutdown, the House passed a continuing resolution to fund the government beyond that date, but the legislation stalled in the Senate, where it failed to notch the necessary 60-vote procedural threshold. Seven votes are needed from Democrats, who are demanding an extension of healt ...

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Trump calls for prosecution of more political foes including Jack Smith and Merrick Garland

October 25, 2025 / 12:15 AM EDT / CBS News President Trump late Friday pushed for several Biden-era Justice Department officials to be prosecuted over an FBI investigation into the fallout of the 2020 election. In a Truth Social post, Mr. Trump accused four high-ranking officials — former Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray, special counsel Jack Smith and Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco — of signing off on an FBI probe in which investigators allegedly looked at ...

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DHS Issues New Travel Rule for All Foreigners, Including Green Card Holders

Oct 24, 2025 at 05:40 PM EDT The United States is planning to photograph every non-citizen as they enter and leave the country, citing much-improved facial recognition technology. According to a filing in the Federal Register on Friday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will expand on the photo and data gathering already in place at land, sea, and airport borders, in an effort to crack down on fraudulent travel documents and increase national security. The new rules would apply to all ...

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White House tightens the clemency process as Trump resumes pardons

Oct. 24, 2025, 5:06 PM EDT WASHINGTON — As soon as Donald Trump took office for his second term, he began using his clemency power at a steady clip. It started with the pardons of the roughly 1,500 criminal defendants charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, and continued each month, with more pardons or commutations. At the end of May, he had issued 73 clemency actions, not including all the Jan. 6 defendants. Trump once called the power to pardon “a beautiful thing.” “You g ...

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US civil rights groups sue to block closure of race-relations office

October 24, 2025 4:54 PM EDT Updated 11 hours ago WASHINGTON, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Civil rights advocacy groups on Friday asked a federal judge to block the U.S. Justice Department from shuttering a 1960s-era office that was tasked with quelling racial and ethnic tensions in communities across America. The lawsuit takes aim at Attorney General Pam Bondi's recent decision to formally shut down the Community Relations Service (CRS), an institution created under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as pa ...

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Hunter Biden believes Donald Trump is hiding something by not releasing Epstein files

44 min ago - Saturday 25 October 2025 16:30 EDT The Trump administration is seeking to keep damaging information in the Epstein files from reaching the public, according to former President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter. During an interview this week on Substack w ... (The Independent)

Judge rules immigration detention of Chicago man with daughter battling cancer is illegal

1 hr ago - Updated 3:03 PM EDT, October 25, 2025 CHICAGO (AP) — The detention by immigration authorities of a Chicago man whose 16-year-old daughter is undergoing treatment for advanced cancer is illegal, and he must be given a bond hearing by Oct. 31, a f ... (AP)

NY Knicks issue cease-and-desist letter to Mamdani over logo use, clarify they don't endorse him

5 hrs ago - WASHINGTON, DC: The New York Knicks hit mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani with a cease-and-desist after he used a modified version of their iconic logo in a campaign ad. The team emphasized that it does not endorse the Democratic socialist candidat ... (MEAWW News)

Kamala Harris leaves door open for 2028 presidential run

5 hrs ago - Updated 8:24 PM CDT, October 25, 2025 Leer en español WASHINGTON (AP) — Kamala Harris isn’t ruling out another run for the White House. In an interview with the BBC posted Saturday, Harris said she expects a woman will be president ... (AP)

Bari Weiss is eyeing Fox News star Bret Baier and CNN's Anderson Cooper for 'CBS Evening News' anchor chair

8 hrs ago - Saturday 25 October 2025 10:54 EDT Looking to make a splash during her first few weeks as CBS News’ editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss has been eyeing a few big names to potentially helm the network’s flagship evening program – including Fox ... (The Independent)

Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres' full water use secret, leaked document shows

8 hrs ago - Sat 25 Oct 2025 06.00 EDT Last modified on Sat 25 Oct 2025 11.09 EDT Amazon strategised about keeping the public in the dark over the true extent of its datacentres’ water use, a leaked internal document reveals. The biggest owner of datacentre ... (The Guardian)

Republicans grapple with shutdown - and why more are blaming the GOP

8 hrs ago - 10/25/25 12:00 PM ET Republicans are grappling with public polls showing the public places more blame on them, rather than the Democrats, for the shutdown, even as they argue they have the moral high ground in the shutdown fight. Speaker Mike Johnson ... (The Hill)

Gavin Newsom Rips Key Trump Vibe: Being 'Anti-Woke' Is 'Just Anti-Black'

9 hrs ago - Oct 25th, 2025, 2:17 pm California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) said that if you oppose “woke” policies like Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs that means you are undoubtedly “anti-Black,” before trashing President Dona ... (MEDIAite)

Saturday morning storms knock out power for more than 100K in Houston area

9 hrs ago - More than 100,000 homes and businesses in the Houston area lost electricity early Saturday morning as the region was struck by strong overnight thunderstorms. Another wave of rainfall was in the forecast for later Saturday, starting in the afternoon, ... (Houston Public Media)

New immigration judges

10 hrs ago - Published October 25, 2025 11:00 AM The Justice Department has hired 36 immigration judges, including 25 temporary ones, for its Executive Office for Immigration Review, marking the first class to join the immigration courts after months of cuts to t ... (KPCC Pasadena, CA/LAist/NPR)

Trump announces additional 10-per-cent tariff on Canada over Ontario ad

10 hrs ago - U.S. President Donald Trump has announced an additional 10-per-cent tariff on Canada over an ad by the Ontario government. The tariff will be “over and above what they are paying now,” Trump said Saturday on his social media platform Truth ... (The Canadian Press)

RFK Jr to urge Americans to eat more saturated fats, alarming health experts

10 hrs ago - Sat 25 Oct 2025 08.00 EDT Last modified on Sat 25 Oct 2025 14.39 EDT Robert F Kennedy Jr, the health and human services (HHS) secretary, is planning to issue guidance encouraging Americans to eat more saturated fats, contradicting decades of dietary ... (The Guardian)

Trump slaps 10% extra tariff on Canada over Reagan trade ad

11 hrs ago - Published Fri, Oct 24 2025 2:41 PM EDT Updated 33 Min Ago President Donald Trump on Saturday said he was slapping an extra 10% tariff on imports from Canada in retaliation for what he says is a misleading TV ad featuring former President Ronald Reaga ... (CNBC)

Electric heat to cost more this winter, federal agency projects

11 hrs ago - 10/25/25 1:32 PM ET Heating U.S. homes with electricity is expected to be more costly this winter, especially when compared with natural gas or heating oil, federal officials estimate. In projections published this month, the U.S. Energy Information ... (The Hill)

Rutgers Fraternity Is Closed After Student Is Injured in Hazing Episode

12 hrs ago - Rutgers Fraternity Is Closed After Student Is Injured in Hazing Episode The Alpha Sigma Phi national organization permanently shut down its Rutgers chapter after concluding that hazing had occurred when a student was critically hurt this month. The A ... (New York Times)

Newsom Says Trump Is 'Rigging the Election' With Federal Poll Monitors

12 hrs ago - Oct 24, 2025 Updated Oct 25, 2025 Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday accused the Trump administration of “rigging the election” by dispatching federal poll monitors to five California counties, as voters cast ballots on Newsom’s Proposition 5 ... (KQED San Francisco, CA/NPR)

June Lockhart, beloved mother figure from 'Lassie' and 'Lost In Space,' dies at 100

12 hrs ago - By BOB THOMAS and BETH HARRIS Updated 2:33 PM CDT, October 25, 2025 LOS ANGELES (AP) — June Lockhart, who became a mother figure for a generation of television viewers whether at home in “Lassie” or up in the stratosphere in “Lost ... (AP)

The shutdown layoffs at health agencies followed a familiar, DOGE pattern

13 hrs ago - 10/25/2025 07:00 AM EDT The mastermind of President Donald Trump’s effort to downsize the federal workforce, Russ Vought, promised to use the government shutdown to advance his goal of “shuttering the bureaucracy.” Presented with a la ... (Politico)

Dozens of former federal judges use Alexander Hamilton to warn SCOTUS about Trump's purportedly 'unreviewable' tariffs

13 hrs ago - Oct 25th, 2025, 12:15 pm President Donald Trump does not have "the unlimited power to set tariffs on all goods imported from all our trading partners," more than 30 former federal judges told the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday. In their 21-page amicus ... (Law & Crime)

Pennsylvania city divided over Trump as it reels from economic whiplash

13 hrs ago - Sat 25 Oct 2025 08.00 EDT Last modified on Sat 25 Oct 2025 09.04 EDT It was set to be the most expensive project that the beaten-down manufacturing sector of Erie, Pennsylvania, had seen in decades. In a blighted corner of town, a startup planned a $ ... (The Guardian)

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