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Top News Stories for Wednesday, November 12th 2025
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
to end the nation's longest-ever government shutdown, putting Congress on the brink of resolving a weeks-long fight that has disrupted flights and halted food stamps for millions of Americans. In a 60-40 vote, the Senate signed off on a deal reached by eight members of the Democratic Senate Caucus and Republicans to reopen the government through Jan. 30. The continuing resolution now heads to the House of ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
DENVER ‒ They sit inside darkened facilities or lofty towers, surrounded by aging computers , speaking in clipped and cryptic phrases. And the slips of paper they pass between each other of Americans who travel safely every day with their help. For the nation's air traffic controllers, the ongoing federal government shutdown is the where mandatory retirement comes at age 56, access to cell phones during the ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
News , via Wikimedia Commons Trump administration pressures states to withdraw SNAP payments US officials demanded Sunday that states "undo" full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits that were paid out last week under court orders. Patrick Penn, deputy under secretary of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), released a memorandum that called for states to "immediately undo any steps taken to ...
Source: jurist.org
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Ex-prosecutors and legal scholars say US president 'meting out pardons for blatantly corrupt and self-serving ends' Donald Trump's unprecedented pardoning spree for political and business friends since returning to the White House has prompted warnings from ex-prosecutors and legal scholars of "corrupt" pay-to-play schemes, conflicts of interest and blatant partisanship. It has included hundreds of Maga allies, a ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
CLEVELAND, Ohio — In 2023, Emmanuel Clase not only was on his way to becoming the Guardians ' all-time saves leader, he also was giving insider information to gamblers on when he would throw rigged pitches during games, federal prosecutors say. From 2023 through 2025, rigged pitches thrown by Clase and teammate Luis Ortiz allowed gamblers to earn approximately $450,000, according to a federal indictment filed ...
Source: cleveland.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Over the weekend, United States President Donald Trump promised Americans $2,000 each from the "trillions of dollars" in tariff revenue he said his administration has collected. During his second term, Trump has imposed tariffs broadly on countries and on specific goods such as drugs, steel and cars. "People that are against Tariffs are FOOLS!" Trump said in a November 9 Truth Social post. "We are ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Donald Trump has a new idea to boost the US housing market : a 50-year fixed-rate mortgage . The president floated a new, longer-term mortgage in a post on Truth Social over the weekend. Bill Pulte , the Federal Housing Finance Agency director, confirmed that the FHFA was working on the new borrowing plan in a separate social post. "Thanks to President Trump, we are indeed working on The 50 year Mortgage - a ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Oh Canada. What have you done? Over the past couple decades, Canada has allowed measles vaccination rates to fall so low that the virus has once again gotten a spikehold in the country. This measle-y fact has now led to the Pan American Health Organization on Monday officially revoking the measles elimination status that Canada had worked so hard to attain back in 1998. Could the U.S. soon lose the mealses ...
Source: forbes.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
News , via Wikimedia Commons US Supreme Court declines to revisit same-sex marriage decision The US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal on Monday that sought to overturn the decade-old landmark decision legalizing same-sex marriage. The appeal was filed by Kim Davis, a former Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in 2015, defying a court order. Davis asked the Supreme ...
Source: jurist.org
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
KFAR SABA – Tens of thousands of people packed a cemetery in central Israel on Tuesday for the funeral of an Israeli soldier whose body had been held in Gaza for 11 years, overflowing and blocking surrounding streets as somber crowds stood with Israeli flags. The burial of Lt. Hadar Goldin was a moment of closure for his family, which has traveled the world in a public campaign seeking his return. The huge ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
News , via Wikimedia Commons US Supreme Court to decide if states can count mail-in ballots received after election day The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a case that could dramatically impact mail-in voting practices in over two dozen states. The case, Watson v. Republican National Committee , challenges a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots postmarked by election day to be counted if received ...
Source: jurist.org
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
At least 13 people have been killed and more than 20 wounded when a car exploded in Delhi , India's national capital territory. Security forces have been placed on high alert across major states and cities as authorities have launched an investigation into the cause of the blast on Monday night. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said those responsible for the blast will "not be spared". What happened in ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Typhoon Fung-wong has moved away from the northwestern Philippines after carving out a trail of devastation, leaving at least 10 people dead and 1.4 million displaced. Known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Uwan, the intense tropical storm was forecast to head northwest towards Taiwan. Fung-wong lashed the northern Philippines while the country was still dealing with the devastation wrought last week ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
ISLAMABAD — A suicide bomber struck outside the gates of a district court in Islamabad on Tuesday, detonating his explosives next to a police car and killing 12 people and wounding 27, the Pakistani interior minister said. The blast, which was heard miles away, came at a time when the area is typically crowded with hundreds of visitors attending hearings. Earlier reports by Pakistani state-run media and two ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Many teachers worry that AI could make students lazy thinkers. Mark Cuban thinks it could do the opposite — if used the right way. The billionaire investor and former Shark Tank star said kids who learn to use AI properly will "be best equipped to lead" in the future workplace. In an interview with CNBC published Monday, Cuban argued that students who collaborate with — rather than rely on it — ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Australian expert stumbled across new species when surveying a critically endangered wildflower in 2019 As if deadly snakes, spiders and sharks were not enough, Australia now has a new creepy critter: a "Lucifer" bee with devil-like horns. The species – dubbed Megachile (Hackeriapis) lucifer – was found in the state of Western Australia , Curtin University announced on Tuesday. Kit Prendergast at the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Nov. 11 (UPI) -- A mobile lounge, transporting passengers at Washington Dulles International Airport, crashed into a dock Monday, injuring 18 people inside. The mobile lounge, also called a "people mover," was carrying passengers to Concourse D, when it struck the dock as it was pulling up to the terminal around 4:30 p.m. EST, according to the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. The MWAA oversees Dulles ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
The operators of Camp Mystic in Texas, where 25 girls and two teenage counselors died in catastrophic flooding on July 4 , failed to take necessary steps to protect the campers as life-threatening floodwaters approached, families of the victims allege in a lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed Monday in state court in Austin, seeks more than $1 million in damages but does not specify an exact amount. It was ...
Source: wfla.com
Monday, Nov 10th, 2025 -
LONDON — President Trump on Monday threatened to sue the BBC for $1 billion over a documentary that his lawyer claimed included "malicious, disparaging" edits to a speech Trump delivered on Jan. 6, 2021. The legal threat came in a letter from Alejandro Brito, one of Trump's lawyers, to the BBC that was obtained by The New York Times. The letter demanded a full retraction of the documentary, an apology, and ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Monday, Nov 10th, 2025 -
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will remove the "black box" warning labels on many hormone therapy drugs used for menopause and perimenopause symptoms — a major turnaround that's likely to encourage more women to seek treatment. FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary said in an exclusive CBS News interview that the change ends a decades-long "fear machine," and he called the demonization of menopause hormone ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Monday, Nov 10th, 2025 -
By Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell appears to be planning to ask the Trump administration to commute her 20-year prison sentence, according to a leaked email obtained by the House Judiciary Committee and viewed by the Miami Herald. The email, written by Maxwell to one of her attorneys, came from a whistleblower at Camp Bryan, the women's federal prison in Texas where Maxwell was transferred in July, a ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Monday, Nov 10th, 2025 -
Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa met President Trump at the White House on Monday, continuing a stunning reversal of fortunes for a man branded until three days ago as an international terrorist by the U.S. government with a $10 million bounty on his head. The former leader of an al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria disavowed Islamic extremism after rising to lead his war-torn country. Nearly a year ago, he led his rebel ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Monday, Nov 10th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON — Though Congress appears to have a deal to end the government shutdown , a vote on that agreement is being held up by an unexpected issue: hemp. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is objecting to speedy consideration of the bill that would end the longest shutdown in U.S. history over a hemp provision tucked into funding for the Agriculture Department, three people familiar with conversations but not ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Nov 10th, 2025 -
Donald Trump on Monday said that key Republican ally Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene had "lost her way" by saying that he's spending too much time on foreign affairs and should be more focused on inflation. The dispute reflects a fundamental challenge within Trump's coalition after last week's off-cycle elections , in which voters in the New Jersey and Virginia governor races flocked to Democrats in ...
Source: aol.com
Monday, Nov 10th, 2025 -
A dangerous virus in a children's food product infiltrated 10 states in the U.S. The Food and Drug Administration initiated a recall of ByHeart baby formula after an infant botulism outbreak. The recall announcement was made after officials linked infants' health conditions to the consumption of the ByHeart Whole Nutrition Infant Formula. According to the agency, 13 infants have been infected and hospitalized ...
Source: greenmatters.com
Monday, Nov 10th, 2025 -
The U.S. military has killed six more people in strikes on what it claims were drug-running boats, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday, bringing the total death toll in the series of attacks to 76. Hegseth said in a post on X that the U.S. carried out two strikes on Sunday in international waters in the eastern Pacific, targeting two boats that were "carrying narcotics" with three "male ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Monday, Nov 10th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump on Sunday became the first sitting president to attend a regular-season NFL game since Jimmy Carter in 1978, appearing at the Detroit Lions and Washington Commanders matchup. In the third quarter, Trump appeared on the Fox broadcast, answering questions about his time as a football player at New York Military Academy, opining on quarterbacks and more. "Drew Brees, he threw a ball you could ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Nov 10th, 2025 -
The Supreme Court appeared to lean against a devout Rastafarian trying to sue prison officials who cut off his dreadlocks during oral arguments for the case that lasted nearly two hours on Monday. In 2020, Damon Landor was serving a five-month sentence for drug possession. According to The Associated Press, Landor continuously carried a copy of an appeals court ruling in another inmate's case holding that cutting ...
Source: aol.com
Monday, Nov 10th, 2025 -
British-Hungarian writer David Szalay won the Booker Prize on Monday for his novel "Flesh", a tortured story of a Hungarian emigre who makes and loses a fortune. Szalay beat five other shortlisted authors, including Indian novelist Kiran Desai, who won in 2006, and Britain's Andrew Miller, to claim the £50,000 ($65,500) award at a ceremony in London. Szalay had previously been shortlisted for the prestigious ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Monday, Nov 10th, 2025 -
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was released from prison on Monday after a Paris court granted him release under judicial supervision. Monday's announcement came less than three weeks after Sarkozy, 70, began serving a five-year sentence for criminal conspiracy in a scheme to finance his 2007 election campaign with funds from Libya. Sarkozy left La Santé prison by car and later quickly stepped into ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Monday, Nov 10th, 2025 -
Visa and Mastercard have been fighting with merchants over payment fees for decades, and the card networks are offering new concessions in an effort to bring the fight to a close. This new offer will need approval from a court that rejected an earlier payment fee settlement in 2024. Merchant groups and the card networks are in the midst of a legal battle that has raged for at least 20 years through a series ...
Source: americanbanker.com
Monday, Nov 10th, 2025 -
The 30th annual United Nations climate change conference (COP30) has started in the Brazilian city of Belem, with leaders calling for countries to take a united approach against global warming. "In this arena of COP30, your job here is not to fight one another – your job here is to fight this climate crisis, together," the UN's climate chief, Simon Stiell, told delegates on Monday. Some 50,000 people from ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Monday, Nov 10th, 2025 -
After a flurry of initial investments in artificial intelligence (AI) projects, including generative and agentic AI implementations, many organizations are facing mixed results and coming to hasty conclusions about AI's utility. The harsh reality of early experimentation has blunted expected productivity gains and new revenue streams. A recent MIT report suggests that despite investments of $30 billion to $40 ...
Source: sei.cmu.edu
Monday, Nov 10th, 2025 -
In a Thanksgiving letter that will become an annual tradition, Buffett said he needs to accelerate the disbursement of his Berkshire stock to his three children's foundations. He also intends to keep a significant amount of shares for a short window until shareholders gain confidence in incoming CEO Greg Abel. In one of the most personal passages of the letter, Buffett gave a rare update on his health. In this ...
Source: cnbc.com
Monday, Nov 10th, 2025 -
Two people aboard a small plane headed for Jamaica to help people affected by Hurricane Melissa died Monday morning when they crashed into a lake in a gated community in Coral Springs. The plane came down in the Windsor Bay neighborhood in the 5000 block of Northwest 57th Way, ripped through one resident's yard and fence and then crashed into the water, officials and residents told the South Florida Sun ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Monday, Nov 10th, 2025 -
At least 31 inmates have been found dead in a prison in southern Ecuador, including 27 who had been hanged, officials say. Four prisoners were killed and more than 30 injured in clashes between rival gang members in El Oro prison in the city of Machala in the early hours of on Sunday. Hours later, security guards who had been alerted to a fresh outbreak of gang violence found the others who had been hanged on the ...
Source: bbc.com
Monday, Nov 10th, 2025 -
Reading time 3 minutes More experts are throwing cold water on the Trump administration's efforts to pin autism on Tylenol. A study out today finds no clear link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and a higher risk of either autism or attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Researchers in the UK examined the medical literature on acetaminophen and autism/ADHD. Though some studies showed a possible ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Sunday, Nov 9th, 2025 -
It's quick and easy to access Live Science Plus, simply enter your email below. We'll send you a confirmation and sign you up for our daily newsletter, keeping you up to date with the latest science news. A mysterious Inca-era monument consisting of roughly 5,200 holes high up in the Andes may have been a site for barter and accounting hundreds of years ago, a new study suggests. The holes are laid out in ordered ...
Source: livescience.com