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Top News Stories for Sunday, November 9th 2025
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
The Supreme Court temporarily blocked an order late Friday night that would have forced the government to backfill the country's largest anti-hunger program — a move the administration claimed would require it to "raid school-lunch money" to keep families fed. The decision, issued on behalf of the court by Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, put a brief hold on the district court order that would have ...
Source: latimes.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
U.S. airlines again canceled hundreds of flights Saturday mostly because of the government shutdown and the Federal Aviation Administration's order to reduce air traffic. The number of flights affected at Orlando International Airport was trending higher Saturday afternoon compared to a day earlier. The slowdown at 40 of the nation's busiest airports was in its second day and so far hasn't caused any widespread ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
President Trump proposed a compromise on health insurance payments, in a Truth Social post made Saturday morning. Trump called on Republicans to send federal payments that would go to insurers under the Affordable Care Act directly to Americans. The post comes one day after Senate Republicans rejected Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's proposal that potentially could have ended the government shutdown. The shutdown ...
Source: cnbc.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
Delivery companies UPS and FedEx announced they are temporarily grounding their fleets of McDonnell Douglas MD-11 cargo planes. It comes after a UPS MD-11 crashed during takeoff in Kentucky on Tuesday, killing at least 14 people, including three crew members. The companies said they made the decision after advice from the aircraft manufacturer. "Out of an abundance of caution and in the interest of safety, we have ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
Nov. 8 (UPI) -- A federal judge issued a permanent injunction that prevents the deployment of the National Guard in Portland, Ore., saying Donald Trump "exceeded the President's authority." U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, in a 106-page decision Friday THIS PERMANENT INJUNCTION ORDER IS IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT." She issued a temporary restraining order on Oct. 4 blocking the deployment of the Oregon National ...
Source: upi.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
Hungary's foreign minister says Budapest has secured an indefinite waiver from US sanctions on Russian oil and gas imports, as a White House official reiterated that the exemption was for only a period of one year. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban met President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday to press for a reprieve after the US last month imposed sanctions on Russian oil companies Lukoil and ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
Donald Trump issued more pardons this week for criminally corrupt former government officials. At a time when the administration is threatening the health care of millions of Americans and locking up immigrants en masse , it's notable that a principal beneficiary of Trump's sympathy these days seems to be convicted criminals who have ties to his family or political movement. Trump on Thursday pardoned former ...
Source: msnbc.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
News , via Wikimedia Commons Cornell University announces $60M deal with Trump administration to restore funding Cornell University announced on Friday that it reached a settlement with US President Donald Trump's administration to pay $60 million and adopt the administration's interpretation of federal civil rights laws. In exchange, the federal government will restore Cornell's federal research funding and end ...
Source: jurist.org
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
By The publisher of the Farmers' Almanac is ending its annual publication after 208 years upon publishing its 2026 edition, the Farmers' Almanac staff announced. On Thursday, the Lewiston, Maine-based publisher cited increasing "financial challenges" for publishing and distributing the almanac amid a "chaotic media environment" as the reason it no longer will be published, in a news release calling it an "End of An ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration violated the First Amendment rights of Education Department employees when it replaced their personalized out-of-office e-mail notifications with partisan language blaming Democrats for the government shutdown. "When government employees enter public service, they do not sign away their First Amendment rights," U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper wrote in his ...
Source: npr.org
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump said no US officials would attend the G20 summit in South Africa, reviving debunked claims of white Afrikaners being systematically "killed and slaughtered" in the country. Trump had announced in September that Vice President JD Vance would travel to the meeting later this month instead of him, but has now said that US representatives will skip it entirely. "It is a total disgrace that the ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
Trump Wants Washington Commanders Stadium Named After Him, Report Says President Donald Trump is angling for the new Washington Commanders stadium to be named after him, ESPN reported—a decision that would likely have to be made by Washington, D.C. city lawmakers and the National Park Service. An unnamed senior White House official said there have been unofficial discussions with a member of the Commanders ...
Source: forbes.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
I t has been a year of soul-searching, hand-wringing, and self-flagellation for Democrats after a ballot-box rejection so thorough that some had come to believe that the party had lost not only the White House and Congress but the culture itself . Shell-shocked, Democrats entered Donald Trump's second term in a political stupor – unsure of who they were or what they stood for. Their base had lost faith in its ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
The remains belong to Lior Rudaeff, 61, who was born in Argentina but moved to Israel as a child. Hamas still has to hand the bodies of the five remaining hostages over to Israel under the terms of a ceasefire that took effect on 10 October. The latest hostage remains returned from Gaza have been identified as an Israeli man who died while fighting Hamas in the October 7 attacks, the office of Israeli Prime ...
Source: news.sky.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
James D. Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died. He was 97. The breakthrough — made when the brash, Chicago-born Watson was just 24 — turned him into a hallowed figure in the world of science for decades. But near the end of his life, he faced condemnation and ...
Source: wfla.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
TAIPEI — China's newest and most advanced aircraft carrier, the Fujian, officially entered into service this week, the country's military announced Friday, bringing Beijing another step closer to its goal of rivaling American naval power in the region. The Fujian, which features an electromagnetic catapult system for launching and landing aircraft, was commissioned for service Wednesday, when China's top ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
– A in eastern Ukraine early Saturday while many were sleeping, killing three and injuring 12 people, Ukrainian authorities reported. The attack in Dnipro, Ukraine's fourth-largest city, was part of a large Russian missile and drone barrage across the country that targeted power infrastructure and also killed a worker at an energy company in Kharkiv, farther north, a local official said. In eastern Ukraine, , ...
Source: news4jax.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
By NEW YORK -- With little public scrutiny, the Trump administration is handing out hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts to some of the country's most profitable companies and wealthiest investors. The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service, through a series of new notices and proposed regulations, are giving breaks to giant private equity firms, crypto companies, foreign real estate investors, ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
A speeding car fleeing police slammed into a crowded bar early Saturday, killing four people and injuring 11 in a historic district of Tampa, Florida, known for its nightlife and tourists. An air patrol unit with the Tampa Police Department spotted the car driving recklessly on a freeway at about 12:40 a.m. after police said the silver sedan had been seen street racing in another neighborhood, according to a police ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
Though Latino voters gave sweeping support to Democrats in Tuesday's elections, they're not a permanent coalition L atino voters delivered sweeping support to Democratic candidates across multiple states in Tuesday's off-year elections, reversing what many Republicans had come to believe was a lasting political realignment after Donald Trump's historic gains with the community in the 2024 election . The rapid ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
Turkey announced on Friday that it has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and several senior officials, accusing them of committing genocide during the war in Gaza. The Istanbul prosecutor's office said in a statement that arrest warrants were issued for 37 individuals, though it did not release the full list. Those named include Israeli defence minister Israel Katz, National ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON — Don't lose sleep over headlines linking melatonin to heart failure. That's the message after some scary-sounding reports about a preliminary study involving the sleep-related supplement. It raised questions about the safety of long term use of melatonin for insomnia. Doctors have long known that too little or interrupted sleep raises the risk of heart disease. But heart experts say this kind of ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
Voter anger over the cost of living is hurtling forward into next year's midterm elections, when pivotal contests will be decided by communities that are home to fast-rising electric bills or fights over who's footing the bill to power Big Tech's energy-hungry data centers. in New Jersey and Virginia, a data center hotspot, and in , where Democrats ousted two Republican incumbents for seats on the state's utility ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
A 65-year-old man fell 130 feet to his death at the Grand Canyon on Thursday. At about 2 p.m. on Thursday, the Mohave County Sheriff's Office received a call to help the Hualapai Nation in a technical recovery at Guano Point, according to a statement shared by the sheriff's office on Friday. "A 65-year-old male had slipped and fell over the edge into the canyon and was deceased," the statement said. "Search and ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
Worries over the government shutdown surged in the early part of November, pushing consumer sentiment In to its lowest in more than three years and just off its worst level ever, according to a University of Michigan survey Friday. The current conditions index slid to 52.3, a drop of nearly 11% from last month, while the future expectations measure fell to 49.0, down 2.6%. On a year-ago basis, the two measures ...
Source: cnbc.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
The Trump administration said Friday it would launch an investigation into whether major meatpacking companies are illegally influencing beef markets amid soaring prices. In a Truth Social post, President Donald Trump said, without evidence, that the companies "are driving up the price of Beef, through Illicit Collusion, Price Fixing, and Price Manipulation." Minutes later, Attorney General Pam Bondi posted on X ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
Rapper receives nominations in all top categories while Lady Gaga, Bad Bunny, Sabrina Carpenter and Leon Thomas are also major nominees Grammys 2026: the nominations in all the major categories The Grammys ' love continues for Kendrick Lamar . The rapper, who took home the most trophies at the 2025 music awards with five, leads the nominees for the 2026 awards. Lamar is up for nine awards, including album of the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Republican U.S. Representative Elise Stefanik, a staunch ally of President Donald Trump, will run for governor of New York in 2026, taking on incumbent Democrat Kathy Hochul. Stefanik, in a social media post accompanying a campaign launch video, labeled Hochul "the worst governor in America" and New York "the most unaffordable state in the nation," and said she was running to ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik announced she is running for governor of New York early Friday morning, after months of hinting that she might challenge Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul in the 2026 election. Stefanik launched her campaign with a post on social media , calling Hochul "the worst governor in America." "Under her failed leadership, New York is the most unaffordable state in the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
Nov. 7 (UPI) -- Multiple people at Joint Base Andrews have fallen ill after "a suspicious package" sent to the military facility was opened, according to reports. The package was sent to the Maryland base on Thursday, a spokesperson confirmed to Axios as well as CNN , which was the first to report on the incident. "As a precaution, the building and connecting building were evacuated and a cordon was established ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
By Bhanvi Satija and Chad Terhune LONDON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -A Trump administration deal to cut prices for popular weight-loss drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound will allow millions more Americans to give them a try, but the cost may still be too high to keep patients long term, U.S. obesity specialists said. President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that Novo Nordisk would reduce monthly prices for Wegovy ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
Court could revisit issue in case brought by county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples The US supreme court on Friday is considering taking up a case that could challenge the legality of same-sex marriage across the country. Hours after ruling that Donald Trump's administration can block transgender and non-binary people from selecting passport sex markers that align with their gender ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
Multiple explosions shook a mosque at a high school during Friday prayers in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital , injuring at least 55 people, mostly students. Police tried to dissuade speculation that the blasts were a terror attack and said they were investigating. Witnesses told local television stations that they heard at least two loud blasts around midday, from inside and outside the mosque, just as the sermon had ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has embarked on a fresh investigation into one of President Donald Trump's chief grievances, into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, multiple people familiar with the matter said Friday. made public in January 2017, that detailed how Russia waged a covert influence campaign to help Trump defeat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. It was not clear ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
By Job growth has remained weak this fall, but despite a series of high-profile layoffs at major corporations, the labor market has not taken a sharp turn for the worse. Probably. With the federal government still shut down, the Bureau of Labor Statistics did not release its scheduled monthly jobs report Friday, the second missed report in a row. Economists and policymakers haven't had an official read on the state ...
Source: miamiherald.com