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Democrats Concede Shutdown Fight Without Health Care Win in Hand
- Democrats entered the shutdown seeking to renew tax credits to stave off insurance premium price hikes and to show voters they have the stomach for hardball negotiations in President Donald Trump 's Washington. As the record-long shutdown neared its end more than a month later, they failed to achieve either goal. A group of eight Democrats on Sunday broke with the rest of their party — including Senate ...

Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
US  
Map shows airports with the most canceled flights due to the government shutdown
- It is closely followed by Chicago O'Hare and Newark, which had 240 and 237 cancellations, respectively, per Cirium. Both airports are United Airlines hubs. You can hover over each icon to view the name of the airport and the number of flights canceled there, according to Cirium's data. A few cancellations may not be related to the FAA's emergency order. For example, it was snowing in Chicago on Sunday. Sunday ...

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US   POLITICS  
Appeals court rejects Trump admin effort to block full SNAP payments, but many recipients still in limbo
- Tens of millions of Americans who rely on the nation's largest federal food assistance program have been caught in a weekslong swirl of Trump administration pronouncements, court orders and anxiety since the US government shutdown has called their ability to buy groceries into question. Some recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, the program formerly known as food stamps, have ...

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2 MLB pitchers indicted, accused of taking bribes
- CLEVELAND ( WJW ) — Two Cleveland Guardians pitchers have been indicted, according to court documents. Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz are accused of conspiring with bettors to rig pitches in professional baseball games so that the bettors would profit from illegal wagers, according to the documents. Clase, 27, and Ortiz, 26, were both charged with wire fraud conspiracy, honest services wire fraud conspiracy, ...

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WORLD  
Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff meet with Netanyahu to push Gaza ceasefire forward
- Israel on Monday returned the remains of 15 Palestinians to Gaza in the latest step forward for a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, as a top White House envoy met with Israeli leaders to discuss the next stages of the fragile agreement . Israel returned the bodies after Palestinian militants released the remains of a hostage Sunday. With the latest exchange, only four bodies of hostages remained in Gaza. As the first stage ...

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US   POLITICS  
Trump says Americans will receive $2,000 tariff dividend
- President Trump said Sunday that most Americans would receive a $2,000 dividend payment as a result of his administration's tariffs levied against foreign countries. Trump announced the potential payments on his Truth Social platform, calling opponents of his tariffs "FOOLS" in a post. "We are taking in Trillions of Dollars and will soon begin paying down our ENORMOUS DEBT, $37 Trillion," the president wrote. ...

Source: latimes.com
WORLD  
Philippines assesses damage after deadly Typhoon Fung-wong
- A weakening Typhoon Fung-wong has departed the Philippines after killing at least two people, displacing 1.4 million, and destroying homes and roads across the country's most populous island. Rescue workers kicked off recovery efforts on Monday morning across Luzon, home to some 64 million people, as the government lifted all travel restrictions. Crews wielding power tools, saws and heavy machinery began tackling ...

Source: aljazeera.com
POLITICS  
Donald Trump becomes first president to attend regular-season NFL game since 1978
- 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 ...

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MEDICINE  
Drinking coffee can protect against atrial fibrillation
- Doctors typically recommend that people with heart issues like A-Fib avoid caffeine out of fear that it will trigger symptoms. But a study by UC San Francisco and the University of Adelaid has concluded that drinking a cup of caffeinated coffee a day reduced A-Fib by 39%. "Coffee increases physical activity which is known to reduce atrial fibrillation," said Gregory M. Marcus, MD, MAS, who holds the Endowed ...

Source: news-medical.net
US   POLITICS  
Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani and others who backed efforts to overturn 2020 election, official says
- – President Donald Trump has pardoned his former personal lawyer , his former chief of staff and others accused of backing the Republican's efforts to overturn the 2020 election, a Justice Department official says. Ed Martin, the government's pardon attorney, posted on social media a signed proclamation of the "full, complete, and unconditional" pardon, which also names , an attorney who promoted about a ...

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NFL's Week 10 was filled with upsets, comebacks, routs and statement wins
- Five underdogs won. Big leads weren't safe. Several games weren't close. Sunday was filled with upsets, comebacks, routs and statements. There were some impressive individual performances, too. Jonathan Taylor had 244 yards rushing for the Colts. Miami's De'Von Achane ran for 174. Patriots rookie TreVeyon Henderson had a pair of 50-plus yard touchdown runs. DeMarcus Lawrence scored twice on fumble returns for ...

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BUSINESS   TECHNOLOGY  
Six in 10 Organizations Expect AI to Be an Active Team Member or Supervisor to Other AI in the Next 12 Months
- Enterprise Gen AI adoption has grown fivefold in the last two years, outpacing enterprise readiness and intensifying challenges around cost, workforce adaptation, and governance The latest  Research Institute report published, 'Harnessing the value of AI: Unlocking scalable advantage,' suggests that generative AI (Gen AI) is rapidly moving into the mainstream, with enterprise adoption and investment ...

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POLITICS  
Paris court is deciding whether to release former President Sarkozy from prison
- PARIS (AP) — A Paris court is deciding Monday whether to release former French President Nicolas Sarkozy from prison, less than three weeks after he began serving a five-year sentence for criminal conspiracy in a scheme to finance his 2007 election campaign with funds from Libya. Sarkozy, 70, became the first former French head of state in modern times to be sent behind bars after his conviction on Sept. 25. ...

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US   POLITICS  
Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of 'serious and systemic' bias in coverage
- Davie says departure is 'my own decision', while head of news also quits. Insiders say it 'feels like a coup' by broadcaster's enemies Tim Davie, the BBC's director general, and the head of BBC News have resigned after a former adviser to the corporation accused it of "serious and systemic" bias in its coverage of issues including Donald Trump, Gaza and trans rights. In an announcement that caused shock within the ...

Source: theguardian.com
US   HEALTH  
ByHeart baby formula recalled amid infant botulism investigation
- USA TODAY and Yahoo may earn commission from links in this article. Pricing and availability subject to change. ByHeart, a next-generation baby nutrition company, has announced a voluntary recall of some batches of its powdered infant formula after federal authorities linked the product to an infant botulism outbreak. In separate statements on Nov. 8, the U.S. and the said two lots of ByHeart Whole Nutrition Infant ...

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US   MARKETS  
How Would a 50-Year Mortgage Work? There are Pros & Cons
- By With the idea of a "50-year mortgage" being floated amid concerns that younger people can't afford to buy houses, it's worth taking a look at the pros and cons. Generally, conventional mortgages span 30 years. calculated the savings on a $300,000, $400,000, and $500,000 house if the term is extended to 50 years. To state the obvious, the "longer fixed-rate amortization on mortgage loans would lower monthly ...

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Can Donald Trump really make an NFL team name its stadium after him?
- The president reportedly wants the new home of the Washington Commanders to bear his name. There are reasons to think he will succeed Wait, Donald Trump is naming a stadium after himself? That's if a well-sourced report from ESPN is to be believed. The US president has apparently let it be known to the ownership group of the Washington Commanders that he wants the team's new stadium, which is scheduled to open in ...

Source: theguardian.com
Iconic Andean monument may have been used for Indigenous accounting
- Sediment analysis and drone photography of the iconic South American monument of Monte Sierpe (aka "Band of Holes") support a new interpretation of this mysterious landscape feature as part of an Indigenous system of accounting and exchange. Stretching 1.5 km across the Pisco Valley of the southern Peruvian Andes, Monte Sierpe (meaning serpent mountain) is a large row of approximately 5,200 precisely aligned holes ...

Source: phys.org
Four killed and 11 injured after car fleeing police smashes into Florida bar | US News
- The driver lost control and hit more than a dozen people outside a bar, police say. The force says the crash was not targeted. Four people have been killed and 11 injured after a speeding car fleeing police slammed into a crowded bar in Tampa, Florida. An air patrol unit spotted the silver sedan driving recklessly on a motorway around 12.40am on Saturday after it was seen racing in another neighbourhood, the Tampa ...

Source: news.sky.com
Ukrainian strikes disrupt power and heating to 2 major cities in Russia
- KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — to two major Russian cities near the Ukrainian border, local Russian officials reported Sunday. The report comes as on each other's energy infrastructure and U.S.-led diplomatic efforts to stop the nearly four-year war have not advanced. Elsewhere, Ukraine's top diplomat accused Moscow of deliberately endangering nuclear safety, as he said Russia's mass drone and missile attack on Friday ...

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The Latest: 19 teams in the AP Top 25 take new spots
- A month before the playoff matchups are set and things are unsettled: The latest has 19 teams in new spots, including Texas at No. 10. The Longhorns, ranked No. 1 in the preseason poll, jumped three spots to return to the top 10 just in time for an SEC showdown at No. 5 Georgia. The top five — No. 1 Ohio State, No. 2 Indiana, No. 3 Texas A&M, No. 4 Alabama and No. 5 Georgia — were unchanged. No. 11 ...

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US   POLITICS  
Week in Insights: US Tax Law's Deference to Churches Has a Limit
- Churches under US tax law benefit from tax-exempt status, minimal reporting obligations, and broad latitude in how they define their missions. The policy rationale is that religious organizations serve a public good that warrants public support. But that doesn't hold water when the presumed public good turns out to be obvious private luxury . In Community Worship Fellowship v. United States , the US Court of ...

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US  
Chicago police respond to report of shots fired at federal agents amid immigration operations
- Chicago police officers responded to a call of gunshots fired at federal agents Saturday amid immigration enforcement operations that drew residents to protest in the streets, the department said. There were no reports of anyone being hit by gunfire, according to police, and the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement on the social platform X that the shots were fired by a man in a black Jeep who was ...

Source: apnews.com