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Top News Stories for Monday, November 17th 2025
Sunday, Nov 16th, 2025 -
Don't Be Fooled: Marjorie Taylor Greene Still Wants to Reconcile With Trump "I certainly hope that we can make up," she said on CNN on Sunday morning. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. There was a time when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) compared President Donald Trump to Jesus Christ and called him "the greatest President of my lifetime." Those days are over. As I wrote ...
Source: motherjones.com
Sunday, Nov 16th, 2025 -
Britain has announced plans to carry out the most significant reform of its asylum seeker policies in years, overhauling immigration rules in response to surging anti-immigrant sentiment and challenges from right-wing parties. The new policy, which will be unveiled by the ruling Labour government in full on Monday, is partially modeled on Denmark's approach, which has one of Europe's toughest rules for refugees. ...
Source: aol.com
Sunday, Nov 16th, 2025 -
Not 'appropriate' to use licence fee payer's money to pay US president after threat to sue for up to $5bn, says peer The BBC should not pay any money to Donald Trump , the former BBC director general Tony Hall has said. The US president has said he plans to sue the BBC for up to $5bn (£3.8bn) despite receiving the apology he demanded over a misleading Panorama edit of his 6 January speech. Speaking to BBC ...
Source: theguardian.com
Sunday, Nov 16th, 2025 -
The United States' most advanced aircraft carrier has arrived in the Caribbean Sea in a flex of military power by the President Donald Trump administration, as it raises pressure on Venezuela and prompts questions about what the influx of troops and armoury could portend. The arrival of the USS Gerald R Ford and other warships, announced by the US Navy in a statement on Sunday, marks a potentially pivotal moment in ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Sunday, Nov 16th, 2025 -
The latest showcases new teams in top spots: Georgia inched up to No. 4, Ole Miss cracked the top five and Oklahoma slid into the top 10 at No. 8. Georgia's move comes thanks to its win over Texas, which dropped to No. 17, and to Oklahoma beating Alabama, which pushed the Crimson Tide down to No. 10. Further down in the poll, No. 22 North Texas is ranked for the first time since 1959. That brings the number of ...
Source: news4jax.com
Sunday, Nov 16th, 2025 -
( The Hill ) — President Trump over the weekend pardoned two individuals charged in connection with the investigation into the 2021 riots at the U.S. Capitol. The president issued pardons for Suzanne Ellen Kaye, who served an 18-month sentence for threatening to shoot FBI agents amid an investigation into her involvement in the riots, and Daniel Edwin Wilson, who remained imprisoned, despite Trump's ...
Source: wfla.com
Sunday, Nov 16th, 2025 -
Chinese Coast Guard vessels have sailed through the Japan-administered Senkaku Islands amid rising tensions between the two countries over Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's about Taiwan. The China Coast Guard said in a statement on Sunday that it "conducted patrols" around the Senkaku Islands , which Beijing claims as its own and refers to as the Diaoyu Islands. "China Coast Guard vessel 1307 formation ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Sunday, Nov 16th, 2025 -
The player, who bought their ticket in Newnan, matched all six numbers during a Friday evening drawing and won a jackpot worth an estimated $980 million. It has an estimated cash value of $452.2 million. "We are thrilled to congratulate the largest winner in our state's history," Georgia Lottery President and CEO Gretchen Corbin said in a news release. "With every Mega Millions ticket sold in Georgia supporting ...
Source: bradenton.com
Sunday, Nov 16th, 2025 -
Playtime is canceled for 69 schools in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) on Monday morning thanks to a colorful but potentially risky batch of sand. Kmart and Target issued product recalls Saturday after samples of a widely used play sand were found to have traces of asbestos, forcing the schools to close, the state government said Sunday. Inspections are underway and could "take days," ACT Education Minister ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Sunday, Nov 16th, 2025 -
More than 100 people were injured and 20 arrested during a massive protest on Saturday in Mexico City against the president's handling of violent crime, local government officials said. Thousands marched on the capital's historic main public square, the Zocalo, in a demonstration fueled by young Mexicans with ties to a global wave of Generation Z protests as well as supporters of the domestic "Sombrero Movement," ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Saturday, Nov 15th, 2025 -
Local reports say targets include church parishioners doing yard work and workers hanging Christmas lights Federal immigration officers on Saturday began a sweep through Charlotte, the largest city in North Carolina , federal officials confirmed. Local media reports said that among the locations targeted by masked federal agents was a church in east Charlotte , where an arrest was made while about 15 to 20 church ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Nov 15th, 2025 -
Former Federal Reserve governor Adriana Kugler, who resigned abruptly in August, repeatedly broke the central bank's strict trading rules before stepping down, according to new disclosures released by US ethics authorities. A report by the US Office of Government Ethics, reviewed after the Federal Reserve referred the matter earlier this year, outlines multiple stock transactions in 2024 that violated Fed policy, ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Saturday, Nov 15th, 2025 -
Nine people were killed and 31 injured when confiscated explosives accidentally blew up at a police station in Indian-administered Kashmir, police said Saturday, just days after a car blast in Delhi killed a dozen people. The incident happened in Nowgam and the explosives at the police station were recovered from Faridabad in the northern state of Haryana earlier this week, just hours before the powerful blast in ...
Source: digitaljournal.com