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Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
By , , , and House Republicans released over 20,000 pages of documents on Wednesday from Jeffrey Epstein's estate just hours after Democrats from the House Oversight Committee released three emails that suggested President Donald Trump was more aware of Epstein's behavior than he has previously acknowledged. Miami Herald reporters are combing through the trove of documents. Here's the latest: U.S. House Speaker ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
The Department of Transportation announced Wednesday that flight reductions will freeze at 6% thanks to strong staffing levels and a "rapid decline" in air traffic controller callouts. The new emergency freezing order will scrap the previous plan to ramp up reductions to 10% by Friday, and will remain in place "as the FAA continues to assess whether the system can gradually return to normal operations," the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
Utah Republicans appear to be readying articles of impeachment against a state judge who ruled the congressional maps they had redrawn were unconstitutional gerrymanders and in violation of a ballot initiative passed by voters seven years ago. On Monday, Judge Dianna Gibson rejected congressional boundaries offered by Republicans in a lawsuit over the party originally drawing maps improperly following the last U.S. ...
Source: truthout.org
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
Cloud security has always been about keeping up with change. Containers, serverless apps and multicloud infrastructure each forced defenders to rethink how they protected workloads. Now, AI is accelerating that evolution again — faster than anything before it. Traditional cloud-native application protection platforms were designed for a simpler era. They unified visibility, configuration management and ...
Source: forbes.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
The public broadcaster desperately needs the public to believe in it. Between its own stumbles and ceaseless right-wing hostility, it is in danger of losing its way. Last week, the Daily Telegraph —the traditional newspaper of Britain's conservative élite—reported on the existence of a secret memo that appeared to shatter the illusion that the BBC is an impartial news organization. The memo, some ...
Source: newyorker.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
New Delhi, India – In May after four days of fighting with Pakistan, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared "any future act of terror will be treated as an act of war" by his government. New Delhi had blamed Islamabad for an attack in Indian-administered Kashmir's Pahalgam in April that killed 25 tourists. Islamabad denied India's allegations, but in early May, India launched aerial attacks deep inside ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The U.S. ended production of the penny Wednesday, abandoning the 1-cent coins that were embedded in American culture for more than 230 years but became nearly worthless. When it was introduced in 1793 , a penny could buy a biscuit, a candle or a piece of candy. Now most of them are cast aside to sit in jars or junk drawers, and each one costs nearly 4 cents to make. "God bless America, and ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
The 50-year Mortgage Idea Being Floated a picture of himself with FDR proposing that he wants lenders (perhaps first Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) to offer 50-year mortgages, which would lower the required monthly payment on new loans. This is a classic (and legitimate) political strategy called "floating a balloon." Why A 50-Year Mortgage Idea Balloon Will Pop The idea of a 50-year mortgage was aired publicly before ...
Source: forbes.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday sent a letter to Israel's president asking him to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a long-running corruption trial that has bitterly divided the country. It was the latest attempt by Trump to intervene in the case on behalf of Netanyahu, raising questions about undue American influence over internal Israeli affairs. Trump also called for a ...
Source: pbs.org
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
SteamOS-powered cube for your TV targets early 2026 launch, no pricing details. Nearly four years after the Steam Deck changed the world of portable gaming , Valve is getting ready to release SteamOS-powered hardware designed for the living room TV, or even as a desktop PC gaming replacement. The simply named Steam Machine and Steam Controller, both planned to ship in early 2026, are "optimized for gaming on Steam ...
Source: arstechnica.com
ByHeart Expands Recall of Infant Formula Nationwide as 15 Patients Get Impacted by Botulism Outbreak
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
ByHeart infant formula made headlines after two of its lots were recalled over an infant botulism outbreak . Now, the recall is expanded after more cases were reported. This time, all batches of ByHeart Whole Nutrition Infant Formula cans and Anywhere Pack are being recalled from across the nation. The company confirmed the expansion after tests by the California Department of Public Health found contaminated ...
Source: greenmatters.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
(TMX) - A striking new bee species with tiny devil-like horns has been discovered in Western Australia's Goldfields, offering fresh insight into how much remains unknown about the country's native pollinators. Named Megachile (Hackeriapis) lucifer, the newly identified species was found during surveys of the critically endangered wildflower Marianthus aquilonarius, which grows only in the Bremer Range region ...
Source: mysuncoast.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Rebate checks would need to be approved by Congress, which has shown little appetite for president's proposal is still working out the details of who would be eligible for the $2,000 tariff rebate checks the president has proposed giving to low- and middle-income Americans. "Well, ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
Google on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against pesky text message scammers — like those who flood targets with notices that they have unpaid road tolls, or have a package waiting — in an attempt to disrupt a "phishing for dummies" operation the company accuses of victimizing more than 1 million people. The lawsuit against 25 unnamed individuals believed to reside in China takes aim at those behind the ...
Source: cyberscoop.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
Blake Jones and Lindsey Holden 3 min read SACRAMENTO, California — Gavin Newsom's former chief of staff Dana Williamson entered a not-guilty plea Wednesday to federal public corruption charges, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud. Williamson, who served as the governor's top aide from 2022 until 2024, is accused of helping funnel around $225,000 from a dormant campaign account apparently ...
Source: yahoo.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
Minnesota's booming industry of intoxicating products made by hemp, including beverages and gummies, is reeling from the in a bill that would reopen the federal government. The bill gives the industry 365 days before all products that contain more than 0.4 milligrams of THC—a trace amount—are outlawed. Christopher Lackner, president of the Hemp Beverages Alliance, is hoping that gives the industry ...
Source: marijuanamoment.net
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
A new State Department policy seeks to limit immigrants from entering the United States based on whether they have certain underlying medical conditions, including common ailments like diabetes, obesity, and mental health issues. The U.S. visa process has always allowed for denial of entry based on health concerns, but has typically focused on people with notable communicable diseases, such as tuberculosis, or who ...
Source: truthout.org
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
BELEM, Brazil — California Governor Gavin Newsom assured an audience at the COP30 climate summit in Brazil that his state would continue to prioritize green technology, while blasting President Donald Trump 's "dumb" decision to reverse the U.S. government's course on climate action. Newsom, widely considered a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028, also sounded alarm bells at ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
JERUSALEM — Israel's president and high-ranking military officials on Wednesday condemned attacks a day earlier by Jewish settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank, calling for an end to a growing wave of settler violence in the occupied territory. President Isaac Herzog described the attacks as "shocking and serious," adding a rare and powerful voice to what has been muted criticism by top Israeli ...
Source: npr.org
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
HONG KONG — Apple said it has removed two popular gay dating apps from its app store in China, in compliance with an order from the country's cyberspace regulator , stoking fears within the country's LGBTQ community . The same-sex dating and social apps Blued and Finka suddenly became unavailable to download on iOS devices over the weekend, while users of Android devices can still download them from their ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
A federal judge has ordered that hundreds of people detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement be released from federal facilities in the next week because their arrests by ICE were possibly unlawful and in violation of a federal court order. Attorneys with the National Immigrant Justice Center and ACLU of Illinois say federal agents have arrested thousands of people in Chicago and Illinois during ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
Users get more personalization options, too. Here's what's new. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Users can also choose from new personalities. The updates are meant to make ChatGPT more personalized. OpenAI updated ChatGPT with its highly-anticipated GPT-5 model over the summer, which was supposed to streamline the user experience by making ...
Source: zdnet.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
By (DealBook) Kim Kardashian's apparel giant, Skims, has gotten significantly more valuable. The company has raised $225 million in new financing, at a $5 billion valuation. It's the latest sign of success for Skims, which has grown significantly beyond its shapewear and underwear roots -- and signals what lies ahead. The news: The round was led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives, with participation from BDT & MSD ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
Topics More from TechCrunch A group of Democratic lawmakers have sent letters to several state governors, including in Arizona, California, Colorado, and Wisconsin, warning that their states are inadvertently sharing drivers' data with federal immigration authorities. The letter first reported by Reuters , told governors that their states are providing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other ...
Source: techcrunch.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
Topics More from TechCrunch Apple Watch and iPhone owners in the United States will now be able to carry a copy of their U.S. passport on their device, which they can then use at TSA checkpoints across more than 250 U.S. airports when traveling domestically. The feature, known as Digital ID, was previously announced iOS 26 release , and adds passports to the list of existing government IDs supported in Apple ...
Source: techcrunch.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
Fossil fuel CO₂ emissions hit record high in 2025 Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels are projected to rise by 1.1% in 2025—reaching a record high, according to new research by the Global Carbon Project. The 2025 Global Carbon Budget projects 38.1 billion tons of fossil carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions this year. Decarbonization of energy systems is progressing in many countries—but this is ...
Source: phys.org
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
Not surprisingly, Ohio State stayed at the top of the rankings, and there was a healthy debate about whether last weekend's action warranted keeping Indiana at No. 2, one spot ahead of Texas A&M. But while those top three remained the same in the Week 2 rankings released Tuesday, it was a game back in August that led the College Football Playoff selection committee to its biggest shakeup. The committee vaulted ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that 19 bodies of the 20 soldiers on board a Turkish C-130 military cargo plane that crashed in Georgia had been recovered, along with the aircraft's flight recorder. The Turkish leader gave the update on the recovery efforts on Wednesday at a meeting of provincial heads of his governing Justice and Development (AK) Party in Ankara, the Anadolu news agency reported, ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
Former NFL star wide receiver Antonio Brown will be released on $25,000 bail and must wear a GPS ankle monitor on an attempted murder charge in Florida, a judge ordered Wednesday. Brown, 37, has pleaded not guilty to the second-degree attempted murder charge, which carries a potential 15-year prison sentence and a fine up to $10,000 if he is convicted. His lawyer, Mark Eiglarsh, said Brown would return to his home ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
AI pioneer reportedly frustrated with Meta's shift from research to rapid product releases. Meta's chief AI scientist and Turing Award winner plans to leave the company to launch his own startup focused on a different type of AI called "world models," the Financial Times reported . The French-US scientist has reportedly told associates he will depart in the coming months and is already in early talks to raise funds ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
A rural Kansas county has agreed to pay a little more than $3 million and apologize over a law enforcement raid on a small-town weekly newspaper in August 2023 that sparked an outcry over press freedom. Marion County sheriff's officers were involved in the raid on the Marion County Record and helped draft search warrants used by Marion city police to enter the newspaper's offices, the publisher's home and the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
Private Cloud Compute is one of the things that stood out when Apple unveiled its initial Apple Intelligence vision at WWDC 2024. Apple devised a private cloud computing platform for AI tasks that can't be performed on the iPhone, iPad, or Mac. The data exchanged between the user and is secure and private. Nobody can see it, not even Apple. When Apple unveiled its secure AI cloud platform, none of its competitors ...
Source: bgr.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
An appeals court last year upheld a lower court's judgment that Trump sexually abused Carroll in the 1990s, and later defamed her after she went public with her allegations. President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Monday to review a $5 million civil judgment that found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll. A jury in 2023 awarded the judgment after it found Trump liable of ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Softbank has dumped its entire $5.83 billion stake in AI chip supplier Nvidia as it pours more resources into its "all-in" bet on Sam Altman's OpenAI. The Japanese investment giant, led by CEO Masayoshi Son, sold all of its 32.1 million Nvidia shares in October, according to an earnings statement released Tuesday. Softbank also sold part of its $9.17 billion stake in telecom giant T-Mobile. When asked about the ...
Source: nypost.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Google's Nano Banana is powering a raft of new features in the app. We're running out of ways to tell you that Google is releasing more generative AI features, but that's what's happening in Google Photos today. The Big G is finally making good on its promise to add its market-leading image-editing model to the app. The model powers a couple of features, and it's not just for Google's Android platform. Nano Banana ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
The Dallas Mavericks have fired general manager Nico Harrison nine months after he made a trade that roiled the franchise and shocked the NBA, the team announced Tuesday . Michael Finley and Matt Riccardi will serve as co-interim general managers to oversee basketball operations. "This decision reflects our continued commitment to building a championship-caliber organization, one that delivers for our players, our ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
The veterans were on an honor flight to D.C. to visit the capital's monuments. President Barack Obama gave a group of war heroes a surprise they will never forget. The former president surprised a flight of Korean and Vietnam War veterans on an honor flight from Madison, Wisconsin, to Washington, D.C., ahead of Veterans Day, according to a video he posted on X. "Ahead of Veterans Day, I was ...
Source: abcnews.go.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Join HuffPost. The shutdown may be ending, but the story isn't. A deal's been struck, but serious questions remain. Your membership powers the reporting that digs deeper and follows what happens next. Already a member? President Donald Trump is defending his plan to bring hundreds of thousands of Chinese students into the country after facing backlash from prominent MAGA voices. Appearing Monday's episode of on Fox ...
Source: huffpost.com