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Top News Stories for Thursday, November 13th 2025
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
T he victim's name blacked out in two of the emails from Jeffrey Epstein's estate released by House Democrats on Wednesday is Virginia Giuffre, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told TIME in an email. "The Democrats selectively leaked emails to the liberal media to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump. The 'unnamed victim' referenced in these emails is the late Virginia Giuffre, who ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
Commercial air travel around the U.S. isn't expected to return to normal immediately after the U.S. government reopens, according to aviation experts. The government shutdown has snarled airport operations across the country, leading to flight delays and cancellations. While a vote to reopen the government would come as a relief to consumers, as well as to air traffic controllers and other ...
Source: cbsnews.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 -
Even the most technologically focused companies are approaching AI and gen AI with both optimism and caution. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Generative AI is on the boardroom table, and it's taking up a lot of room. However, gen AI is still a relatively untested technological approach to business development, so companies are careful how they roll it out to ...
Source: zdnet.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
US president sets Friday deadline for corporation to respond to billion-dollar legal threat Donald Trump has said he feels he has "an obligation" to sue the BBC over its editing of one of his speeches, as a deadline looms for the corporation to respond to his billion-dollar legal threat. The US president accused the broadcaster of having "defrauded the public" with an edition of Panorama last year that spliced ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
A day after a bomb blast in Pakistan's capital , Islamabad, and two days after a similar explosion in India's capital, New Delhi, tensions in South Asia have heightened. A blame game has intensified between the neighbours who are still reeling from a brief but intense conflict just six months ago. Here is more about what happened in Islamabad and Delhi, and what Pakistani and Indian officials are saying about the ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
By The American penny died Wednesday in Philadelphia. It was 232. The cause was irrelevance and expensiveness, the Treasury Department said. Nothing could be bought any more with a penny, not even penny candy. Moreover, the cost to mint the penny had risen to more than 3 cents, a financial absurdity that doomed the coin. The final pennies were minted Wednesday afternoon in Philadelphia. Top treasury officials were ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
A borrower would pay, roughly, an additional $389,000 in interest over the life of a 50-year mortgage compared to a 30-year mortgage, according to an AP analysis. NEW YORK (AP) — The White House says it is considering backing a 50-year mortgage to help alleviate the home affordability crisis in the country. But the announcement drew immediate criticism from policymakers, social media and economists, who said ...
Source: boston.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
United States President Donald Trump has sent a letter to Israel's President Isaac Herzog asking him to pardon Benjamin Netanyahu, slamming the corruption charges against the Israeli prime minister as "political" and "unjustified". Trump's letter on Wednesday comes a month after the US-brokered ceasefire came into effect in Gaza, ushering in a fragile truce amid daily Israeli attacks and aid restrictions. "I hereby ...
Source: aljazeera.com
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
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
Cases span 12 states. All affected babies have been hospitalized, but no deaths reported. The maker of a specialty baby formula that touted having the "cleanest ingredients" and a "Purity Award" is recalling all of its products and lots amid an ongoing, multi-state outbreak of infant botulism. The outbreak was initially announced over the weekend by California and federal health officials . At that time, 13 cases ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
Halloween may be over, but the frights haven't stopped . Australian officials have identified a new devil-horned Lucifer bee. First discovered in 2019, the bee has literal horns growing out of its head. That's why researchers dubbed it Megachile lucifer as its scientific name. A study published in the Journal of Hymenoptera Research this month revealed more details about the insect. Lead author ...
Source: wideopenspaces.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
As poll numbers on his handling of the US economy have continued to sink in recent weeks, President Donald Trump has floated sending Americans a $2,000 check that he has claimed will be funded with revenue collected from his tariffs on imported products. However, economist Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) on Tuesday crunched some numbers and found that Trump's proposed tariff ...
Source: commondreams.org
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
If you have a mobile phone, you have no doubt seen some dodgy texts. They might declare that you have an overdue road toll, and urge you to "Click here to pay." Or maybe they inform you that there's a package waiting, but the address is wrong; "Click here to fix it." More often than not, these texts are scams. The websites you are directed to are fakes, often decked out with a misappropriated Google logo to trick ...
Source: npr.org
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
Dana Williamson among five co-conspirators in scheme to steal more than $225,000 from Xavier Becerra's campaign A former top aide to California governor Gavin Newsom has been arrested over federal charges alleging her involvement in a scheme to steal campaign money from Xavier Becerra, the former US health secretary. Dana Williamson was indicted on 23 counts that include bank and wire fraud and conspiracy to ...
Source: theguardian.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 -
Foreigners seeking visas to live in the U.S. might be rejected if they have certain medical conditions, including diabetes or obesity, under a directive issued last week by the Trump administration. The guidance, issued in a cable the State Department sent to embassy and consular officials and examined by KFF Health News, directs visa officers to deem applicants ineligible to enter the U.S. for several new reasons, ...
Source: npr.org
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
The expansive halls of the Amazon's newly built climate summit hub echoed with the hum of air conditioners and the footsteps of delegates from around the world — scientists, diplomats, Indigenous leaders and energy executives, all converging for two frenetic weeks of negotiations. Then Gov. Gavin Newsom rounded the corner, flanked by staff and security. They moved in tandem through the corridors on Tuesday as ...
Source: latimes.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
Isaac Herzog makes rare statement on often-ignored violence as settlers injure Palestinians and attack soldiers Dozens of masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, injuring four Palestinians and attacking Israeli soldiers in the latest incident of rising settler violence. The settlers attacked the Palestinian villages of Beit Lid and Deir Sharaf, setting vehicles on ...
Source: theguardian.com
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
Judge signals hundreds of people detained in Chicago immigration crackdown could be released on bond
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
By SOPHIA TAREEN CHICAGO (AP) — Hundreds of people who have been arrested and detained in the Chicago area during the Trump administration's immigration crackdown could soon be released on bond while they await immigration hearings, a federal judge signaled Wednesday. During a hearing in Chicago, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings said he would order the full release of 13 detained individuals based on a ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
Don't like ChatGPT's tone? Change it. That's the gist of OpenAI's latest update to the language model behind the industry-leading chatbot. GPT-5.1, announced in a blog post Wednesday, is supposed to be "more conversational" than its predecessor, and you have more flexibility to adjust its "personality" to suit your desires. The new model is actually two models: GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking. The former is ...
Source: cnet.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
Kim Kardashian's Skims is now valued at $5 billion after a new funding round. The brand plans to use the money to fund an expansion of physical stores. The cash infusion could also delay an expected IPO from the brand. In this article Skims underwear is displayed on a shelf at a Nordstrom store on March 25, 2025 in Corte Madera, California. Kim Kardashian's Skims brand has raised $225 million in new funding ...
Source: cnbc.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
Nlets, a nonprofit law enforcement info-sharing network, can share state residents' information with immigration agencies, federal lawmakers said Wednesday. A coalition of 40 Democratic lawmakers in the House and Senate is warning blue states about a tech policy loophole that permits Immigration and Customs Enforcement access to their residents' data. On Wednesday, 19 letters led by Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon and New ...
Source: nextgov.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
using information from their passport. Apple writes that the new Digital ID can be used at TSA checkpoints at more than 250 airports for verification purposes. The feature provides users with a more convenient way to travel. What's more, it also enables users to create a Digital ID even if they don't have a state ID or a driver's license that complies with REAL ID requirements. "Since introducing the ability to add ...
Source: bgr.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
Fossil fuel emissions rise again – but China's are levelling off Global emissions from fossil fuels are expected to hit another record high in 2025, but China's carbon emissions appear to be reaching a peak Worldwide fossil fuel emissions are set to rise 1.1 per cent in 2025, reaching another record high as humanity burns hydrocarbons at ever greater rates, according to the annual Global Carbon Budget report. ...
Source: newscientist.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
Get the AP Top 25 college football poll delivered straight to your inbox every week with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here . 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 ...
Source: apnews.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 -
President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to hear his appeal of a civil verdict that ordered him to pay the writer E. Jean Carroll $5 million in damages. A Manhattan federal court jury in May 2023 held Trump liable for sexually abusing her during an encounter in a New York department store in the 1990s and for defaming her decades later in denying her claims. The petition also says the trial judge erred by ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
SoftBank Group Corp. has sold its entire remaining stake in Nvidia Corp. in order to raise funds for its promised $22.5 billion investment in ChatGPT maker OpenAI Group PBC. The Japanese company said in its latest financial earnings report today that it sold all 32.1 million shares it held in Nvidia last month, raising $5.83 billion. It also offloaded part of its stake in the wireless carrier T-Mobile USA Inc. for ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Google LLC today announced one of the biggest updates to the Google Photos application in years, adding a half-dozen new features — many of them powered by its new image and video generation model, Nano Banana. The updates were announced in a blog post by Google Photos Senior Director of Product Management Yael Marzan, who explained that the app has already embraced dozens of AI features, including the ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
The Dallas Mavericks fired general manager Nico Harrison on Tuesday, nine months after his trade of Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers sent the organisation into a tailspin. Team owner Patrick Dumont announced the dismissal of Harrison, who was also Dallas's president of basketball operations. The Mavericks have limped out of the blocks to a 3-8 record. "This decision reflects our continued commitment to ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Some of the veterans were moved to tears by the kind gesture, which took place over the weekend ahead of Veterans' Day on Tuesday Shocked veterans were left with tears in their eyes after being greeted by former President Barack Obama as their flight landed in the nation's capital ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
A supporter of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump rallies outside an early polling precinct as voters cast their ballots in local, state, and national elections, in Clearwater, Florida, U.S., November 3, 2024. REUTERS/Octavio Jones A supporter of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump rallies outside an early polling precinct as voters cast their ballots in local, state, and national elections, in ...
Source: alternet.org