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Top News Stories for Wednesday, November 12th 2025
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Utah judge has thrown out a new U.S. congressional map passed by the Republican-led legislature in favor of an alternative that appears likely to result in flipping one of the state's four U.S. House seats to Democrats in next year's midterms. In a decision late on Monday night, District Judge Dianna Gibson called the legislative map an "extreme partisan outlier" that ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Nov. 11 (UPI) -- Flight cancellations in the United States reached nearly 1,200 early Tuesday as the Federal Aviation Administration further reduced flights amid the record-breaking government shutdown. The flight reductions increased from the 5% imposed Friday to 6% Tuesday. Those figures were expected to further increase to 8% on Thursday and 10% on Friday, according to The Hill . Flight tracking website ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Ex-prosecutors and legal scholars say US president 'meting out pardons for blatantly corrupt and self-serving ends' Donald Trump's unprecedented pardoning spree for political and business friends since returning to the White House has prompted warnings from ex-prosecutors and legal scholars of "corrupt" pay-to-play schemes, conflicts of interest and blatant partisanship. It has included hundreds of Maga allies, a ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
But they were wrong that Trump and Senate Republicans were the ones more likely to cave in the end. And there were early signs things weren't going in their direction, weeks before the standoff ended. by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), warning his colleagues not to back off their health care demands amid the shutdown fight. Its timing was curious as most Democrats at the time, including moderates, had made no public ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump over the weekend floated an idea that took realtors, mortgage brokers and housing experts by surprise: the 50-year mortgage. On Saturday, Trump posted an image on Truth Social titled "Great American Presidents." It included a photo of President Franklin D. Roosevelt under the words "30-year mortgage" and a photo of Trump beneath the words "50-year mortgage." (Mortgages were extended to 30 ...
Source: washingtonpost.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
LONDON — Britain's government rallied to the defense of the BBC on Tuesday after allegations of bias from its critics and the threat of a lawsuit from President Trump over the way the broadcaster edited a speech he made after losing the 2020 presidential election Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said the national broadcaster faces "challenges, some of its own making," but is "by far the most widely used and ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Trump boasts that his tariffs protect American industries, lure factories to the United States, raise money for the federal government and give him diplomatic leverage. Now, he's claiming they can finance a windfall for American families, too: He's promising a generous tariff dividend. The president proposed the idea on his Truth Social media platform Sunday, five days after his ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Women should not suffer through menopause with hot flashes, night sweats and poor sleep. That's the message from FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary. The agency announced it will remove "black box" warning labels from estrogen-based hormone therapy, which treat the symptoms of menopause, saying the warnings have made women scared to try the therapy and doctors reluctant to prescribe it. The warnings stem from the ...
Source: npr.org
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
After nearly 30 years, Canada has lost its measles "elimination" status, which, by default, has caused the overall Americas region to lose its status as well. In a statement issued on Monday, the country's Public Health Agency stated that Canada was experiencing a "large, multi-jurisdictional outbreak of measles" which began in October last year. Over the past year, the agency has recorded cases in Alberta, British ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
In one of vanishingly few US Supreme Court rulings protecting equal rights, the majority-conservative court on Monday rejected efforts to overturn the decade-old precedent of marriage equality. Without issuing a comment, the court denied an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who was ordered to pay $360,000 in compensation after she refused to issue a marriage license to a same-sex couple in ...
Source: commondreams.org
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
FDA notifies ByHeart after 13 cases linked to company's powdered infant formula across 10 states Baby nutrition company ByHeart is recalling all batches of its Whole Nutrition Infant Formula following a multi-state outbreak of infant botulism. Thirteen of the 83 cases of infant botulism reported across the United States since August 2025 involved infants who had consumed ByHeart-brand powdered infant formula, ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
News , via Wikimedia Commons US Supreme Court to decide if states can count mail-in ballots received after election day The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a case that could dramatically impact mail-in voting practices in over two dozen states. The case, Watson v. Republican National Committee , challenges a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots postmarked by election day to be counted if received ...
Source: jurist.org
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
ISLAMABAD — A suicide bomber struck outside the gates of a district court in Islamabad on Tuesday, detonating his explosives next to a police car and killing 12 people, Pakistan's interior minister said, the latest in an uptick in violence across the country . Witnesses described scenes of mayhem in the immediate aftermath of the explosion, which also wounded 27 people. The blast was heard for miles away and ...
Source: npr.org
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
NEW DELHI (AP) — Authorities in India were investigating a deadly car blast in the capital late Monday that killed at least eight people and injured several others, officials said Tuesday. The explosion occurred close to the historic Red Fort in New Delhi. Authorities have not determined the cause of the blast, but senior police officials told The Associated Press that a case has been registered under ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
– Calling from key "doubling down on stupid," California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday the United States risks being left behind as an economic power. , a Democrat eyeing a 2028 presidential run, is so far the highest profile of several U.S. governors and mayors at U.N. climate talks being hosted in Belem, Brazil. They say they are here to tell the 195 nations who are trying to fight climate change that much ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
With Veterans Day here, now is the time to reflect on the sacrifices men and women in uniform have made for our country. It's important to also acknowledge the challenges veterans face as they transition back to civilian life. The shift from military to civilian life is often fraught with emotional, financial and social hurdles. Many veterans find it challenging to translate their military experience into careers ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
A Christian missionary father and his daughter were killed when a small plane bound for a hurricane relief mission in Jamaica Christian ministry organization Ignite the Fire identified the two victims of the Monday morning crash as the group's founder, Alexander Wurm, 53, and his daughter Serena Wurm, 22. The pair were bringing humanitarian aid to Jamaica, according to the organization, when the Beechcraft King Air ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
The new "demon bee" and the flower it saves. Megachile lucifer is an unusual bee from Australia — black, sleek, and with tiny devil-like horns. It's named after the "fallen angel" Lucifer, but this bee might just be the only angel a critically endangered plant has left. The insect has a taste for rare pollen, and that appetite could be the lifeline for a vanishing wildflower. Megachile, Megacool The Megachile ...
Source: zmescience.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Typhoon Fung-wong has moved away from the northwestern Philippines after carving out a trail of devastation, leaving at least 10 people dead and 1.4 million displaced. Known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Uwan, the intense tropical storm was forecast to head northwest towards Taiwan. Fung-wong lashed the northern Philippines while the country was still dealing with the devastation wrought last week ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Nov. 11 (UPI) -- A mobile lounge, transporting passengers at Washington Dulles International Airport, crashed into a dock Monday, injuring 18 people inside. The mobile lounge, also called a "people mover," was carrying passengers to Concourse D, when it struck the dock as it was pulling up to the terminal around 4:30 p.m. EST, according to the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. The MWAA oversees Dulles ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
After two decades of legal battles, Visa and Mastercard have reached a revised $38 billion settlement with U.S. merchants — one of the largest antitrust agreements in the financial industry's history. Yet, despite the record amount, not all retailers are ready to celebrate. The proposed settlement, filed in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, aims to end years of litigation accusing the credit card giants ...
Source: jdjournal.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
to visit or live in the United States if they have certain medical conditions such as diabetes or obesity or lack the economic resources and assets to support themselves. The guidance, issued last week in a cable from the State Department and obtained by The Associated Press, directs embassy and consular officials to comprehensively and thoroughly vet visa applicants to demonstrate that they will not need to rely ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
LONDON — Canadian-Hungarian-British writer David Szalay has won the Booker Prize for fiction on Monday for "Flesh," the story of one man's life from working-class origins in Hungary to mega-wealth in Britain, in which what isn't on the page is just as important as what is. Szalay, 51, beat five other finalists, including favorites Andrew Miller of Britain and Indian author Kiran Desai, to take the coveted ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
As Warren Buffett steps down from the helm of Berkshire Hathaway , the 95-year-old billionaire is doubling down on another lifelong pursuit: giving away the majority of his wealth. Buffett announced in a Thanksgiving letter to shareholders yesterday (Nov. 10) that he will "step up the pace" of his charitable donations going forward. That include $1.3 billion worth of Class B Berkshire shares to four nonprofits run ...
Source: observer.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
The operators of Camp Mystic in Texas, where 25 girls and two teenage counselors died in catastrophic flooding on July 4 , failed to take necessary steps to protect the campers as life-threatening floodwaters approached, families of the victims allege in a lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed Monday in state court in Austin, seeks more than $1 million in damages but does not specify an exact amount. It was filed as Camp ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Major League Baseball and its affiliated sportsbooks offered a fast reaction Monday to the latest on a growing list of sports betting scandals, capping bets on individual pitches at $200 and excluding them from parlays to keep those prop bets from jeopardizing the integrity of the sport. That decision came a day after Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz were indicted on ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
The abduction and execution in Tonka shocks the country, which has been battling armed groups since 2012. Armed men in Mali have abducted and publicly executed a TikTok influencer who posted videos in support of the West African nation's military, local authorities have said. Mariame Cissé was taken on Friday while at a weekly market in Echel, according to Yehia Tandina, the mayor of neighbouring Timbuktu. ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump on Monday defended his administration's plan to offer 600,000 visas to Chinese students — a move that has drawn criticism from within conservative circles. Fox News' Laura Ingraham pressed Trump during an interview on "The Ingraham Angle," questioning how the proposal was "pro-MAGA" if it crowded out spots for American students and whether ...
Source: foxnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
CallMiner dives into how to get the best of both worlds: how to harness the power of AI in customer experience while safeguarding customer privacy and earning trust. They will also cover key ethical challenges of using AI in CX, privacy principles and regulations that define what is acceptable, and best practices for companies to create state-of-the-art yet ethical customer experiences. Artificial intelligence (AI) ...
Source: callcentrehelper.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! Former President Barack Obama surprised a group of veterans in a heartfelt moment after they touched down on a flight into Washington, D.C., ahead of Veterans Day to visit memorials honoring their fellow service members. Obama boarded the plane just before the group of World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War veterans were about to disembark for their tour, and he took to ...
Source: foxnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Marion county agrees to apologize over 2023 raid that led to national outcry over press freedom, said newspaper's editor A rural county in Kansas has agreed to pay more than $3m and apologize over a raid by police on a small-town weekly newspaper in August 2023 that sparked a national outcry over press freedom, the paper's editor said on Tuesday. Eric Meyer, the editor and publisher of the Marion County Record , ...
Source: theguardian.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? WASHINGTON — A provision of the government funding bill that passed the Senate on Monday could give Republican senators a big payday over the government allegedly spying on them. The ...
Source: huffpost.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 -
YouTube TV subscribers have missed another Monday Night Football game, with no sign at all of when ABC and other Disney channels might be restored to the service. All of the Disney-owned streaming channels, including ABC, ESPN, the ACC Network and the SEC Networks, were removed from YouTube TV on Oct. 31 and have not returned since. The disagreement causing the ABC and ESPN outage stems from the ...
Source: cnet.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Bangkok — Thailand said it has indefinitely paused implementation of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire until Cambodia apologizes for a land mine explosion Monday that injured four Thai soldiers at their border. Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul visited the injured troops at the border Tuesday as the Thai army accused Cambodia of laying new mines in violation of the truce agreement Thailand and Cambodia ...
Source: cbsnews.com
A 107% U.S. import tax on Italian pasta could make your favorite spaghetti pricier — or hard to find
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Americans may soon be paying more for their favorite Italian pasta brands — or even have trouble finding imported spaghetti — as the Trump administration eyes a new import duty on 13 of Italy's largest pasta exporters. The proposal, published by the Commerce Department in September, would add a new 92% antidumping duty after a U.S. government probe found that some Italian pasta brands, ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Nov. 11 (UPI) -- The Machala prison became the site of one of Ecuador's deadliest prison massacres. In less than 24 hours, 31 inmates were killed during a nationwide prison reorganization effort that, instead of restoring order, appears to have increased violence. Officers from Ecuador's national prison service, the National Service for Comprehensive Attention (SNAI) , found 27 bodies showing signs of death by ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Many teachers worry that AI could make students lazy thinkers. Mark Cuban thinks it could do the opposite — if used the right way. The billionaire investor and former Shark Tank star said kids who learn to use AI properly will "be best equipped to lead" in the future workplace. In an interview with CNBC published Monday, Cuban argued that students who collaborate with — rather than rely on it — ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Monday, Nov 10th, 2025 -
Cut through the chaos. Americans just sent Trump a clear message — and Dems are calling it "a 5-alarm fire" for the president. Our reporters are here to keep you informed and make sense of Washington's chaos. Join HuffPost and be part of what happens next. Already a member? In a fiery letter sent to President Donald Trump on Sunday, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) alleged that convicted sex offender Ghislaine ...
Source: huffpost.com
Monday, Nov 10th, 2025 -
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene has "lost her way" after her criticism that Trump needs to focus less on foreign policy and more on the home front. Greene, a member of the House of Representatives from Georgia, has long been a reliable ally and fierce defender of Trump until recent weeks when she has taken ...
Source: aol.com
Monday, Nov 10th, 2025 -
Ahmed al-Sharaa and Donald Trump hold first White House summit between a US and Syrian leader since 1946 The US has announced a partial suspension of sanctions on Syria after a historic meeting in Washington DC between its new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, and Donald Trump . Monday's meeting was the first summit between a US and Syrian leader at the White House since 1946. The meeting is part of a remarkable turnaround ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Nov 10th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday announced the latest in a series of strikes on boats accused of ferrying drugs, killing six people in attacks on two vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The dual strikes on Sunday bring the total number of known attacks up to 19 and the death toll to at least 75 people since the Trump administration launched a campaign against drug trafficking in ...
Source: military.com
Monday, Nov 10th, 2025 -
The Senate has rejected an amendment to a critical spending bill that would have removed language to ban hemp products containing THC. After the chamber cleared the appropriations minibus package for floor consideration on Sunday, senators on Monday took up the measure from Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) that he said would prevent the eradication of the hemp market that's matured since the crop's federal legalization under ...
Source: marijuanamoment.net
Monday, Nov 10th, 2025 -
After bully-like behavior last month over a small emissions levy, diplomats will be relieved if the US stays away from climate talks For years, countries around the world pressed the US to engage with them in addressing the climate crisis and to show it was serious about taking action. Now, with key United Nations climate talks under way in Brazil this week, other nations have been quietly hoping the US stays well ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Nov 10th, 2025 -
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was released from prison on Monday after a Paris court granted him release under judicial supervision. Monday's announcement came less than three weeks after Sarkozy, 70, began serving a five-year sentence for criminal conspiracy in a scheme to finance his 2007 election campaign with funds from Libya. Sarkozy left La Santé prison by car and later quickly stepped into ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Monday, Nov 10th, 2025 -
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel on Monday returned the remains of 15 Palestinians to Gaza in the latest step forward for a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, as a senior 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 ...
Source: military.com