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Top News Stories for Sunday, November 9th 2025
Sunday, Nov 9th, 2025 -
stretched into its 40th day Sunday even as senators stayed in Washington for a grueling weekend session hoping to find an end to the funding fight that has disrupted flights nationwide, threatened food assistance for millions of Americans and left federal workers without pay. The Senate has so far shown few signs of progress over a weekend that could be crucial for the shutdown fight. Republican leaders are hoping ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Sunday, Nov 9th, 2025 -
More than 1,530 flights were cancelled in the United States, while thousands more were delayed on Saturday after authorities ordered airports to reduce air traffic because of the ongoing government shutdown. According to figures published by the flight tracking website, FlightAware, the cancellations on Saturday marked an uptick from the 1,025 cancellations the day before. The trend is set to continue into Sunday, ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Sunday, Nov 9th, 2025 -
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The Red Cross received on Sunday the remains of a hostage in Gaza that Hamas claims is the body of an Israeli soldier who was killed in 2014 and who has been held in Gaza for the past 11 years. His remains are the only ones currently held in Gaza since before the latest, two-year war between Israel and Hamas . Hamas said it found the body of the soldier, Hadar Goldin, in a tunnel in ...
Source: apnews.com
Sunday, Nov 9th, 2025 -
Nobel prize-winning biologist whose discovery, with Francis Crick, of the structure of DNA solved the mystery of genetic inheritance James Watson, who has died aged 97, had an extraordinary gift for science, combined with ruthless ambition and an arrogant disregard for most of his peers. These combined qualities earned him a key role in one of the 20th century's most profound scientific revolutions, a share in a ...
Source: theguardian.com
Sunday, Nov 9th, 2025 -
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
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
The Tennessee-headquartered firm said it had also taken the decision "out of an abundance of caution" and that it would be conducting "a thorough safety review based on the recommendation of the manufacturer." The plane involved in Tuesday's crash near Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport could be seen banking hard to the left before crashing into an industrial area to the south of the airport.
Source: insider.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge in Oregon ruled Friday that President Donald Trump's administration failed to meet the legal requirements for deploying the National Guard to Portland after the city and state sued in September to block the deployment. The ruling from U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, followed a three-day trial last week in which both sides argued over whether ...
Source: military.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
Donald Trump has said the US will not attend the G20 summit in South Africa over widely discredited claims that white people are being persecuted in the country. The US president said it was a "total disgrace" that South Africa is hosting the meeting, where leaders from the world's largest economies will gather in Johannesburg later this month. South Africa's foreign ministry described the decision by the White ...
Source: bbc.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration violated the First Amendment rights of Education Department employees when it replaced their personalized out-of-office e-mail notifications with partisan language blaming Democrats for the government shutdown. "When government employees enter public service, they do not sign away their First Amendment rights," U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper wrote in his ...
Source: npr.org
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
The exemption is a major prize for Viktor Orbán, whose 15-year rule is seen as a blueprint by the MAGA movement in Washington. President Donald Trump has handed his authoritarian Hungarian ally Viktor Orbán a special exemption from Russian energy sanctions , a major boost for the far-right populist whose 15-year rule has been used as a blueprint by the MAGA movement. Orbán visited Trump in ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
News , via Wikimedia Commons Cornell University announces $60M deal with Trump administration to restore funding Cornell University announced on Friday that it reached a settlement with US President Donald Trump's administration to pay $60 million and adopt the administration's interpretation of federal civil rights laws. In exchange, the federal government will restore Cornell's federal research funding and end ...
Source: jurist.org
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – The White House said Saturday it would be "beautiful" to name the for Washington's NFL team after President Donald Trump following that an intermediary has told the Commanders' ownership group that he wants it to bear his name. Trump could deliver the message in person on Sunday when he is expected to watch the Commanders play the Detroit Lions at Northwest Stadium in Landover, ...
Source: news4jax.com
Man dies at Grand Canyon after slipping over edge, falling more than 100 feet, sheriff's office says
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! A 65-year-old man died this week in the Grand Canyon after slipping over the edge and falling more than 100 feet, a sheriff's office said. The incident happened in the Guano Point area of Grand Canyon West, according to the Mohave County Sheriff's Office. "A 65-year-old male had slipped and fell over the edge into the canyon and was deceased," the sheriff's office's search ...
Source: foxnews.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
Video above: Chicagoland immigration raids lead to over 3,000 arrests in two months CHICAGO ( WGN ) – Shots were reportedly fired at U.S. Border Patrol agents during immigration enforcement operations in the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago Saturday afternoon. The Department of Homeland Security claims agents were conducting immigration enforcement operations near 26th Street and Kedzie Avenue when an ...
Source: wfla.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
The most reliable weather records go back to 1872 or so, but over half a century earlier, the first edition of the Farmers' Almanac was printed, and over time and for generations, it became an American mainstay. It's hard to believe that this long-running almanac based in Lewiston, Maine, will soon cease to exist. When I was growing up in Portland, getting a copy of the Farmers' Almanac or its older rival, the ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
Turkey announced on Friday that it has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and several senior officials, accusing them of committing genocide during the war in Gaza. The Istanbul prosecutor's office said in a statement that arrest warrants were issued for 37 individuals, though it did not release the full list. Those named include Israeli defence minister Israel Katz, National ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
This is a BETA experience. opt-out The Planes, Trains, And Automobiles Edition Plus: More government shutdown news, new guidance for employers on "no tax on tips" and "no tax on overtime," foreign real estate taxes, name, image and likeness (NIL) taxation, tax trivia and more. Kelly Phillips Erb is a Forbes senior writer who covers tax. Updated Nov 8, 2025, 03:24pm EST Hello from Park City, Utah! It's a brisk ...
Source: forbes.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
– A in eastern Ukraine early Saturday while many were sleeping, killing three and injuring 12 people, Ukrainian authorities reported. The attack in Dnipro, Ukraine's fourth-largest city, was part of a large Russian missile and drone barrage across the country that targeted power infrastructure and also killed a worker at an energy company in Kharkiv, farther north, a local official said. In eastern Ukraine, , ...
Source: news4jax.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
Without an end in sight for the government shutdown, consumer sentiment is reflecting that uncertainty, according to the latest data from the University of Michigan . The preliminary results for the Index of Consumer Sentiment came in at 50.3, down 6.2% from October's reading of 53.6. Year-over-year, there was a 29.9% drop from 71.8 in November 2024. Surveys of Consumers Director Joanne Hsu noted that this ...
Source: rismedia.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump ordered a federal investigation into the meatpacking industry, blaming "majority foreign owned" companies for soaring beef prices. Trump asked the Justice Department to "immediately begin" the investigation into meat processors, accusing them of collusion, price fixing and manipulation, according to a social media post. Shares of Brazil's JBS NV , the world's largest meat company, fell by as ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 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? WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has pardoned former New York Mets great Darryl Strawberry on past tax evasion and drug ...
Source: huffpost.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
– The Justice Department has embarked on a fresh investigation into one of President Donald Trump's chief grievances, issuing a flurry of subpoenas related to the U.S. government's inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, multiple people familiar with the matter said Friday. The grand jury subpoenas issued out of the Southern District of Florida seek documents related to the ...
Source: news4jax.com