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Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
U.S. Representative Thomas Massie speaks during a press conference to discuss the Epstein Files Transparency bill, directing the release of the remaining files related to the investigations into Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 3, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst House Speaker Mike Johnson will finally swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) after lawmakers ...
Source: rawstory.com
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 -
LONDON — President Donald Trump has said he has an obligation to proceed with his threatened $1 billion lawsuit against the BBC for editing a speech he made before his supporters' violent Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol in an attempt to overturn the presidential election result. The BBC's top executive, Director-General Tim Davie, and its news CEO, Deborah Turness, resigned Sunday amid a growing scandal ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistanis buried their loved ones on Wednesday as authorities probed a deadly suicide bombing at an Islamabad court the day before, the latest attack underscoring the country's challenges as the government struggles with a surging militancy , border tensions and a fragile truce with Afghanistan. The bombing on Tuesday killed 12 people and left 27 wounded at the district court, located on the ...
Source: apnews.com
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 -
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 -
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
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON ( The Hill ) — Despite the Senate advancing legislation to bring the record-long government shutdown to an end, do not expect air travel to immediately revert to normal. The 42-day funding lapse, which has caused air traffic controllers to miss two consecutive paychecks as of Tuesday, has led to chaos at airports nationwide. Controllers have missed work at a significantly higher rate than ...
Source: wfla.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Donald Trump has a new idea to boost the US housing market : a 50-year fixed-rate mortgage . The president floated a new, longer-term mortgage in a post on Truth Social over the weekend. Bill Pulte , the Federal Housing Finance Agency director, confirmed that the FHFA was working on the new borrowing plan in a separate social post. "Thanks to President Trump, we are indeed working on The 50 year Mortgage - a ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump has recently issued dozens of pardons and other grants of clemency. Some recipients include former U.S. Rep. George Santos, Binance founder Changpeng Zhao and Rudy Giuliani, Trump's onetime personal lawyer. Multiple other high-profile figures have been eyed as possible candidates for pardons or commutations from Trump, based on public reports and Trump's own remarks. U.S. President Donald ...
Source: cnbc.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 -
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 -
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 -
An outbreak of botulism tied to ByHeart baby formula has made at least 15 infants sick in 12 states, a California health official said Monday. The company announced Tuesday that it is expanding its voluntary recall to include all products while the investigation continues. Nine cases of infant botulism type A have been confirmed, with results on six others pending, said Dr. Erica Pan, health officer for the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
The Supreme Court Monday agreed to hear a case that could decide how — and when — mail-in ballots for federal elections are counted. CNN More than two dozen states allow mail-in ballots postmarked before Election Day to be counted days later, a "grace period" that "aids voters — including military personnel — whose ballots are delayed for reasons outside their control," said Politico and ...
Source: theweek.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Nov. 11 (UPI) -- A new species of bee in Australia has been discovered, named for its unique devil-like features. The nicknamed "Lucifer" bee, or Megachile lucifer, was discovered in 2019 in the Goldfields region of western Australia while scientists were in the middle of surveying an endangered wildflower, according to a new study released Monday by Journal of Hymenoptera Research. Lucifer, a native bee, has ...
Source: upi.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 crashed in a South Florida neighborhood . 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 ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
SoftBank sold 32.1 million shares of Nvidia in October. It also sold part of its stake in T-Mobile for $9.17 billion. This is not the first time SoftBank has cashed out of the chipmaker. Despite the sale, SoftBank remains tied to Nvidia through its other artificial intelligence ventures. In this article Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang (L) and the CEO of the SoftBank Group Masayoshi Son pose during an AI event in Tokyo on ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Topics More from TechCrunch Google Photos has rolled out a series of new AI-powered features, including a way to edit objects and people in images, a new Ask button for AI-powered answers about the photo or edit requests, AI templates to create new photos, and the expansion of natural language search. The company first introduced prompt-based editing for Pixel 10 series phones in August. Now, iOS users in the U.S. ...
Source: techcrunch.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 -
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 -
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 -
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 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 -
Apple has confirmed that it removed the popular gay dating apps Blued and Finka from its Chinese iOS store in compliance with an order from the Cyberspace Administration of China. The country's app space has become increasingly restrictive in recent years, with Apple recently complying with orders to remove apps like Meta's WhatsApp and Threads. In this article Flag of China and LGBT rainbow flag Apple has ...
Source: cnbc.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 -
Washington — It's a Veterans Day they won't soon forget. On a balmy 70-degree day in the nation's capital this past weekend, former President Barack Obama boarded an Honor Flight filled with veterans of the Korean and Vietnam wars that had just touched down from Madison, Wisconsin. "Hello, everybody," his voiced boomed over the loud speaker. "What!" exclaimed one person. Another veteran ...
Source: cbsnews.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 Trump battered away criticism from MAGA supporters by claiming that the movement was his 'idea' has doubled down on his plan to bring in over 600,000 Chinese college students to the United States, in a polarizing move that has divided the MAGA base . However, the president has ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Armed men in Mali killed a TikTok influencer who had posted videos in support of the West African nation's military, authorities said Monday. "The young TikTok user Mariame Cissé was abducted by armed men on Friday while she was at the weekly market in Echel ... The following day, at dusk, the same men brought her back to Independence Square in Tonka and executed her in front of a crowd," Yehia Tandina, the ...
Source: nbcnews.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
Monday, Nov 10th, 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? What happened to turn Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) from one of Congress' into one of the few willing to stand up to her own party? Nobody knows ― especially not President Donald Trump . ...
Source: huffpost.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