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Top News Stories for Monday, November 17th 2025
Sunday, Nov 16th, 2025 -
U.S. President Donald Trump walks out of the Oval Office towards Marine One at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein When the 20,000 pages of documents received from the estate of late convicted Jeffrey Epstein were released, the Republicans in control of the majority on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee couldn't avoid the fact that President Donald ...
Source: rawstory.com
Sunday, Nov 16th, 2025 -
The United Kingdom has announced a drastic reduction in the protections for asylum seekers and refugees under a new plan aimed at slashing irregular immigration and countering the far right. The measures, modelled on Denmark's strict asylum system , were announced late on Saturday as Prime Minister Keir Starmer comes under pressure from surging popularity for the anti-immigrant Reform UK party. "I'll end UK's ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Sunday, Nov 16th, 2025 -
Not 'appropriate' to use licence fee payer's money to pay US president after threat to sue for up to $5bn, says peer The BBC should not pay any money to Donald Trump , the former BBC director general Tony Hall has said. The US president has said he plans to sue the BBC for up to $5bn (£3.8bn) despite receiving the apology he demanded over a misleading Panorama edit of his 6 January speech. Speaking to BBC ...
Source: theguardian.com
Sunday, Nov 16th, 2025 -
The American government has claimed that it is working to prevent criminal cartels from smuggling drugs. Some believe it is aiming to force the Nicolas Maduro regime from power. The most advanced US aircraft carrier has travelled to the Caribbean Sea in what has been interpreted as a show of military power and a possible threat to Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro regime. The USS Gerald R. Ford and other warships arrived ...
Source: news.sky.com
Georgia up to No. 4 in AP poll, Sooners back in top 10 and Mean Green are ranked 1st time since 1959
Sunday, Nov 16th, 2025 -
Follow live updates on the AP Top 25 poll . Get the AP Top 25 college football poll delivered straight to your inbox every week with AP Top 25 Poll Alerts. Sign up here . Georgia moved up one spot to No. 4 in The Associated Press poll Sunday, Oklahoma returned to the top 10 and North Texas, ranked for the first time since 1959, is among three Group of Five teams in the Top 25. Ohio State, Indiana and Texas A&M were ...
Source: apnews.com
Sunday, Nov 16th, 2025 -
( The Hill ) — President Trump over the weekend pardoned two individuals charged in connection with the investigation into the 2021 riots at the U.S. Capitol. The president issued pardons for Suzanne Ellen Kaye, who served an 18-month sentence for threatening to shoot FBI agents amid an investigation into her involvement in the riots, and Daniel Edwin Wilson, who remained imprisoned, despite Trump's ...
Source: wfla.com
Sunday, Nov 16th, 2025 -
A China Coast Guard ship formation passed through the waters of the Senkaku Islands on Sunday on a "rights enforcement patrol", the China Coast Guard said in a statement, as Beijing ramps up tensions with Japan over its prime minister's remarks on Taiwan. A diplomatic spat between China and Japan has intensified since Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told parliament on November 7 that a hypothetical Chinese ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Sunday, Nov 16th, 2025 -
The player, who bought their ticket in Newnan, matched all six numbers during a Friday evening drawing and won a jackpot worth an estimated $980 million. It has an estimated cash value of $452.2 million. "We are thrilled to congratulate the largest winner in our state's history," Georgia Lottery President and CEO Gretchen Corbin said in a news release. "With every Mega Millions ticket sold in Georgia supporting ...
Source: bradenton.com
Sunday, Nov 16th, 2025 -
Store chains Kmart and Target have recalled a sand product after traces of asbestos were detected, with authorities saying a comprehensive assessment is under way. Dozens of schools in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) will be closed on Monday following a recall of coloured play sand, which authorities have warned poses an asbestos risk. A comprehensive audit is under way as the use of the product "is ...
Source: news.sky.com
Sunday, Nov 16th, 2025 -
More than 100 people were injured and 20 arrested during a massive protest on Saturday in Mexico City against the president's handling of violent crime, local government officials said. Thousands marched on the capital's historic main public square, the Zocalo, in a demonstration fueled by young Mexicans with ties to a global wave of Generation Z protests as well as supporters of the domestic "Sombrero Movement," ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Saturday, Nov 15th, 2025 -
United States federal officials have confirmed that an immigration crackdown – the latest by President Donald Trump's administration – is under way in North Carolina's largest city, Charlotte, as agents were seen making arrests in multiple locations. "Americans should be able to live without fear of violent criminal illegal aliens hurting them, their families, or their neighbors," Assistant Homeland ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Saturday, Nov 15th, 2025 -
Former Federal Reserve governor Adriana Kugler, who resigned abruptly in August, repeatedly broke the central bank's strict trading rules before stepping down, according to new disclosures released by US ethics authorities. A report by the US Office of Government Ethics, reviewed after the Federal Reserve referred the matter earlier this year, outlines multiple stock transactions in 2024 that violated Fed policy, ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Saturday, Nov 15th, 2025 -
The incident, which happened during a forensic examination of seized explosives, has destroyed buildings and vehicles, days after a deadly car blast in New Delhi linked to a suspected militant cell. At least nine people have been killed and 32 injured after a cache of confiscated explosives detonated inside a police station in Indian-administered Kashmir. The accidental blast occurred late on Friday in the Nowgam ...
Source: news.sky.com