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Top News Stories for Thursday, November 13th 2025
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
The monthslong bipartisan effort to sidestep Speaker Mike Johnson and force the release of all Justice Department files on the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is kicking into high gear this week, setting up a December floor battle that President Donald Trump has sought to avoid. The cascade of action is set to begin Wednesday evening, when Johnson will swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva right before the House ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
In the midst of a sluggish job market , the headlines are grim: "Tens of Thousands of White-Collar Jobs Are Disappearing as AI Starts to Bite (1)," "Nearly a Million Jobs Just Vanished (2)" and "White-Collar Workers Are Getting the Blues (3)." Meanwhile, executives are betting on artificial intelligence (AI) as a way to grow without adding people. Reporting in The Wall Street Journal shows major corporations have ...
Source: aol.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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Airlines in the United States have cancelled nearly 1,200 flights, marking the fifth consecutive day of mass delays and cancellations sparked by the country's longest-ever government shutdown. In addition to cancellations on Tuesday, passengers continued to face long in the morning. New York's LaGuardia Airport, in particular, is seeing significant hold-ups, with average delays of one hour and 40 ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
There's been some sporadic talk in conservative circles about the introduction of new, 50-year mortgages for Americans looking to buy a home, but it seemed easy to dismiss and difficult to take seriously. That is, until the White House threw its public support behind the policy. On Saturday, Bill Pulte, the Trump loyalist who leads the Federal Housing Finance Agency, announced via social media that the Republican ...
Source: msnbc.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 -
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 -
Yet, the biggest giveaway that Trump was certainly not working in the Oval Office over the weekend was that he left Washington, D.C., on Friday . So, Trump was in Florida on Saturday, the day Mullin published his post. Trump didn't spend the entire weekend in Florida, however. He was in Washington by Sunday. to provide each American a $2,000 dividend to be distributed from what he said was "A dividend of at least ...
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 -
Baby formula maker ByHeart is recalling all of its products amid an outbreak of infant botulism likely tied to its powdered formula. Since August, 15 cases have been reported across 12 states , nearly all among babies between 16 days and around 5 months old, according to the Food and Drug Administration. After the FDA announced Saturday that it was investigating the outbreak and its link to ByHeart's organic Whole ...
Source: nbcnews.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 -
Insect gets name from Netflix series after scientist finds it on critically endangered wildflower A species of bee with tiny horns has been discovered in a remote part of Australia and named "Lucifer". The bee was found in the Goldfields region of Western Australia , about 300 miles east of Perth. Only females have the distinctive horns protruding from their heads. They may be used for defence or as a way of ...
Source: telegraph.co.uk
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
Japan's SoftBank says it has sold its shares in Nvidia for $5.8 billion, turning its focus to OpenAI
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese technology giant SoftBank said Tuesday it has sold its stake in Nvidia, raising $5.8 billion to pour into other investments. It also reported its profit nearly tripled in the first half of this fiscal year from a year earlier. Tokyo-based SoftBank Group Corp. said it sold the stake in Silicon Vally-based Nvidia in October, a move that reflects its shift in focus to OpenAI, owner of the ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Google Photos can be a powerful editing tool on Android and iPhone, especially thanks to the growing list of AI abilities that Google has included in the app. On Tuesday, Google announced six new Google Photos features, including Nano Banana-powered AI editing features and support for AI edits on the iPhone. The Ask Photos feature, which lets you use natural language to find specific media in your photo gallery, ...
Source: bgr.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, the team's governor, Patrick Dumont, has confirmed. "This decision reflects our continued commitment to building a championship-caliber organization, one that delivers for our players, our partners, and most importantly, our fans," Dumont said in a statement. His exit comes nine months after Harrison sent five-time first-team All-NBA selection Luka ...
Source: theguardian.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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
, R-Ga., had "lost her way" with of the administration's focus on foreign policy. "I don't know what happened to Marjorie. She's a nice woman, but I don't know what happened. She's lost her way, I think," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. "But I have to view the presidency as a worldwide situation, not locally. I mean, we could have a world that's on fire, where wars come to our shores very easily, if you ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Monday, Nov 10th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON — Though Congress appears to have a deal to end the government shutdown , a vote on that agreement is being held up by an unexpected issue: hemp. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is objecting to speedy consideration of the bill that would end the longest shutdown in U.S. history over a hemp provision tucked into funding for the Agriculture Department, three people familiar with conversations but not ...
Source: nbcnews.com