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Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
Firefighters continued battling a massive blaze at a high-rise housing complex in Hong Kong for the second day on Thursday, as the death toll climbed to 83 and nearly 300 people remained unaccounted for, according to The Guradian. Thick smoke and pockets of flame were still visible at the Wang Fuk Court complex in Tai Po, where rescuers moved from flat to flat in dark, charred corridors using flashlights. Hong Kong ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) — President Donald Trump said that one of the two West Virginia National Guard members shot by an Afghan national near the White House had died, calling the suspect, who had worked with the CIA in his native country, a "savage monster." As part of a Thanksgiving call with U.S. troops, Trump announced that he had just learned that Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, had died, while ...
Source: wfla.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
Households are facing a "truly dismal" increase in living standards after the Budget, the head of an influential think tank has warned as it accused Labour of breaching its manifesto promise. Average disposable income - a measure of people's earnings after tax - will rise by just 0.5% over each of the next five years, according to the government''s official forecaster. IFS boss Helen Miller said she considered the ...
Source: bbc.co.uk
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
Russian President Vladimir Putin said the outlines of a draft peace plan agreed by the U.S. and Ukraine could become the basis of a future agreement to end the war. "In general, we agree that this can be the basis for future agreements," Putin said. U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is due to travel to Moscow next week. In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
South Africa denounced US President Donald Trump's decision to bar it from the 2026 G20 summit, calling the move punitive and driven by distortions that erode global cooperation. The two countries are at odds over a range of domestic and foreign policies — a standoff that came to a head after Washington skipped the G20 summit in Johannesburg last week. Trump said South Africa would not be invited ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
Senior figure allegedly referred to customers buying 'highly processed food' and denigrated Indian employees Campbell's has dismissed an executive who allegedly referred to the soup company's products as being made for "poor people" and denigrated its Indian employees. Martin Bally, who was the vice-president of Campbell's information technology department, was recorded making the alleged comments by another ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru's Supreme Court sentenced former President Pedro Castillo to 11.5 years in prison for conspiracy to commit a rebellion in 2022, as lawmakers prepared to impeach him. A special panel of the highest court also banned Castillo,56, from public office for two years. He has been in custody since being arrested in December 2022. Two of Castillo's former ministers were also sentenced to 11.5 ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
The Trump administration's plan to redefine what constitutes a professional degree would exclude nursing and limit access to student loans — outraging national health care groups and leaving nursing students questioning how they will pay for graduate degrees. Previously, graduate students could borrow federal loans up to the cost of their degree, but under the new proposal, there would be caps on loans based ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
Unlock more this Holiday Season while supporting the journalism you rely on. For a limited time, new Platinum members can unlock one month free. Support the newsroom that works every day to bring clarity and accountability to the headlines. Already a member? CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's ...
Source: huffpost.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
The pair had entered the water at Kylies Beach, a popular surfing spot, for an early morning swim. A woman has been killed by a shark and a man seriously injured at a popular beach in Australia. Emergency services were alerted to the attack at Crowdy Bay National Park, near Port Macquarie, around 218 miles north of Sydney , at 6.30am local time on Thursday. They were responding to reports two people had been bitten ...
Source: news.sky.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
The iPhone may feel ubiquitous, but Apple has consistently lagged behind rival Samsung in terms of global smartphone market share. Tim Cook's newest iteration, though, is breaking through — and returning Apple to the top of the industry. A new report from Counterpoint Research projects that Apple will be the leading smartphone producer in 2025, marking the first time since 2011 that it has held that title. ...
Source: insider.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
Unlock more this Holiday Season while supporting the journalism you rely on. For a limited time, new Platinum members can unlock one month free. Support the newsroom that works every day to bring clarity and accountability to the headlines. Already a member? A junior college basketball player in Oklahoma has died following an injury sustained during a game. Ethan Dietz was a 6-foot-8 sophomore forward at Connors ...
Source: huffpost.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
ANKARA, Turkey — Pope Leo XIV encouraged Turkey to be a source of stability and dialogue in a world riven by conflict, as he opened his first foreign trip as pope on Thursday with a plea for peace amid efforts to end wars in Ukraine and Gaza. The American pope emphasized a message of peace as he arrived in Ankara , welcomed on the tarmac by a military guard of honor and at the presidential palace by President ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
Military officials in the small West African nation of Guinea-Bissau have announced a new leader one day after seizing power in a military coup . General Horta Inta-A was named as the head of a one-year transitional government at about noon (12:00 GMT) on Thursday. In a statement, he justified the seizure of power and said the army had taken charge in the face of threats to Guinea-Bissau's stability. On Wednesday, ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
In the latest twist in human evolution, scientists have discovered that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belonged to a previously unknown ancient relative. Dated to around 3.4 million years ago, the species was likely similar to Lucy, an ancient human relative who lived in the area at around the same time, according to a study published Wednesday in the scientific journal Nature. But researchers found that the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
Monsoon rains cause devastation on Indonesian island, sparking landslides and flash flooding Flash floods and landslides on Indonesia's Sumatra island have killed 69 people, with 59 missing as emergency workers search in rivers and the rubble of villages for bodies and possible survivors. Monsoon rains over the past week caused rivers to burst their banks in North Sumatra province on Tuesday. The deluge tore ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
OpenAI has informed its application programming interface (API) users that some of their data may have been exposed in a breach impacting Mixpanel, a data analytics supplier. In a November 26 blog post , the generative AI company said an attacker gained unauthorized access to part of Mixpanel's systems and exported a dataset containing limited customer identifiable information and analytics information. This ...
Source: infosecurity-magazine.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
Cats have been on quite a journey from wild animal to undisputed ruler of millions of couches worldwide. A pair of new studies published on Thursday show that the road to cat domestication was far more complex than scientists first suspected. One of the new papers, published in Science , centers on ancient wild and domesticated cats in North Africa, Europe and the Middle East , while the other, appearing in Cell ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
Nov. 27 (UPI) -- A federal judge who oversaw the sex trafficking case against Jeffrey Epstein on Wednesday demanded prosecutors explain how they are protecting victims' privacy after the release of unredacted documents. New York-based Judge Richard Berman issued the order in response to a letter raising alarm about how the names of some of Epstein's victims were included in a trove of documents released by Congress ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
It's quick and easy to access Live Science Plus, simply enter your email below. We'll send you a confirmation and sign you up for our daily newsletter, keeping you up to date with the latest science news. A new study suggests that a NASA telescope may have made the first-ever observation of elusive dark matter, the invisible and mysterious substance that makes up most of the matter in the universe. However, ...
Source: livescience.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
A court in Thailand said Wednesday that it has issued an arrest warrant for a co-owner of the Miss Universe Organization in connection with a fraud case. Jakkaphong "Anne" Jakrajutatip was charged with fraud then released on bail in 2023. She failed to appear as required in a Bangkok court on Tuesday. Since she did not notify the court about her absence, she was deemed to be a flight risk, according to a statement ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
A Georgia prosecutor has dropped pending charges against Donald Trump over allegations of 2020 election interference by the United States president and his allies. Judge Scott McAfee granted the request to terminate the prosecution on Wednesday, putting an end to the last set of criminal charges against Trump. "This case is hereby dismissed in its entirety," McAfee wrote. State prosecutor Peter Skandalakis had ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
Ideas Why Does Steve Witkoff Keep Taking Russia's Side? Trump's envoy isn't promoting peace. His interventions are helping Vladimir Putin. Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Kevin Dietsch / Getty. November 26, 2025, 4:28 PM ET Save Pay attention to the dates, because the timing matters. Steve Witkoff spoke with Yuri Ushakov, a Russian official, on October 14. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held a meeting ...
Source: theatlantic.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
The unprecedented push to create new congressional districts mid-decade is hitting roadblocks in the form of local elected officials from both parties. Republicans face headwinds in the 2026 midterms: the party in power often loses ground in the election after a presidential win, and Trump's agenda isn't going over well. The 2025 off-year elections showed voters favoring Democrats at higher-than-expected margins. ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
The Trump administration has negotiated lower prices for 15 widely used medications covered by Medicare, with the federal government saying the effort will cut spending on those drugs by 44%, or about $12 billion. So will the initiative help save money for seniors? That's less clear, given that Medicare enrollees are already protected by a cap on drug costs. But the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with conforming loan balances, $806,500 or less, increased to 6.40% from 6.37% Applications for a mortgage to purchase a home rose 8% for the week and were 20% higher than the same week a year ago Applications to refinance a home loan dropped 6% for the week but were 117% higher than the same week one year ago. A "For Sale" sign in front of a home ...
Source: cnbc.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article The flights, this past March, have become a flashpoint in President Donald Trump's mass deportation strategy, and his administration's pattern of apparently defying court orders. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was behind a decision not to turn deportation flights around ...
Source: independent.co.uk