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Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
and a senior Russian official offered guarded reactions to President Donald Trump's proposal to end Moscow's war in Ukraine. Speaking in his nightly address on Nov. 20, Zelenskyy said that American military officials currently in Ukraine had presented "their vision" for securing a peace deal and that his country was carefully studying the proposals. "From the first days of the war, we have upheld one very simple ...
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Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
President Trump's meeting with incoming New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday was not expected to be warm and congenial. The two politicians agree on very little, and they've lobbed attacks at each other for months, with Mr. Trump calling Mamdani a "100% communist lunatic" and Mamdani describing himself as "Donald Trump's worst nightmare." But instead, the two men seemed to hit it off . In a surreal ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
The CDC said the claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not evidence-based, contrary to medical consensus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its website to state that there could be a link between autism and vaccines. The decision to now publicly state a correlation between autism and vaccines undermines the CDC's longtime position of the contrary. The alleged connection between ...
Source: pharmaceutical-technology.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
Nov. 20 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump on Thursday called a handful of ex-military Democratic lawmakers "traitors" who should be jailed over a video they published online informing active service members of their oath to protect the Constitution and their responsibility to refuse illegal orders. In a series of statements published on his Truth Social media platform, Trump described their actions as "SEDITIOUS ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
Monitoring the mortgage interest rate climate in recent years has often been frustrating for buyers and owners looking to refinance. Not only were rates exponentially higher than they were at the start of the decade but there frequently felt like there was no chance of them declining again anytime soon. But that dynamic has changed a bit over the past year. Not only are mortgage interest rates down ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
New efforts this week in Washington to effectively ban individual states from governing artificial intelligence have provoked bipartisan backlash. The push from House Republicans and the White House to assert federal control over AI regulation, which echoes a similar attempt over the summer , has forged new lines of agreement between far-right commentators and progressive activists. "It's a coalition of almost ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
on Thursday after weeks of speculation from AI fans who have either tested the unreleased AI image generator or viewed shared on social media. The images created with the test version of Nano Banana Pro teased the improvements Google made to its viral image generator, including support for improved text rendering. In a , Google highlighted Nano Banana Pro's text abilities in the announcement, suggesting ...
Source: bgr.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said he would no longer teach at Harvard University after his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were recently made public. The scandal, however, continues to play out in his old classrooms. A video posted on TikTok on Thursday showed a professor addressing a room full of Summers' former students about his absence. The Harvard Crimson, the university's student-run ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
The U.S. Coast Guard is scrambling to clarify proposed internal policy changes that appeared to loosen how the service branch handles the conduct within its ranks involving hate symbols including nooses, swastikas, and other extremist symbols — touching off a political firestorm inside the nation's smallest military branch after the Space Force. The controversy centers on a little-noticed personnel directive ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
It's been plain from the start that the Justice Department's prosecution of James Comey springs from Donald Trump's desire for payback against a bitter political enemy. Exhibit A: the president's own September 20, 2025, Truth Social post, stating exactly that. Now it seems that the DOJ has coupled bad motives with straightforward incompetence. When rookie prosecutors take over complicated cases, rookie mistakes ...
Source: nymag.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
California Governor Gavin Newsom, along with local congressional representatives, state officials and supporters, speaks as he announces the redrawing of California's congressional maps, calling on voters to approve a ballot measure, in response to a similar move in Texas being supported by U.S. President Donald Trump, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., August 14, 2025. REUTERS/Mike Blake Gavin Newsom has slammed ...
Source: rawstory.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Spores of moss survived nearly a year outside of the International Space Station and has returned back to Earth alive. The moss survived for the nine month period and returned with more than 80% of its spores able to reproduce once back on Earth, researchers reported in a study published in iScience . "Most living organisms, including humans, cannot survive even briefly in the vacuum of space," ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
A federal investigation into the crash of a UPS cargo jet that killed 14 people in Louisville, Kentucky, earlier this month found that the engine of the plane came off its wing because of metal fatigue and hardware stress. A preliminary accident report published by the National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday showed frame-by-frame images of the General Electric-made engine completely coming off and then ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
A parent described how people tried to halt the attack by using bear spray and said one teacher bore the "brunt" of the attack. A grizzly bear attack on a group of schoolchildren and teachers in Canada has injured 11 people, two of them critically. Armed police and conservation officers are on the scene, but the "aggressive bear" remains on the loose, according to the self-governing local indigenous community ...
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Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
An unknown number of pupils have been abducted by armed men from a Catholic school in central Nigeria, the second mass school kidnapping this week. The latest attack targeted St Mary's School in Papiri, Niger state, where authorities had already ordered the temporary closure of all boarding schools due to rising security threats. Details remain unclear but residents fear that close to 100 students and staff may ...
Source: bbc.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
The back and forth between President Donald Trump and Jimmy Kimmel continued Thursday with Kimmel offering to leave his late-night show if Trump also agrees to leave the White House. "Mr. President, I admire your tenacity," Kimmel said after Trump, yet again, implored ABC to " get the bum off the air " in a Truth Social post. "I'll go when you go, OK?" Kimmel said Thursday. "We'll be a team. Let's ride off into the ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday ordered President Donald Trump to end the deployment of National Guard troops to the nation's capital. But the ruling is unlikely to be the final word by the courts, the president or local leaders in the contentious duel over the federal district. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb put her order on hold for 21 days to allow the Trump administration time to either remove ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
Only 776 air traffic controllers and technicians who had perfect attendance during the government shutdown will receive $10,000 bonuses while nearly 20,000 other workers will be left out, the Federal Aviation Administration announced Thursday. A number of controllers started calling out of work as the shutdown dragged on longer than a month and they dealt with the financial pressure of working without a paycheck. ...
Source: pbs.org
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
We'll keep digging -- no matter who wants the truth buried. Become a HuffPost member and fuel reporting they can't silence. Already a member? The U.S. Justice Department filed a suit against California on Thursday, accusing the state of illegally discriminating against out-of-state U.S. citizens by making undocumented students eligible for in-state college tuition if they meet certain criteria. "Federal law ...
Source: huffpost.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
Travelers who don't have a REAL ID or passport can still pass through airport TSA checkpoints this holiday season, but they might be required to pay $18 if a new proposal goes into effect, the agency said this week . In a memo on Thursday, the Transportation Security Administration said it is launching an "alternate" identity verification process at security checkpoints for travelers who don't have a federally ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
A new cyber incident could have affected Salesforce customer data three months after the Salesloft Drift hack . On November 20, customer support platform provider Gainsight said it identified connection failures resulting from Salesforce revoking active access for Gainsight SFDC Connector, which allows Gainsight applications to connect to Salesforce. In a Salesforce security advisory , also published on November ...
Source: infosecurity-magazine.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
NEW YORK (AP) — The clock is ticking for the U.S. government to open up its files on Jeffrey Epstein. After months of rancor and recriminations, Congress has passed and President Donald Trump has signed legislation compelling the Justice Department to give the public everything it has on Epstein — and it has to be done before Christmas. But even that might not be enough for the curious and the ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
By A series of proposals aimed at eliminating or reducing non-school homestead property taxes advanced out of a House committee on Thursday, as local-government officials warned about having to decrease services because of potentially billions of dollars in lost revenue. The Republican-dominated House Select Committee on Property Taxes voted along party lines to back seven proposed constitutional amendments that, ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
Reading time 2 minutes OpenAI has launched a new feature that is destined to leave some users scratching their heads. This week, the company announced a pilot of a new "group chats" feature in ChatGPT that allows users to get their buddies together and hang out with the company's flagship chatbot. That's what everybody's been wanting, right? "Group chats in ChatGPT are now rolling out globally," the company tweeted ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
A self-portrait by celebrated Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for $54.66 million in New York on Thursday, setting a record for the price of a painting by a woman, the auction house Sotheby's said. The sale of Kahlo's 1940 artwork, titled "El sueno (La cama)" — which translates to "The dream (The bed)" — broke the previous record set by American artist Georgia O'Keeffe, whose 1932 painting "Jimson ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
Nov. 21 (UPI) -- An Indian fighter jet crashed Friday at the Dubai Air Show, which left its pilot dead after the aircraft went up in flames upon impact. The Tejas fighter jet reportedly crashed after 2 p.m. local time during aerial fly demonstrations at Al Maktoum International Airport in the United Arab Emirates as crowds looked on in shock. According to the Indian Air Force, the pilot behind the single-seat light ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
A Florida sheriff's deputy was killed in the line of duty while serving an eviction notice Friday morning, officials said. "It is with profound sadness and heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Deputy Terri Sweeting-Mashkow, who was killed in the line of duty on November 21st, 2025 while faithfully serving our community," the Indian River County Sheriff's Office in Vero Beach wrote on its social media Friday ...
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Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. flu season is starting slowly, and it's unclear if it will be as bad as last winter's , but some health experts are worried as U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data posted Friday shows a new version of the virus has emerged. An early analysis suggests current vaccines may still be somewhat effective against the new version of the flu, which has been the main driver of ...
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Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
On Wednesday evening, Nvidia, the chip firm at the center of the world, reported its quarterly earnings. It was by any measure a blowout for the world's largest company: the company made 65 percent more profits than in the same quarter last year, sales were even higher than analysts expected, and leadership is forecasting at least $500 billion in AI chip sales by the end of 2026. Permanently pumped CEO Jensen Huang ...
Source: nymag.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
It's looking like investors might get their wish this holiday season. Stocks surged on Friday on comments from a top Federal Reserve official who said the economic situation supports more rate cuts from the central bank. The odds that the Fed will cut interest rates another 25 basis points at its December policy meeting nearly doubled on Friday after New York Fed President John Williams said that he saw room to ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
Nov. 21 (UPI) -- The Department of Transportation has introduced new crash test dummies that have a specifically small female design, to "address the trend of higher injury rates for women than men in certain car crash scenarios." Crash testing has used the Hybrid III dummy in the past, but now it will adopt the THOR-05F for women, the department said in a press release . "The Left doesn't want to hear it, but the ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Grammy-winning rapper Prakazrel "Pras" Michel of the Fugees was sentenced on Thursday to 14 years in prison for a case in which he was convicted of illegally funneling millions of dollars in foreign contributions to former President Barack Obama's 2012 reelection campaign. Michel, 52, declined to address the court before U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly sentenced him. In April ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
Follow Earth on Google Across the savanna, a lion's roar breaks the night silence. The sound is unmistakable, yet the deeper structure behind it has gone unnoticed for decades. A new study now reveals clear layers within each roaring sequence. The research arrives at an important moment, as conservation teams search for better ways to track a species under pressure. How lions roar The researchers identified four ...
Source: earth.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the report after the longest government shutdown in history The US economy added a surprisingly solid 119,000 jobs in September, but unemployment ticked up to 4.4 percent, according to a two-months-late report from the Bureau of Labor ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
We'll keep digging -- no matter who wants the truth buried. Become a HuffPost member and fuel reporting they can't silence. Already a member? Neither President Donald Trump nor Vice President JD Vance was invited to the funeral of former Vice President Dick Cheney, which took place on Thursday in Washington, D.C., according to multiple reports . Cheney, who served as vice president under George W. Bush, "died due ...
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Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Federal prosecutors in Chicago on Thursday dropped one of the most high-profile criminal cases to result from the Trump administration's aggressive deportation campaign, one the feds have pointed to while insisting agents on the ground were under attack. Marimar Martinez, 30, and Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz, 21, have faced an assault charge since early October for allegedly tailing a Chevrolet Tahoe driven by Border ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal immigration crackdown centered around North Carolina's largest city of Charlotte appeared to be tapering off Thursday, local law enforcement leaders said, but a Homeland Security official insisted the arrests would not let up. The North Carolina operation that began last weekend was the most recent phase of Republican President Donald Trump 's aggressive mass deportation efforts ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Inquiry centers on whether two Trump allies influenced the Schiff mortgage investigation as prosecutors struggle to build the case The justice department is investigating how two Trump allies handled the investigation into whether California senator, Adam Schiff , committed mortgage fraud, according to a copy of a subpoena obtained by the Guardian and a person familiar with the matter. The office of the deputy ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
JERUSALEM — Israel plans to seize parts of a major West Bank historic site , according to a government document, and settlers put up a new outpost overnight , even as the country faces pressure to crack down on settler violence in the Palestinian territory. Israel's Civil Administration announced its intention to expropriate large swaths of Sebastia, a major archaeological site in the West Bank, in the ...
Source: nbcnews.com