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Top News Stories for Saturday, November 15th 2025
Saturday, Nov 15th, 2025 -
This coming week is expected to deliver the moment that House Speaker Mike Johnson has been forestalling in one form or another for nearly four months: when the House votes on whether to release the Jeffrey Epstein files. It was way back in late July that Johnson sent the House off on a five-week recess a day early to quell a growing Republican revolt . He later kept the House out of session for an extraordinarily ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Nov 15th, 2025 -
US President Donald Trump says he intends to sue the BBC for between $1 billion and $5 billion "probably sometime next week" despite the broadcaster's apology to him over a documentary Trump's lawyers described as defamatory. "I think I have to do it," Trump told reporters. "They've even admitted that they cheated … They cheated, they changed the words coming out of my mouth." On Thursday, the BBC apologized ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Nov 15th, 2025 -
By We hate to be the killjoy, but if you've heard about the idea of a 50-year mortgage, start right now by taking a deep breath. There are many, many questions about the idea and problems that need to be overcome. And for many would-be borrowers the idea makes no sense. President Trump over the weekend floated the idea after Bill Pulte, the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, tossed the idea at him on ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Saturday, Nov 15th, 2025 -
Nine people were killed and 31 injured when confiscated explosives accidentally blew up at a police station in Indian-administered Kashmir, police said Saturday, just days after a car blast in Delhi killed a dozen people. The incident happened in Nowgam and the explosives at the police station were recovered from Faridabad in the northern state of Haryana earlier this week, just hours before the powerful blast in ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — A team of researchers has uncovered what they say is the first reported use of artificial intelligence to direct a hacking campaign in a largely automated fashion. The AI company Anthropic said this week that it disrupted a cyber operation that its researchers linked to the Chinese government. The operation involved the use of an artificial intelligence system to direct the hacking ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order to exempt a wide range of food imports, including beef, tomatoes, coffee and bananas, from sweeping tariffs imposed earlier this year on nearly every country, the White House said. The order is part of a major push by Trump and his top officials to address Americans' growing concerns about ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! A New Jersey man's death is the first known to be linked to a tick-borne meat allergy , according to researchers at UVAHealth in Virginia. The unidentified man, 47, reportedly died last summer, four hours after eating a hamburger and just two weeks after a similar episode triggered by steak. With the summer episode, the man experienced severe abdominal pain, diarrhea and ...
Source: foxnews.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
New research reveals that too much trust in AI — or too little — can undermine business value. AI usage is proliferating at pace throughout the global economy but issues around trust are stifling success, new research suggests. Nearly every enterprise is already using AI or plans to within the next 12 months. Yet according to the SAS Data and AI Impact Report , 46% of organizations' AI initiatives ...
Source: cio.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
Blue Origin successfully launches its huge New Glenn rocket on Thursday with a pair of Nasa spacecraft destined for Mars. It is only the second flight of the rocket that Jeff Bezos's company and Nasa are counting on to ferry people and supplies to the moon. The 321ft (98-meter) New Glenn blasts into the afternoon sky from the Cape Canaveral space force station, sending Nasa's twin Mars orbiters on a long journey to ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
YouTube TV subscribers, your channels -- and your football -- are back. Disney and YouTube said Friday night that the two companies had reached an agreement. YouTube TV subscribers lost all of Disney's channels, including ESPN and ESPN2, on Oct. 30. Those who wanted to watch NFL or college football on ABC, ESPN or ESPN2 or Disney family-friendly hits such as Bluey, had to find other alternatives . "We're ...
Source: cnet.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
China has created more space debris than any other country. But as its space program grows, it has more to lose from a collision than ever before. China's Shenzhou-20 spacecraft took a hit from a piece of space debris floating through orbit, causing Chinese officials to delay the spacecraft's return from its Tiangong space station in early November 2025. In addition to stranding the three Chinese astronauts – ...
Source: zmescience.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
Welcome to the Unconventional Review, an instant reaction to standouts, stats, and story lines from the Patriots' most recent game … The final 27-14 score suggests the Patriots' victory over the Jets Thursday night — their eighth straight in this unexpected marvel of a season — was more workmanlike than spectacular. But the score doesn't tell the entire story, just its conclusion. There was ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Mammoth RNA sequenced for the first time, marking a giant leap toward understanding prehistoric life
Friday, Nov 14th, 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. For the first time, scientists have successfully sequenced woolly mammoth RNA, shattering the assumption that this fragile genetic molecule couldn't survive from so long ago. RNA, or ribonucleic acid, carries ...
Source: livescience.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
Former American football coach John Beam, who was featured in Netflix series Last Chance U, has died after being shot. The shooting took place at Laney College in Oakland, California, on Thursday. On Friday, police announced that they arrested a suspect, but did not provide any motive for the attack. Oakland police said that the suspect never played football for Beam but knew the coach. US media reports identified ...
Source: bbc.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
The head of a Georgia prosecutors board assigned himself Friday to oversee a sprawling racketeering case against President Donald Trump and his allies over their attempts to overturn the 2020 election, keeping alive for now litigation that has long faced trouble. The board faced a Friday deadline to find a new prosecutor after courts found Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis could not participate in the ...
Source: abajournal.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
Everyone knows Walmart. But not everyone outside Wall Street and corporate America knows of its CEO, Doug McMillon, the same way they know of Tesla's Elon Musk, Disney's Bob Iger or JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon. Yet, McMillon's impact on the American consumer over the past 12 years is arguably as big, if not bigger, than any of those three. With affordability top of mind from Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue, he ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday it plans to roll back some of the restrictions on commercial flights it implemented at 40 major U.S. airports during the shutdown. The agency says the current mandatory 6% flight cuts are being downgraded to 3% even though the record 43-day shutdown ended Nov. 12. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has repeatedly said restrictions would remain until staffing at air ...
Source: pbs.org
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
Eating ultra-processed foods could lead to an increased risk of being diagnosed with precancerous colorectal growths for women under 50, according to new research. A study , published Thursday in JAMA Oncology, looked at health outcomes for 29,105 nurses under 50 who underwent at least one colonoscopy. Participants were followed from June 1991 until June 2015 and filled out questionnaires about their eating ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
By When President Donald Trump signed a spending bill Tuesday night to reopen the federal government, he also signed a broad ban on hemp products into law. As Congress hurried to end the government shutdown, lawmakers OK'd a provision that prohibits the sale of hemp products with more than just trace levels of THC. Supporters of the ban say it closes a loophole created in 2018 when lawmakers authorized the sale of ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
Life with humans changed dogs in some dramatic ways, and it didn't take long. Our best friends come in a fantastic array of shapes and sizes; a Borzoi looks nothing like a Boston terrier, except for a certain fundamental, ineffable (except to taxonomists) doggyness about them. And it's been that way almost from the beginning. A recent study of dog and wolf skulls from the last 50,000 years found that dogs living ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
KYIV — Russia unleashed a major missile and drone barrage on Kyiv early Friday, killing six people, leaving gaping holes in apartment buildings and starting fires as the sound of explosions boomed across the city and lit up the night sky. A pregnant woman was among at least 35 people wounded, Ukrainian authorities said. Russia used at least 430 drones and 18 missiles in the nighttime attack, Ukrainian ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
As the U.S. government reopens for business, Wall Street's attention will now turn toward when critical data on employment, inflation and other economic signposts will be released. The shutdown not only halted data collection and releases, but it also complicated the picture once the data does start coming out. Agencies under the departments of Labor and Commerce had not posted revised schedules as of Friday ...
Source: cnbc.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
Luis Rubiales was pelted by eggs thrown by his own uncle when the former head of Spain's soccer federation was presenting a memoir late Thursday relating his downfall after kissing a player at the 2023 Women's World Cup . Rubiales was seated on a stool on a low stage when he jumped up and spun quickly trying to avoid three eggs hurled his way. One impacted on the back of his dark jacket, and another splattered ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
Stock indexes were mixed Friday as a lack of economic data muddied the waters for investors. And analysts preparing their outlooks for 2026 are doing so without key economic information due to the government shutdown. The Nasdaq closed higher Friday with a gain of 0.1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average trimmed its loss to 309 points after being down nearly 600 points earlier in the day. This slight recovery follows ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
Nov. 14 (UPI) -- The Justice Department is suing California over its recently voter-approved congressional maps, alleging they are an unconstitutional "power grab." Earlier this month, Californians approved Gov. Gavin Newsom 's redistricting initiative, introduced in direct response to Texas' effort to create new congressional maps that favor Republicans ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. While Texas Republican ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Kelly claimed that a close friend, with an inside track on the case, believes that Epstein was 'not a pedophile' and that he was instead 'into the barely legal type' is being slammed for questioning whether Jeffrey Epstein was even a pedophile, even though the disgraced financier ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
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Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
who taunted police by writing a message in blood after murdering three men in a week has become the by firing squad in the state this year. Stephen Corey Bryant, who once scrawled "catch me if u can" on a wall using the blood of 62-year-old victim Willard "T.J." Tietjen, was executed on Friday, Nov. 14, for the 2004 murder. He was pronounced dead at 6:05 p.m. Bryant's executioners strapped him to a chair and placed ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
Most of the senators whose data was requested as part of the investigation that led to special counsel Jack Smith's Jan. 6 probe have now distanced themselves from a provision included in the shutdown-ending bill , signed into law by President Donald Trump, that would let them sue the government for potentially millions of dollars for not notifying them when accessing their records. "I have no plans at this time" ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
About 600,000 people seeking compensation a decade on from disaster that killed 19 and devastated villages The global mining company BHP Group has been found liable for the deadly 2015 collapse of a Brazilian dam , in a landmark ruling that could pave the way for a multibillion-dollar payout. The high court in London on Friday, Mrs Justice O'Farrell ruled that BHP was responsible for the collapse of the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Nov 13th, 2025 -
STARKE, Fla. (WWSB) - More than 46 years after he kidnapped, raped and murdered a 6-year-old girl in Brevard County, Bryan Frederick Jennings was put to death by lethal injection Thursday evening at Florida State Prison. Jennings, 66, was pronounced dead at 6:20 p.m. and became a record 16th inmate executed this year in Florida. The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected final legal attempts to halt the ...
Source: mysuncoast.com