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Saturday, Nov 29th, 2025 -
Shop deals curated by our expert deal finders Black Friday is over, but the savings are still live at Best Buy as we cruise through the weekend toward Cyber Monday. Now is your best chance to finally make those big purchases you've been putting off. Best Buy, like other big retailers, is offering discounts on a huge selection of products, whether you're looking for something nice for your home or a gift for a loved ...
Source: cnet.com
Saturday, Nov 29th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has halted all asylum decisions and paused issuing visas for people traveling on Afghan passports days after a shooting near the White House that left one National Guard member dead and another in critical condition. Investigators continued Saturday to seek a motive in the shooting, in which the suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, now faces charges including first-degree ...
Source: apnews.com
Saturday, Nov 29th, 2025 -
Thousands of Airbus planes are being returned to normal service after being grounded for hours due to a warning that solar radiation could interfere with onboard flight control computers. The aerospace giant - based in France - said around 6,000 of its A320 planes had been affected with most requiring a quick software update. Some 900 older planes need a replacement computer. French Transport Minister Philippe ...
Source: bbc.com
Saturday, Nov 29th, 2025 -
Hong Kong's deadliest fire in decades has raised questions about corruption and negligence in the renovations of the apartment complex where at least 128 people died. An intense fire broke out at Wang Fuk Court complex in Hong Kong's northern suburbs Wednesday afternoon, with flames covering seven of eight of the towers. The complex was home to some 4,800 residents, some of whom had raised safety concerns about the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Saturday, Nov 29th, 2025 -
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The chants started early from fed-up Eagles fans, and they were booming as the inept offensive plays piled up in yet another loss. "Fire Kevin! Fire Kevin!" Eagles fans made their vote to dump offensive coordinator Kevin Patullo heard throughout Friday's 24-15 loss to the Chicago Bears. Coach Nick Sirianni made yet another call the fans won't like: Patullo is staying. "We're not changing ...
Source: apnews.com
Saturday, Nov 29th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump said Friday that he will be pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who in 2024 was convicted for drug trafficking and weapons charges and sentenced to 45 years in prison. The president explained his decision on social media by posting that "according to many people that I greatly respect," Hernandez was "treated very harshly and unfairly." In March of ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Nov 29th, 2025 -
Global immunization efforts have led to an 88% drop in measles deaths between 2000 and 2024, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO). Nearly 59 million lives have been saved by the measles vaccine since 2000. However, an estimated 95 000 people, mostly children younger than 5 years of age, died due to measles in 2024. While this is among the lowest annual tolls recorded since 2000, ...
Source: news-medical.net
Saturday, Nov 29th, 2025 -
Northwestern University has agreed to pay $75 million as part of a settlement with the Trump administration which restores previously frozen federal funding and ends a monthslong investigation over government allegations of "unlawful discrimination," including "race-based admissions" and a "hostile" environment for Jewish students, the Department of Justice announced Friday. The agreement requires Northwestern to ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Nov 28th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was cancelling executive orders signed by President Joe Biden's autopen. Like many presidents, including Trump, Biden used an autopen to sign certain official documents. Republicans have claimed the autopen was used by the people around Biden to circumvent a mentally declining president. "Any document signed by Sleepy Joe Biden with the Autopen, which was ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Nov 28th, 2025 -
is here, and we're updating this story hourly. To find the best deals in every category, follow all of Black Friday is upon us. There are beauty deals all over the place with discounts coming from both the retailers and the brands. This can make things tricky because there will be three places selling the same brow pencil for slightly different prices. I'm cross-checking all of that, so you can be sure if I ...
Source: nymag.com
Friday, Nov 28th, 2025 -
Israeli security forces shot and killed two Palestinian men who appeared to be unarmed and surrendering in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, according to video filmed by Palestine TV that was distributed by Reuters, and video shot by the news agency itself. The shooting comes amid mounting settler violence and ramped up operations by the IDF in the West Bank in recent weeks. The U.N. human rights rights office ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Nov 28th, 2025 -
The golf star finished his career with 10 PGA Tour wins but his legacy was marked by comments he made about Tiger Woods. Fuzzy Zoeller, a two-time major champion, has died at the age of 74. The American, who became embroiled in a racism controversy for a joke he made about Tiger Woods , finished his career with 10 PGA Tour wins and two titles on the PGA Tour Champions. He is still the last golfer to win the Masters ...
Source: news.sky.com
Friday, Nov 28th, 2025 -
Pope Leo XIV marked a high point of his to Turkey with a pilgrimage to the site where early Christian church leaders met 1,700 years ago under the auspices of the Roman Emperor Constantine to host the Leo on Friday prayed for Christian unity with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, at the site of the A.D. 325 gathering, now the town of Iznik. The unprecedented ...
Source: news4jax.com
Friday, Nov 28th, 2025 -
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced Friday the resignation of his powerful chief of staff, Andrii Yermak, whose residence was searched earlier in the day by anti-corruption investigators. Yermak has been Ukraine's lead negotiator in peace talks with Russia and the United States. He has also been a trusted confidante of Zelenskyy's for years. The unprecedented searches at the ...
Source: npr.org
Friday, Nov 28th, 2025 -
Trump administration on Friday ordered US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officers to stop making all asylum decisions, following the shooting of two National Guard soldiers in Washington, DC. The pause comes after Wednesday's attack, which officials say was carried out by an Afghan man who received asylum earlier this year. One of the soldiers has died. The suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, entered the ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Friday, Nov 28th, 2025 -
Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. . D espite oodles of data on dog domestication, the exact origins of our feline friends have long remained fuzzy. We do know that pet cats retained many of their wild cat ancestors' characteristics. This—perhaps not surprising many cat caretakers—makes pet cats technically "semidomesticated." But scientists have squabbled over precisely where and when such ...
Source: nautil.us