Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
The United States military has carried out another lethal strike on a vessel in the Caribbean Sea, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has said. Three men were killed in the attack, Hegseth wrote in a post on X late on Thursday, which he said was carried out at the direction of US President Donald Trump and struck a "vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization". Hegseth, who said the vessel was attacked in ...
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Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
NEW YORK (AP) — The world's richest man was just handed a chance to become history's first trillionaire. Elon Musk won a shareholder vote on Thursday that would give the Tesla CEO stock worth $1 trillion if he hits certain performance targets over the next decade. The vote followed weeks of debate over his management record at the electric car maker and whether anyone deserved such unprecedented pay, drawing ...
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Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
By Bhanvi Satija and Chad Terhune LONDON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -A Trump administration deal to cut prices for popular weight-loss drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound will allow millions more Americans to give them a try, but the cost may still be too high to keep patients long term, U.S. obesity specialists said. President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that Novo Nordisk would reduce monthly prices for Wegovy ...
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Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
Nancy Pelosi's announcement that, after nearly four decades in Congress, she will not seek re-election has reignited interest in the race for her long-held San Francisco seat. The retirement of the former speaker of the House was long-anticipated, and two Democrats had already declared their intent to run. Saikat Chakrabarti, a former tech executive who previously served as the chief of staff to Alexandria ...
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Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
Economists, journalists, and investors won't be waiting by their laptops this morning for a new jobs report. It's the second month without this data release. The agency isn't releasing most reports or collecting data during the government shutdown , which is the longest one in US history. However, job seekers, economists, and anyone else missing the BLS reports can turn to recent publications from ADP, Indeed, Bank ...
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Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
CHICAGO — A federal judge castigated the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday for its aggressive use of force during an illegal immigration crackdown in Chicago in recent weeks, banning the use of tear gas and other crowd-control weapons "unless necessary to stop the immediate threat of physical harm." Judge Sara L. Ellis, of US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, said that government ...
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Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
As the saying went, all roads once led to Rome — and those roads stretched 50% longer than previously known, according to a new digital atlas published Thursday. The last major atlas of ancient Roman road networks was published 25 years ago. Since then, advances in technology and other newly accessible sources have greatly expanded researchers' ability to locate ancient roadways. Over five years, a team of ...
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Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
NEW YORK (AP) — Peloton is recalling nearly 878,000 of its exercise bikes across the U.S. and Canada because the products' seat posts can break during use, posing fall hazards. According to notices published by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada on Thursday, the recall covers certain "Peloton Original Series Bike+" units carrying model number PL02. Peloton has received ...
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Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
DAK LAK, Vietnam (AP) — Typhoon Kalmaegi brought fierce winds and torrential rains to Vietnam on Friday, killing at least five people, flattening homes, blowing off roofs and uprooting trees. In the Philippines, where the storm left scores dead earlier in the week , survivors wept over the coffins of their loved ones and braced for another typhoon. As the storm moved on, recovery work began in battered towns ...
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Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
A European naval force is en route to help a ship that was hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia, as another vessel narrowly escaped a similar attack, with piracy surging again in the region. The European Union's Operation Atalanta said on Friday that its assets were "close" to the Hellas Aphrodite, a Malta-flagged tanker which was seized by pirates the previous day. The attackers used machineguns and ...
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Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON – A year after former Vice President Kamala Harris suffered colossal losses to President Donald Trump , Democrats on Nov. 4 roared back, sweeping gubernatorial, mayoral and local elections from coast to coast. Those wins, in part, were fueled by a return of Latino voters, particularly Latino men, many of whom the party lost in the 2024 presidential election. Democrat ...
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Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
Treasury Outlines Post-Direct File Plans The Treasury Department's move to end the IRS-run Direct File tool and shift to strengthening partnerships with tax preparation companies drew expected cheers from Republicans and criticism from Democrats. In its long-expected report to Congress, required by the GOP tax law enacted in July, Treasury "recommends refocusing IRS efforts on strengthening existing free filing ...
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Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
The official Xinhua news agency said the Fujian had been commissioned Wednesday at a naval base on southern China's Hainan island in a ceremony attended by top leader Xi Jinping. The Fujian is China's third carrier and the first that it both designed and built itself. It is perhaps the most visible example so far of Xi's massive military overhaul and expansion that aims to have a modernized force by 2035 and one ...
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Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Multiple explosions shook a mosque at a high school during Friday prayers in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, injuring at least 54 people, mostly students, police said. Witnesses told local television stations that they heard at least two loud blasts around midday, just as the sermon had started at the mosque at SMA 27, a state high school within a navy compound in Jakarta's northern ...
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Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
The expansion of the universe may be slowing down rather than accelerating, according to a new study that challenges the Nobel Prize-winning theory of dark energy. The Guardian . The study raises the possibility that "rather than expanding for ever, the universe could ultimately enter a reverse Big Bang scenario known as the Big Crunch". is already "mysterious and baffling" and the new findings from a team at ...
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Thursday, Nov 6th, 2025 -
Nov. 6 (UPI) -- The Trump administration has one day to fully distribute Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits for November, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. U.S. District Court of Rhode Island Judge Jack McConnell ordered the program funding after earlier requiring the Trump administration to access available money to at least partially fund SNAP benefits amid the federal government shutdown. ...
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Thursday, Nov 6th, 2025 -
Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Former Justice Department paralegal Sean Dunn is not guilty of assault for throwing a sub sandwich at a Border Patrol agent in Washington, D.C., a federal jury ruled Thursday. The jury deliberated a misdemeanor assault charge against Dunn on Wednesday and Thursday before rendering its verdict, NBC News reported. Dunn accosted Border Patrol agent Greg Lairimore in the capital's U Street area, swore ...
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Thursday, Nov 6th, 2025 -
Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to enforce for now its policy ending the use of the "X" marker on passports and requiring the documents to reflect the passport-holder's "biological sex at birth." The high court agreed to freeze a lower court order that stopped the State Department from enforcing the policy put into place by President Trump earlier this year. The ...
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Thursday, Nov 6th, 2025 -
More than two dozen officials with the National Transportation and Safety Board traveled Wednesday to the mangled remnants of a UPS cargo plane that crashed after an engine detached during takeoff near Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport. They'll try to determine what led to the disaster that killed at least 12 people while destroying nearby businesses and buildings. The NTSB will release a preliminary ...
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Thursday, Nov 6th, 2025 -
Citing hyper partisanship and a dysfunctional Congress, Democratic Rep. Jared Golden announced Wednesday that he's abandoning his reelection bid. Golden made the announcement in a lengthy column published in the Bangor Daily News in which he lamented the increasing hostility in the nation's politics and threats against him and his family. He also took aim at what he described as the pugilistic voices taking control ...
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Thursday, Nov 6th, 2025 -
Nov. 6 (UPI) -- One of two prisoners mistakenly released from London's Wandsworth Prison turned himself in Thursday after three days at large, authorities said. Surrey Police said in a statement that it was canceling its appeal for information to help recapture 35-year-old William Smith because he had returned to His Majesty's Prison Wandsworth in South London of his own volition . The force was leading the ...
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Thursday, Nov 6th, 2025 -
Nov. 6 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump 's calls to ramp up nuclear weapons testing last week have put nuclear watchdogs and world leaders on alert while experts say the United States has little to gain. In a post on Truth Social on Oct. 29, Trump said he is ordering the Department of Defense to immediately begin testing nuclear weapons "on an equal basis." What this means remains unclear, though Energy Secretary ...
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Thursday, Nov 6th, 2025 -
You may have to get your coffee somewhere else for a while, as a major union representing Starbucks' employees has announced its members are prepared to walk off the job if they do not reach a new contract. The union represents only a fraction of Starbucks stores in the U.S., but the labor movement has been described as the company's biggest yet — and it could have a significant impact on Starbucks as the ...
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Thursday, Nov 6th, 2025 -
Meta is aware of the situation and penalizes some scammers with higher ad rates, according to internal documents reviewed by Reuters. First published on " Sociable" is the latest commentary on important social media developments and trends from industry expert Andrew Hutchinson of Social Media Today. Yeah, this seems bad. new report from Reuters , Meta has estimated that around 10% of its overall annual revenue, ...
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Thursday, Nov 6th, 2025 -
has just published its list of 2025's most common passwords. The team says it "aggregated more than 2 billion real account passwords leaked on data breach forums in 2025." Ironically, 2 billion is the same number of email addresses in today's latest leak, so you should probably take this research seriously. has warned repeatedly that hackers are targeting its user accounts to gain access with stolen credentials. ...
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Thursday, Nov 6th, 2025 -
Governor Andrew Bailey says rates are "on a gradual path downwards". The Bank of England has voted to leave interest rates on hold at 4%, but a knife-edge split on its Monetary Policy Committee suggests a cut may be coming very soon. The nine members of the Bank's MPC voted 5-4 in favour of leaving borrowing costs unchanged, in the face of higher-than-usual inflation in recent months. Money blog: Good news for ...
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Thursday, Nov 6th, 2025 -
A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order on Wednesday in response to an emergency class action lawsuit filed on behalf of individuals who have been held at the Broadview Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility near Chicago. The order requires that the facility provide detainees with clean bedding and space to sleep, basic hygiene supplies, showers, free water, and three full meals a day. ...
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Thursday, Nov 6th, 2025 -
Nov. 6 (UPI) -- A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a criminal conspiracy case against Boeing for its flight control system that is believed to have caused two crashes that killed 346 people. The Department of Justice had requested the dismissal in May, which was met with opposition from the families of the victims. The flight control system was in Boeing's 737 Max jetliner. Two flights of the plane crashed: One ...
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Thursday, Nov 6th, 2025 -
Kazakhstan is set to join the Abraham Accords between Israel and Muslim majority countries, in a symbolic move aimed at boosting an initiative that was a hallmark of President Trump's first term. The action, announced Thursday, is largely symbolic as Kazakhstan has had diplomatic relations with Israel since 1992 and is much farther geographically from Israel than the other Abraham Accord nations — Bahrain, ...
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Thursday, Nov 6th, 2025 -
Israel has identified the body of another deceased hostage from Gaza as it gathers intelligence on the location of the longest-held remains. Hamas transferred the remains of a deceased hostage to Israel via the Red Cross Wednesday night, marking the third such transfer this week. The remains were identified as belonging to Joshua Loitu Mollel, an agricultural student from Tanzania who was abducted from Kibbutz ...
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Thursday, Nov 6th, 2025 -
A jury awarded $10 million to former first grade Virginia teacher Abby Zwerner, who was shot and seriously wounded by a 6-year-old student in 2023, in a civil case that accused the school's former assistant principal of ignoring multiple warnings the day of the shooting. Zwerner, 25, was shot in the hand and chest by a single bullet while at a reading table in her classroom at Richneck Elementary School in ...
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Thursday, Nov 6th, 2025 -
Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra's Miami home was engulfed in flames, as seen in local news broadcasts that showed first responders battling a massive fire Thursday. Property records show that the home — a single-family residence in the area of Davis Road and Ponce De Leon Road — belongs to Spoelstra, . Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said they were called to a fire at around 4:36 a.m. Firefighters found "two ...
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Thursday, Nov 6th, 2025 -
Jensen Huang cites 'cynicism' and regulatory hurdles hampering Western AI development Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is warning that China will overtake America in the global artificial intelligence (AI) race. The chipmaker's chief executive said the West is limiting its own progress in AI through excessive "cynicism," while pointing to China's lower energy costs and fewer regulatory hurdles as advantages, he told the ...
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Thursday, Nov 6th, 2025 -
Japanese soldiers deploy to combat wave of deadly bear attacks Japan has deployed troops to help counter a surge of bear attacks that have terrified residents in a mountainous region in the northern prefecture of Akita. In the last seven months, at least 12 people have been killed and more than 100 injured in bear attacks across Japan, according to Ministry of the Environment statistics at the end of October. The ...
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Thursday, Nov 6th, 2025 -
California voters this week made the biggest Democratic move yet against President Trump's effort to reshape voting maps in favor of Republicans in the 2026 midterm elections. They overwhelmingly approved a map for congressional districts that could help Democrats win five more seats in the U.S. House. The ballot language itself referred to Texas, where Trump convinced Republican leaders to draw new lines this ...
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