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Top News Stories for Sunday, November 30th 2025
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 -
As the year ends, our reporting does not slow down. Support the journalists who continue asking questions and telling stories with depth and care. Your membership today helps ensure we start the new year strong. Already a member? The top Republican and Democratic senators on the Senate Armed Services Committee issued a joint statement promising to look into a report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a ...
Source: huffpost.com
Saturday, Nov 29th, 2025 -
By Benedikt Kammel, Danny Lee, Siddharth Philip Airlines across the world raced to keep their fleet operating after a major software glitch forced an urgent update for Airbus SE's most widely flown aircraft, with the rapid response avoiding a major meltdown during a crucial holiday-travel season. Within less than 24 hours of Airbus and the European Union Aviation Safety Agency issuing an emergency directive, ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Saturday, Nov 29th, 2025 -
Venezuela Rejects Trump's Push To Close Airspace As 'Colonialist Threat' Venezuela's air space will remain open, its government said Saturday, denouncing President Donald Trump for saying it is "to be closed in its entirety" amid escalating tensions with the Venezuelan government and a U.S. military campaign against alleged drug cartels in the Caribbean. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil said in a statement that ...
Source: forbes.com
Saturday, Nov 29th, 2025 -
Hong Kong officials have held a moment of silence at the start of a three-day mourning period to remember those killed after the city's deadliest fire in nearly 80 years. At least 128 people are now known to have died in the fire, which engulfed seven tower blocks on Wednesday. A further 83 were injured and 150 remain unaccounted for. Eight people have been arrested on suspicion of corruption over the renovation ...
Source: bbc.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 -
BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — The Trump administration has halted all asylum decisions and paused issuing visas for people traveling on Afghan passports, seizing on the National Guard shooting in the nation's capital to intensify efforts to rein in legal immigration. The suspect in Wednesday's shooting near the White House that killed Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, and critically wounded Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, ...
Source: wfla.com
Saturday, Nov 29th, 2025 -
The Trump administration is casting more doubt on the safety of vaccines, with an internal memo from the Food and Drug Administration linking the deaths of at least 10 children to the COVID vaccine and proposing new regulatory measures as a result. The memo was obtained by The New York Times and not publicly released. It did not provide details such as the ages of the children, whether they had any health problems ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Nov 29th, 2025 -
Zarah Sultana has accused leading figures in the new party she is founding with Jeremy Corbyn of carrying out a "witch hunt" to purge left-wing activists. Sultana boycotted the first day of the founding conference of the project, currently operating under the name Your Party, after several members who also belonged to the Socialist Workers Party were expelled. Party officials said the expulsions were for breaching ...
Source: bbc.com
Saturday, Nov 29th, 2025 -
Pope Leo XIV has visited Istanbul's Sultan Ahmed Mosque - widely known as the Blue Mosque - in his first visit to a Muslim place of worship since he took up the papacy in May. The Pontiff was seen bowing as he entered the building, but it is reported he did not pray at the mosque, as his two predecessors had done. The Vatican said in a statement Leo undertook the tour "in a spirit of reflection and listening, with ...
Source: bbc.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 -
Northwestern University has agreed to pay $75 million to the U.S. government in a deal with the Trump administration to end a series of investigations and restore hundreds of millions of dollars in federal research funding. President Donald Trump's administration had cut off in a standoff that contributed to university layoffs and in September of Northwestern president Michael Schill. The administration argued the ...
Source: news4jax.com
Saturday, Nov 29th, 2025 -
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian drone and missile attacks in and around the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, killed at least three people early Saturday, officials said, as the country's representatives traveled to the U.S. to work on a renewed push to end the war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on X that the delegation, headed by national security chief Rustem Umerov, was on its way to "swiftly and ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Nov 29th, 2025 -
Around 53 million people from South Dakota to New York are under winter weather alerts this weekend as travelers head home from Thanksgiving festivities. A winter storm system is expected to intensify Saturday morning, bringing steady snow showers and creating potentially hazardous travel conditions across Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan. Chicago, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Indianapolis, ...
Source: nbcnews.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 -
Despite wider economic uncertainty hovering above this year's holiday season, shoppers turned out in big numbers for Black Friday — spending billions of dollars both in stores and online. Adobe Analytics, which tracks e-commerce, said U.S. consumers spent a record $11.8 billion online Friday, marking a 9.1% jump from last year. It was a slight increase from the company's spending estimate of $11.7 ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Nov 28th, 2025 -
IZNIK: Pope Leo XIV joined Eastern and Western patriarchs and priests Friday in commemorating an important anniversary in Christian history, gathering at the site in Turkey of an unprecedented A.D. 325 meeting of bishops to pray that Christians might once again be united. Leo, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I and other Christian leaders met on the shores of Lake Iznik, the site of the Council of Nicaea that ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Friday, Nov 28th, 2025 -
Nov. 28 (UPI) -- The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services told staff Friday that it will pause all applications for asylum filed by migrants inside the United States in the wake of the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C. On Thursday, the president announced he will "permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries." Then Friday evening, all affirmative asylum applicants were ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Nov 28th, 2025 -
Israeli human rights group B'Tselem shared a video on Thursday that it says shows Israeli soldiers executing two Palestinian men who had surrendered during a raid in Jenin, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank . The video, which B'Tselem credits to Palestine TV and which CBS News has not independently verified, appears to show Israeli soldiers surrounding a garage-style door on a building as two men emerge with their ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Nov 28th, 2025 -
– Ukrainian President announced Friday the resignation of his powerful chief of staff, Andrii Yermak, who was also the country's lead negotiator in , after Yermak's residence was searched by at the heart of Ukraine's government was that risked disrupting his negotiating strategy at a time when Kyiv is under intense U.S. pressure to sign a peace deal nearly four years after Yermak has long been a trusted ...
Source: news4jax.com