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Top News Stories for Sunday, November 9th 2025
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – The Trump administration's legal efforts to fight having to fully fund food stamps for millions of vulnerable Americans is creating an opening for Democrats eager to use to paint the president as callous and out of touch. "Donald Trump and his administration have made the decision to weaponize hunger, to withhold SNAP benefits from millions of people, notwithstanding the fact that two ...
Source: news4jax.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
Federal government shutdown has snarled travel across the US International flights will continue operating as normal despite the ongoing government shutdown, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy said Friday. Duffy spoke to reporters this morning at Reagan National Airport as the government shutdown exacerbated travel disruptions nationwide, impacting millions of passengers and forcing the government to reduce ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
-From federal paychecks to public benefits, the longest U.S. government shutdown in history is cutting lifelines for millions of Americans, many of whom voted for President Donald Trump. But conversations with five Trump voters – part of a group of 20 whom Reuters has interviewed monthly since February – show that while the shutdown has disrupted their lives, it has not diminished their opinion of ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
Freight company cites 'abundance of caution' and manufacturer's recommendation after 13 died when wing caught fire and engine fell off The freight company UPS has grounded its fleet of MD-11 aircraft days after a cargo plane crash that killed at least 13 people in Kentucky . The grounded MD-11s are the same type of plane involved in Tuesday's crash in Louisville . They were originally built by McDonnell Douglas ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
Nov. 8 (UPI) -- A federal judge issued a permanent injunction that prevents the deployment of the National Guard in Portland, Ore., saying Donald Trump "exceeded the President's authority." U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, in a 106-page decision Friday THIS PERMANENT INJUNCTION ORDER IS IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT." She issued a temporary restraining order on Oct. 4 blocking the deployment of the Oregon National ...
Source: upi.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
The exemption is a major prize for Viktor Orbán, whose 15-year rule is seen as a blueprint by the MAGA movement in Washington. President Donald Trump has handed his authoritarian Hungarian ally Viktor Orbán a special exemption from Russian energy sanctions , a major boost for the far-right populist whose 15-year rule has been used as a blueprint by the MAGA movement. Orbán visited Trump in ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
Donald Trump issued more pardons this week for criminally corrupt former government officials. At a time when the administration is threatening the health care of millions of Americans and locking up immigrants en masse , it's notable that a principal beneficiary of Trump's sympathy these days seems to be convicted criminals who have ties to his family or political movement. Trump on Thursday pardoned former ...
Source: msnbc.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
News , via Wikimedia Commons Cornell University announces $60M deal with Trump administration to restore funding Cornell University announced on Friday that it reached a settlement with US President Donald Trump's administration to pay $60 million and adopt the administration's interpretation of federal civil rights laws. In exchange, the federal government will restore Cornell's federal research funding and end ...
Source: jurist.org
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
By The publisher of the Farmers' Almanac is ending its annual publication after 208 years upon publishing its 2026 edition, the Farmers' Almanac staff announced. On Thursday, the Lewiston, Maine-based publisher cited increasing "financial challenges" for publishing and distributing the almanac amid a "chaotic media environment" as the reason it no longer will be published, in a news release calling it an "End of An ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration violated the First Amendment rights of Education Department employees when it replaced their personalized out-of-office e-mail notifications with partisan language blaming Democrats for the government shutdown. "When government employees enter public service, they do not sign away their First Amendment rights," U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper wrote in his ...
Source: npr.org
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump said no US officials would attend the G20 summit in South Africa, reviving debunked claims of white Afrikaners being systematically "killed and slaughtered" in the country. Trump had announced in September that Vice President JD Vance would travel to the meeting later this month instead of him, but has now said that US representatives will skip it entirely. "It is a total disgrace that the ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
The White House said Saturday it would be "beautiful" to name the new stadium for Washington's NFL team after President Trump following an ESPN report that an intermediary has told the Commanders ' ownership group that he wants it to bear his name. Mr. Trump could deliver the message in person on Sunday when he is expected to watch the Commanders play the Detroit Lions at Northwest Stadium in Landover, Maryland. ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
I t has been a year of soul-searching, hand-wringing, and self-flagellation for Democrats after a ballot-box rejection so thorough that some had come to believe that the party had lost not only the White House and Congress but the culture itself . Shell-shocked, Democrats entered Donald Trump's second term in a political stupor – unsure of who they were or what they stood for. Their base had lost faith in its ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
– Gaza health officials said Saturday that over 69,000 Palestinians have been killed in so far, as Israel and Hamas completed the latest exchange of bodies under the terms of the The latest jump in deaths is attributed to more bodies being recovered since the ceasefire began on Oct. 10, and also because previously unidentified bodies were identified. It also includes Palestinians killed by strikes on the ...
Source: news4jax.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
On a foggy Saturday morning in 1953, a tall, skinny 24-year-old man fiddled with shapes he had cut out of cardboard. They represented fragments of a DNA molecule, and young James Watson was trying to figure how they fit together in a way that let DNA do its job as the stuff of genes. Suddenly, he realized that they joined together to form the "rungs" of a long, twisted ladder, a shape better known nowadays as a ...
Source: medicalxpress.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
TAIPEI — China's newest and most advanced aircraft carrier, the Fujian, officially entered into service this week, the country's military announced Friday, bringing Beijing another step closer to its goal of rivaling American naval power in the region. The Fujian, which features an electromagnetic catapult system for launching and landing aircraft, was commissioned for service Wednesday, when China's top ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
KYIV — A Russian drone slammed into an apartment building in eastern Ukraine early Saturday while many were sleeping, killing three people and wounding 12 others, Ukrainian authorities reported. The attack in Dnipro, Ukraine's fourth-largest city, was part of a large Russian missile and drone barrage across the country that targeted power infrastructure. It also killed a worker at an energy company in ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
This is a BETA experience. opt-out The Planes, Trains, And Automobiles Edition Plus: More government shutdown news, new guidance for employers on "no tax on tips" and "no tax on overtime," foreign real estate taxes, name, image and likeness (NIL) taxation, tax trivia and more. Kelly Phillips Erb is a Forbes senior writer who covers tax. Updated Nov 8, 2025, 03:24pm EST Hello from Park City, Utah! It's a brisk ...
Source: forbes.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
Four people were killed and 11 others were injured after an alleged street racer lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a crowd of people in Tampa early Saturday morning, authorities said. The Tampa Police Department said the crash occurred in the vibrant Ybor City neighborhood at 12:45 a.m., hitting a crowd of 15 adults. The incident occurred just outside of a gay bar, Bradley's on 7th, but police said the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
President Trump made historic gains with Latinos when he won reelection last year, boosting Republicans' confidence that their economic message was helping them make inroads with a group of voters who had long leaned toward Democrats. But in this week's election, Democrats in key states were able to disrupt that rightward shift by gaining back Latino support, exit polls showed. In New Jersey and Virginia, the ...
Source: latimes.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
Turkey announced on Friday that it has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and several senior officials, accusing them of committing genocide during the war in Gaza. The Istanbul prosecutor's office said in a statement that arrest warrants were issued for 37 individuals, though it did not release the full list. Those named include Israeli defence minister Israel Katz, National ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
A breaking study has linked long-term use of this popular supplement to a staggering heart risk increase. Still, you may not have to give it up for good. Here's insight you may already know by heart: getting enough sleep—ideally between seven and night hours per night—is crucial to your cardiovascular health. In fact, the says having a sleep disorder can increase your risk of several heart risk factors, ...
Source: thehealthy.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
Voter anger over the cost of living is hurtling forward into next year's midterm elections, when pivotal contests will be decided by communities that are home to fast-rising electric bills or fights over who's footing the bill to power Big Tech's energy-hungry data centers. Electricity costs were a key issue in this week's elections for governor in New Jersey and Virginia, a data center hotspot, and in Georgia, ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Man dies at Grand Canyon after slipping over edge, falling more than 100 feet, sheriff's office says
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! A 65-year-old man died this week in the Grand Canyon after slipping over the edge and falling more than 100 feet, a sheriff's office said. The incident happened in the Guano Point area of Grand Canyon West, according to the Mohave County Sheriff's Office. "A 65-year-old male had slipped and fell over the edge into the canyon and was deceased," the sheriff's office's search ...
Source: foxnews.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
A proposal to create a nationwide cap on credit card interest rates would hurt millions of Americans by cutting off access to credit, President Trump's former campaign adviser Steve Moore said in a new report. Passage of a new regulatory framework for stablecoins likely won't lead to a flood of bank customers pulling their money out of deposit accounts and into the digital currency, Federal Reserve Governor Stephen ...
Source: bankingjournal.aba.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
Nov. 7 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump on Friday wants the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the meatpacking industry for possible price fixing and collusion. Trump posted about the situation on Truth Social while flying to South Florida for the weekend and after he met in the White House with three Republican senators from beef-producing states, who are opposed to importing beef from Argentina. "I have asked ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
Lady Gaga and Kendrick Lamar lead the nominees for the 2026 Grammy Awards, while K-Pop has broken into the song of the year category for the first time. For the second year in a row, Compton rapper Lamar has the most nominations - nine in total - including a coveted album of the year nod for the sleek, fiery GNX. Gaga is also up for the main prize for Mayhem, a record that leans into her own history, and marks a ...
Source: bbc.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. government said President Donald Trump's hush money criminal conviction in New York should be thrown out, because it was based on improper evidence and a legal theory preempted by federal law. In a Friday filing with a state appeals court in Manhattan, the Department of Justice adopted Trump's view that he deserved immunity for official acts he took as president, and ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Hochul is facing a contested primary, with her own lieutenant governor running against her MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN - JULY 16: House Republican Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) speaks on stage on the second day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
Investigators are also assessing political propaganda that was included in the package delivered to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland - the home base for the aircraft used to transport the President of the United States. Several people have fallen ill after a "suspicious package" containing white powder was opened at the home base for the presidential plane Air Force One, according to US media reports. A building on ...
Source: news.sky.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump hailed his deal to slash the price of blockbuster weight loss drugs as a game changer, promising to make Wegovy and Zepbound more affordable for millions of Americans. But major gaps in the plan could blunt its impact, drug policy experts say: Some of the drugs the administration has promised discounts on haven't been approved yet by the Food and Drug Administration; the lower prices for ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — A call to overturn the landmark Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide is on the agenda Friday for the justices' closed-door conference. Among the new cases the justices are expected to consider is a longshot appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples following the court's 2015 ruling in Obergefell ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
Multiple explosions shook a mosque at a high school during Friday prayers in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital , injuring at least 55 people, mostly students. Police tried to dissuade speculation that the blasts were a terror attack and said they were investigating. Witnesses told local television stations that they heard at least two loud blasts around midday, from inside and outside the mosque, just as the sermon had ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has embarked on a fresh investigation into one of President Donald Trump's chief grievances, into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, multiple people familiar with the matter said Friday. made public in January 2017, that detailed how Russia waged a covert influence campaign to help Trump defeat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. It was not clear ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
By Job growth has remained weak this fall, but despite a series of high-profile layoffs at major corporations, the labor market has not taken a sharp turn for the worse. Probably. With the federal government still shut down, the Bureau of Labor Statistics did not release its scheduled monthly jobs report Friday, the second missed report in a row. Economists and policymakers haven't had an official read on the state ...
Source: miamiherald.com