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The Senate shutdown deal had a New England flavor
- WASHINGTON — Before they became senators, Angus King, Jeanne Shaheen, and Maggie Hassan all were New England governors used to the art of compromise and dealmaking. They put that experience to the test in recent days, helping negotiate a controversial deal to end the record-long federal government shutdown. The three, along with five other Senate Democrats, struck an agreement with Senate majority leader John ...

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Tampa International Airport sees a 6% increase in flight reductions
- TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA)— The Tampa International Airport continues to see cancellations and delays after the Federal Aviation Administration ordered major airports to reduce flight traffic. As of 8:30 a.m., there are 22 cancellations and 23 delays. TPA was on the list of 40 busiest airports that face a reduction in flights. Today, TPA could see a 6% flight reduction and by Nov. 14, a 10% reduction in flights. It ...

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US   POLITICS  
The Supreme Court is expected to say whether full SNAP food payments can resume
- It's up to the U.S. Supreme Court and Congress to decide when full payments will resume under the SNAP food aid program that helps 1 in 8 Americans buy groceries, as some wonder how they will feed their families without government assistance. The Supreme Court is expected to rule Tuesday on a request from President Donald Trump's administration to keep blocking states from providing full Supplemental Nutrition ...

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US   POLITICS  
'A classic authoritarian tactic': outrage over Trump's pardons for friends and allies
- Ex-prosecutors and legal scholars say US president 'meting out pardons for blatantly corrupt and self-serving ends' Donald Trump's unprecedented pardoning spree for political and business friends since returning to the White House has prompted warnings from ex-prosecutors and legal scholars of "corrupt" pay-to-play schemes, conflicts of interest and blatant partisanship. It has included hundreds of Maga allies, a ...

Source: theguardian.com
Federal prosecutors say Guardians' Emmanuel Clase lived a double life: record-setting closer, pitch fixer
- CLEVELAND, Ohio — In 2023, Emmanuel Clase not only was on his way to becoming the Guardians ' all-time saves leader, he also was giving insider information to gamblers on when he would throw rigged pitches during games, federal prosecutors say. From 2023 through 2025, rigged pitches thrown by Clase and teammate Luis Ortiz allowed gamblers to earn approximately $450,000, according to a federal indictment filed ...

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US   POLITICS  
Trump proposes $2,000 tariff dividend for Americans. Would this work?
- Over the weekend, United States President Donald Trump promised Americans $2,000 each from the "trillions of dollars" in tariff revenue he said his administration has collected. During his second term, Trump has  imposed tariffs  broadly on countries and on specific goods such as drugs, steel and cars. "People that are against Tariffs are FOOLS!" Trump said in a November 9 Truth Social post. "We are ...

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US   MARKETS  
50-year mortgage: Trump's idea for housing affordability
- President Donald Trump over the weekend floated an idea that took realtors, mortgage brokers and housing experts by surprise: the 50-year mortgage. On Saturday, Trump posted an image on Truth Social titled "Great American Presidents." It included a photo of President Franklin D. Roosevelt under the words "30-year mortgage" and a photo of Trump beneath the words "50-year mortgage." (Mortgages were extended to 30 ...

Source: washingtonpost.com
Canada Loses Measles Elimination Status. Will The U.S. Soon Follow?
- Oh Canada. What have you done? Over the past couple decades, Canada has allowed measles vaccination rates to fall so low that the virus has once again gotten a spikehold in the country. This measle-y fact has now led to the Pan American Health Organization on Monday officially revoking the measles elimination status that Canada had worked so hard to attain back in 1998. Could the U.S. soon lose the mealses ...

Source: forbes.com
US   POLITICS  
US Supreme Court declines to revisit same-sex marriage decision
- News , via Wikimedia Commons US Supreme Court declines to revisit same-sex marriage decision The US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal on Monday that sought to overturn the decade-old landmark decision legalizing same-sex marriage. The appeal was filed by Kim Davis, a former Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples in 2015, defying a court order. Davis asked the Supreme ...

Source: jurist.org
WORLD  
Tens of thousands attend funeral of Israeli soldier whose remains were held in Gaza for 11 years
- KFAR SABA – Tens of thousands of people packed a cemetery in central Israel on Tuesday for the funeral of an Israeli soldier whose body had been held in Gaza for 11 years, overflowing and blocking surrounding streets as somber crowds stood with Israeli flags. The burial of Lt. Hadar Goldin was a moment of closure for his family, which has traveled the world in a public campaign seeking his return. The huge ...

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US   POLITICS  
US Supreme Court to decide if states can count mail-in ballots received after election day
- News , via Wikimedia Commons US Supreme Court to decide if states can count mail-in ballots received after election day The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a case that could dramatically impact mail-in voting practices in over two dozen states. The case, Watson v. Republican National Committee , challenges a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots postmarked by election day to be counted if received ...

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India rattled after car explosion in Delhi kills at least 8 people
- Indian authorities are investigating "all options" after at least eight people were killed Monday night in a rare car blast that tore through a neighborhood in the capital that is popular with tourists. At least 20 others were injured in the explosion near the historic Red Fort in Delhi, which took place at 6:52 p.m. local time (8:22 a.m. ET) and left the surrounding area laced with charred vehicles. A "slow-moving ...

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WORLD  
Typhoon Fung-wong leaves Philippines with 10 dead, 1.4 million displaced
- Typhoon Fung-wong has moved away from the northwestern Philippines after carving out a trail of devastation, leaving at least 10 people dead and 1.4 million displaced. Known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Uwan, the intense tropical storm was forecast to head northwest towards Taiwan. Fung-wong lashed the northern Philippines while the country was still dealing with the devastation wrought last week ...

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WORLD  
A suicide bomber targets an Islamabad court, killing 12 people and wounding 27, minister says
- ISLAMABAD (AP) — A suicide bomber struck outside the gates of a district court in Islamabad on Tuesday, detonating his explosives next to a police car and killing 12 people, Pakistan's interior minister said, the latest in an uptick in violence across the country . Witnesses described scenes of mayhem in the immediate aftermath of the explosion, which also wounded 27 people. The blast was heard for miles away ...

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Teachers fear AI could weaken critical thinking — Mark Cuban says it can do the opposite and build better leaders
- Many teachers worry that AI could make students lazy thinkers. Mark Cuban thinks it could do the opposite — if used the right way. The billionaire investor and former Shark Tank star said kids who learn to use AI properly will "be best equipped to lead" in the future workplace. In an interview with CNBC published Monday, Cuban argued that students who collaborate with — rather than rely on it — ...

Source: businessinsider.com
Demonic horns and a devilish name: New 'Lucifer' bee discovered in Australia
- Scientists in have identified a new species of native bee with tiny, devil-like horns that have earned it a playfully hellish name – "lucifer." The species, Megachile lucifer , was discovered by scholars surveying a critically endangered wildflower in Western Australia's Goldfields in 2019, according to a study published Monday in the Journal of Hymenoptera Research. The highly distinctive, upward-pointing ...

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18 injured in mobile lounge crash at D.C.'s Dulles International Airport
- Nov. 11 (UPI) -- A mobile lounge, transporting passengers at Washington Dulles International Airport, crashed into a dock Monday, injuring 18 people inside. The mobile lounge, also called a "people mover," was carrying passengers to Concourse D, when it struck the dock as it was pulling up to the terminal around 4:30 p.m. EST, according to the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. The MWAA oversees Dulles ...

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Families accuse Camp Mystic of ignoring risks in Texas lawsuit over flood deaths
- The operators of  Camp Mystic  in Texas, where 25 girls and two teenage counselors died in  catastrophic flooding on July 4 , failed to take necessary steps to protect the campers as life-threatening floodwaters approached, families of the victims allege in a lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed Monday in state court in Austin, seeks more than $1 million in damages but does not specify an exact amount. It was ...

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POLITICS  
Trump threatens to sue the BBC for $1 billion after Jan. 6 documentary
- LONDON — President Trump on Monday threatened to sue the BBC for $1 billion over a documentary that his lawyer claimed included "malicious, disparaging" edits to a speech Trump delivered on Jan. 6, 2021. The legal threat came in a letter from Alejandro Brito, one of Trump's lawyers, to the BBC that was obtained by The New York Times. The letter demanded a full retraction of the documentary, an apology, and ...

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HEALTH   MEDICINE  
US to remove warnings from menopause hormone therapy
- The United States will remove strong safety warnings on many hormone therapies used to alleviate menopausal symptoms, saying the risks have been exaggerated, authorities announced Monday. Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) replaces estrogen that the female body stops producing during menopause with the aim of alleviating symptoms including hot flashes, brain fog, insomnia, night sweats and joint pain. Previously ...

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US   POLITICS  
Ghislaine Maxwell 'wants Donald Trump to commute her prison sentence' | US News
- The 63-year-old co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein sent an email to her lawyer titled "commutation application", NBC News reported. Ghislaine Maxwell, the disgraced British socialite and co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein, is planning to appeal to Donald Trump to commute her 20-year prison sentence, according to a whistleblower. Maxwell, a convicted sex offender, revealed her intentions in an email with the subject ...

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WORLD   US   POLITICS  
US declares partial suspension of sanctions on Syria after historic meeting
- Ahmed al-Sharaa and Donald Trump hold first White House summit between a US and Syrian leader since 1946 The US has announced a partial suspension of sanctions on Syria after a historic meeting in Washington DC between its new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, and Donald Trump . Monday's meeting was the first summit between a US and Syrian leader at the White House since 1946. The meeting is part of a remarkable turnaround ...

Source: theguardian.com
US   POLITICS  
New Government Funding Bill Could Devastate A $30 Billion Industry
- Join HuffPost. The shutdown may be ending, but the story isn't. A deal's been struck, but serious questions remain. Your membership powers the reporting that digs deeper and follows what happens next. Already a member? WASHINGTON ― The government funding bill set to pass the Senate this week, likely ending the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, would outlaw certain synthetic cannabinoid products ...

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POLITICS  
Trump responds to criticism from Marjorie Taylor Greene: 'She's lost her way'
- President Donald Trump on Monday said that MAGA-aligned Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene , R-Ga., had "lost her way" with her criticism of the administration's focus on foreign policy. "I don't know what happened to Marjorie. She's a nice woman, but I don't know what happened. She's lost her way, I think," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. "But I have to view the presidency as a worldwide situation, not locally. ...

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US   HEALTH  
ByHeart Infant Formula Recalled Amid Botulism Outbreak, Investigation Continues
- MONDAY, Nov. 10, 2025 (Health News) — Federal health officials have announced a recall for ByHeart Whole Nutrition Infant Formula after a multi-state outbreak of infant botulism. Although botulism can be fatal, no deaths have been reported in the 10-state outbreak, according to the (FDA). Thirteen babies have been hospitalized with the illness since August. The recall affects two lots of the powdered . ...

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POLITICS  
Hegseth says six people killed in two new US attacks on alleged drug boats
- US defense secretary says without providing evidence that dead from strikes in eastern Pacific were 'narco-terrorists' US forces struck two more alleged drug trafficking boats off the coast of South America, killing six people, the Trump administration's defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has said. The US began carrying out such strikes – which some experts say amount to extrajudicial killings even if they ...

Source: theguardian.com
POLITICS  
Donald Trump becomes first president to attend regular-season NFL game since 1978
- President Donald Trump on Sunday became the first sitting president to attend a regular-season NFL game since Jimmy Carter in 1978, appearing at the Detroit Lions and Washington Commanders matchup. In the third quarter, Trump appeared on the Fox broadcast, answering questions about his time as a football player at New York Military Academy, opining on quarterbacks and more. "Drew Brees, he threw a ball you could ...

Source: nbcnews.com
US   POLITICS  
A Rastafarian goes to the Supreme Court after a prison shaved his dreadlocks
- By the time Damon Landor arrived at a Louisiana corrections center to serve out a sentence for drug possession in 2020, he had maintained his Rastafarian vow to let his hair grow for nearly two decades. Landor, whose dreadlocks almost reached his knees, revealed his faith to a guard and handed him a copy of a court decision that held that a federal law on religious freedom prevented Louisiana prisons from forcing ...

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David Szalay wins 2025 Booker prize for 'dark' Flesh
- The judges 'had never read anything quite like it', says panel chair Roddy Doyle, announcing the Hungarian-British author's novel as the winner of the £50,000 award Hungarian-British author David Szalay has won the 2025 Booker prize for his novel Flesh. Szalay's sixth work of fiction traces the life of one man, István, from his youth to midlife. The judges "had never read anything quite like it", said ...

Source: theguardian.com
POLITICS  
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy to be released from prison
- Sarkozy, who told court his three weeks in jail had been a 'nightmare', will serve rest of sentence at home pending appeal The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is to be released from prison after a judge ruled he could serve the rest of his sentence at home. Sarkozy had told the court his three weeks in prison had been "gruelling" and a "nightmare" as he appeared by video link from prison. Sarkozy entered ...

Source: theguardian.com
Visa, Mastercard reach swipe-fee settlement: How it'll affect your wallet
- Proposed settlement needs to be approved by a federal judge Visa and Mastercard announced Monday that they reached a proposed settlement that would lower charges that merchants pay to the credit card networks. While those fees are paid by the store every time a customer makes a transaction, they often get passed onto consumers through higher costs for goods and services.  These fees are commonly referred to as ...

Source: foxbusiness.com
WORLD   POLITICS  
COP30 summit in Brazil: What to know about the UN climate conference?
- The 30th annual United Nations climate change conference (COP30) begins on Monday in the Brazilian city of Belem. About 50,000 people from more than 190 countries, including diplomats and climate experts, are expected to attend the 11-day meeting in the Amazon. Delegates are expected to discuss the climate crisis and its devastating impacts, including the rising frequency of extreme weather. The hosts have a packed ...

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TECHNOLOGY  
AI isn't failing — You're just looking in the wrong places
- Turns out AI isn't failing — it's just been pointed at the wrong stuff. When aimed at customers, it actually drives loyalty, growth and real ROI. Headlines have sounded the same refrain for years: most AI projects fail. Research from MIT Sloan Management Review and others paints a sobering picture of large investments, ambitious initiatives and too few tangible results. But that story, however, is incomplete. ...

Source: cio.com
US  
Warren Buffett says he'll keep writing a yearly letter — and 'step up' his giving
- Warren Buffett plans to keep writing a yearly letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders — but it'll be in November, not May. The famed investor, 95, rocked the business world this spring by announcing he would step down as CEO at the end of this year. In a letter published Monday, he said that he would cease writing Berkshire's annual report and "talking endlessly" at Berkshire's annual shareholder meeting, ...

Source: businessinsider.com
Plane carrying Hurricane relief supplies for Jamaica crashes in Florida
- A small turboprop plane bound for Jamaica on a hurricane relief mission crashed into a pond in a residential area of the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Coral Springs on Monday morning, minutes after takeoff, authorities said. A fire official told The Associated Press no victims were located during rescue efforts and they said the search had become a recovery effort. It wasn't immediately known how many persons were ...

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Dozens of inmates found hanged in Ecuador prison
- At least 31 inmates have been found dead in a prison in southern Ecuador, including 27 who had been hanged, officials say. Four prisoners were killed and more than 30 injured in clashes between rival gang members in El Oro prison in the city of Machala in the early hours of on Sunday. Hours later, security guards who had been alerted to a fresh outbreak of gang violence found the others who had been hanged on the ...

Source: bbc.com
MEDICINE  
Science Keeps Dismantling Trump's Tylenol-Autism Scare
- Reading time 3 minutes More experts are throwing cold water on the Trump administration's efforts to pin autism on Tylenol. A study out today finds no clear link between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and a higher risk of either autism or attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Researchers in the UK examined the medical literature on acetaminophen and autism/ADHD. Though some studies showed a possible ...

Source: gizmodo.com
Iconic Andean monument may have been used for Indigenous accounting
- Sediment analysis and drone photography of the iconic South American monument of Monte Sierpe (aka "Band of Holes") support a new interpretation of this mysterious landscape feature as part of an Indigenous system of accounting and exchange. Stretching 1.5 km across the Pisco Valley of the southern Peruvian Andes, Monte Sierpe (meaning serpent mountain) is a large row of approximately 5,200 precisely aligned holes ...

Source: phys.org