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Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
Jack Schlossberg, the only grandson of the late President John F. Kennedy, is launching a Democratic bid for a New York City congressional seat on Wednesday. Schlossberg, 32, is entering the Democratic primary to succeed retiring Rep. Jerrold Nadler and represent New York's 12th Congressional District. The seat represents the Upper East Side, Upper West Side and Midtown sections of Manhattan, an overwhelmingly ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
Proposed by the state Department of Information Resources, the code would apply to all state agencies and local entities that procure, develop or deploy AI technology. It is now available for public comment. The Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) has proposed a new statewide Code of Ethics for the use of artificial intelligence systems in government. The code, published in the Nov. 7 issue of the Texas ...
Source: govtech.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
US president sets Friday deadline for corporation to respond to billion-dollar legal threat Donald Trump has said he feels he has "an obligation" to sue the BBC over its editing of one of his speeches, as a deadline looms for the corporation to respond to his billion-dollar legal threat. The US president accused the broadcaster of having "defrauded the public" with an edition of Panorama last year that spliced ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistanis buried their loved ones on Wednesday as authorities probed a deadly suicide bombing at an Islamabad court the day before, the latest attack underscoring the country's challenges as the government struggles with a surging militancy , border tensions and a fragile truce with Afghanistan. The bombing on Tuesday killed 12 people and left 27 wounded at the district court, located on the ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
The expansive halls of the Amazon's newly built climate summit hub echoed with the hum of air conditioners and the footsteps of delegates from around the world — scientists, diplomats, Indigenous leaders and energy executives, all converging for two frenetic weeks of negotiations. Then Gov. Gavin Newsom rounded the corner, flanked by staff and security. They moved in tandem through the corridors on Tuesday as ...
Source: latimes.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that 19 bodies of the 20 soldiers on board a Turkish C-130 military cargo plane that crashed in Georgia had been recovered, along with the aircraft's flight recorder. The Turkish leader gave the update on the recovery efforts on Wednesday at a meeting of provincial heads of his governing Justice and Development (AK) Party in Ankara, the Anadolu news agency reported, ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
A rural Kansas county has agreed to pay a little more than $3 million and apologize over a law enforcement raid on a small-town weekly newspaper in August 2023 that sparked an outcry over press freedom. Marion County sheriff's officers were involved in the raid on the Marion County Record and helped draft search warrants used by Marion city police to enter the newspaper's offices, the publisher's home and the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Airlines will need time to adjust schedules and staffing even after the government shutdown ends. Their warning comes just two weeks before the busiest travel days ahead of Thanksgiving and as air traffic controllers missed their second full paycheck since the shutdown began on Oct. 1. Record numbers of travelers are expected for the Thanksgiving holiday period, aviation groups said. In this article A board shows ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
The Trump administration is proffering the idea of 50-year government-backed mortgages, like the current 30-year and 15-year mortgages. This may be a great idea for the mortgage industry, banks, shadow banks, and investors that invest in mortgage-backed securities, but it's a very costly mortgage for homebuyers. The small amount of payment reduction gets crushed by the huge amount of additional interest they have ...
Source: wolfstreet.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Trump's legal blitz to overturn verdicts and rulings against him is taking aim at jury's $5 million judgment Donald Trump is calling on the Supreme Court to throw out a multi-million dollar verdict after a jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming E Jean Carroll. ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
FDA Removes Strictest Black Box Warning From Menopause Hormone Therapy The warning, based on a flawed 2002 study, stopped many women from taking effective drugs for symptoms like hot flashes and night sweats, the FDA said. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is removing the black box safety warning from hormone therapies containing estrogen that are used to treat menopause symptoms like hot flashes and ...
Source: everydayhealth.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
to visit or live in the United States if they have certain medical conditions such as diabetes or obesity or lack the economic resources and assets to support themselves. The guidance, issued last week in a cable from the State Department and obtained by The Associated Press, directs embassy and consular officials to comprehensively and thoroughly vet visa applicants to demonstrate that they will not need to rely ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
After nearly 30 years, Canada has lost its measles "elimination" status, which, by default, has caused the overall Americas region to lose its status as well. In a statement issued on Monday, the country's Public Health Agency stated that Canada was experiencing a "large, multi-jurisdictional outbreak of measles" which began in October last year. Over the past year, the agency has recorded cases in Alberta, British ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
FDA notifies ByHeart after 13 cases linked to company's powdered infant formula across 10 states Baby nutrition company ByHeart is recalling all batches of its Whole Nutrition Infant Formula following a multi-state outbreak of infant botulism. Thirteen of the 83 cases of infant botulism reported across the United States since August 2025 involved infants who had consumed ByHeart-brand powdered infant formula, ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
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 ...
Source: jurist.org
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
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 ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
A Christian missionary father and his daughter were killed when a small plane bound for a hurricane relief mission in Jamaica crashed in a South Florida neighborhood . Christian ministry organization Ignite the Fire identified the two victims of the Monday morning crash as the group's founder, Alexander Wurm, 53, and his daughter Serena Wurm, 22. The pair were bringing humanitarian aid to Jamaica, according to the ...
Source: apnews.com
Japan's SoftBank says it has sold its shares in Nvidia for $5.8 billion, turning its focus to OpenAI
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese technology giant SoftBank said Tuesday it has sold its stake in Nvidia, raising $5.8 billion to pour into other investments. It also reported its profit nearly tripled in the first half of this fiscal year from a year earlier. Tokyo-based SoftBank Group Corp. said it sold the stake in Silicon Vally-based Nvidia in October, a move that reflects its shift in focus to OpenAI, owner of the ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Topics More from TechCrunch Google announced its November software update for Pixel phones, called Pixel Drop — a quarterly feature release that brings new capabilities to existing devices — with features including notification summaries, a power-saving mode for the Maps app, prompt-based edits for Photos, and Gemini Nano-powered photo edits in Messages. . Now, Google is catching up with its own ...
Source: techcrunch.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
LONDON — Canadian-Hungarian-British writer David Szalay has won the Booker Prize for fiction on Monday for "Flesh," the story of one man's life from working-class origins in Hungary to mega-wealth in Britain, in which what isn't on the page is just as important as what is. Szalay, 51, beat five other finalists, including favorites Andrew Miller of Britain and Indian author Kiran Desai, to take the coveted ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Families allege camp leaders ignored known flood risks in 'entirely preventable' tragedy that killed multiple people The families of several campers and two counselors who died in July's catastrophic Hill Country floods in Texas have filed multiple lawsuits against Camp Mystic and its owners, accusing them of "gross negligence". The 4 July floods, which claimed more than 130 lives across the region and was ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
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 ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Major League Baseball and its affiliated sportsbooks offered a fast reaction Monday to the latest on a growing list of sports betting scandals, capping bets on individual pitches at $200 and excluding them from parlays to keep those prop bets from jeopardizing the integrity of the sport. That decision came a day after Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz were indicted on ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
The Dallas Mavericks fired general manager Nico Harrison on Tuesday, nine months after his trade of Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers sent the organisation into a tailspin. Team owner Patrick Dumont announced the dismissal of Harrison, who was also Dallas's president of basketball operations. The Mavericks have limped out of the blocks to a 3-8 record. "This decision reflects our continued commitment to ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
By CHAN HO-HIM BANGKOK (AP) — Apple said it has pulled two of China's biggest gay dating apps, Blued and Finka, under pressure from Chinese authorities, in the latest sign of a tightening grip on the LGBTQ+ community. An Apple spokesperson said in a statement that the company removed the two dating apps from China "based on an order from the Cyberspace Administration of China", without further elaborating. ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
As Warren Buffett steps down from the helm of Berkshire Hathaway , the 95-year-old billionaire is doubling down on another lifelong pursuit: giving away the majority of his wealth. Buffett announced in a Thanksgiving letter to shareholders yesterday (Nov. 10) that he will "step up the pace" of his charitable donations going forward. That include $1.3 billion worth of Class B Berkshire shares to four nonprofits run ...
Source: observer.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
The veterans were on an honor flight to D.C. to visit the capital's monuments. President Barack Obama gave a group of war heroes a surprise they will never forget. The former president surprised a flight of Korean and Vietnam War veterans on an honor flight from Madison, Wisconsin, to Washington, D.C., ahead of Veterans Day, according to a video he posted on X. "Ahead of Veterans Day, I was ...
Source: abcnews.go.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
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? President Donald Trump is defending his plan to bring hundreds of thousands of Chinese students into the country after facing backlash from prominent MAGA voices. Appearing Monday's episode of on Fox ...
Source: huffpost.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
The abduction and execution in Tonka shocks the country, which has been battling armed groups since 2012. Armed men in Mali have abducted and publicly executed a TikTok influencer who posted videos in support of the West African nation's military, local authorities have said. Mariame Cissé was taken on Friday while at a weekly market in Echel, according to Yehia Tandina, the mayor of neighbouring Timbuktu. ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
After two decades of legal battles, Visa and Mastercard have reached a revised $38 billion settlement with U.S. merchants — one of the largest antitrust agreements in the financial industry's history. Yet, despite the record amount, not all retailers are ready to celebrate. The proposed settlement, filed in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, aims to end years of litigation accusing the credit card giants ...
Source: jdjournal.com
Monday, Nov 10th, 2025 -
It used to be a political match made in MAGA heaven. But US President Donald Trump fell out with hard-right lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday, saying she had "lost her way" after a series of critical comments. The firebrand Republican congresswoman from Georgia was previously a diehard pro-Trump supporter but has emerged as an unlikely — and rare — dissenting voice on a host of issues. In recent ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Monday, Nov 10th, 2025 -
The Senate has rejected an amendment to a critical spending bill that would have removed language to ban hemp products containing THC. After the chamber cleared the appropriations minibus package for floor consideration on Sunday, senators on Monday took up the measure from Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) that he said would prevent the eradication of the hemp market that's matured since the crop's federal legalization under ...
Source: marijuanamoment.net