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Top News Stories for Thursday, November 20th 2025
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
"Are you looking for something?" The homeless man, kindly yet befuddled, stands underneath the awning of a long-abandoned Kansas City storefront and searches his shopping cart for an umbrella. This desolate stretch of road not far from the I-70 interchange doesn't get much foot traffic, especially amid a September downpour, but he's right. I am looking for something. I'm hunting for a specific yet invisible spot ...
Source: newrepublic.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Nvidia's blockbuster earnings just blew a hole through Wall Street's AI bubble anxieties . Analysts said the chipmaker's third-quarter results prove the AI boom is nowhere near running out of steam. On Wednesday, Nvidia posted $57 billion in revenue, topping Wall Street's $55 billion estimates. Its data center division generated revenue of $51 billion, surpassing the $49.31 billion analysts had projected. The ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — A pair of Israeli strikes in Gaza's southern city of Khan Younis early Thursday killed five people, hospital officials said, bringing the death toll from airstrikes in the Palestinian territory over a roughly 12-hour period to 33. The strikes have been some of the deadliest since Oct. 10 when a U.S.-brokered ceasefire took effect. The renewed escalation came after Israel said that ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
MIAMI (AP) — U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida has been indicted on charges accusing her of stealing $5 million in federal disaster funds and using some of the money to aid her 2021 campaign, the Justice Department said Wednesday. The Democrat is accused of stealing Federal Emergency Management Agency overpayments that her family health care company had received through a federally funded ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
The U.S. added 119,000 jobs in September, a stronger than expected figure and a sign that the economy was adding jobs at a healthy clip prior to government shutdown . But the details of the report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics paint a more mixed picture, of a labor market that has recently begun to look more wobbly amid high-profile layoff announcements from a host of blue-chip companies. September's ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
The United States State Department has raised its reward for information leading to the arrest of a former Olympic snowboarder turned alleged drug kingpin, as Canadian authorities announced seven people linked to the fugitive have been arrested. Speaking at a news conference in Washington on Wednesday, FBI Director Kash Patel described Ryan Wedding as a "modern-day iteration of Pablo Escobar" – referring to ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Nov. 20 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump announced he will meet New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in the Oval Office on Friday. Trump made the announcement on his social media platform Truth Social on Wednesday. "Communist Mayor of New York City, Zohran 'Kwame' Mamdani, has asked for a meeting. We have agreed that this meeting will take place at the Oval Office on Friday, November 21st," Trump said in the ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Senior U.S. military officials are in Ukraine on Thursday "on a fact finding mission to meet with Ukrainian officials and discuss efforts to end the war" with Russia. The U.S. delegation's arrival in Kyiv comes a day after media reports emerged that Washington and Moscow had held secret talks and devised a 28-point peace plan for Ukraine. Ukraine was not believed to have been involved in the peace proposals, which ...
Source: cnbc.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
The U.S. Senate passed a continuing resolution (CR) to reopen the government, while also passing three appropriations bills. One of the pieces of legislation is the agricultural appropriations bill, which revises the 2018 Farm Bill language that legalized hemp products with less than 0.3% THC. The new bill would essentially destroy the cannabis industry, including the hemp agricultural and CBD retail industry. The ...
Source: cbd.market
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
We'll keep digging -- no matter who wants the truth buried. Become a HuffPost member and fuel reporting they can't silence. Already a member? WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department is breaking off several of its main offices and giving their responsibilities to other federal agencies, an early look at how President Donald Trump could fulfill his campaign pledge to close the department entirely. Offices ...
Source: huffpost.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
For humans, kissing holds major cultural cachet, accompanying confessions of romantic love, religious rituals of reverence and even betrayals, à la The Godfather Part II 's "kiss of death." New research suggests that kissing probably predates humanity and evolved between 16.9 million and 21.5 million years ago, after the ancestor of the great apes split from the lesser apes, or gibbons. There is even ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
A federal judge has rejected the Federal Trade Commission's effort to force Meta to divest its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, saying the government hadn't made its case that the Facebook owner is an illegal monopoly. In his ruling Tuesday, U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg in D.C. agreed with Meta that its purchases of the photo-sharing app Instagram and messaging app WhatsApp, which it bought in 2012 ...
Source: abajournal.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Reading time 3 minutes Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has spent the last several months on a tour of our solar system. NASA spacecraft and telescopes have snapped photos of this celestial visitor over the course of its journey, and after weeks of anticipation, the agency has finally unveiled these never-before-seen images. During a press conference held at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, on ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article The former FBI employee said the rainbow flag is not a "political statement," but a "a symbol of inclusion, unity, and equal service." A former FBI employee has sued the agency, Director Kash Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi , claiming he was unjustly fired for displaying an ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
that the Federal Open Market Committee elects to cut interest rates on December 10. That's largely in response to hawkish minutes released on November 19 for the FOMC's October 28-29 meeting. Although policymakers did cut interest rates at that meeting, expectations for a December cut amongst policymakers appeared muted, at least at the time of the October meeting. October Comments On December Meeting noted that, ...
Source: forbes.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Its sale price beat the previous record, set by an Andy Warhol portrait of Marilyn Monroe, which went for $195m in 2022 and puts it second in the all-time list, behind Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi. A painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust has become the most expensive piece of modern art and the second most expensive painting ever sold at auction. The Portrait of ...
Source: news.sky.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
She's holding on against Zoh's thin red line. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch accepted Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's offer to stay on as top cop Wednesday — with a vow to not "mince words" in disagreements over their profound differences. The highly anticipated appointment fulfills Mamdani's campaign promise to keep the respected 44-year-old police executive amid concerns over his arguably soft-on-crime bent. ...
Source: nypost.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
The Michelin Guide announced the honorees of its 2025 Northeast Cities guide Tuesday night in Philadelphia, one of two cities included in the guide for the first time. Sushi Sho in New York, one of several restaurants operated across the globe by chef Keiji Nakazawa, was awarded the only new three-star distinction. Joo Ok jumped from one to two stars, and the new one-star honorees were Bridges, Muku, Huso, and ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
NBC's last MLB game was in 2000 Major League Baseball announced a major media rights deal on Wednesday that keeps games on ESPN for a 39th consecutive season while also bringing games back to NBC and forming a new relationship with Netflix. The three-year deal brings NBC back into the MLB fold for the first time in over two decades, while Netflix will broadcast live games for the first time. "Our new media rights ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Nov. 19 (UPI) -- A federal judge in Texas has ordered state schools to take down displayed posters of the Ten Commandments in supposed violation of the U.S. Constitution. Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton directed schools across the Lone Star State to display the Ten Commandments less than a week after a federal court ruled in favor of 11 school districts that fought against the religious exhibition in ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Restarting the Three Mile Island reactor would power equivalent of 800,000 homes by 2027 The Trump administration said Tuesday that it is providing a $1 billion loan to Constellation Energy to help restart the nuclear reactor at the former Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania. Constellation reached an agreement in late 2024 with Microsoft to restart the 835-megawatt reactor, which ceased operations in 2019 ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
After 12 years at Meta Platforms Inc. the artificial intelligence visionary Yann LeCun is out the door and about to embark on a mission to be part of what he calls the next big revolution in AI. Known as one of the godfathers of AI, LeCun (pictured) left France decades ago to work at AT&T Bell Laboratories. In 2013, he joined what was then Facebook Inc. to work at the Fundamental AI Research or FAIR lab, later ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Dutch government's move pauses dispute that threatened car production around the world The Netherlands has suspended its seizure of the Chinese-owned chipmaker at the heart of a six-week dispute between the EU and China that threatened to halt car production at sites around the world. The Dutch minister of economic affairs, Vincent Karremans, said in a statement on Wednesday that the government would suspend its ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
A growing number of people are ditching alcohol in favor of weed, a trend dubbed "California sober" or "Cali sober." Now, a new study suggests there might be something to this more flexible approach to sobriety. Smoking marijuana might lead people to drink less, at least in the short term, researchers reported Wednesday in the American Journal of Psychiatry . Exposure to THC -- the intoxicating compound in weed -- ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
US President Donald Trump said Wednesday he would start "working" on the war in Sudan, after visiting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman asked him to help end the conflict. Since its outbreak in April 2023, the war between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced nearly 12 million. "His majesty would like me to do something very powerful ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Smoking even 2-5 cigarettes a day can more than double your risk of any type of heart disease and raise your risk of death from any cause by 60% compared to people who never smoked, according to new research supported by the American Heart Association's Tobacco Center for Regulatory Science and published in PLOS Medicine. The study found that even after you stop smoking, it could ...
Source: news-medical.net
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Australians younger than 16 will be removed from Facebook and Instagram on December 4, tech giant Meta said. Australians younger than 16 will be removed from Facebook and Instagram on December 4, tech giant Meta said Thursday, as Canberra prepares to enforce sweeping laws banning teens from social media. From December 10, Australia will force social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, to ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article This legislation prohibits federal immigration officials from arresting individuals attending or leaving New York courthouses A US District Judge has dismissed a legal challenge brought by the Trump administration against New York policies that prevent immigration officials from ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Reading time 5 minutes Elon Musk made some wild claims at the US-Saudi Investment Forum at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, insisting that his Optimus robot would fix poverty, people wouldn't have to work in the future, and money would eventually become irrelevant. Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, was also on stage and joked that he'd like Musk to give him a heads up just before currency no ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
U.S. President Donald Trump attends the Congressional Picnic at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 12, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard Democrats are hoping to introduce a bill that would bring transparency to Donald Trump's White House renovation project. The "Stop Ballroom Bribery Act" has been sponsored by Senator Elizabeth Warren and Robert Garcia, the latter from the House Oversight Committee. The bill ...
Source: rawstory.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — The tiny Caribbean island country Curaçao will go to the 2026 World Cup as the smallest nation by population ever to qualify for the marquee event in men's soccer. Curaçao, an autonomous territory of about 156,000 people within the Netherlands kingdom, takes the record of Iceland, with a population of just over 350,000, which was the previous smallest country to reach ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! The Washington State Department of Health (DOH) has confirmed that a resident of Grays Harbor County is the first person in the U.S. known to be infected with the H5N5 strain of avian influenza . The case also marks the country's first human bird flu diagnosis since February. The patient, described by officials as "an older adult with underlying health conditions," ...
Source: foxnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
TAMPA, Fla. ( WHTM ) – A batch of ice cream bars produced by a popular national brand has been recalled due to an undisclosed and potentially "life-threatening" ingredient. Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams is voluntarily recalling one lot of Passion Fruit Dreamsicle Ice Cream Bars with may contain undeclared wheat and soy, according to a recall notice issued by Jeni's. The company said a component from a separate ...
Source: wfla.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Perplexity AI, an AI-powered search engine, is ramping up its push for government use, inking a new deal with the General Services Administration to offer its product for just 25 cents per agency. GSA announced the deal with Perplexity on Wednesday, emphasizing that the product will be offered directly through the agency's Multiple Award Schedule rather than through a government reseller, a first-of-its-kind ...
Source: fedscoop.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Google is launching Gemini 3 , its most intelligent AI model yet. From the outset, users will have access to the flagship Gemini 3 Pro model, which is multimodal from the ground up and can process text, image, audio, and video in the same flow. This model is said to top several AI benchmark tests in logic, math, and fact checking. It's also said to provide shorter, more direct, and less biased responses. One new ...
Source: pcworld.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) -Ultra-processed foods are a major public health threat that must be urgently addressed, according to a new series of papers authored by 43 global experts in the Lancet medical journal. The scientists, including the Brazilian professor who coined the term with colleagues around 15 years ago, argue that UPFs are now increasingly common worldwide and linked to a decline ...
Source: aol.com