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Top News Stories for Thursday, November 20th 2025
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? The grand jury that interim U.S. attorney Lindsey Halligan convened when seeking to charge former FBI Director James Comey never reviewed a complete copy of the final indictment against him, Justice Department lawyers disclosed in court on Wednesday. The revelation came ...
Source: huffpost.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
The revelations about the economist's attempts to pressure a women into a "relationship"—with guidance from Jeffrey Epstein—should finally disqualify him from teaching students. Bluesky Why does Larry Summers still have a job? Why does Larry Summers keep getting hired for jobs? What does Larry Summers have to say or do to prove to the world that he is unfit for having jobs? Sadly, these are not simple ...
Source: thenation.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
The Cloudflare outage on Tuesday that disrupted access to many websites and services -- including OpenAI, Spotify, X, Grindr, Letterboxd and Canva -- was the company's worst outage since 2019, CEO Matthew Prince says. Other disruptions have centered on specific network features, Prince wrote in a blog post. "But in the last 6+ years we've not had another outage that has caused the majority of core traffic to ...
Source: cnet.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
The federal government's yearslong case to label Meta a monopoly ended on Tuesday when a federal court ruled in favor of the tech giant. The ruling sets the important precedent that the current market in which a dominant firm competes is the relevant one to consider when determining whether or not it is a monopolist. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) first brought the lawsuit against Meta in December 2020, during ...
Source: reason.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Large software vendors are strategically positioning artificial intelligence (AI) agents as a managed layer inside the enterprise rather than as optional add-ons. Microsoft's Agent 365, Salesforce's Agentforce 360 and Oracle's AI Agent Marketplace all share the view that businesses will run many agents across crucial functions, including support, operations, finance and customer work, requiring centralized ...
Source: pymnts.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Google AI Mode Changes the Customer Journey — Your Content Strategy Must Too AI-powered results reshape how customers search, evaluate and click. Marketers who adapt early will own the next era of organic visibility. Now, months later, the dust has settled — and it's the right moment to take stock of what this feature actually means for marketers, publishers and SEO teams. Early reactions focused on the ...
Source: cmswire.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
The evolutionary history of the kiss goes back over twenty million years. If you think about it, kissing is really weird. You press your sensitive, nerve-filled facial muscles against another person's. You exchange a cocktail of saliva, exposing yourself to millions of foreign bacteria. From a survivalist standpoint, kissing is a biological nightmare without any direct benefits or rewards. Yet, we do it. We crave ...
Source: zmescience.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
SIDON, Lebanon (AP) — The Israeli military carried out barrages of airstrikes in southern Lebanon Wednesday on what it said were Hezbollah sites, including weapons storage facilities, after a drone strike earlier in the day killed one person and wounded several others, including students on a bus. The new wave of strikes came a day after an airstrike killed 13 people in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
This movie shows Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) observations of Comet 3I/ATLAS from September 28 to October 10, 2025, when the comet was between 231 million to 235 million miles from Earth. Each frame is a daily stacked image, made up of multiple observations taken of the comet on each day. Stars create streaks of light in the background as the comet moves across the sky. The bright ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
The company not only posted another set of record-breaking figures but said it expects those records will be broken again in three months. The world's most valuable company has reported another series of expectation-beating results, heading off fears of the AI bubble bursting for now. Nvidia's revenue reached $57bn in the three months to October, higher than Wall Street estimates and the company's own guidance. ...
Source: news.sky.com
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? A longtime FBI employee who says he was fired last month for hanging an LGBTQ+ Pride flag at his workspace has filed a lawsuit in federal court. David Maltinsky, a decorated intelligence specialist, spent 16 years working in the Los Angeles Field Office and had completed ...
Source: huffpost.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
A portrait by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt was sold for $236.4m (£179m) in New York on Tuesday, making it the second most expensive piece ever sold at auction. Six people took part in a 20-minute bidding battle for the Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer which was painted between 1914 and 1916. Auction house Sotheby's has not disclosed the buyer's identity. The portrait was looted by the Nazis and almost ...
Source: bbc.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Unsealed indictment says Ryan Wedding tracked down witness who was then murdered before he could testify US authorities have charged a fugitive former Canadian Olympic snowboarder turned drug kingpin with the murder of a witness who was prepared to testify against him. The attorney general, Pam Bondi , said on Wednesday that Ryan Wedding was accused in a newly unsealed indictment of tracking down a witness in ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch vowed to cops early Wednesday that she would be a "fierce advocate" for them and wouldn't be afraid to "mince words" — as she revealed plans to stay on the job under Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani , The Post has learned. Tisch fired off a department-wide email explaining her decision to accept Mamdani's job retention offer — despite admitting she doesn't always 100% agree ...
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 -
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 -
As cases of potentially deadly botulism in babies who drank ByHeart infant formula continue to grow, state officials say they are still finding the recalled product on some store shelves. Meanwhile the company reported late Wednesday that laboratory tests confirmed that some samples of formula were contaminated with the type of bacteria that has sickened more than 30 babies in the outbreak. Tests by an independent ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Smoking marijuana is associated with "significantly" reduced rates of alcohol consumption, according to a new federally funded study that involved adults smoking joints in a makeshift bar. Researchers at Brown University investigated the science behind the trend that's come to be known as "California sober," referring to people who abstain from or limit the use of alcohol and most other drugs while still consuming ...
Source: marijuanamoment.net
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
ESPN and Major League Baseball appeared headed for an ugly separation after the network opted out of its rights deal in February. Nine months later, it appears to be the best thing to happen to both parties. ESPN has a reworked deal that includes out-of-market streaming rights while NBC and Netflix will air games as part of a new three-year media rights agreement announced by MLB on Wednesday. Commissioner Rob ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Environmentalists are sounding the alarm about a slate of new proposals from the Trump administration to weaken the Endangered Species Act , which they say will put more imperiled species in danger to line the pockets of the wealthy. On Wednesday, the Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced that it would once again roll back several key provisions of the ESA. Many had been in place ...
Source: commondreams.org
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics announced Wednesday that it will not publish a jobs report for the month of October. On Wednesday afternoon, a revision was made on BLS's website confirming that the employment situation data for October 2025 would not be released. The previously scheduled release date was November 7. In its statement, the BLS appeared to blame the government shutdown for ...
Source: mediaite.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Federal Reserve officials disagreed over whether the central bank should lower interest rates at its December meeting after approving back-to-back reductions, according to minutes from the October meeting. Quarter-point changes from eacvh of the last two meetings have lowered them to a range of 3.7% to 4%. The last change was Dec. 18, 2024, in a range of 4.25% to 4.5%. The next Federal Open Market ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Tesla CEO says AI and humanoid robots will eliminate poverty and make everyone wealthy Billionaire Elon Musk is signaling that artificial intelligence and robotics could eliminate the need to work in the next few decades. Musk attended the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum and was asked on a panel about the long-term impacts of robotics and AI on the workforce. He offered a bold prediction about the future of ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams voluntarily recalled one batch of its Passion Fruit Dreamsicle Ice Cream Bars over the potential presence of undeclared soy and wheat. Soy and wheat are products that people can be allergic to, which makes it mandatory for companies to put an allergen warning. Hence, undeclared products can unintentionally harm consumers, causing extreme allergies. "People who have an allergy or severe ...
Source: greenmatters.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
You need only scan the corporate landscape to see a horizon littered with scrapped AI initiatives. And the scrapheap keeps growing. According to Fortune, 17% of companies scrapped most or all of their in-house AI initiatives in 2024. One year later, in the summer of 2025, this number had In short, the rush toward AI adoption has been fast and furious, but now, just a few years into the AI revolution, doubts are ...
Source: forbes.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Food delivery is becoming increasingly popular, but here's the delivery of bad news for users of one popular company. DoorDash confirmed that it suffered a recent data breach. According to the company, the accessed information includes customer names, phone numbers, email addresses and physical addresses, but "no sensitive information" was obtained. It's unclear when exactly the breach occurred, ...
Source: cnet.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 -
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 -
Nov. 19 (UPI) -- The Dutch government on Wednesday ended its control of Chinese chipmaker Nexperia after a little over a month, easing a dispute between the Netherlands and China. Minister of Economic Affairs Vincent Karremans said in a statement that after the government had held "constructive meetings" with Chinese authorities, now was "the right moment to take a constructive step" by suspending its control over ...
Source: upi.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 -
The General Services Administration (GSA) announced on Wednesday a OneGov agreement with artificial intelligence (AI) company Perplexity that will provide federal agencies with AI research and drafting capabilities at discounted pricing. Under the first-of-its-kind direct agreement for frontier AI platforms, federal agencies can access Perplexity Enterprise Pro for Government for $0.25 per agency over an 18-month ...
Source: meritalk.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 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, Nov 18 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Mohammed bin Salman knew nothing about the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents, offering a fierce defense of the visiting Saudi crown prince that contradicted a U.S. ...
Source: huffpost.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
Topics More from TechCrunch Following a spate of lawsuits and investigations over its child safety systems, Roblox is going to implement mandatory facial verification for all users who want to access communication features, starting in January. The platform is also introducing age-based chat, meaning users can only communicate with others in a similar age group. Starting Tuesday, users can voluntarily verify their ...
Source: techcrunch.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
Certain ultraprocessed foods , or UPFs, are contributing to worldwide obesity, chronic health conditions and premature death , yet the food industry continues to aggressively market new and existing products in this category for massive profits, according to an unprecedented three-part series authored by 43 global experts in nutrition and supported by the United Nations Children's Fund, or UNICEF, and the World ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean Sundar Pichai says no company is immune if AI bubble bursts, echoing dotcom fears. On Tuesday, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai warned of "irrationality" in the AI market, telling the BBC in an interview, "I think no company is going to be immune, including us." His comments arrive as scrutiny over the state of the AI market has reached new heights, with ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
NEW YORK (AP) — Honda is recalling more than 256,600 of its Accord Hybrid vehicles across the U.S., due to a software error that may result in sudden loss of drive power. According to documents published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the recall covers certain Honda Accord Hybrids between the 2023 and 2025 model years. The error may cause part of these cars' internal software to reset ...
Source: apnews.com