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Top News Stories for Thursday, November 20th 2025
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in her Texas classroom, she felt she had no choice. She resigned from the job she loved. "I just was not going to be a part of forcing or imposing religious doctrine onto my students," she said. in public schools, and in the rush to navigate the that took effect in September, the rollout has forced some districts to confront hard choices. more than two dozen of the ...
Source: news.yahoo.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 -
Nov. 19 (UPI) -- The United States on Wednesday intensified its manhunt for a former Canadian Olympian who U.S. law enforcement accuses of being a drug kingpin on the scale of Pablo Escobar and Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. It is not immediately clear how long the United States has been hunting Ryan Wedding but he was first indicted in the United States in October 2024. In March, he was added to the FBI's Ten Most ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
President has previously criticised the New York City mayor-elect, labelling him a 'communist' and threatening to deport him Donald Trump has confirmed a long-awaited meeting with New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani will happen in Washington this week, setting up an in-person clash between the political opposites who for months have antagonised each other. The sit-down, which Trump said on social media would ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
The U.S. and Russia have drawn up a plan aimed at ending the that calls for major concessions from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, according to a person familiar with the matter. As reports emerged of the proposal, blindsided European diplomats insisted they and Ukraine must be consulted. The plan, first reported by Axios, calls for major concessions from Ukraine, according to a person familiar with the matter, ...
Source: news4jax.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? The Trump administration announced Tuesday certain Education Department programs, and billions of dollars used to fund them, would be shuffled to other government agencies, in a move that experts say is an unnerving escalation of a war on public education. "The Trump ...
Source: huffpost.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 -
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 -
– A veteran FBI employee training to become a special agent was fired last month for displaying at his workspace an LGBTQ+ flag, which had previously flown outside a field office, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court. The suit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Washington, said Maltinsky had been a decorated intelligence specialist working in the Los Angeles field office and most recently was ...
Source: news4jax.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 -
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 -
By Jonathan Allen and Maria Tsvetkova NEW YORK (Reuters) -Jessica Tisch, the New York City police commissioner who has overseen a drop in violent crime under outgoing Mayor Eric Adams, has agreed to remain in the post under newly elected Zohran Mamdani, who recently apologized for his past criticisms of the department. Although Mamdani said during his campaign that he would like to retain Tisch, it was ...
Source: aol.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 -
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 -
By Julia Harte (Reuters) -A federal judge has ordered a dozen Texas public school districts to remove displays of the Ten Commandments from their classrooms by December, saying that a state law requiring such displays violates the U.S. Constitution. In a win for parents of children who attend school in the 12 Texas districts named as defendants, U.S. District Court Judge Orlando L. Garcia wrote ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Nov. 19 (UPI) -- The Trump administration has announced it is issuing a $1 billion loan to restart a Pennsylvania nuclear power plant. Announced Tuesday by the Department of Energy, the loan to Constellation Energy Generation is earmarked to help finance the resurrection of the 835-megawatt Three Mile Island reactor in Londonderry Township, Pa., which ceased operations in 2019 but was never fully decommissioned. ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist and one of the most influential figures in the field, is leaving the company to start a new AI venture, a Meta spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider. LeCun announced the move on Facebook, sharing that he is building a startup centered on his long-standing interest in world-model research. Meta will partner with LeCun on his new venture, a Meta spokesperson told Business ...
Source: businessinsider.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 -
Brown University researchers run joint-and-drink study to find alcohol consumption falls after smoking cannabis It turns out that going "California sober" may actually help you stay away from alcohol, according to new research published in the the American Journal of Psychiatry. A team of Brown University researchers conducted a study in which participants were given marijuana joints to smoke and then sent out to a ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
United States President Donald Trump has pledged to address the conflict in Sudan, in response to an apparent request from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. On Wednesday, Trump announced his intention to intervene twice, once at the Saudi Investment Forum in Washington, DC, and a second time on his online platform, Truth Social. "Arab Leaders from all over the World, in particular the highly respected Crown ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! New research dismantles the long-held belief that smoking less means less harm. Scientists now say the body suffers significant cardiovascular damage from even low levels of smoking . Researchers from the American Heart Association's Tobacco Regulation and Addiction Center analyzed data from 22 long-term health studies involving more than 320,000 adults. POP CULTURE ...
Source: foxnews.com
Facebook and Instagram to start kicking Australian teenagers off platforms as social media ban looms
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Meta users under 16 will be sent email, SMS and in-app messages in anticipation of 10 December, when ban will begin Australian Facebook and Instagram users under 16 will be notified starting Thursday that their accounts will be deactivated by 10 December, as Meta begins to comply with the Albanese government's social media ban. Users affected by the ban will receive 14 days' notice of their pending account ...
Source: theguardian.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 -
In Elon Musk's future, we won't need jobs or money, and there will be no poverty. U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum on Monday, where Musk sat on a panel with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Musk said that money would "stop being relevant" thanks to AI. "There will still be constraints on power like electricity and mass," Musk said. "But I think at some point currency becomes irrelevant." He linked it to the books of science ...
Source: businessinsider.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 -
Curaçao and Cape Verde qualify for a super-sized World Cup, but a 4-time champion is on the brink – A super-sized World Cup has paved the way for tiny Curaçao and Cape Verde to book their places at sport's biggest global event next year. Just as FIFA president Gianni Infantino predicted. It was back in 2017 when world soccer's governing body announced from 32 teams to 48 in 2026. It would create ...
Source: news4jax.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 -
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 -
Perplexity 's new partnership with the United States government and the artificial intelligence startup's free agentic shopping product for U.S. users were announced Wednesday (Nov. 19). The new shopping experience will be rolled out to U.S. users next week, Perplexity Chief Business Officer Dmitry Shevelenko told CNBC in a report posted Wednesday. In this experience, users will do their own research, because most ...
Source: pymnts.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 -
World's largest scientific review warns consumption of UPFs poses seismic threat to global health and wellbeing Ultra-processed food (UPF) is linked to harm in every major organ system of the human body and poses a seismic threat to global health, according to the world's largest review. UPF is also rapidly displacing fresh food in the diets of children and adults on every continent, and is associated with an ...
Source: theguardian.com