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Top News Stories for Tuesday, November 18th 2025
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON – After months of political gamesmanship, Congress is officially taking a vote on the . The House of Representatives on Tuesday is set to consider a bill that would compel the Department of Justice to release about the into the late disgraced financier and accused sex trafficker. It's arguably the first major defection from Donald Trump 's wishes by congressional Republicans since the president ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
Former Harvard University president Larry Summers on Monday night said he would step back from public "commitments" amid growing outrage over his association with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. The statement came hours after Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren urged Harvard to break ties with Summers, who leads the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School. Here's what ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Federal immigration authorities will expand their enforcement action in North Carolina to Raleigh as soon as Tuesday, the mayor of the state's capital city said, while Customs and Border Protection agents continue operating in Charlotte following a weekend that saw arrests of more than 130 people in that city. Mayor Janet Cowell said Monday that she didn't know how large the operation ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli was killed and three were wounded in an attack Tuesday at an intersection in the West Bank, Israel's rescue service said, following a spate of settler attacks on Palestinians across the occupied territory. The violence came a day after the U.N. Security Council gave its backing to U.S. President Donald Trump's blueprint to secure and govern Gaza . Hamas rejected the plan. The ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
United States President Donald Trump says he may expand his unprecedented strikes against Latin American drug cartels to include Mexico, the Reuters news agency and the TV network NBC report. "Would I launch strikes in Mexico to stop drugs? It's OK with me. I've been speaking to Mexico. They know how I stand," he told reporters at the Oval Office on Monday. "We're losing hundreds of thousands of people to drugs. So ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Monday, Nov 17th, 2025 -
The attorney handpicked to prosecute President Donald Trump's enemies may have "tainted the grand jury proceedings" against former FBI Director James Comey by making multiple false statements, said a federal judge Monday. In a 24-page ruling , Federal Magistrate Judge William E. Fitzpatrick said that the Department of Justice (DOJ) engaged in a "disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps" when moving to ...
Source: commondreams.org
Monday, Nov 17th, 2025 -
New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said Monday that he reached out to the White House to arrange a meeting with President Donald Trump , signaling a cooling of tensions between the two leaders after months of harsh rhetoric. "My team reached out to the White House to fulfill a commitment I made to New Yorkers over the course of this campaign," Mamdani told reporters at a food pantry in the Bronx, adding that the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Nov 17th, 2025 -
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday the U.S. "may be having some discussions" with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, a potential diplomatic avenue as the U.S. further builds up its military presence near the South American country with the arrival of its most advanced aircraft carrier. Trump didn't offer details about the possible discussions with Maduro, but he said ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Monday, Nov 17th, 2025 -
The Sky News Data x Forensics team break down the numbers around the Danish asylum system, and how it compares to the UK and other European countries. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced controversial plans for the UK to embrace a "Denmark-style" asylum system, aimed at making Britain less attractive to illegal immigrants and making deportations easier. The hardline "zero asylum seekers" approach taken by ...
Source: news.sky.com
Monday, Nov 17th, 2025 -
Former world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua will fight YouTube star Jake Paul in a professional bout next month. Britain's Joshua, the 36-year-old former two-time unified heavyweight champion, will take on the YouTuber-turned-boxer at Kaseya Center in Miami. The fight, which will be streamed live on Netflix, will take place on 19 December and consist of eight three-minute rounds. Joshua, who weighed more than ...
Source: bbc.com
Monday, Nov 17th, 2025 -
News / Pixabay US Supreme Court agrees to hear case on turning away asylum seekers at border The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear Noem v. Al Otro Lado , a case reviewing a policy used by past administrations to deny immigrants a chance to apply for asylum on the Mexican border until space opened to process claims. The Trump administration is appealing a decision made by the Ninth Circuit on October 23, 2024, to ...
Source: jurist.org
Monday, Nov 17th, 2025 -
The highest number of deaths are alleged to have happened at the Sde Teiman detention centre. Nearly a hundred Palestinian prisoners have died in custody since the start of the war in Gaza, according to a human rights group that claims prisoners are being denied medical care and are the victims of systematic and brutal violence. The report, from Physicians for Human Rights - Israel (PHRI), tracked deaths due to a ...
Source: news.sky.com
Monday, Nov 17th, 2025 -
By Nov. 17 (UPI) -- The Trump administration proposed changing the definition of wetlands Monday to limit which bodies of water are protected from pollution under the Clean Water Act. The administration's new definition counts only "Water of the United States," which includes oceans and lakes, as it left most of the country's wetlands and streams up to interpretation over how often their waters flow. "There will be ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Monday, Nov 17th, 2025 -
SAN DIEGO — The acting chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency left his job Monday after just six months, according to the Department of Homeland Security, the latest disruption in a year of mass staff departures, program cuts and policy upheaval at the agency charged with managing federal disaster response. David Richardson is leaving the post after replacing previous acting head Cameron Hamilton . ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.com