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Top News Stories for Wednesday, November 26th 2025
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
and his wife, Cathy, have agreed to pay more than $5 million to settle over 15 years worth of unpaid income taxes after the IRS filed suit Monday. The West Virginia Republican had unpaid income taxes dating to 2009, according to the lawsuit, which was filed in U.S. District Court in West Virginia. Including penalties and interest, the Justices owe the federal government $5,164,739.75. "Despite notice and demand for ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Ukrainian officials have agreed to most of a U.S.-backed peace deal to end the war with Russia, unnamed U.S. officials told multiple news outlets Tuesday. The unnamed sources confirmed the details to NBC News , CBS News and ABC News . "The Ukrainians have agreed to the peace deal," one official told ABC. "There are some minor details to be sorted out, but they have agreed to a peace deal." ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
The United States Department of Defense has launched an investigation into Senator Mark Kelly over a video in which he and other Democrats urged soldiers to defy "illegal orders". The video was released last week. It features six Democratic lawmakers who previously held positions in the military and intelligence services: Kelly, Representatives Chris Deluzio and Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania, Representative ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
(Reuters) -In a reversal, Indiana Republicans will meet in December to consider whether to heed President Donald Trump's demand for a new congressional district map favoring Republican candidates, part of his national effort aimed at keeping control of the U.S. House of Representatives. The Republican speaker of the state House of Representatives, Todd Huston, said on Tuesday that his chamber ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
TOKYO — Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi , who recently triggered China's fury with a comment about Taiwan, said Tuesday that she received a call from U.S. President Donald Trump right after he spoke with China's leader. Takaichi, a hard-line conservative, said Trump expressed his friendship to her in a call he made to her Tuesday after a phone conversation with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. "President ...
Source: military.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
NEW YORK – A federal judge in Manhattan is demanding more information from the Justice Department as he weighs its request to unseal records from the sex trafficking case against Jeffrey Epstein's longtime confidante Judge Paul A. Engelmayer on Tuesday ordered the Justice Department to tell him what materials it plans to publicly release that were subject to secrecy orders in the British socialite's case. The ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
during the Biden administration, according to a memo reviewed by NBC News. It is the latest in a series of actions taken by the administration to The decision would potentially affect more than 200,000 refugees who began the process of legally immigrating to the U.S. over the last four years. In order to receive refugee status, applicants first must go through an extensive vetting process that often takes years to ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
In July, analysis from Sky News' Data and Forensics team found that aid distributions by GHF correlated with a significant increase in deaths. The IDF said earlier this year it only fired warning shots. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a controversial US and Israeli-backed aid distribution group, has said it will permanently cease operations. Set up as an alternative to United Nations aid ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump on Tuesday added two Thanksgiving turkeys to his long list of second-term pardons , offering the birds a dose of his much-discussed presidential immunity. After a White House speech that felt more like a campaign rally than a symbolic ceremony, Trump spared Gobble and Waddle from appearing on Thanksgiving dinner plates. He also joked that he was pardoning last year's turkeys, Peach and ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
The fight between Nvidia and one of its loudest naysayers, investor Michael Burry, is escalating. Following the "Big Short" investor's series of social media posts arguing that the artificial intelligence investment boom is replaying the dotcom bubble from the 1990s, with Nvidia at the center of it, the chipmaker quietly circulated a private memo to analysts that explicitly name-checked Burry to push back on many ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
Across the political spectrum—with alarm on the right and delight on the left—the display of warmth from President Trump toward Zohran Mamdani on Friday set off shock waves. Trump's lavish praise of New York's mayor-elect in the Oval Office was a 180-degree turn from his condemnation of the democratic socialist as "a pure true communist" and "a total nut job." The stunning about-face made for a great ...
Source: commondreams.org
Monday, Nov 24th, 2025 -
The United States has designated the Cartel de los Soles (Spanish for Cartel of the Suns) - a group it alleges is headed by Venezuela's president, Nicolás Maduro, and senior figures in his government - as a foreign terrorist organisation. Labelling an organisation as a terrorist group gives US law enforcement and military agencies broader powers to target and dismantle it. In recent months, the US has been ...
Source: bbc.com