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Top News Stories for Thursday, November 6th 2025
Thursday, Nov 6th, 2025 -
Podcasts Will 2026 Be a Fair Fight? Democrats swept the 2025 elections. But Donald Trump is already laying the groundwork to subvert the next vote. Backyard Production / Getty Save Listen − 1.0x + 0:00 24:55 Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket Casts Go ahead, Democrats. Congratulate yourselves on your multiple victories in this week's elections. Enjoy your parties. Indulge ...
Source: theatlantic.com
Thursday, Nov 6th, 2025 -
Citing hyper partisanship and a dysfunctional Congress, Democratic Rep. Jared Golden announced Wednesday that he's abandoning his reelection bid. Golden made the announcement in a lengthy column published in the Bangor Daily News in which he lamented the increasing hostility in the nation's politics and threats against him and his family. He also took aim at what he described as the pugilistic voices taking control ...
Source: wbur.org
Wednesday, Nov 5th, 2025 -
Billionaire Jared Isaacman is once again in the running to lead NASA . Donald Trump announced in a Tuesday, Nov. 4 post on Truth Social that he is nominating Isaacman for a second time to serve as the administrator of the U.S. space agency. The move comes after Trump in May opted to pull Isaacman from consideration for the post after first nominating the tech mogul in December. Isaacman, a close associate of SpaceX ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Nov 5th, 2025 -
– Top Trump administration officials briefed a small group of congressional leaders Wednesday on the growing military alleged drug-smuggling vessels in the waters off South America, providing one of the first high-level glimpses into the legal rationale and strategy behind the strikes. Secretary of State and Defense Secretary met with a bipartisan group of lawmakers who oversee national security issues for ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Nov 5th, 2025 -
– A jury began deliberating Wednesday in the Justice Department's assault case against a man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent, turning him into a to President Donald Trump's law-enforcement surge in the nation's capital. Jurors deliberated for roughly two hours at Sean Charles Dunn's federal trial before they adjourned for the day. They're due back Thursday. Prosecutors told jurors that Dunn broke the ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Nov 5th, 2025 -
Ed Silverman, a senior writer and Pharmalot columnist at STAT, has been covering the pharmaceutical industry for nearly three decades. He is also the author of the morning Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the middle of the week. Congratulations on making it this far, and remember there are only a few more days until the weekend arrives. So keep plugging away. After all, what are the alternatives? While you ...
Source: statnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 5th, 2025 -
Federal judge concerned that justice department sought to 'indict first and investigate later' in case of ex-FBI director A federal judge on Wednesday ordered prosecutors in the criminal case of the former FBI director James Comey to produce a trove of materials from the investigation, saying he was concerned that the justice department's position had been to "indict first and investigate later". Magistrate judge ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Nov 5th, 2025 -
A new bill from Sens. Mark R. Warner, D-Va., and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., would direct covered entities to provide quarterly reports to the Labor Department detailing layoffs and workforce displacements caused by uses of AI. With the growing adoption of artificial intelligence tools across major industries and the U.S. government poised to transform the nation's labor force, a bipartisan duo of senators is looking to ...
Source: nextgov.com
Wednesday, Nov 5th, 2025 -
The state of Maine has passed a proposed Red Flag Law that will allow family and household members to petition a court to have someone's weapons removed when they are a danger to themselves or others. Voters passed the law, according to initial polling results, approximately two years after the deadliest mass shooting in state history in Lewiston. On October 25, 2023, a gunman opened fire on a bowling alley and a ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Nov 5th, 2025 -
Attorneys representing a group of protesters, clergy and journalists suing the federal government over what they allege are excessive and " indiscriminate " use of tear gas and pepper spray argued before a federal judge Wednesday morning, saying the court should issue a preliminary injunction that would stop federal agents from using crowd control chemicals against protesters and others in the Chicago area. During ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 4th, 2025 -
The principle of a strong president empowered to push through the agenda was core to his view of how US politics should function. was deeply estranged from the Republican party that had been his life's work and the person, Trump himself, who had single-handedly reshaped it in his own image. Along with his daughter, Liz Cheney, the former vice-president who was once synonymous with rightwing Republican ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Nov 4th, 2025 -
Jones apologized for the texts, but his fundraising suffered, and Spanberger and other Democrats in the state largely avoided appearances with him until a rally with former President Barack Obama in Jones' hometown of Norfolk on Sunday. "Jason Miyares is Trump's attorney, not ours," a female narrator said in one of Jones' Democrat Jay Jones and Republican incumbent Jason Miyares are vying to be Virginia's attorney ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Nov 4th, 2025 -
United States President Donald Trump has claimed he will only provide nutrition assistance to low-income Americans once the government shutdown ends, appearing to defy two court orders demanding he free up contingency funds to keep the food aid scheme operational. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which serves one in eight Americans each month, was set to freeze on November 1, after the US ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Nov 4th, 2025 -
LIVE RESULTS: Pennsylvania Supreme Court 2025 election HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — All three of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices who sought reelection Tuesday will get another term, ensuring Democratic jurists keep their majority on the presidential battleground state's highest court — one at the center of pivotal fights over voting rights, redistricting and elections. The result shapes the makeup of ...
Source: pbs.org