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Top News Stories for Sunday, November 23rd 2025
Saturday, Nov 22nd, 2025 -
United States President Donald Trump lavishly praised New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani after surprisingly cordial talks in the White House on Friday, defying expectations of a potentially tense meeting between the Republican billionaire and the self-proclaimed Democratic socialist. The warmth displayed came in stark contrast to the barbs the pair have exchanged in recent months. Trump has caricatured ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Saturday, Nov 22nd, 2025 -
The rewriting of a page on the CDC's website to assert the false claim that vaccines may cause autism sparked a torrent of anger and anguish from doctors, scientists, and parents who say Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is wrecking the credibility of an agency they've long relied on for unbiased scientific evidence. Many scientists and public health officials fear that the Centers for ...
Source: news-medical.net
Saturday, Nov 22nd, 2025 -
US lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene, an influential figure of the far right, announced Friday she is quitting her seat in Congress. US lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene, an influential figure of the far right, announced Friday she is quitting her seat in Congress, one week after President Donald Trump pulled his support for the former staunch ally. In a video posted online, the 51-year-old Republican congresswoman ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Saturday, Nov 22nd, 2025 -
Mae Kuykendall is a retired professor of law at Michigan State University College of Law. She is coauthor of the forthcoming "Votes of No Confidence: Theory and Practice." Harry Lewis is professor emeritus of computer science at Harvard University, where he served as dean of Harvard College and interim dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He is author of "Excellence Without a Soul." Universities ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Nov 22nd, 2025 -
Born in Mexico and brought to the U.S. by her parents when she was 1, Sara has lived in California nearly all her life. As an undocumented immigrant, she pays in-state tuition rates at East Los Angeles College — $619 per semester, a fraction of the $5,286 charged to out-of-state students. Because of her immigration status, Sara is not eligible for Pell Grants and other federal student aid. Under a 2001 state ...
Source: latimes.com
Saturday, Nov 22nd, 2025 -
By Miami-Dade and Broward real estate had a second consecutive "robust month" in October, with growth in both condo and single-family sales in year-over-year comparisons, according to statistics released by the Miami Association of Realtors. The growth was fueled in Miami-Dade by $1 million-and-up transactions, which increased nearly 20% in comparing October 2025 and 2024 sales. South Florida is on pace to post the ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Saturday, Nov 22nd, 2025 -
A driver in North Carolina told a dispatcher that a cat carcass crashed into her windshield along a highway after the feline was dropped from the sky by a bald eagle. The woman called 911 on Wednesday morning to report the incident, saying that a bald eagle dropped the cat into the passenger side of her front windshield on U.S. Route 74 in Swain County, near Bryson City, which is located about 65 miles southwest of ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
A new report offers strategies for government leaders to encourage AI innovation that prepares their communities for an AI-ready future. As the world heads toward a digital future, the public sector plays a critical role in preparing government and business organizations to adopt and implement artificial intelligence through strategic investments, partnerships and workforce development efforts, a new report ...
Source: route-fifty.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
California Governor Gavin Newsom, along with local congressional representatives, state officials and supporters, speaks as he announces the redrawing of California's congressional maps, calling on voters to approve a ballot measure, in response to a similar move in Texas being supported by U.S. President Donald Trump, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., August 14, 2025. REUTERS/Mike Blake Gavin Newsom has slammed ...
Source: rawstory.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
The prosecutor hand-picked by President Donald Trump to pursue a criminal case against James Comey now says the indictment of the former FBI director was properly presented to a grand jury for a vote - a day after telling a judge the final version of the charging papers was never shown to the full jury. In a "notice correcting the record" filed Thursday, Lindsey Halligan, who was recently appointed as interim U.S. ...
Source: bradenton.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
Close to 800 air traffic controllers and technicians with perfect attendance during the more than 40-day shutdown will get $10,000 cash bonuses, the FAA and DOT said. An increase in absences among air traffic controllers during the shutdown, the longest ever, snarled air travel around the U.S. Controllers were required to work during the shutdown even though they weren't receiving regular paychecks. An airplane ...
Source: cnbc.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
The sale at Sotheby's in New York also topped Kahlo's own auction record for a work by a Latin American artist Reading Time: 2 minutes A haunting 1940 self-portrait by famed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold Thursday for US$54.7 million and became the top-selling work by any female artist at an auction. The painting of Kahlo asleep in a bed — titled "El sueno (La cama)" or in English, "The Dream (The Bed)" ...
Source: scmp.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
A Florida sheriff's deputy was killed in the line of duty while serving an eviction notice Friday morning, officials said. "It is with profound sadness and heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Deputy Terri Sweeting-Mashkow, who was killed in the line of duty on November 21st, 2025 while faithfully serving our community," the Indian River County Sheriff's Office in Vero Beach wrote on its social media Friday ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
Officials say the move is 'long overdue' and meant to close decades of safety gaps in vehicle crash testing The transportation department has unveiled a first crash test dummy in the US modeled specifically on female anatomy, a move officials say is meant to close decades of safety gaps in vehicle testing. Sean Duffy, the US transportation secretary, unveiled the THOR-05F, an advanced female design for a crash-test ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
Chicago Federation of Labor President Bob Reiter urged Chicago City Council members on Friday to not rule out a property tax increase, arguing there are ways to protect Black homeowners hit hardest by what he called "out of whack assessments." Reiter acknowledged that he urged alderpersons before Mayor Brandon Johnson's Oct. 16 budget address to avoid layoffs and furlough days that would impact his members, and ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
Newly identified sound is distinct from 'full-throated roar' of the predators Lions have two types of roar, scientists have found. The newly identified sound is an "intermediary roar" that is mixed in with the recognisable "full-throated roar" of the predators . Researchers from the University of Exeter used artificial intelligence to analyse the roars of animals to determine if there was more than one kind of ...
Source: telegraph.co.uk
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
Jimmy Kimmel arrives at the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards held at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sept. 12, 2022. REUTERS/Aude Guerrucci/File Photo Jimmy Kimmel has hit back at Donald Trump after the president called for the talk show host to be taken off the air. In a furious post made to Truth Social on November 20, Trump wrote, "Why does ABC Fake News keep Jimmy Kimmel, a man with NO TALENT and VERY POOR ...
Source: rawstory.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
The scene at Washington National Cathedral on Thursday boasted bipartisanship amid remembrance at the funeral of former Vice President Dick Cheney. In attendance were pews full of former presidents and vice presidents — but neither of the men occupying those offices today. Why? Neither were on the list for the invitation-only event. In his later years, Cheney had ramped up criticism for President Donald Trump ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Federal prosecutors moved Thursday to dismiss charges against Marimar Martinez, a woman who was shot by a Border Patrol agent multiple times after allegedly using her car to assault and impede federal law enforcement six weeks ago in Chicago. Martinez and co-defendant Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz pleaded not guilty last month to Justice Department charges that they used "their vehicles to assault, impede, and interfere ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
GREENBELT, Md. —A federal grand jury is investigating the handling of the Justice Department's criminal investigation into Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff , according to a law enforcement source and a subpoena to a witness requesting information about her communications with individuals purporting to be involved in the probe. The subpoena obtained by NBC News was sent to conservative activist Christine Bish, who ...
Source: nbcnews.com