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Top News Stories for Sunday, November 9th 2025
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
News / Pixabay US Supreme Court blocks requiring full SNAP funding Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on Friday granted the federal government a temporary reprieve from a lower court order mandating full funding of food assistance benefits for November. Last month, the USDA announced it would suspend all Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for November due to the government ...
Source: jurist.org
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
Hundreds of flights at the busiest airports in the U.S. are being scratched this weekend as airlines move forward with reducing air service due to the lingering . So far, the government-ordered slowdown across the airline industry that began Friday hasn't caused any widespread disruptions . But analysts warn that the upheaval will intensify and be felt far beyond air travel if the cancellations pick up and move ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
Voter anger over the cost of living is hurtling forward into next year's midterm elections, when pivotal contests will be decided by communities that are home to fast-rising electric bills or fights over who's footing the bill to power Big Tech's energy-hungry data centers. Electricity costs were a key issue in this week's elections for governor in New Jersey and Virginia, a data center hotspot, and in Georgia, ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators are working through the weekend for the first time since the government shutdown began more than a month ago, hoping to find bipartisan resolution that has so far eluded them as government workers have gone unpaid, airlines have been forced to cancel flights and SNAP benefits have been delayed for millions of Americans. As the weekend session was set to begin Saturday, it was ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
I t has been a year of soul-searching, hand-wringing, and self-flagellation for Democrats after a ballot-box rejection so thorough that some had come to believe that the party had lost not only the White House and Congress but the culture itself . Shell-shocked, Democrats entered Donald Trump's second term in a political stupor – unsure of who they were or what they stood for. Their base had lost faith in its ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Nov 8th, 2025 -
After earning approval from Manatee County commissioners, the School District of Manatee County are set to begin construction on a new high school. Currently unnamed, "AAA High School" will be built on 85 acres of land in east Manatee County near Premier Sports Campus, creating a nearly 300,000-square-foot high school. District officials told commissioners on Tuesday that the new high school will alleviate capacity ...
Source: bradenton.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday gave the Trump administration the go-ahead to change the rules regarding sex marker designations on U.S. passports for transgender and nonbinary people. Acting on an application for a stay , a majority of justices voted to overturn a preliminary injunction issued in late June by a Boston-based U.S. District Judge Julia Kobick, a Joe Biden appointee. The district court's ...
Source: lawandcrime.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
During Tesla 's annual shareholders meeting in Austin, Texas yesterday (Nov. 6), investors approved a record-setting compensation plan that could award CEO Elon Musk up to $1 trillion in Tesla stock over the next decade. The package, which is tied to an unusually high set of performance milestones, is the third long-term award Tesla has designed to motivate Musk to grow Tesla's business exponentially. Tesla, which ...
Source: observer.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
A proposal to create a nationwide cap on credit card interest rates would hurt millions of Americans by cutting off access to credit, President Trump's former campaign adviser Steve Moore said in a new report. Passage of a new regulatory framework for stablecoins likely won't lead to a flood of bank customers pulling their money out of deposit accounts and into the digital currency, Federal Reserve Governor Stephen ...
Source: bankingjournal.aba.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
Nancy Pelosi's announcement that, after nearly four decades in Congress, she will not seek re-election has reignited interest in the race for her long-held San Francisco seat. The retirement of the former speaker of the House was long-anticipated, and two Democrats had already declared their intent to run. Saikat Chakrabarti, a former tech executive who previously served as the chief of staff to Alexandria ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, a close Republican ally of President Donald Trump , announced Friday that she's running for governor of New York, a place she depicted in a campaign launch video as being "in ashes" because of lawlessness and a high cost of living. In her video, a narrator declares "The Empire State has fallen" as it paints a grim picture of urban, liberal leadership and life in New ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Trump laid out his plan for keeping Republicans in power indefinitely alongside Hungarian Prime Minister and 'illiberal democracy' proponent Viktor Orban President Donald Trump on Friday made his most stark appeal yet for Senate Republicans to scrap the filibuster rule and allow ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
A federal judge in Oregon on Friday issued a permanent injunction barring the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard on the streets of Portland in response to protests against the president's immigration policies . "This Court arrives at the necessary conclusion that there was neither 'a rebellion or danger of a rebellion' nor was the President 'unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
DNA pioneer James Watson has died ― colleagues wrestle with his legacy James Dewey Watson – who won the Nobel Prize for his role in divining the structure of DNA ; was instrumental in initiating and propelling the Human Genome Project ; and who became notorious for his history of racist and sexist comments – has died at 97. The discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA paved the way for ...
Source: nature.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
Multiple people have fallen ill after a "suspicious package" containing white powder and political propaganda was delivered to a US military base in Maryland, according to a report. "As a precaution, the building and connecting building were evacuated , and a cordon was established around the area," CNN reported, citing a statement from Joint Base Andrews, which is located outside Washington, DC. "Joint Base ...
Source: military.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to stop sending automatic email messages that blamed Senate Democrats for the ongoing government shutdown. The court ruled that the department's actions violated the constitutional rights of federal employees by forcing them to send partisan messages through their official work accounts. The decision, issued on Friday by U.S. District Judge ...
Source: jdjournal.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
Meta expected to make billions in revenue from scam ads in 2024: Reuters Reuters found that 15B "higher risk" ads reached users each day A Meta spokesperson said the company aggressively fights fraud and scams TAMPA, Fla. ( NewsNation ) — Social media giant Meta expected about 10% of its 2024 revenue, roughly $16 billion, to come from running ads for scams and banned goods, according to internal projections ...
Source: wfla.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has officially suspended its free online tax filing service Direct File after the program came under fire by Republicans and the Trump administration. Direct File was available on mobile devices and desktop computers, and it guided taxpayers through a series of questions to prepare their federal tax returns step-by-step. Once their federal ...
Source: meritalk.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
Nov. 7 (UPI) -- A 24-year-old Polish woman claiming to be missing British girl Madeleine McCann now faces deportation to Poland after her guilty verdict of harassing the McCann family. Julia Wandelt was found guilty Friday of harassing Kate and Gerry McCann , the parents of Madeleine McCann, between June 2022 and February of this year. A co-defendant, Karen Spragg of Cardiff, was declared not guilty of harassment ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Nov 7th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — When Carly Kaprive left a job in Kansas City and moved to Chicago a year ago, she figured it would take three to six months to find a new position. After all, the 32-year old project manager had never been unemployed for longer than three months. Instead, after 700 applications, she's still looking, wrapped up in a frustrating and extended job hunt that is much more difficult than when she ...
Source: apnews.com