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Top News Stories for Wednesday, November 19th 2025
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump's administration for weeks tried to stall or head off a vote in Congress to force the release of investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein, but nonetheless the measure is expected to land on his desk as soon as Wednesday. A months-long member-led drive in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives succeeded on Tuesday, prompting swift and ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Harvard is launching an investigation into former university president Larry Summers' relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after a trove of emails released last week showed years of personal correspondence between the two men, a Harvard spokesperson told the school newspaper, The Crimson , Tuesday. The investigation will also examine the roles of other people associated with the university who ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Google AI Mode Changes the Customer Journey — Your Content Strategy Must Too AI-powered results reshape how customers search, evaluate and click. Marketers who adapt early will own the next era of organic visibility. Now, months later, the dust has settled — and it's the right moment to take stock of what this feature actually means for marketers, publishers and SEO teams. Early reactions focused on the ...
Source: cmswire.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
infrastructure. The approach reflects broader enterprise concerns about agent sprawl, where teams deploy autonomous systems without coordination, creating duplicated workflows, untracked resource consumption and fragmented security policies. Microsoft is positioning Agent 365 as the control plane of agents deployed within an organization. Five Capabilities Form Agent 365 Governance Framework 1) The registry ...
Source: forbes.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
In Charlotte, North Carolina, federal agents smashed the window of a U.S. citizen's truck before pulling him to the ground. Tens of thousands of public school students have been reported absent. And businesses in immigrant communities shuttered as border agents patrolled the streets. North Carolina has become the latest focus of the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration, as federal agents surge ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
SIDON, Lebanon (AP) — An Israeli airstrike on a car in southern Lebanon on Wednesday killed one person and wounded 11 including students aboard a nearby bus, the Health Ministry and state media said. The strike in the village of Tiri came hours after an Israeli drone attack on the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh in southern Lebanon killed 13 people and wounded several others. The Tuesday night ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Its sale price beat the previous record, set by an Andy Warhol portrait of Marilyn Monroe, which went for $195m in 2022 and puts it second in the all-time list, behind Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi. A painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust has become the most expensive piece of modern art and the second most expensive painting ever sold at auction. The Portrait of ...
Source: news.sky.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
It's quick and easy to access Live Science Plus, simply enter your email below. We'll send you a confirmation and sign you up for our daily newsletter, keeping you up to date with the latest science news. The act of kissing may have started long before modern humans existed, a new modeling study suggests. Kissing stretches back roughly 21 million years, to the shared ancestor of humans and other large apes, ...
Source: livescience.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
U.S. President Donald Trump attends the Congressional Picnic at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 12, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard Democrats are hoping to introduce a bill that would bring transparency to Donald Trump's White House renovation project. The "Stop Ballroom Bribery Act" has been sponsored by Senator Elizabeth Warren and Robert Garcia, the latter from the House Oversight Committee. The bill ...
Source: rawstory.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
You need only scan the corporate landscape to see a horizon littered with scrapped AI initiatives. And the scrapheap keeps growing. According to Fortune, 17% of companies scrapped most or all of their in-house AI initiatives in 2024. One year later, in the summer of 2025, this number had In short, the rush toward AI adoption has been fast and furious, but now, just a few years into the AI revolution, doubts are ...
Source: forbes.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article This legislation prohibits federal immigration officials from arresting individuals attending or leaving New York courthouses A US District Judge has dismissed a legal challenge brought by the Trump administration against New York policies that prevent immigration officials from ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
Companies like OpenAI , Spotify and X (formerly Twitter ) experienced online outages this morning due to a disruption at Cloudflare , the web infrastructure firm used by roughly one-fifth of all websites globally. The outage, which began around 5:20 ET today (Nov. 18) and was resolved four hours later, is the latest incident underscoring the fragility of the systems underpinning the internet. Cloudflare said in a ...
Source: observer.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
By Leah Nylen and Josh Sisco Meta Platforms Inc. won a key lawsuit Tuesday after a federal judge ruled that the company's acquisitions of the photo-sharing app Instagram and messaging service WhatsApp don't violate U.S. antitrust law. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington said the U.S. Federal Trade Commission failed to prove the deals allowed the tech giant to illegally monopolize the social networking ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
Voices around the world have mostly welcomed the passage of a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution backing major provisions of the Gaza peace plan. The reactions on Tuesday came after the UNSC approved the resolution mandating a transitional administration and an international stabilisation force in Gaza that envisions a "credible pathway" to Palestinian statehood. There were 13 votes in favour of the ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
DUBAI – President Trump is hosting Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House Tuesday for talks expected to produce deals touching on defense, artificial intelligence and nuclear technology. The visit underscores how a close relationship formed under the president's first term is yielding gains that both leaders can tout domestically. Trump has said he will honor Saudi Arabia and the ...
Source: npr.org
US Justice Department scolded by judge for 'profound investigative missteps' in Comey case | US News
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
James Comey is alleged to have made a false statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2020 by denying he had authorised the disclosure of information to the media. The US Justice Department engaged in a "disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps" in the process of securing an indictment against former FBI director James Comey, a judge has said. Magistrate Judge William ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
Environmental justice campaigners on Monday said the Trump administration's latest rollback of wetland protections was "a gift to developers and polluters at the expense of communities" and demanded permanent protections for waterways. "Clean water protections shouldn't change with each administration," said Betsy Southerland, former director of the Office of Science and Technology in the US Environmental ...
Source: commondreams.org
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
Every company would be affected if the AI bubble were to burst, the head of Google's parent firm Alphabet has told the BBC. Speaking exclusively to BBC News, Sundar Pichai said while the growth of artificial intelligence (AI) investment had been an "extraordinary moment", there was some "irrationality" in the current AI boom. It comes amid fears in Silicon Valley and beyond of a bubble as the value of AI tech ...
Source: bbc.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Trump administration filed a lawsuit Monday over California's new laws banning federal agents from wearing masks and requiring them to have identification while conducting operations in the state. The federal government has argued the laws threaten the safety of officers who are facing "unprecedented" harassment, doxing, and violence and said it will not comply with them. California ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
Certain ultraprocessed foods , or UPFs, are contributing to worldwide obesity, chronic health conditions and premature death , yet the food industry continues to aggressively market new and existing products in this category for massive profits, according to an unprecedented three-part series authored by 43 global experts in nutrition and supported by the United Nations Children's Fund, or UNICEF, and the World ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
By Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times Roblox, a popular gaming platform that's faced growing scrutiny over child safety concerns, said Tuesday it will require users to verify their age if they want to chat with other players. To do so, people will provide an ID or take a selfie through the Roblox app to prove they're as young or old as they say they are. The verification feature estimates a person's age, allowing the ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
Using AI and advanced chemistry, scientists uncovered 3.3-billion-year-old chemical traces that mark the earliest evidence of life on Earth. Scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science used a powerful combination of cutting-edge chemistry and artificial intelligence to peer through the geological fog of time in search of the very first signs of life. They found the earliest and most confident chemical ...
Source: zmescience.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
David Richardson resigned Monday saying he'd agreed to serve as acting administrator through the 2025 hurricane season, which ends Nov. 30. He was widely criticized for the agency's response to the Texas flooding in July. Acting Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency David Richardson testifies before the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Economic Development, ...
Source: govtech.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has once again rejected the prospect of United States military intervention on her country's soil, despite increasing threats from her counterpart, Donald Trump. In her morning news conference on Tuesday, Sheinbaum was asked about Trump's statements a day prior, when he expressed displeasure with Mexico and mused about taking forceful action. "It's not going to happen," Sheinbaum ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
Cedric Irving Jr charged over death of 'legend' John Beam, who was shot and killed on Laney College campus last week The 27-year-old man charged with murder in the fatal shooting death of revered Oakland college football coach John Beam made his first appearance in court on Tuesday and was ordered to remain in jail without bail. Cedric Irving Jr, who does not have a criminal record, was charged with murder and use ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
Hate shopping for a new car at a dealership? Dealing with haggling, upsells and test drives is hard work. Fortunately, you might not have to buy your next car from a dealership in person. Ford has partnered with Amazon to offer certified preowned vehicles on Amazon Autos , letting customers browse, finance and schedule pickup of secondhand Fords from their local dealer -- all without leaving home. Through Amazon ...
Source: cnet.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
NEW YORK (AP) — Honda is recalling more than 256,600 of its Accord Hybrid vehicles across the U.S., due to a software error that may result in sudden loss of drive power. According to documents published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the recall covers certain Honda Accord Hybrids between the 2023 and 2025 model years. The error may cause part of these cars' internal software to reset ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
The U.K. government plans to ban resale of concert, sports, and theater tickets at prices above face value, according to multiple reports in the British press over the past day. The nation's Labor Party is making good on a promise to curb bots and bulk buyers as part of consumer protection measures it campaigned on, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer facing additional pressure in recent days from popular artists ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
Joseph Emerson tried to cut the engines mid-flight from Everett, Washington, to San Francisco in October 2023. An off-duty pilot who tried to cut a plane's engines mid-flight won't serve any more time in prison, a US federal judge has ruled. Joseph Emerson, a former Alaska Airlines pilot, was sentenced to time served and three years' supervised release by Judge Amy Baggio in the US District Court in Portland, ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
Victim was hospitalized in critical condition and suspect taken into custody following incident on city's train system A woman is currently hospitalized after being set on fire on the Chicago train system, according to police. At around 9.25pm on Monday, a 26-year-old woman was riding the Chicago Transit Authority system's Blue Line near the Clark/Lake station when she got into an argument with an approximately ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Nov 17th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Secretary of State Marco Rubio says World Cup ticket holders will get priority appointments but undergo the same vetting as other visa applicants Soccer fans who purchase tickets for next year's FIFA World Cup in the United States will have the opportunity to jump the line for ...
Source: independent.co.uk