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Top News Stories for Friday, November 21st 2025
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers on Wednesday took leave from his teaching and directorial duties at Harvard University and also stepped down from the board of OpenAI, amid new allegations about his cozy relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. The university on Tuesday told The Harvard Crimson Summers, who served as Treasury secretary from 1999 to 2001 and Harvard's president from 2001 to 2006, is "among ...
Source: theweek.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Unemployment rate hits 4.4%, its highest level since 2021, and government has said no October report will be issued The US jobs market added 119,000 jobs in September, according to the latest monthly jobs report, which was delayed by six weeks due to the shutdown of the federal government. Amid heightened uncertainty surrounding the strength of the US economy , the much-anticipated reading was higher than the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has received a draft plan aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, his office confirmed Thursday. It said in a statement that he had "officially received a draft plan from the American side, which, according to the American side, could activate diplomacy." The statement went on to say "it was agreed to work on the points of the plan in such a way as to bring the war to a dignified ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has made a dramatic about-face in the agency's position on the relationship between vaccines and autism. The CDC's website now says a link between vaccines and autism cannot be ruled out . That's a reversal from the CDC's longstanding stance that there is no link. The change comes even though a connection between vaccines and autism has long been debunked by a large ...
Source: npr.org
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Nvidia's blockbuster earnings just blew a hole through Wall Street's AI bubble anxieties . Analysts said the chipmaker's third-quarter results prove the AI boom is nowhere near running out of steam. On Wednesday, Nvidia posted $57 billion in revenue, topping Wall Street's $55 billion estimates. Its data center division generated revenue of $51 billion, surpassing the $49.31 billion analysts had projected. The ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
The IRS today issued for a new tax benefit for lenders serving rural and agricultural communities, which was included in a tax package passed by Congress earlier this year. Among the provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was language allowing banks to exclude from gross income 25% of the interest they receive from loans secured by rural or agricultural real property. The provision was originally part of the ...
Source: bankingjournal.aba.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
We'll keep digging -- no matter who wants the truth buried. Become a HuffPost member and fuel reporting they can't silence. Already a member? Asked about President Donald Trump 's in which he boosted a message calling for the execution of members of Congress, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed the threat, saying that no one should "defy" Trump. Trump reposted a message on his Truth Social page ...
Source: huffpost.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., said Thursday he will be moving to expel a colleague from the other side of the aisle , Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., following an indictment alleging that she used federal disaster funds for her 2021 campaign. While the congressman initially moved to file a motion to censure his colleague, he changed his mind on Thursday and instead ...
Source: foxnews.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Nov. 20 (UPI) -- NASA released images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS flying past Mars and, based on the agency's observations, scientists expressed doubt that it is an alien spaceship. Space agencies globally have shifted satellites, telescopes and myriad other sensors and tools to monitor the comet, which has beguiled space scientists and the public alike with every move it has made on its trip through the ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Reading time 2 minutes Fresh off the release of its new flagship LLM model, Gemini 3, Google announced Thursday that it is updating its viral image generation model. Nano Banana Pro, also referred to as Gemini 3 Pro Image, features the ability to generate more detailed images and more accurate text in a variety of styles, fonts, and languages. The image generator is free to try today and available by opening the ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Nov. 20 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump announced he will meet New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in the Oval Office on Friday. Trump made the announcement on his social media platform Truth Social on Wednesday. "Communist Mayor of New York City, Zohran 'Kwame' Mamdani, has asked for a meeting. We have agreed that this meeting will take place at the Oval Office on Friday, November 21st," Trump said in the ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Former Vice President Dick Cheney 's funeral was in Washington, D.C., attended by former presidents and vice presidents, though President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance were not invited. The funeral began at 11 a.m. at Washington National Cathedral with full military honors . Former President George W. Bush and former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., Dick Cheney's daughter, made remarks. Bush, ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Moss spores survived in outer space for a majority of 2022, and could even reproduce as usual when they were eventually returned to Earth, according to a new study from researchers who say their findings "reveal the potential of terrestrial plants to endure extreme environments" — including the extraterrestrial kind. "Climate change highlights the importance of understanding life's survival limits for ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Policymakers express 'strongly differing views' on monetary policy at upcoming meeting The minutes of the Federal Reserve's policy meeting last month show that the path for interest rate cuts in December and early next year is far from certain. Policymakers on the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) were divided at their late October meeting over whether there should be an additional rate cut at their next ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Nov. 19 (UPI) -- The United States on Wednesday intensified its manhunt for a former Canadian Olympian who U.S. law enforcement accuses of being a drug kingpin on the scale of Pablo Escobar and Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. It is not immediately clear how long the United States has been hunting Ryan Wedding but he was first indicted in the United States in October 2024. In March, he was added to the FBI's Ten Most ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
The administration of United States President Donald Trump has announced new oil drilling off the California and Florida coasts for the first time in decades, advancing a project that critics say could harm coastal communities and ecosystems, as Trump seeks to expand US oil production. The White House announced the news on Thursday. The oil industry has been seeking access to new offshore areas, including Southern ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — A pair of Israeli strikes in Gaza's southern city of Khan Younis early Thursday killed five people, hospital officials said, bringing the death toll from airstrikes in the Palestinian territory over a roughly 12-hour period to 33. The strikes have been some of the deadliest since Oct. 10 when a U.S.-brokered ceasefire took effect. The renewed escalation came after Israel said that ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
THURSDAY, Nov. 20, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Kissing may feel like a very human habit, but new research suggests it has much deeper roots. A team of scientists says the behavior likely began more than 20 million years ago, long before modern humans existed. Researchers from Oxford University in England reviewed decades of studies on primates to understand how kissing may have evolved. By comparing the behavior ...
Source: insidenova.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Federal investigators released dramatic photos Thursday of an engine flying off a doomed UPS cargo plane that crashed two weeks ago in Kentucky, killing 14 people, and said there was evidence of cracks in the left wing's engine mount. A series of six photos showed the rear of the engine starting to detach before it flew up and over the wing as flames erupted. The next image shows the wing engulfed by fire as the ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
A federal judge ruled Thursday that President Trump's months-long deployment of thousands of National Guard forces to the streets of Washington, D.C., violates federal law. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb sided with D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb, who sued the federal government over the Guard deployment, arguing it exceeded the president's legal authority. But the judge stayed her ruling for 21 days to give the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday defended President Donald Trump's decision to call a female reporter "Piggy" on Air Force One, claiming the insult reflected the "frankness" that helped him win a second term. Q: "What did the president mean when he called the reporter piggy?" @PressSec : "I think the president being frank and open and honest to your faces rather than hiding behind your backs ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
The Feds Suddenly Want to Drop Their Charges Against a Woman Shot by a Border Patrol Agent The move avoids the release of more messages from a Border Patrol agent whose previous texts showed he had bragged about shooting her. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Remember the horrifying text messages that caught a Border Patrol agent bragging about shooting someone in Chicago ...
Source: motherjones.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
The dayslong immigration crackdown that arrived in Charlotte, North Carolina, last week appeared to end with the same level of confusion it began with, as local officials announced the operation concluded Thursday while federal officials refuted those claims. Earlier Thursday, Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden issued a statement saying the federal immigration enforcement operation in the city had ended. But ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Australian children under 16 will have their Facebook, Threads and Instagram accounts deactivated by Dec. 10, as Meta begins complying with a new law, they were told Thursday. The users will have 14 days' notice via app messages, email and text messages before their accounts get deactivated . New users under 16 will not be able to create an account starting Dec. 4. The ban also affects TikTok, ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
GeForce Now Fast Pass is a new service tier exclusively for Chromebooks. Earlier this year, Google announced the end of its efforts to get Steam running on Chromebooks , but it's not done trying to make these low-power laptops into gaming machines. Google has teamed up with Nvidia to offer a version of GeForce Now cloud streaming that is perplexingly limited in some ways and generous in others. Starting today, ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) may charge passengers $18 if they show up at airport checkpoints without an acceptable form of identification, such as a passport or REAL ID. The enforcement proposal comes as TSA launches a "modernized alternative identity verification program" for travelers who do not have a passport or REAL ID. "This modernized program ...
Source: foxnews.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
A report published on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) website on Wednesday pushes the dubious claim that gender-affirming care for transgender youth does more harm than good — a statement that flouts years of studies concluding otherwise. The report, titled "Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices," derides gender-affirming care by reclassifying it as ...
Source: truthout.org
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
With customers increasingly deploying agentic AI in production, Salesforce is delivering Agent Analytics, Agent Optimization, and Agent Health monitoring tools to manage agents at scale. Salesforce today unveiled new Agentforce 360 observability tools to give teams visibility into why AI agents behave the way they do, and which reasoning paths they follow to reach decisions. Salesforce is providing the new tools as ...
Source: cio.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Shoppers are still flocking to Walmart . The company raised its full-year earnings and sales outlook Thursday, heading into the crucial holiday shopping season. Walmart also offered fresh signs that it is shedding its original identity as a strictly down-market brick-and-mortar operation by growing its e-commerce business and increasing its market share of higher-income households. The biggest retailer and grocer ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
David Maltinsky, a 16-year veteran, says in lawsuit agency retaliated against him for engaging in protected speech A longtime FBI employee has filed a lawsuit alleging that he was fired for displaying a Pride flag at his desk, naming the FBI director, Kash Patel, the justice department and the attorney general, Pam Bondi , as defendants. According to David Maltinsky, an intelligence specialist who had served with ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced that he has chosen New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch to continue in her role leading the largest police department in the nation. As a candidate, Mamdani vowed to keep Tisch — who was appointed commissioner by Mayor Eric Adams — in the role. Pledging to keep Tisch on as police commissioner could be seen as a way to assuage voters' concerns that Mamdani, ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
After walking away from its TV rights deal with Major League Baseball earlier this year, ESPN has a new package that will provide additional games for its streaming customers. The deal announced Wednesday by the league will also return baseball to NBC and bring three MLB events — an opening night game, the Home Run Derby and the Field of Dreams game — to Netflix for the first time. As part of the deal, ...
Source: latimes.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
The Dutch government has suspended its intervention at Nexperia, a Chinese-owned chipmaker based in the Netherlands, following talks with China. The Hague took action in September over "serious governance shortcomings" and concerns over the European supply of semiconductors for cars and other electronic goods. In response, Beijing blocked exports of the firm's chips. However, on Wednesday the Dutch government said ...
Source: bbc.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he plans to put greater attention on helping find an end to the brutal civil war in Sudan after being urged to take action by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman . Trump, who claims to have ended several wars since returning to office and has openly lobbied for the Nobel Peace Prize, admitted the conflict "wasn't on my charts" before his ...
Source: military.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Brown University researchers run joint-and-drink study to find alcohol consumption falls after smoking cannabis It turns out that going "California sober" may actually help you stay away from alcohol, according to new research published in the the American Journal of Psychiatry. A team of Brown University researchers conducted a study in which participants were given marijuana joints to smoke and then sent out to a ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
By The Trump administration is giving a $1 billion loan to help restart a nuclear plant at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, boosting a project that aims to provide power to Microsoft's vast network of data centers. The funding, announced by the Energy Department on Tuesday, would help restart Three Mile Island Unit 1, which shut down in 2019. The other unit at the site near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, shut down in ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
on Monday, where Musk sat on a panel with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Musk said that money would "stop being relevant" thanks to AI. Musk also mentioned the end of work itself, saying that it will be "optional," like "playing sports or a video game." He compared the future of work to gardening. "It's much harder to grow vegetables in your backyard, but some people still do it because they like growing vegetables," he ...
Source: insider.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Reading time 4 minutes A Meta spokesperson confirmed to Bloomberg Wednesday that AI legend Yann LeCun is exiting Zuckland and striking out on his own. According to a Memo from LeCun himself that Bloomberg claims to have read, LeCun's new endeavor is meant to "bring about the next big revolution in AI: systems that understand the physical world, have persistent memory, can reason, and can plan complex action ...
Source: gizmodo.com