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Top News Stories for Monday, November 24th 2025
Monday, Nov 24th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Monday will hear oral arguments in the Associated Press's battle with President Donald Trump over access to presidential events, a major press-freedom case. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit is considering the Trump administration's appeal of an April ruling that it unlawfully retaliated against the AP because it refused to call the Gulf ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Monday, Nov 24th, 2025 -
Israel has attacked the Haret Hreik area in the southern suburbs of Lebanon's capital, Beirut, killing five people, including Hezbollah's highest ranking military official. Sunday's attack, which took place amid an uptick in Israeli attacks across Lebanon, was the first on Beirut's southern suburbs in several months and the first without warning since last year's ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah was ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Monday, Nov 24th, 2025 -
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin woman who admitted to nearly stabbing a classmate to death at age 12 to please the online horror character Slender Man has been found in Illinois after she cut off an electronic monitoring device and left a group home, authorities said. Madison police issued an alert Sunday for Morgan Geyser , now 23, saying she was last seen around 8 p.m. Saturday with an adult acquaintance. ...
Source: aol.com
Monday, Nov 24th, 2025 -
Elon Musk reacts during a press conference with U.S. President Donald Trump (not pictured), at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 30, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard Elon Musk's government body, DOGE, has been quietly dumped by the Trump administration, eight months before it was set to close. The Tesla CEO had initially headed up a directive in the president's administration to cut government spending. But ...
Source: rawstory.com
Monday, Nov 24th, 2025 -
Disqualifications of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri bring unnecessary stress for McLaren in the final two F1 races of the season As misjudgments go, McLaren's error in calculations that led to the disqualification of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri from the Las Vegas Grand Prix on Sunday could barely have been more cataclysmic nor more poorly timed. Quite how they got it wrong just when they wanted to close out the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Nov 24th, 2025 -
I talked with nine creators about economic pressures and fan backlash. In 2016, the legendary Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki was shown a bizarre AI-generated video of a misshapen human body crawling across a floor. Miyazaki declared himself "utterly disgusted" by the technology demo, which he considered an "insult to life itself." "If you really want to make creepy stuff, you can go ahead and do it," ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Monday, Nov 24th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Some users were based in places like Nigeria, Eastern Europe, and India despite posting U.S.-focused right-wing content Changes at Elon Musk's X may have unwittingly revealed that many MAGA accounts are actually foreign actors profiting from the sowing of division in the U.S. On ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Monday, Nov 24th, 2025 -
Here are the notable performances from high school football players in Eastern Mass. conferences/leagues. Dominic Funke , Xaverian — The BC-bound senior defensive end wrecked Springfield Central's offensive game plan with relentless pressure, forcing a late fumble and interception to seal a 36-22 state semifinals win. Funke helped hold Springfield's star tailback, Isaiah Rogers, to 43 rushing yards. Maxwell ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Monday, Nov 24th, 2025 -
A far-right Australian lawmaker has prompted angry accusations of racism after wearing a burqa in parliament to draw attention to her push to ban the garment in public. Pauline Hanson, the leader of the populist anti-immigration One Nation party, carried out the stunt on Monday after she was prevented from tabling a Senate bill to ban the traditional Muslim garment and other face coverings from Australian public ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Monday, Nov 24th, 2025 -
JOHANNESBURG — The Group of 20 summit in South Africa ended Sunday with the glaring absence of the United States — the next country to lead the bloc — after the Trump administration boycotted the two days of talks involving leaders of the world's richest and top developing economies. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa declared the summit in Johannesburg closed by banging a wooden gavel on a ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Sunday, Nov 23rd, 2025 -
Shedeur Sanders looked a lot better with a week of preparation. Facing the Las Vegas Raiders didn't hurt. In his first regular-season start (and after his ), Sanders looked far better than he did in his last week. He threw for his first touchdown pass and helped the Browns get a 24-10 win over a horrible Raiders team. Sanders completed 11 of 20 passes for 209 yards, one touchdown and one interception. He wasn't ...
Source: aol.com
50 of 303 abducted Nigerian students escape captivity; remaining children and teachers still missing
Sunday, Nov 23rd, 2025 -
Fifty of the 303 schoolchildren abducted from a Catholic school in north-central Nigeria's Niger state have escaped captivity and are now with their families, the school authority said Sunday, bringing relief to some distraught families after one of the largest school abductions in Nigeria's history. The schoolchildren, aged between 10 and 18, escaped individually between Friday and Saturday, according to the Most ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Sunday, Nov 23rd, 2025 -
By The Miami Hurricanes' win streak has now reached three games as it continues its push toward a hopeful College Football Playoff berth, with the latest win a 34-17 road victory at the Virginia Tech Hokies on Saturday at Lane Stadium. And UM as a result continued to inch up in the poll, which the Hurricanes hope is a precursor for what will continue to happen in the College Football Playoff rankings, which ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Sunday, Nov 23rd, 2025 -
The FBI has defended director Kash Patel's controversial decision to deploy SWAT agents to protect his girlfriend, country singer Alexis Wilkins, insisting the extraordinary security measures were justified because she has received 'hundreds of credible death threats' linked to her relationship with Patel. The bureau's statement comes amid growing criticism from current and former FBI officials, lawmakers and even ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Sunday, Nov 23rd, 2025 -
A football player at the University of Alabama was arrested after allegedly stabbing two teammates Saturday morning, hours before the team's game against the University of South Florida, university officials said. The two wounded players were in stable condition, interim head coach Alex Mortensen said at the postgame news conference. He said the team decided to play to honor graduating seniors in the last home game ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Sunday, Nov 23rd, 2025 -
Titanic passenger's pocket watch sold for record £1.78m at auction The 18-carat Jules Jurgensen gold watch belonged to Isidor Straus, who along with his wife lost his life when ship sank A gold pocket watch that belonged to a man who died onboard the Titanic when it sank has sold for a record sum. The watch, which belonged to 67-year-old Isidor Straus, went for £1.78m at auction, the highest amount ever ...
Source: theguardian.com
Saturday, Nov 22nd, 2025 -
The United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP30, concluded on Saturday in Belém, Brazil with a deal that does not even include the words "fossil fuels"—the burning of which scientists agree is the primary cause of the climate crisis . Environmental and human rights advocates expressed disappointment in the final Global Mutirão decision, which they say failed to deliver road maps to ...
Source: commondreams.org