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Top News Stories for Friday, November 21st 2025
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
– A day after the Justice Department acknowledged to a federal judge that the full grand jury had not reviewed the final indictment of , the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney overseeing the case , insisting Thursday that the panel properly approved the charges as she tried to contain the fallout from earlier statements that risked imperiling the prosecution. The latest statements from Lindsey Halligan, the ...
Source: news4jax.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
The U.S. added 119,000 jobs in September, a stronger than expected figure and a sign that the economy was adding jobs at a healthy clip prior to government shutdown . But the details of the report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics paint a more mixed picture, of a labor market that has recently begun to look more wobbly amid high-profile layoff announcements from a host of blue-chip companies. September's ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's plan for ending the war in Ukraine would cede land to Russia and limit the size of Kyiv's military, according to a draft obtained Thursday by The Associated Press. The proposal, originating from negotiations between Washington and Moscow, appeared decidedly favorable to Russia, which started the war nearly four years ago by invading its neighbor. If past is prologue, ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Reading time 3 minutes The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now echoing rhetoric long associated with the anti-vaccine movement. As of this week, the CDC is no longer rebutting the debunked idea that vaccines cause autism. Late Wednesday evening, the CDC dramatically changed its webpage on vaccines and autism. The page now claims that the federal government has not done enough to rule out a connection ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Some say AI is an industrial revolution, some say end demand is "ridiculously small", but for now, the AI boom rumbles on. Global stock markets have rallied as the world's most valuable company reassured investors of the demand for artificial intelligence (AI) and the returns companies can make. Nvidia's announcement of another round of record-breaking sales was "an extremely important moment in the AI Revolution ...
Source: news.sky.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Existing home sales increased 1.2% in October to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.10 million, according to the National Association of Realtors. Year-over-year, sales increased 1.7%. Month-over-month sales increased in the Midwest and South, showed no change in the Northeast, and fell in the West. Year-over-year sales rose in the Northeast, Midwest and South, and decreased in the West. "Home sales increased ...
Source: bankingjournal.aba.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
New Hampshire US Representative Maggie Goodlander is pushing back against criticism from Republicans over a short video she and five fellow Democratic lawmakers produced telling military personnel they should "refuse illegal orders." The video, titled "Don't give up the ship," led critics to call Wednesday for her resignation. President Trump chimed in on social media Thursday, calling the lawmakers "traitors" and ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
A federal indictment charges U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida with stealing $5 million in federal disaster funds, laundering some of the money through straw donors to her congressional campaign and then conspiring to file a false tax return, the Justice Department announced. Watch Cherfilus-McCormick's remarks in the video player above. Federal prosecutors accused the Democrat of stealing ...
Source: pbs.org
Thursday, Nov 20th, 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. NASA has finally released a cache of previously unseen images of comet 3I/ATLAS , as the space agency stresses that the interstellar visitor is a natural object. Comet 3I/ATLAS has become a celestial celebrity ...
Source: livescience.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Google announced the latest model of its AI image generation and editing tool, Nano Banana Pro. The Nano Banana Pro is built on Google's Gemini 3 Pro, which launched two days prior. The original Nano Banana rolled out in August and went viral in a social media trend that turned selfies into 3D figurines. In this article Google on Thursday rolled out Nano Banana Pro, its latest image editing and generation tool, ...
Source: cnbc.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 -
For nine months in 2022, moss lived in space. It wasn't in a lab aboard the International Space Station, like other gardening experiments conducted in orbit — rather, the moss was attached to the station's exterior, fully exposed to the harsh environment of the cosmos. The purpose of the space moss test, reported in a study published Thursday in the journal iScience , was to see if moss — an early land ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, during a news conference following a Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. Odds of a December rate cut remained low following the release of delayed jobs data . Markets were last pricing about a 35% chance of a quarter-point cut from the Federal Reserve next month, according to the CME FedWatch Tool. That ...
Source: cnbc.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 -
While other governments are gathered in Brazil for the United Nations climate summit , the Trump administration on Thursday announced plans for new oil drilling off the coasts of California and Florida , drawing sharp denunciations from defenders of the planet and all life on Earth. After running on a promise to "drill, baby, drill" and raking in campaign cash from Big Oil , President Donald Trump launched his ...
Source: commondreams.org
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — 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, mostly women and children. The strikes have been some of the deadliest since Oct. 10 when a U.S.-brokered ceasefire took effect. The renewed escalation came after ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Planting a big wet smooch on someone you love didn't start with us. Well, technically it did, just not the version of us around today. According to new research, kissing may have begun with our great ape ancestors around 16.9 to 21.5 million years ago. . Lead author Matilda Brindle and her team had to begin by defining what counts as a kiss across multiple primate species. After ruling out behaviors that looked ...
Source: vice.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, killing 14 people in Kentucky, and said there was evidence of cracks in the left wing's engine mount. The MD-11 plane only got 30 feet off the ground, the National Transportation Safety Board said , citing the flight data recorder in its first formal but preliminary report about the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Nov. 20 (UPI) -- A federal judge ruled Thursday that President Donald Trump 's deployment of 2,000 National Guard soldiers to Washington was illegal, saying the president lacks the authority to dispatch troops "for the deterrence of crime." U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb said that while Trump is the commander in chief, federal laws constrain his power to federalize and deploy those troops, particularly in Washington, ...
Source: upi.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 -
A federal judge on Thursday dismissed federal charges against a woman shot by a Customs and Border Protection agent in Chicago after allegedly ramming into his car . The ruling from US District Judge Georgia Alexakis came hours after prosecutors filed a motion to dismiss the charges in a striking reversal by the US government, court documents show. Marimar Martinez, a 30-year-old American citizen, and her ...
Source: aol.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 -
Despite the best attempts from both Google and Valve , Chromebooks aren't exactly known for their gaming prowess. But being so browser-focused, there's no reason you can't use them for game streaming on services like Nvidia's GeForce Now. And now you have an extra reason to check it out: New Chromebook buyers can play without the enshittification. I mean, without advertising. The latest Chromebook perk is exclusive ...
Source: pcworld.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 -
Salesforce Inc. today announced the release of new deep observability tools to handle the growing need to provide management and maintenance of artificial intelligence agents after deployment. The new capabilities are included in the Agentforce 360 Platform , an enterprise-wide solution that embeds agents into almost every application the company provides. With Agentforce 360, companies can spin up fleets of AI ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Walmart posted third-quarter earnings and revenue that beat expectations and raised its full-year forecast. The retailer said it drew more shoppers across incomes but also saw some temporary slowness when Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits were paused during the government shutdown. It's the first report since Walmart announced John Furner, CEO of its U.S. business, would take over for ...
Source: cnbc.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
FBI Director Kash Patel and President Donald Trump on August 11, 2025 ( ) An FBI employee has filed a First Amendment civil lawsuit alleging he was fired for displaying an LGBTQ pride flag near his desk. The flag reportedly was presented to him after it was flown outside the Bureau's field office in Los Angeles. According to the lawsuit, his dismissal notice, signed by Director Kash Patel, claimed the flag was "an ...
Source: rawstory.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
As Zohran Mamdani faces distrust from Jewish voters over his record on Israel and protests, keeping Jessica Tisch sends a message This story was originally published in October then updated and republished when it was announced that Jessica Tisch would be part of Mayor-Elect Mamdani's incoming administration. For Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist elected New York City's first Muslim mayor, ...
Source: forward.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
By While baseball teams work on assembling rosters for next year, Major League Baseball itself made some hot stove news Wednesday. The league announced new television and streaming deals with three major players that will reshape how fans watch games in 2026 and beyond. Read on to find out what will change and what will be the same next season as the Los Angeles Dodgers try to defend their World Series title again. ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Dutch government's move pauses dispute that threatened car production around the world The Netherlands has suspended its seizure of the Chinese-owned chipmaker at the heart of a six-week dispute between the EU and China that threatened to halt car production at sites around the world. The Dutch minister of economic affairs, Vincent Karremans, said in a statement on Wednesday that the government would suspend its ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
US President Donald Trump said Wednesday he would start "working" on the war in Sudan, after visiting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman asked him to help end the conflict. Since its outbreak in April 2023, the war between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced nearly 12 million. "His majesty would like me to do something very powerful ...
Source: digitaljournal.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 -
Facility that was site of worst nuclear disaster in US history will provide power for Microsoft datacenters The Trump administration has announced a $1bn federal loan to restart the nuclear power plant at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island that is under contract to provide power to Microsoft's datacenters. The US energy secretary, Chris Wright, said on Tuesday that the loan to Constellation Energy , the plant's ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
In Elon Musk's future, we won't need jobs or money, and there will be no poverty. U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum on Monday, where Musk sat on a panel with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Musk said that money would "stop being relevant" thanks to AI. "There will still be constraints on power like electricity and mass," Musk said. "But I think at some point currency becomes irrelevant." He linked it to the books of science ...
Source: businessinsider.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