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Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
Jack Schlossberg, the only grandson of the late President John F. Kennedy, is launching a Democratic bid for a New York City congressional seat on Wednesday. Schlossberg, 32, is entering the Democratic primary to succeed retiring Rep. Jerrold Nadler and represent New York's 12th Congressional District. The seat represents the Upper East Side, Upper West Side and Midtown sections of Manhattan, an overwhelmingly ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
Even the most technologically focused companies are approaching AI and gen AI with both optimism and caution. Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Generative AI is on the boardroom table, and it's taking up a lot of room. However, gen AI is still a relatively untested technological approach to business development, so companies are careful how they roll it out to ...
Source: zdnet.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
The public broadcaster desperately needs the public to believe in it. Between its own stumbles and ceaseless right-wing hostility, it is in danger of losing its way. Last week, the Daily Telegraph —the traditional newspaper of Britain's conservative élite—reported on the existence of a secret memo that appeared to shatter the illusion that the BBC is an impartial news organization. The memo, some ...
Source: newyorker.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistanis buried their loved ones on Wednesday as authorities probed a deadly suicide bombing at an Islamabad court the day before, the latest attack underscoring the country's challenges as the government struggles with a surging militancy , border tensions and a fragile truce with Afghanistan. The bombing on Tuesday killed 12 people and left 27 wounded at the district court, located on the ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
The expansive halls of the Amazon's newly built climate summit hub echoed with the hum of air conditioners and the footsteps of delegates from around the world — scientists, diplomats, Indigenous leaders and energy executives, all converging for two frenetic weeks of negotiations. Then Gov. Gavin Newsom rounded the corner, flanked by staff and security. They moved in tandem through the corridors on Tuesday as ...
Source: latimes.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that 19 bodies of the 20 soldiers on board a Turkish C-130 military cargo plane that crashed in Georgia had been recovered, along with the aircraft's flight recorder. The Turkish leader gave the update on the recovery efforts on Wednesday at a meeting of provincial heads of his governing Justice and Development (AK) Party in Ankara, the Anadolu news agency reported, ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Wednesday, Nov 12th, 2025 -
A rural Kansas county has agreed to pay a little more than $3 million and apologize over a law enforcement raid on a small-town weekly newspaper in August 2023 that sparked an outcry over press freedom. Marion County sheriff's officers were involved in the raid on the Marion County Record and helped draft search warrants used by Marion city police to enter the newspaper's offices, the publisher's home and the ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Tuesday urged Congress to quickly pass the bipartisan bill that would end the government shutdown and the flight disruptions that have plagued the country for nearly a week. "If the House does its work tomorrow, we're well on our way" to getting air travel back to normal, Duffy said during a news conference at Chicago O'Hare International Airport. But if lawmakers don't act ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
The Trump administration is proffering the idea of 50-year government-backed mortgages, like the current 30-year and 15-year mortgages. This may be a great idea for the mortgage industry, banks, shadow banks, and investors that invest in mortgage-backed securities, but it's a very costly mortgage for homebuyers. The small amount of payment reduction gets crushed by the huge amount of additional interest they have ...
Source: wolfstreet.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Nov. 11 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump has asked the conservative-leaning Supreme Court to review the $5 million civil penalty he was ordered to pay writer E. Jean Carroll for sexually abusing her in the mid-1990s and then defaming her when she made the allegations public. The petition to the Supreme Court was filed on Monday, Axios and CNN reported. Trump has been ordered through two court cases to pay Carroll a ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
FDA Removes Strictest Black Box Warning From Menopause Hormone Therapy The warning, based on a flawed 2002 study, stopped many women from taking effective drugs for symptoms like hot flashes and night sweats, the FDA said. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is removing the black box safety warning from hormone therapies containing estrogen that are used to treat menopause symptoms like hot flashes and ...
Source: everydayhealth.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Trump boasts that his tariffs protect American industries, lure factories to the United States, raise money for the federal government and give him diplomatic leverage. Now, he's claiming they can finance a windfall for American families, too: He's promising a generous tariff dividend. The president proposed the idea on his Truth Social media platform Sunday, five days after his ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
After nearly 30 years, Canada has lost its measles "elimination" status, which, by default, has caused the overall Americas region to lose its status as well. In a statement issued on Monday, the country's Public Health Agency stated that Canada was experiencing a "large, multi-jurisdictional outbreak of measles" which began in October last year. Over the past year, the agency has recorded cases in Alberta, British ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
FDA notifies ByHeart after 13 cases linked to company's powdered infant formula across 10 states Baby nutrition company ByHeart is recalling all batches of its Whole Nutrition Infant Formula following a multi-state outbreak of infant botulism. Thirteen of the 83 cases of infant botulism reported across the United States since August 2025 involved infants who had consumed ByHeart-brand powdered infant formula, ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
News , via Wikimedia Commons US Supreme Court to decide if states can count mail-in ballots received after election day The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a case that could dramatically impact mail-in voting practices in over two dozen states. The case, Watson v. Republican National Committee , challenges a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots postmarked by election day to be counted if received ...
Source: jurist.org
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Nov. 11 (UPI) -- A new species of bee in Australia has been discovered, named for its unique devil-like features. The nicknamed "Lucifer" bee, or Megachile lucifer, was discovered in 2019 in the Goldfields region of western Australia while scientists were in the middle of surveying an endangered wildflower, according to a new study released Monday by Journal of Hymenoptera Research. Lucifer, a native bee, has ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Alexander Wurm, 53, and his daughter Serena died in Florida crash as they were flying supplies to Jamaica The founder of a church ministry and his 22-year-old daughter have been identified as the victims of a deadly plane crash in Florida on Monday as they were flying hurricane relief supplies to Jamaica . Alexander Wurm, 53, and his daughter Serena died when their twin-engined Beechcraft King Air crashed into a ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Softbank has dumped its entire $5.83 billion stake in AI chip supplier Nvidia as it pours more resources into its "all-in" bet on Sam Altman's OpenAI. The Japanese investment giant, led by CEO Masayoshi Son, sold all of its 32.1 million Nvidia shares in October, according to an earnings statement released Tuesday. Softbank also sold part of its $9.17 billion stake in telecom giant T-Mobile. When asked about the ...
Source: nypost.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Google LLC today announced one of the biggest updates to the Google Photos application in years, adding a half-dozen new features — many of them powered by its new image and video generation model, Nano Banana. The updates were announced in a blog post by Google Photos Senior Director of Product Management Yael Marzan, who explained that the app has already embraced dozens of AI features, including the ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
LONDON — Canadian-Hungarian-British writer David Szalay has won the Booker Prize for fiction on Monday for "Flesh," the story of one man's life from working-class origins in Hungary to mega-wealth in Britain, in which what isn't on the page is just as important as what is. Szalay, 51, beat five other finalists, including favorites Andrew Miller of Britain and Indian author Kiran Desai, to take the coveted ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
The operators of Camp Mystic in Texas, where 25 girls and two teenage counselors died in catastrophic flooding on July 4 , failed to take necessary steps to protect the campers as life-threatening floodwaters approached, families of the victims allege in a lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed Monday in state court in Austin, seeks more than $1 million in damages but does not specify an exact amount. It was filed as Camp ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Nov. 11 (UPI) -- A mobile lounge, transporting passengers at Washington Dulles International Airport, crashed into a dock Monday, injuring 18 people inside. The mobile lounge, also called a "people mover," was carrying passengers to Concourse D, when it struck the dock as it was pulling up to the terminal around 4:30 p.m. EST, according to the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. The MWAA oversees Dulles ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Major League Baseball and its affiliated sportsbooks offered a fast reaction Monday to the latest on a growing list of sports betting scandals, capping bets on individual pitches at $200 and excluding them from parlays to keep those prop bets from jeopardizing the integrity of the sport. That decision came a day after Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz were indicted on ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
The Dallas Mavericks fired general manager Nico Harrison on Tuesday, nine months after his trade of Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers sent the organisation into a tailspin. Team owner Patrick Dumont announced the dismissal of Harrison, who was also Dallas's president of basketball operations. The Mavericks have limped out of the blocks to a 3-8 record. "This decision reflects our continued commitment to ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Withdrawal of Blued and Finka raises fears of further crackdowns on LGBT rights amid growing restrictions Two of China's most popular gay dating apps have disappeared from app stores in the country, raising fears of a further crackdown on LGBT communities. As of Tuesday, Blued and Finka were unavailable on Apple's app store and several Android platforms. Users who had already downloaded the apps appeared to still ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
As Warren Buffett steps down from the helm of Berkshire Hathaway , the 95-year-old billionaire is doubling down on another lifelong pursuit: giving away the majority of his wealth. Buffett announced in a Thanksgiving letter to shareholders yesterday (Nov. 10) that he will "step up the pace" of his charitable donations going forward. That include $1.3 billion worth of Class B Berkshire shares to four nonprofits run ...
Source: observer.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! Former President Barack Obama surprised a group of veterans in a heartfelt moment after they touched down on a flight into Washington, D.C., ahead of Veterans Day to visit memorials honoring their fellow service members. Obama boarded the plane just before the group of World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War veterans were about to disembark for their tour, and he took to ...
Source: foxnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Trump battered away criticism from MAGA supporters by claiming that the movement was his 'idea' has doubled down on his plan to bring in over 600,000 Chinese college students to the United States, in a polarizing move that has divided the MAGA base . However, the president has ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
Armed men in Mali killed a TikTok influencer who had posted videos in support of the West African nation's military, authorities said Monday. "The young TikTok user Mariame Cissé was abducted by armed men on Friday while she was at the weekly market in Echel ... The following day, at dusk, the same men brought her back to Independence Square in Tonka and executed her in front of a crowd," Yehia Tandina, the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 11th, 2025 -
After two decades of legal battles, Visa and Mastercard have reached a revised $38 billion settlement with U.S. merchants — one of the largest antitrust agreements in the financial industry's history. Yet, despite the record amount, not all retailers are ready to celebrate. The proposed settlement, filed in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, aims to end years of litigation accusing the credit card giants ...
Source: jdjournal.com
Monday, Nov 10th, 2025 -
It used to be a political match made in MAGA heaven. But US President Donald Trump fell out with hard-right lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday, saying she had "lost her way" after a series of critical comments. The firebrand Republican congresswoman from Georgia was previously a diehard pro-Trump supporter but has emerged as an unlikely — and rare — dissenting voice on a host of issues. In recent ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Monday, Nov 10th, 2025 -
, a vote on that agreement is being held up by an unexpected issue: hemp. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is objecting to speedy consideration of the bill that would end the longest shutdown in U.S. history over a hemp provision tucked into funding for the Agriculture Department, three people familiar with conversations but not authorized to discuss them publicly told NBC News. The provision would close the so-called hemp ...
Source: news.yahoo.com