Monday, Nov 24th, 2025 -
Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Police in Illinois said they captured Morgan Geyser, one of the two people who pleaded guilty to stabbing a friend to appease an imaginary creature called Slender Man, 165 miles from the Wisconsin group home where she was staying. Geyser, 23, allegedly cut off her monitoring bracelet Saturday night before leaving the residence in Madison and meeting up with an acquaintance. In an incident report , ...
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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 ...
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Monday, Nov 24th, 2025 -
A new transparency feature on X has stirred confusion, anger and a wave of online sleuthing after users discovered that the platform was suddenly displaying the surprising locations where certain accounts are based. Over the weekend, users noticed that clicking an account's join date now opens a tab that shows the country or region in which the account is located. X's head of product, Nikita Bier, teased the ...
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Monday, Nov 24th, 2025 -
Unlock more this Holiday Season while supporting the journalism you rely on. For a limited time, new Platinum members can unlock one month free. Support the newsroom that works every day to bring clarity and accountability to the headlines. Already a member? Not only does Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) swear she's not going to run for president after announcing she will resign from Congress ― she also ...
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Monday, Nov 24th, 2025 -
Investigation of Mark Kelly after Trump accused Democrats in video of 'seditious behavior, punishable by death' The Pentagon says it is investigating the Arizona senator Mark Kelly for possible breaches of military law after the federal lawmaker joined a handful of other Democrats in a video calling for US troops to refuse unlawful orders. It is extraordinary for the Pentagon to directly threaten a sitting member ...
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Monday, Nov 24th, 2025 -
AWS CEO says investment will remove technology barriers holding back federal agencies EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday announced a plan to build and deploy purpose-built artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing for the U.S. government for the first time. AWS' announcement includes a commitment to invest up to $50 billion to expand the AI and supercomputing abilities available ...
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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 ...
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Monday, Nov 24th, 2025 -
Nationals senator Matt Canavan says One Nation leader 'debased' parliament while independent Fatima Payman says she is 'disrespecting Muslim Australians' Pauline Hanson has worn a burqa in the Senate, repeating a widely condemned stunt as she sought to ban the Muslim face covering on national security grounds – despite being unable to name a single safety incident linked to the burqa. The special envoy for ...
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Monday, Nov 24th, 2025 -
Purdue remained at No. 1 in The Associated Press men's college basketball poll , while Arizona jumped to No. 2 to continue its opening-month rise after another impressive win against a ranked opponent. The Boilermakers (6-0) earned 46 of 61 first-place votes in Monday's poll to remain at the top after beating then-No. 15 Texas Tech by 30 to win the Baha Mar Championship in the Bahamas. The Wildcats (5-0) earned 11 ...
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Monday, Nov 24th, 2025 -
Investors take the value of the company's shares back to where they stood in July 2021 following Novo Nordisk's announcement. Shares in Novo Nordisk, the Danish firm best known for its Wegovy and Ozempic weight loss drugs, have plunged after it called a halt to closely-watched trials on a treatment for Alzheimer's disease. The company had been testing whether a key ingredient in the drugs could slow progression of ...
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Monday, Nov 24th, 2025 -
I have a son in university, and watching him pursue his studies in an AI-driven world often makes me question how people can truly learn when AI can take on so much of their work. This is not a uniquely parental thought; it's the same question technology leaders across Asia Pacific are asking about their own teams. How do we build critical thinking skills that AI cannot replace? The question feels even more urgent ...
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Monday, Nov 24th, 2025 -
MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER 4 min read NEW YORK (AP) — The Justice Department on Monday renewed its request to unseal grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking cases, arguing they should be made public under a new law requiring the government to open its files on the late financier and his longtime confidante. U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton cited the Epstein ...
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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 ...
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Monday, Nov 24th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON — A coalition of nursing and other health care organizations are angry over a Trump administration plan that could limit access to student loans in some cases. Students pursuing graduate degrees in nursing, physical therapy, public health and some other fields would face tighter federal student loan limits under the plan because it doesn't consider them professional programs. The revamp is part of ...
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Monday, Nov 24th, 2025 -
The United States has designated the Cartel de los Soles (Spanish for Cartel of the Suns) - a group it alleges is headed by Venezuela's president, Nicolás Maduro, and senior figures in his government - as a foreign terrorist organisation. Labelling an organisation as a terrorist group gives US law enforcement and military agencies broader powers to target and dismantle it. In recent months, the US has been ...
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Monday, Nov 24th, 2025 -
Batteries that power a popular brand of e-bike pose a fire hazard that can cause serious injury or death and shouldn't be used, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said in a notice Monday. The commission is warning customers to immediately stop using lithium-ion batteries that power e-bikes made by Seattle, Washington-based Rad Power Bikes. The batteries can ignite and explode, causing serious ...
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Monday, Nov 24th, 2025 -
Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Former British Prime Minister David Cameron announced that he has early-stage prostate cancer, and called for more screenings in the country. Cameron, 59, took a prostate-specific antigen blood test, which screens for proteins that show up with prostate cancer. Because his PSA was high, he had a biopsy, which showed he had cancer. The United Kingdom doesn't have a regular prostate cancer screening ...
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Monday, Nov 24th, 2025 -
A pocket watch that once belonged to one of the Titanic's most renowned passengers has sold at an auction for $2.3 million — a record price for memorabilia related to the historic shipwreck, according to the auction house. The 18-carat gold watch was gifted to its original owner, Isidor Straus, by his wife, Ida Straus, for his 43rd birthday, said Henry Aldridge and Son, the auction house that sold it on ...
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Monday, Nov 24th, 2025 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The next trip to space for Boeing's beleaguered Starliner spacecraft won't have a crew on board after NASA announced changes to the commercial crew contract that also slashes the total number of missions to the International Space Station. NASA on Monday announced the update to the 2014 contract that originally called for six operational crewed flights to the station after ...
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Sunday, Nov 23rd, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article FBI director recently received backlash for assigning SWAT agents to act as protective services for his girlfriend FBI Director Kash Patel was pictured in a pink Lego Cadillac ahead of the Las Vegas Grand Prix on Saturday, amidst growing criticism over his personal trips and ...
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Sunday, Nov 23rd, 2025 -
At least 50 of the more than 300 children snatched by gunmen from a Catholic school in Nigeria have escaped their captors, a Christian group said on Sunday, as the president announced the rescue of 38 worshippers seized in a separate attack last week. Gunmen on Friday raided St Mary's co-education school in Niger state, taking 303 children and 12 teachers in one of the largest mass kidnappings in Nigeria. The ...
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