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Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
It's been plain from the start that the Justice Department's prosecution of James Comey springs from Donald Trump's desire for payback against a bitter political enemy. Exhibit A: the president's own September 20, 2025, Truth Social post, stating exactly that. Now it seems that the DOJ has coupled bad motives with straightforward incompetence. When rookie prosecutors take over complicated cases, rookie mistakes ...
Source: nymag.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
Ukraine said Friday it was working with a U.S. delegation on the new peace plan backed by President Donald Trump, as its allies scrambled to respond to a proposal that would grant Russia key demands at a moment of weakness for Kyiv. The Kremlin maintained that it had not seen details of the plan, but urged Ukraine to make a "responsible decision" in light of mounting battlefield pressure. President Volodymyr ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
Nov. 20 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump on Thursday called a handful of ex-military Democratic lawmakers "traitors" who should be jailed over a video they published online informing active service members of their oath to protect the Constitution and their responsibility to refuse illegal orders. In a series of statements published on his Truth Social media platform, Trump described their actions as "SEDITIOUS ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
The CDC said the claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not evidence-based, contrary to medical consensus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its website to state that there could be a link between autism and vaccines. The decision to now publicly state a correlation between autism and vaccines undermines the CDC's longtime position of the contrary. The alleged connection between ...
Source: pharmaceutical-technology.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani will sit down Friday in a highly anticipated meeting between the upstart 34-year-old mayor-elect of New York and a president who sought to kneecap him during the campaign. The White House and Mamdani's team worked behind the scenes to secure a session between the two men, who will speak face-to-face for the first time. Trump announced the get-together Wednesday on social media, ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
On Wednesday evening, Nvidia, the chip firm at the center of the world, reported its quarterly earnings. It was by any measure a blowout for the world's largest company: the company made 65 percent more profits than in the same quarter last year, sales were even higher than analysts expected, and leadership is forecasting at least $500 billion in AI chip sales by the end of 2026. Permanently pumped CEO Jensen Huang ...
Source: nymag.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
Video above: California, coalition of attorneys general file lawsuit against TikTok ( FOX40.COM )— TikTok announced that the app is releasing new tools to build transparency around AI, including accessibility for users to manage AI-generated content they see in their 'For You' feeds. TikTok users will soon see an AI-generated content control feature under 'manage topics,' which already allows users to ...
Source: wfla.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
By Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Offshore oil and gas drilling might resume in federally controlled waters near California and in some waters near Florida after being banned for decades. The Interior Department released a five-year plan Thursday supporting offshore drilling leases, which would include up to 34 lease auctions in federal waters sometime between 2026 and 2031, according to Politico . The auctions would include up ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
A federal investigation into the crash of a UPS cargo jet that killed 14 people in Louisville, Kentucky, earlier this month found that the engine of the plane came off its wing because of metal fatigue and hardware stress. A preliminary accident report published by the National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday showed frame-by-frame images of the General Electric-made engine completely coming off and then ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
"Information has impact," the Washington Post has insisted . And on Thursday, the paper showed how quickly its reporting could lead to results. At the same time, it got labeled as a purveyor of fake news because of the change it led to. "U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols," the Post reported , citing publicly available updated guidelines set to take effect Dec. 15 that ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
A new cyber incident could have affected Salesforce customer data three months after the Salesloft Drift hack . On November 20, customer support platform provider Gainsight said it identified connection failures resulting from Salesforce revoking active access for Gainsight SFDC Connector, which allows Gainsight applications to connect to Salesforce. In a Salesforce security advisory , also published on November ...
Source: infosecurity-magazine.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
By A series of proposals aimed at eliminating or reducing non-school homestead property taxes advanced out of a House committee on Thursday, as local-government officials warned about having to decrease services because of potentially billions of dollars in lost revenue. The Republican-dominated House Select Committee on Property Taxes voted along party lines to back seven proposed constitutional amendments that, ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
A self-portrait by celebrated Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for $54.66 million in New York on Thursday, setting a record for the price of a painting by a woman, the auction house Sotheby's said. The sale of Kahlo's 1940 artwork, titled "El sueno (La cama)" — which translates to "The dream (The bed)" — broke the previous record set by American artist Georgia O'Keeffe, whose 1932 painting "Jimson ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
Fátima Bosch, who was berated by a beauty contest executive and led a walkout of supermodels, was crowned Miss Universe 2025 on Friday. The 25-year-old Miss Mexico was named the 74th winner of the prestigious pageant, beating out first runner-up Miss Thailand Praveenar Singh. Venezuela's Stephany Abasali, Ahtisa Manalo of the Philippines and the Ivory Coast's Olivia Yacé rounded out the top five. Miss ...
Source: nypost.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Revised data for August showed that the employment situation was gloomier than originally estimated, with the economy shedding 4,000 jobs. The US jobless rate crept up in September even as hiring exceeded analyst expectations, according to a delayed employment report published Thursday after a record-long government shutdown. The world's biggest economy added 119,000 jobs in the month — up from August — ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
As is always the case, economic conditions such as employment and inflation influence the Federal Reserve's decision-making regarding monetary policy, including interest rates, which in turn affect mortgage rates in the housing market. Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 119,000 jobs in September and has shown little change since April, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported Nov. 20 Redfin ...
Source: bradenton.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
MIAMI — U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida has been indicted on charges accusing her of stealing $5 million in federal disaster funds and using some of the money to aid her 2021 campaign, the Justice Department said Wednesday. The Democrat is accused of stealing Federal Emergency Management Agency overpayments that her family health care company had received through a federally funded COVID-19 ...
Source: npr.org
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? Former Harvard professor Larry Summers spent part of his 2005 honeymoon with his new bride, Elisa F. New, on a private island owned at the time by disgraced financier and convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Publicly available flight logs examined by the Harvard Crimson ...
Source: huffpost.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney will be laid to rest on Thursday, Nov. 20. However, President Donald Trump and Vice President will reportedly not be there. Cheney, who served as vice president under George W. Bush , died on Nov. 3 at the age of 84, his family confirmed in a statement released the following day. An insider reported to Axios that Trump, 79, was not on the guest list for the funeral, which is a ...
Source: people.com
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 released a treasure trove of comet 3I/ATLAS images, giving us some of the closest views yet of the interstellar visitor. The U.S. government shutdown, which ran from Oct. 1 to Nov. 12, delayed the release ...
Source: livescience.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 -
Astronauts strapped moss spores to the outside of the International Space Station for nine months - and most of them survived the challenging experience On 4 March 2022, astronauts locked 20,000 moss spores outside the International Space Station and left them exposed to the rigours of space for 283 days. They then rescued the spores and returned them to Earth on a SpaceX capsule so that scientists could attempt to ...
Source: newscientist.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Federal prosecutors moved Thursday to dismiss charges against Marimar Martinez, a woman who was shot by a Border Patrol agent multiple times after allegedly using her car to assault and impede federal law enforcement six weeks ago in Chicago. Martinez and co-defendant Anthony Ian Santos Ruiz pleaded not guilty last month to Justice Department charges that they used "their vehicles to assault, impede, and interfere ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
to help police the nation's capital. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb concluded that President Donald Trump's military takeover in Washington, D.C., illegally intrudes on local officials' authority to direct law enforcement in the district. She put her order on hold for 21 days to allow for an appeal, however. the Guard deployments. He asked the judge to bar the White House from deploying Guard troops without the ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Medical officials say 17 people killed in Khan Younis area and 16 in strikes on Gaza City Israeli attacks in Gaza have killed 33 people and injured many more, according to medical officials, in one of the most serious escalations of violence since the US-backed ceasefire came into effect last month. Officials at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis said they received the bodies of 17 people, including five women and five ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
A federal immigration crackdown based in Charlotte, North Carolina's largest city, is now over, a local law enforcement agency said Thursday. The sheriff's office in Mecklenburg County, which includes Charlotte, said federal officials have confirmed with Sheriff Garry McFadden that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection operation known as " Charlotte's Web ," has officially concluded. No border agent ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said about 800 air traffic controllers who worked during the government shutdown would get $10,000 bonus checks. Duffy said in an X post on Thursday night, "Santa's coming to town a little early." "776 patriotic men and women will get $10K checks, just in time for Christmas," he added, specifying that the checks would go to rewarding people "for showing up to work EVERY DAY." The ...
Source: businessinsider.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 -
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 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is examining the handling of the mortgage fraud investigation into Sen. Adam Schiff, including the potential involvement of people who claimed to be acting at the behest or direction of two Trump administration officials who have been pushing the probe of the California Democrat, according to a document reviewed by The Associated Press. Federal authorities involved in ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
The Israeli military's forced displacement of Palestinians from three refugee camps in the occupied West Bank earlier this year amounts to war crimes and a crime against humanity, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said. In a 105-page report released on Thursday, the rights group said the Israeli military forced 32,000 Palestinians out of their homes in the Jenin, Tulkarem, and Nur Shams refugee camps, starting in ...
Source: aljazeera.com
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 -
Karoline Leavitt says president 'calls out fake news when he sees it' after remark to reporter draws severe condemnation The White House issued a full-throated defense of Donald Trump 's reference to a Bloomberg News correspondent as a "piggy" on Thursday, claiming without evidence that the president "calls out fake news when he sees it and gets frustrated with reporters who spread false information". White House ...
Source: theguardian.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 -
Nov. 20 (UPI) -- A former congressional staff member has been accused of faking a violent attack against her at a New Jersey park, according to the criminal complaint. Natalie Greene, 26, allegedly paid a body modification artist to etch wounds onto her skin and then claimed she had been assaulted in a politically motivated attack in July, according to the complaint announced Wednesday. Greene, of Ocean City, N.J., ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
By Good news for Walmart might be bad news for the U.S. economy. The nation's largest retailer said Thursday that its profit rose 34%, to $6.1 billion, in its most recent quarter as consumers looked for affordable prices amid rising costs and continued economic uncertainty. Walmart reported a 4.5% increase in sales at stores open for a year or more, a slowdown from the same quarter a year ago. Shoppers also took ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Fans of the Guardians will have a new way of watching their favorite team over the next three seasons. ESPN announced Wednesday that it has purchased from MLB the exclusive in-market streaming rights to the Guardians, Padres, Mariners, Twins, Diamondbacks and Rockies. MLB will continue to produce the Guardians games, which will be available on on MLB platforms in addition to the ESPN app. ...
Source: cleveland.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 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? A longtime FBI employee who says he was fired last month for hanging an LGBTQ+ Pride flag at his workspace has filed a lawsuit in federal court. David Maltinsky, a decorated intelligence specialist, spent 16 years working in the Los Angeles Field Office and had completed ...
Source: huffpost.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 -
Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist and one of the most influential figures in the field, is leaving the company to start a new AI venture, a Meta spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider. LeCun announced the move on Facebook, sharing that he is building a startup centered on his long-standing interest in world-model research. Meta will partner with LeCun on his new venture, a Meta spokesperson told Business ...
Source: businessinsider.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