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Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
The Kremlin said Wednesday that the leak of a phone call between senior U.S. and Russian officials was intended to disrupt peace talks , and warned it was premature to say a deal to end its war in Ukraine was close. President Donald Trump, whose envoy Steve Witkoff will visit Moscow next week, said his peace plan had been "fine-tuned" and that he had no deadline for an agreement after earlier pressuring Kyiv to ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
The unprecedented push to create new congressional districts mid-decade is hitting roadblocks in the form of local elected officials from both parties. Republicans face headwinds in the 2026 midterms: the party in power often loses ground in the election after a presidential win, and Trump's agenda isn't going over well. The 2025 off-year elections showed voters favoring Democrats at higher-than-expected margins. ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic lawmakers who appeared in a social media video urging U.S. troops to defy "illegal orders" say the FBI has contacted them to begin scheduling interviews, signaling a possible inquiry into the matter. It would mark the second investigation tied to the video, coming a day after the Pentagon said it was reviewing Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona over potential ...
Source: wfla.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
A new study has found that adolescence can continue until the age of 32, as humans hit four major "turning points" in brain development at the ages of about nine, 32, 66 and 83. Published on Tuesday in the journal, Nature Communications, the study examined nearly 4,000 scans of the brains of participants ranging in age up to 90. Researchers mapped out the brain's development using this data and discovered that ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
Follow this multi-point checklist on effective change management to get results trending upward. Earlier this year, MIT made headlines with a report that found 95% of organizations are getting no return from AI — and this despite a groundbreaking $30 billion investment, or more, into US-based internal gen AI initiatives. So why do so many AI initiatives fail to deliver positive ROI? Because they often lack a ...
Source: cio.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
It's one of the biggest mysteries in this universe. Everything you see around you—your phone, your cat, the Earth, the stars—makes up just 15% of the mass in the universe. The remaining 85% is a ghost. We can't see it, touch it, or sense it in any way. We only know it's there because we can notice its gravity pulling on the things we can see. This ghost is, of course, dark matter . We know it holds our ...
Source: zmescience.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
An unknown number of people are still caught in the blaze which is believed to have spread on bamboo scaffolding at the Wang Fuk Court housing complex. At least 13 people have died in a fire which has engulfed multiple buildings at a high-rise residential complex in Hong Kong. Nine people were declared dead on the scene and four others were later confirmed dead at hospital, the authorities said. Some 700 people ...
Source: news.sky.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
Hakyung Lee, born in South Korea, was convicted in September after admitting using anti-depressant medication to kill her children, aged six and eight, in 2018. A woman has been jailed for life in New Zealand for murdering her two children, whose bodies were found in suitcases in an abandoned storage unit more than three years ago. Hakyung Lee, born in South Korea, was convicted in September after admitting using ...
Source: news.sky.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
Music company representing Coldplay and Ed Sheeran had sued tech platform alleging mass copyright infringement Warner Music has signed a licensing deal with the artificial intelligence song generator Suno after settling a copyright infringement lawsuit it launched against the service a year ago Warner, the world's third-largest music company and home to acts including Coldplay, Charli XCX and Ed Sheeran, is the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
After a high-profile malfunction left two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station, NASA is requiring rigorous testing before humans get back on board. The US space agency ended months of speculation about the next flight of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft , confirming that the vehicle will carry only cargo to the International Space Station. NASA and Boeing are now targeting no earlier than April 2026 ...
Source: wired.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
Walter Cronkite critiqued America's health care system as "neither healthy, caring, nor a system" in 1993. Thirty-two years later, the U.S. health care system continues to flail. In clinical settings across the country, especially those in rural and other underserved communities, shortages of registered nurses hamper the quality-of-care patients and families receive. About 30,000 new advanced practice nurses ...
Source: statnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
During a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden on 25 November, Trump pardoned this year's Thanksgiving turkeys, Waddle and Gobble. During the televised pardon, Waddle, apparently, was nowhere to be found. "Waddle, by the way, is missing in action, but that's okay," the president said. The annual event is a White House tradition going back years when the US president pardons turkeys in the days before ...
Source: bbc.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
By Rachel Cohrs Zhang, Madison Muller, John Tozzi, Bloomberg Opinion The U.S. government said Tuesday it negotiated a 71% discount off of the list price of Novo Nordisk A/S's blockbuster drugs Ozempic and Wegovy for patients in Medicare, the federal health insurance program for the elderly. Medicare plans already get significant rebates and discounts off of drug company's list prices, but the government doesn't ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter and owned by Elon Musk, has launched a new "transparency feature" which provides a greater level of information about accounts, including the locations of the users behind them. X says the move will provide greater transparency and address concerns about "bots" that spread misinformation by enabling users to identify where they are based. But it has raised ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
Big Stone Gap, Va. — A Virginia high school football coach who disappeared days before his undefeated team's playoff game is being sought on charges of possessing child pornography and using a computer to solicit a minor, Virginia State Police said Tuesday. Police said Travis L. Turner, 46, of Appalachia, Virginia, is wanted on warrants obtained Monday for five counts of each charge, adding that additional ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hospital officials in Gaza said Wednesday that Israel handed over 15 more Palestinian bodies, completing the latest swap of the ceasefire as the first phase of the agreement nears a conclusion and officials convened to discuss moving to the second. It came a day after Palestinian militants returned the remains of Israeli hostage Dror Or, who the Israeli military says was killed ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
Lindsey Halligan is a "private citizen" who was never validly appointed to serve as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA), a judge ruled Monday – an order with obvious implications for the government's failed, high-profile prosecutions of New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI director James Comey . Less obvious is the upshot for the so-called Rocket Docket 's ...
Source: lawandcrime.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article The Department for the Interior announced plans for the updated entry fee policies which start on January 1 Donald Trump is taking his "America First" policy into the Great Outdoors with a new policy that will force foreign visitors to pay more than triple the price to visit U.S. ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
Senator hits back at Trump administration after Pentagon launches investigation for possible breaches of military law Senator Mark Kelly said it was "non-controversial" for him and other congressional Democrats to implore military personnel to disobey "illegal orders" from the Trump administration – hitting back at accusations of "serious allegations of misconduct" leveled against him by the Pentagon. "I said ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
NEW YORK – A federal judge in Manhattan is demanding more information from the Justice Department as he weighs its request to unseal records from the sex trafficking case against Jeffrey Epstein's longtime confidante Judge Paul A. Engelmayer on Tuesday ordered the Justice Department to tell him what materials it plans to publicly release that were subject to secrecy orders in the British socialite's case. The ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 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. Three Chinese astronauts who were marooned in space for more than a week now have a safe way of returning to Earth after an unmanned "lifeboat" spacecraft was sent to meet them in orbit aboard the Tiangong space ...
Source: livescience.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
Reading time 3 minutes The Department of Justice and the real estate platform RealPage just made a deal, and since it doesn't completely dismantle RealPage, it's not going to be seen as a total victory for tenants who hate RealPage. But it's something, and it will most likely weaken the platform's power to raise rents, as it will now be prevented from shuffling together nonpublic information from competing ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
TOKYO — Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi , who recently triggered China's fury with a comment about Taiwan, said Tuesday that she received a call from U.S. President Donald Trump right after he spoke with China's leader. Takaichi, a hard-line conservative, said Trump expressed his friendship to her in a call he made to her Tuesday after a phone conversation with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. "President ...
Source: military.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
While each product featured is independently selected by our editors, we may include paid promotion. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. Read more about our Product Review Guidelines here . I've spent the past few years quietly combing through Walmart for the kinds of hidden gems most people overlook. Along the way, I've fallen for several of its in-house lines — from Beautiful by ...
Source: popsugar.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
A long-inactive volcano in northern Ethiopia unexpectedly erupted on Sunday, sending up plumes of volcanic ash and dust, which have since spread across continents and disrupted flights in India and the United Arab Emirates. No casualties were reported in Ethiopia following the eruption, but local government officials told reporters they are concerned about the impact of the eruption on local communities and their ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Thousands of Americans are at risk of losing shelter under planned cuts and new conditions on funds, lawsuit says More than 20 states are suing Donald Trump's administration to restore billions of dollars in grant funding to combat homelessness, with tens of thousand of Americans ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
Taliban accuses Pakistan of killing 10 – including nine children – in strikes on Afghanistan The strikes come a day after a suicide attack on a security compound in Pakistan's Peshawar city Pakistan strikes on neighbouring Afghanistan have killed 10 people – among them nine children – a Taliban government spokesperson has said, a day after a suicide attack on a security compound in ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
Nov. 25 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump has directed his departments of Treasury and State to consider designating chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations as he seeks to sanction the transnational Sunni Islamist group. The executive order , signed by Trump on Monday, gives Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Secretary of State Marco Rubio 30 days to submit a joint report evaluating whether ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
Martin Bally placed on temporary leave as company conducts internal investigation following lawsuit Accusations are making their rounds after a Campbell Soup Company executive allegedly made disparaging comments regarding the company's customers and employees. The executive was secretly recorded during a meeting, according to a lawsuit filed in Michigan's Wayne County Circuit Court . The suit, filed by Robert ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
A new United Nations report has found that Indonesia's capital Jakarta is the world's largest city with 41.9 million people living there, followed by Dhaka in Bangladesh, which is home to 36.6 million. A low-lying coastal city located in the west of the densely populated island of Java, Jakarta rose from second place to replace Tokyo, which had been named the world's largest city in the UN's most recent assessment ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
The fight between Nvidia and one of its loudest naysayers, investor Michael Burry, is escalating. Following the "Big Short" investor's series of social media posts arguing that the artificial intelligence investment boom is replaying the dotcom bubble from the 1990s, with Nvidia at the center of it, the chipmaker quietly circulated a private memo to analysts that explicitly name-checked Burry to push back on many ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
The latest campaign also hides malware in RGB pixel values of PNG images. CSOs and Windows admins should disable the ability of personal computers to automatically run commands to block the latest version of the ClickFix social engineering attacks. This advice comes from researchers at Huntress, who this week warned that a new version of ClickFix-based attacks, where employees are tricked into running malicious ...
Source: csoonline.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
Agency says it has received complaints from guests at SeaWorld and Busch Gardens in Tampa Bay and Aquatica in Orlando Nov. 25 (UPI) -- The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday announced that it launched an investigation into the owner of three theme parks in Florida for allegedly violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. DOJ is looking into allegations that United Parks & Resorts violated Title III under the ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
Shop deals curated by our expert deal finders The US Consumer Product Safety Commission is warning that some lithium‑ion batteries used in certain e‑bikes made by Rad Power Bikes pose a serious fire hazard that could lead to injury or even death. The agency says the batteries, identified by model numbers RP‑1304 and HL‑RP‑S1304, can unexpectedly ignite or explode, especially if the ...
Source: cnet.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has found the true enemy undermining the Pentagon. It isn't "woke" and "fat" generals , as he called them to their faces at a meeting. It isn't a Russian-spy ring, a terrorist cell, or even the supposed "deep state." It is the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts. In a memo drafted to Congress, Hegseth writes that he wants to cut the military's support for Scouting America, ...
Source: nymag.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — All 24 schoolgirls who were abducted by armed assailants from a school last week in Kebbi in northwestern Nigeria have been rescued, the country's president announced Tuesday. The girls were abducted on Nov. 17, and police at the time had said 25 were taken, but a statement Tuesday quoted President Bola Tinubu as saying that all 24 of the students who had been abducted were rescued. No ...
Source: pbs.org