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Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
The Trump Administration has claimed that it's nearing a deal to end the war, but, for now, the conflict's essential impasse still holds: Moscow won't accept what Kyiv can stomach. For all the turns in U.S. policy during the nearly four years of the war in Ukraine—from Joe Biden's " as long as it takes " to Donald Trump's " you don't have the cards "—the fundamental nature of the conflict has remained ...
Source: newyorker.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
Three construction employees arrested as firefighters battle to reach trapped people, with more than 250 still missing H ong Kong police have alleged unsafe scaffolding and foam materials used during maintenance work may have been behind the rapid spread of a devastating fire at a group of residential tower blocks that has killed at least 65 people and left more than 250 missing. Firefighters were still battling to ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
There will be more "bracing budgets" to come as economic growth is a "hurdle that remains to be cleared", says the influential thinktank. Sticking to Labour's manifesto pledge and freezing income tax thresholds rather than raising income tax has hurt low- and middle-income earners, an influential thinktank has said. Millions of these workers "would have been better off with their tax rates rising than their ...
Source: news.sky.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
The Trump administration's plan to redefine what constitutes a professional degree would exclude nursing and limit access to student loans — outraging national health care groups and leaving nursing students questioning how they will pay for graduate degrees. Previously, graduate students could borrow federal loans up to the cost of their degree, but under the new proposal, there would be caps on loans based ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
Nov. 27 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump has withdrawn South Africa's invitation to next year's G20 summit in Miami, Fla., escalating a row with Johannesburg. Trump made the announcement Wednesday on his Truth Social platform as this year's summit of the wealthy nations, held in South Africa, came to an end without the United States participating. "South Africa has demonstrated to the World they are not a country ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The brazen daytime shooting of two National Guard members in the nation's capital by a man authorities said is an Afghan national has raised multiple questions. That includes the condition of the wounded troops and details about the suspect and his motive for the attack a day before Thanksgiving. Here's what we know so far, and what we don't know: Condition of the National Guard members FBI ...
Source: military.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
A court in Thailand said Wednesday that it has issued an arrest warrant for a co-owner of the Miss Universe Organization in connection with a fraud case. Jakkaphong "Anne" Jakrajutatip was charged with fraud then released on bail in 2023. She failed to appear as required in a Bangkok court on Tuesday. Since she did not notify the court about her absence, she was deemed to be a flight risk, according to a statement ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
VATICAN CITY encouraged Turkey to be a source of stability and dialogue in a world riven by conflict, as he opened his first foreign trip as pope on Thursday with a plea for peace amid efforts to end wars in Ukraine and Gaza. The American pope emphasized a message of peace as , welcomed on the tarmac by a military guard of honor and at the presidential palace by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Speaking to Erdogan ...
Source: news4jax.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
MEDAN, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers searched Thursday in rivers and the rubble of villages for bodies, and when possible survivors, after on Indonesia's Sumatra island left 49 people dead and 67 missing. Monsoon rains over the past week caused rivers to burst their banks in North Sumatra province Tuesday. The deluge tore through mountainside village, swept away people and submerged more than 2,000 houses and ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Fani Willis was the only prosecutor to seriously challenge Trump over Jan. 6 — and she completely botched it Willis had her eye on the ball early, but a stunning error of judgement 'stabbed the case right in the heart', John Bowden writes. F ani Willis' effort to prosecute ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
Trump Hikes National Park Fees For Foreign Visitors The Department of the Interior on Tuesday said foreign tourists will need to pay $100 more per person to access the most popular national parks across the country, a move the administration said was an "America-first" initiative that will allow U.S. residents to "continue to enjoy affordable access." Starting January 1, 2026, foreign visitors will need to pay $250 ...
Source: forbes.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
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Source: huffpost.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 -
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 -
Donald Trump has already spent $70 million of taxpayer money on golfing in less than a year as president. If this pace keeps up, he will spend $300 million playing golf by the time his second term ends. HuffPost reports that the president on Wednesday made his sixteenth trip this year to his Mar-a-Lago estate and went golfing. Each trip carries a $3.4 million bill in travel and security costs. If Trump ...
Source: newrepublic.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
For nearly a century, astronomers have been convinced that most of the universe is made of something we can't see. This invisible "stuff" seems to glue galaxies together and shape the cosmos, yet it doesn't shine, reflect, or block light. Now, fresh analysis of data from a NASA space telescope suggests we may have caught our first real glimpse of it, not directly, but through a very specific kind of high-energy ...
Source: universal-sci.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
The suspect was also wounded and is in custody, police said. Editor's note: The West Virginia governor initially said that the 2 Guard members had died but has since said there is conflicting information about their conditions. Two National Guard members from West Virginia were in critical condition Wednesday after a gunman opened fire on them in an apparent "targeted shooting" near the White House, officials said. ...
Source: abcnews.go.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
Campbell's has fired an executive accused of making racist comments and mocking its products and customers, the company announced on Wednesday. The termination follows a lawsuit filed in Michigan by former employee Robert Garza against Campbell's, the company's then-vice president of information technology Martin Bally and another manager. The complaint alleges retaliation and a hostile work environment, citing a ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
A woman with family relations to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is in ICE custody after being arrested earlier this month near Boston. Bruna Caroline Ferreira, a Brazil native and the mother of Leavitt's nephew, was arrested near Boston on November 12, her attorney, Todd Pomerleau, told CNN. Leavitt's nephew has lived full time in New Hampshire with his father, Leavitt's brother Michael, since he was ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 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 . The Black Friday sales are in full effect, and they're actually good. Sephora just launched its Cyber Week event, and if there was ever a perfect time to stock up on all your beauty favorites, it's ...
Source: popsugar.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 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage ended a three-week streak of increases, reflecting a pullback in long-term U.S. Treasury bond yields. The average long-term mortgage rate fell to 6.23% from 6.26% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Wednesday. A year ago, the rate averaged 6.81%. Just four weeks ago, the average rate was ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article The flights, this past March, have become a flashpoint in President Donald Trump's mass deportation strategy, and his administration's pattern of apparently defying court orders. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was behind a decision not to turn deportation flights around ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
Nov. 26 (UPI) -- NASA's Perseverance rover has recorded the first evidence of electrical activity on Mars that a scientist described as "mini lightning." A scientific team analyzed 28 hours of audio and video recordings made by the rover that landed on Mars in February 2021, and the team determined that some recordings are evidence of electrical activity on Mars, according to Gizmodo . The electrical activity is ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
A junior college basketball player died Tuesday after he sustained a head injury during a weekend game in Texas, his school in eastern Oklahoma said. Ethan Dietz, a 6-foot-8 forward for the Connors State College Cowboys, "was injured during a men's basketball game on Saturday" before he died three days later, the school said in a statement. "The Cowboy family has suffered an unimaginable loss," the school said . ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
Shipments of iPhones expected to grow 10% in 2025 as upgrade cycles reach inflection point Apple's smartphone shipments in 2025 are expected to top Samsung's for the first time in over a decade and become the world's leading seller of smartphones, according to a new report. An analysis by Counterpoint Research found that global smartphone shipments will rise by 3.3% year over year in 2025, with much of the gain ...
Source: foxbusiness.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 -
A group of 24 Nigerian girls who were abducted from their boarding school over a week ago have been released, the country's president says. Armed assailants stormed the school in Nigeria's Kebbi State on 17 November, killing two members of staff and abducting 25 students. One was able to escape soon after. Nigerian President Bola Tinubu praised security forces for their "swift response" to the kidnapping - although ...
Source: bbc.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
A digital freedom advocacy group and two "representative" young Australians have filed proceedings in the High Court challenging the incoming social media age ban. Their case will argue that the laws restrict the implied right to freedom of political communication. The federal government says it remains "firm" on implementing the social media ban next month and will not be "intimidated" by legal threats. ...
Source: abc.net.au
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
OpenAI's response to teen suicide case is "disturbing," lawyer says. Facing five lawsuits alleging wrongful deaths, OpenAI lobbed its first defense Tuesday, denying in a court filing that ChatGPT caused a teen's suicide and instead arguing the teen violated terms that prohibit discussing suicide or self-harm with the chatbot. The earliest look at OpenAI's strategy to overcome the string of lawsuits came in a case ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
The criminal cases against former FBI director James B. Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James may be over for now. But a federal judge's ruling Monday disqualifying the U.S. attorney overseeing their prosecutions and dismissing the charges left a number of questions unresolved. Most significantly: What happens next? The Justice Department spent Tuesday mulling options, including a possible appeal of ...
Source: abajournal.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 -
TAMPA, Fla. (WWSB) - The U.S. Justice Department is investigating claims that area theme parks are violating disabled persons' rights by banning certain rolling walkers. The probe will determine whether it violates Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act by discriminating against guests with disabilities. The investigation names United Parks & Resorts Inc., which owns Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, SeaWorld in ...
Source: mysuncoast.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
The rankings were changed after the UN used new criteria to give a more accurate picture of the rapid urbanisation driving the growth of megacities Jakarta has overtaken Tokyo as the world's most populous city, according to a UN study that uses new criteria to give a more accurate picture of the rapid urbanisation driving the growth of megacities. The Indonesian capital is home to 42 million people, according to an ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
Tests of ByHeart infant formula tied to a botulism outbreak that has sickened dozens of babies showed that all of the company's products may have been contaminated. Laboratory tests of 36 samples of formula from three different lots showed that five samples contained the type of bacteria that can lead to the rare and potentially deadly illness, the company said Monday on its website. "Based on these ...
Source: wfla.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
Sixteen years ago a group of anthropologists discovered 3.4-million-year-old fossilized foot bones in Ethiopia. While they suspected the foot belonged to an ancient human that likely lived alongside the species we know as "Lucy," , without a skull or teeth to analyze, they couldn't be sure. What they did know is that unlike Lucy, which walked upright on arched feet like our own, the mystery foot had a grasping toe ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
Members of Congress and state lawmakers are urging congressional Republicans to drop their plans to add language to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would place a moratorium on state-level laws regulating artificial intelligence (AI). As Republican members of Congress consider a pause on state AI laws, Democrats and more than 280 state ...
Source: meritalk.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
OnSolve CodeRED, a voluntary, opt-in emergency notification system used by law enforcement agencies and municipalities across the country, has been permanently shut down in the wake of a ransomware attack. Crisis24, the company behind the service, said it decommissioned the platform after the cyberattack damaged the OnSolve CodeRED environment earlier this month. "Current forensic analysis indicates that the ...
Source: cyberscoop.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
Security researchers have discovered a new indirect prompt injection vulnerability that tricks AI browsers into performing malicious actions. Cato Networks claimed that "HashJack" is the first vulnerability of its kind able to weaponize any legitimate website in order to manipulate browsers like Comet, Copilot for Edge and Gemini for Chrome. The malicious prompts are hidden in the text that comes after the "#" ...
Source: infosecurity-magazine.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
Joan Branson, the wife of British billionaire Richard Branson, has died at age 80. Branson announced her death Tuesday on Instagram and LinkedIn. No other details were disclosed. "Heartbroken to share that Joan, my wife and partner for 50 years, has passed away," he said. "She was the most wonderful mum and grandmum our kids and grandkids could have ever wished for. She was my best friend, my rock, my guiding ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham, a critic of COVID-19 vaccines, has been named second-in-command at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While there has not been an official announcement about Abraham's role, a CDC spokesperson confirmed with CBS News Atlanta that he was listed in the Atlanta-based agency's address book as principal deputy director. A Health and Human Services spokesperson has ...
Source: cbsnews.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
Maine among 20 states suing Trump administration over limited funding for long-term housing supports
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
You are not logged into your account. You have a registered email address and password on pressherald.com, but we are unable to locate a paid subscription attached to these credentials. Please Thank you for your support of local journalism! Maine is joining a multistate lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging recently proposed limits on support for long-term housing for people at risk of becoming ...
Source: pressherald.com