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Top News Stories for Thursday, November 20th 2025
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
As President Donald Trump laid it out to reporters this summer, the plan was simple. Republicans, the president said, were "entitled" to five more conservative-leaning U.S. House seats in Texas and additional ones in other red states. The president broke with more than a century of political tradition in directing the GOP to redraw those maps in the middle of the decade to avoid losing control of Congress in next ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Larry Summers was president of Harvard University from 2001 to 2006, a tenure that included a major donation from Jeffrey Epstein. The friendship between the two men has been well publicized, and they continued to correspond long after Epstein's fall. In fact, Summers wrote the disgraced financier after he became the focus of a series of investigative stories in the Miami Herald that presaged his arrest. But ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
The Cloudflare outage on Tuesday that disrupted access to many websites and services -- including OpenAI, Spotify, X, Grindr, Letterboxd and Canva -- was the company's worst outage since 2019, CEO Matthew Prince says. Other disruptions have centered on specific network features, Prince wrote in a blog post. "But in the last 6+ years we've not had another outage that has caused the majority of core traffic to ...
Source: cnet.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
The federal government's yearslong case to label Meta a monopoly ended on Tuesday when a federal court ruled in favor of the tech giant. The ruling sets the important precedent that the current market in which a dominant firm competes is the relevant one to consider when determining whether or not it is a monopolist. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) first brought the lawsuit against Meta in December 2020, during ...
Source: reason.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Large software vendors are strategically positioning artificial intelligence (AI) agents as a managed layer inside the enterprise rather than as optional add-ons. Microsoft's Agent 365, Salesforce's Agentforce 360 and Oracle's AI Agent Marketplace all share the view that businesses will run many agents across crucial functions, including support, operations, finance and customer work, requiring centralized ...
Source: pymnts.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Google is launching Gemini 3 , its most intelligent AI model yet. From the outset, users will have access to the flagship Gemini 3 Pro model, which is multimodal from the ground up and can process text, image, audio, and video in the same flow. This model is said to top several AI benchmark tests in logic, math, and fact checking. It's also said to provide shorter, more direct, and less biased responses. One new ...
Source: pcworld.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Despite its popularity in many cultures among lovers, family members, and friends, kissing has long perplexed evolutionary biologists, given that it has no obvious benefit to either reproducing or finding food, while carrying the risk of disease transmission. A 2015 study even found that fewer than half of cultures actually practiced romantic-sexual kissing — leading some to speculate that kissing could be a ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Israeli strikes across Gaza killed at least 28 Palestinians on Wednesday in the latest escalation of violence since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect. The Israel Defense Forces said it carried out the strikes on Hamas targets after "several terrorists" fired on Israeli soldiers operating in Khan Younis in southern Gaza. "This action constitutes a violation of the ceasefire agreement," the IDF said, ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
This movie shows Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) observations of Comet 3I/ATLAS from September 28 to October 10, 2025, when the comet was between 231 million to 235 million miles from Earth. Each frame is a daily stacked image, made up of multiple observations taken of the comet on each day. Stars create streaks of light in the background as the comet moves across the sky. The bright ...
Source: scientificamerican.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Nvidia reported fiscal third-quarter earnings on Wednesday that topped Wall Street expectations for sales and earnings and provided stronger-than-expected guidance for fourth-quarter sales. CEO Jensen Huang said sales for Nvidia's current-generation GPU, called Blackwell, are "off the charts." Nvidia said it expects about $65 billion in sales in the current quarter, versus $1.43 in earnings per share on $61.66 ...
Source: cnbc.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 -
A portrait by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt was sold for $236.4m (£179m) in New York on Tuesday, making it the second most expensive piece ever sold at auction. Six people took part in a 20-minute bidding battle for the Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer which was painted between 1914 and 1916. Auction house Sotheby's has not disclosed the buyer's identity. The portrait was looted by the Nazis and almost ...
Source: bbc.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
The U.S. Department of Justice has unsealed a federal grand jury indictment that charges former Olympian Ryan Wedding with ordering the murder of a federal witness in January 2025. Wedding, 44, a Canadian national residing in Mexico, is the lead defendant in the newly unsealed indictment that charges him with two additional counts of witness tampering and intimidation, murder, money laundering and drug trafficking. ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
By Jonathan Allen and Maria Tsvetkova NEW YORK (Reuters) -Jessica Tisch, the New York City police commissioner who has overseen a drop in violent crime under outgoing Mayor Eric Adams, has agreed to remain in the post under newly elected Zohran Mamdani, who recently apologized for his past criticisms of the department. Although Mamdani said during his campaign that he would like to retain Tisch, it was ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
The Michelin Guide announced the honorees of its 2025 Northeast Cities guide Tuesday night in Philadelphia, one of two cities included in the guide for the first time. Sushi Sho in New York, one of several restaurants operated across the globe by chef Keiji Nakazawa, was awarded the only new three-star distinction. Joo Ok jumped from one to two stars, and the new one-star honorees were Bridges, Muku, Huso, and ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
On Tuesday, a federal judge based in Texas ruled that a state law requiring public independent school districts (ISDs) to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom was likely unconstitutional. In his order , which was narrowly defined to affect only the districts in question, Judge Orlando Garcia of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas noted that the families suing the ISDs "do not wish ...
Source: truthout.org
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
By The Trump administration is giving a $1 billion loan to help restart a nuclear plant at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, boosting a project that aims to provide power to Microsoft's vast network of data centers. The funding, announced by the Energy Department on Tuesday, would help restart Three Mile Island Unit 1, which shut down in 2019. The other unit at the site near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, shut down in ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
As cases of potentially deadly botulism in babies who drank ByHeart infant formula continue to grow, state officials say they are still finding the recalled product on some store shelves. Meanwhile the company reported late Wednesday that laboratory tests confirmed that some samples of formula were contaminated with the type of bacteria that has sickened more than 30 babies in the outbreak. Tests by an independent ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Brown University researchers run joint-and-drink study to find alcohol consumption falls after smoking cannabis It turns out that going "California sober" may actually help you stay away from alcohol, according to new research published in the the American Journal of Psychiatry. A team of Brown University researchers conducted a study in which participants were given marijuana joints to smoke and then sent out to a ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
ESPN and Major League Baseball appeared headed for an ugly separation after the network opted out of its rights deal in February. Nine months later, it appears to be the best thing to happen to both parties. ESPN has a reworked deal that includes out-of-market streaming rights while NBC and Netflix will air games as part of a new three-year media rights agreement announced by MLB on Wednesday. Commissioner Rob ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
The Trump administration moved Wednesday to weaken the popular Endangered Species Act in an attempt to restore changes made during the president's first term that were later blocked by a federal judge. The proposed changes include the elimination of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's "blanket rule" that automatically protects animals and plants when they are classified as threatened. Government agencies instead ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
The government's October jobs report, which was delayed by the federal shutdown, will not be published, removing a crucial data point at a time when a stagnant labor market and sticky inflation have raised fears of a broader economic slowdown. The November jobs report, typically published on the first Friday of December, will be published but has been moved to Dec. 16, according to an updated Bureau of Labor ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Federal Reserve officials disagreed over whether the central bank should lower interest rates at its December meeting after approving back-to-back reductions, according to minutes from the October meeting. Quarter-point changes from eacvh of the last two meetings have lowered them to a range of 3.7% to 4%. The last change was Dec. 18, 2024, in a range of 4.25% to 4.5%. The next Federal Open Market ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Tesla CEO says AI and humanoid robots will eliminate poverty and make everyone wealthy Billionaire Elon Musk is signaling that artificial intelligence and robotics could eliminate the need to work in the next few decades. Musk attended the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum and was asked on a panel about the long-term impacts of robotics and AI on the workforce. He offered a bold prediction about the future of ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams voluntarily recalled one batch of its Passion Fruit Dreamsicle Ice Cream Bars over the potential presence of undeclared soy and wheat. Soy and wheat are products that people can be allergic to, which makes it mandatory for companies to put an allergen warning. Hence, undeclared products can unintentionally harm consumers, causing extreme allergies. "People who have an allergy or severe ...
Source: greenmatters.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
You need only scan the corporate landscape to see a horizon littered with scrapped AI initiatives. And the scrapheap keeps growing. According to Fortune, 17% of companies scrapped most or all of their in-house AI initiatives in 2024. One year later, in the summer of 2025, this number had In short, the rush toward AI adoption has been fast and furious, but now, just a few years into the AI revolution, doubts are ...
Source: forbes.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Food delivery is becoming increasingly popular, but here's the delivery of bad news for users of one popular company. DoorDash confirmed that it suffered a recent data breach. According to the company, the accessed information includes customer names, phone numbers, email addresses and physical addresses, but "no sensitive information" was obtained. It's unclear when exactly the breach occurred, ...
Source: cnet.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article This legislation prohibits federal immigration officials from arresting individuals attending or leaving New York courthouses A US District Judge has dismissed a legal challenge brought by the Trump administration against New York policies that prevent immigration officials from ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Curaçao and Cape Verde qualify for a super-sized World Cup, but a 4-time champion is on the brink – A super-sized World Cup has paved the way for tiny Curaçao and Cape Verde to book their places at sport's biggest global event next year. Just as FIFA president Gianni Infantino predicted. It was back in 2017 when world soccer's governing body announced from 32 teams to 48 in 2026. It would create ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
The Netherlands has suspended its proposed takeover of Chinese-owned chip maker Nexperia in a sign of "good will" towards Beijing, Dutch Economy Minister Vincent Karremans said Wednesday. The dispute erupted in September when the Dutch government effectively took control of Nexperia, which is based in the Netherlands but whose parent company is China's Wingtech. China responded by banning re-exports of the ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
U.S. President Donald Trump attends the Congressional Picnic at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 12, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard Democrats are hoping to introduce a bill that would bring transparency to Donald Trump's White House renovation project. The "Stop Ballroom Bribery Act" has been sponsored by Senator Elizabeth Warren and Robert Garcia, the latter from the House Oversight Committee. The bill ...
Source: rawstory.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Perplexity AI, an AI-powered search engine, is ramping up its push for government use, inking a new deal with the General Services Administration to offer its product for just 25 cents per agency. GSA announced the deal with Perplexity on Wednesday, emphasizing that the product will be offered directly through the agency's Multiple Award Schedule rather than through a government reseller, a first-of-its-kind ...
Source: fedscoop.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — A jovial President Trump held a warm and friendly meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman at the White House, packed with plenty of handshakes and back pats. He brushed aside questions about Saudi Arabia's human rights record, praised the prince for his statesmanship and announced hundreds of billions of dollars in new Saudi investment in the United States. The White House rolled ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
Roblox, the online gaming platform that has been under fire due to child safety concerns , has introduced age-verification software that uses facial scanning to estimate the age of players. The system is currently voluntary, but by the first week of December it will be a requirement in Australia, the Netherlands and New Zealand in order for players to chat with others online. By early January, players in all ...
Source: cnet.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) -Ultra-processed foods are a major public health threat that must be urgently addressed, according to a new series of papers authored by 43 global experts in the Lancet medical journal. The scientists, including the Brazilian professor who coined the term with colleagues around 15 years ago, argue that UPFs are now increasingly common worldwide and linked to a decline ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean Sundar Pichai says no company is immune if AI bubble bursts, echoing dotcom fears. On Tuesday, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai warned of "irrationality" in the AI market, telling the BBC in an interview, "I think no company is going to be immune, including us." His comments arrive as scrutiny over the state of the AI market has reached new heights, with ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
Accord Hybrid models from 2023-2025 are potentially affected by the software error Honda announced Tuesday that it is recalling roughly 256,000 Accord Hybrid vehicles in the U.S. due to a software glitch that could cause "loss of power while driving," increasing the risk of a crash or injury. The recall covers certain Honda Accord Hybrids between the 2023 and 2025 model years, the supplier said in a press release. ...
Source: foxbusiness.com