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Top News Stories for Friday, November 28th 2025
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong's worst fire in decades was still smoldering in several apartment towers Thursday as firefighters struggled to rescue dozens of people still unaccounted for. At least 55 people were known to have died in the blaze that broke out Wednesday at Wang Fuk Court in Taipo, a suburb in the city's mountainous New Territories. Dozens more were injured, and about 900 of the 4,800 residents ...
Source: bostonglobe.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 -
Move will have greater impact on living standards of taxpayers in bottom half of income scale, thinktanks say Rachel Reeves will punish poorer households more than the better off through the freezing of income tax thresholds announced in Wednesday's budget, two major thinktanks have said. The Resolution Foundation said the freeze on income tax thresholds for a further three years to 2031 would harm the living ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
U.S. proposals to end the war between Russia and Ukraine offer a starting point for talks, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday, as he told Ukrainian forces to pull back or be overrun by Russia's bigger army. "We need to sit down and discuss this seriously," Putin told reporters at the end of a three-day visit to Kyrgyzstan. "Every word matters." He described U.S. President Donald Trump's plan as "a set ...
Source: military.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
Diplomatic row worsens after US president says member state will not be invited to 2026 summit Donald Trump has said that South Africa will not be invited to G20 events in the United States when it presides over the forum next year, a measure the African nation described as "punitive". The US president repeated widely discredited claims that South Africa is "killing white people", extending a diplomatic row between ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
Martin Bally allegedly made offensive remarks during November 2024 meeting The Campbell's Co. has fired an executive who was allegedly caught on a secret recording insulting the company's products, customers and employees – including calling its food "s--- for f---ing poor people." Martin Bally, then a vice president in Campbell's information security department, can allegedly be heard in the year-old audio ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru's Supreme Court sentenced former President Pedro Castillo to 11.5 years in prison for conspiracy to commit a rebellion in 2022, as lawmakers prepared to impeach him. A special panel of the highest court also banned Castillo,56, from public office for two years. He has been in custody since being arrested in December 2022. Two of Castillo's former ministers were also sentenced to 11.5 ...
Source: news.yahoo.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 -
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? CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's ...
Source: huffpost.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
The pair had entered the water at Kylies Beach, a popular surfing spot, for an early morning swim. A woman has been killed by a shark and a man seriously injured at a popular beach in Australia. Emergency services were alerted to the attack at Crowdy Bay National Park, near Port Macquarie, around 218 miles north of Sydney , at 6.30am local time on Thursday. They were responding to reports two people had been bitten ...
Source: news.sky.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
The iPhone may feel ubiquitous, but Apple has consistently lagged behind rival Samsung in terms of global smartphone market share. Tim Cook's newest iteration, though, is breaking through — and returning Apple to the top of the industry. A new report from Counterpoint Research projects that Apple will be the leading smartphone producer in 2025, marking the first time since 2011 that it has held that title. ...
Source: insider.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 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? A junior college basketball player in Oklahoma has died following an injury sustained during a game. Ethan Dietz was a 6-foot-8 sophomore forward at Connors ...
Source: huffpost.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
ANKARA, Turkey — Pope Leo XIV 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 he arrived in Ankara , welcomed on the tarmac by a military guard of honor and at the presidential palace by President ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
Military officials in the small West African nation of Guinea-Bissau have announced a new leader one day after seizing power in a military coup . General Horta Inta-A was named as the head of a one-year transitional government at about noon (12:00 GMT) on Thursday. In a statement, he justified the seizure of power and said the army had taken charge in the face of threats to Guinea-Bissau's stability. On Wednesday, ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
In the latest twist in human evolution, scientists have discovered that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belonged to a previously unknown ancient relative. Dated to around 3.4 million years ago, the species was likely similar to Lucy, an ancient human relative who lived in the area at around the same time, according to a study published Wednesday in the scientific journal Nature. But researchers found that the ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
Monsoon rains cause devastation on Indonesian island, sparking landslides and flash flooding Flash floods and landslides on Indonesia's Sumatra island have killed 69 people, with 59 missing as emergency workers search in rivers and the rubble of villages for bodies and possible survivors. Monsoon rains over the past week caused rivers to burst their banks in North Sumatra province on Tuesday. The deluge tore ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
OpenAI is warning developers to be wary of phishing attacks after hackers stole data from its analytics partner. The ChatGPT maker said on Thursday that a security breach earlier this month at Mixpanel, a web analytics platform, may have included profile information for users of OpenAI's developer platform. OpenAI said the data affected could include "limited analytics data" such as names, email addresses, and ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
Domestic cats originated in North Africa and spread to Europe in the past 2000 years, according to DNA evidence, while in China a different species of cat lived alongside people much earlier Genetic evidence has revealed that domestic cats originated in North Africa and spread to Europe and East Asia in the past 2000 years, more recently than previously thought. Domestic cats ( Felis catus ) are descended from the ...
Source: newscientist.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 2025 -
, prompting what they described as "widespread panic." Judge Richard Berman of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday night requested a detailed description of the materials the government intends to release and an explanation of how it will safeguard the privacy of victims, including through redactions. Berman, who oversaw the trafficking case against Epstein, attached a letter ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Thursday, Nov 27th, 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. A new study suggests that a NASA telescope may have made the first-ever observation of elusive dark matter, the invisible and mysterious substance that makes up most of the matter in the universe. However, ...
Source: livescience.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
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
Washington — A Georgia judge on Wednesday agreed to dismiss the state's case against President Trump and his allies stemming from the 2020 presidential election after the local prosecutor who took over the case said he would no longer pursue the charges "to serve the interests of justice and promote judicial finality." Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee issued a brief order dismissing the case ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
A Stunning Leak Sheds Light on the Trump Admin's Cozy Ties With Russia It confirms that the 28-point Ukraine peace plan was largely a Kremlin product. to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The transcript of a leaked phone conversation between President Donald Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff, and a Kremlin adviser—published in Wednesday's Bloomberg ...
Source: slate.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is barring South Africa from participating in the Group of 20 summit next year at his and will stop all payments and subsidies to the country over its treatment of a U.S. government representative at this year's Trump chose not to have an American delegation attend the recent summit hosted by South Africa, saying he did so because that ...
Source: news.yahoo.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 -
The likelihood of another Federal Reserve rate cut, the third such this year, is growing again. Following an uptick in the unemployment rate in a report released last week, the chances of a rate cut at the Fed's final meeting of the year on December 10 surged. As of November 26, 2025, there's around an 85% chance the central bank will reduce rates again next month, according to the CME Group's FedWatch tool. And ...
Source: cbsnews.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