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Saturday, Nov 15th, 2025 -
By Gram Slattery, Steve Holland and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump was eager to claim victory this week after the record-long U.S. government shutdown ended on his terms. But almost immediately, the White House was forced to battle a familiar bogeyman: Jeffrey Epstein. A trove of emails released by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday reignited questions about ...
Source: aol.com
Saturday, Nov 15th, 2025 -
United States President Donald Trump says he would likely sue the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) next week for as much as $5bn after the British broadcaster admitted it wrongly edited a video of a speech he gave, but insisted there was no legal basis for his claim. "We will sue them for anywhere between a billion and five billion dollars, probably sometime next week. I think I have to do it. They have even ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Saturday, Nov 15th, 2025 -
By We hate to be the killjoy, but if you've heard about the idea of a 50-year mortgage, start right now by taking a deep breath. There are many, many questions about the idea and problems that need to be overcome. And for many would-be borrowers the idea makes no sense. President Trump over the weekend floated the idea after Bill Pulte, the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, tossed the idea at him on ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Saturday, Nov 15th, 2025 -
Nine people were killed and 31 injured when confiscated explosives accidentally blew up at a police station in Indian-administered Kashmir, police said Saturday, just days after a car blast in Delhi killed a dozen people. The incident happened in Nowgam and the explosives at the police station were recovered from Faridabad in the northern state of Haryana earlier this week, just hours before the powerful blast in ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
The attack, aimed at around 30 global targets, was notable for the extent to which artificial intelligence was used to automate the work Reading Time: 3 minutes A team of researchers has uncovered what they say is the first reported use of artificial intelligence to direct a hacking campaign in a largely automated fashion. The AI company Anthropic said this week that it had disrupted a cyber operation that its ...
Source: scmp.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
The Trump administration has, at long last and in a small way, admitted that tariffs raise prices. The White House is finalizing plans to lower tariffs on coffee, beef, fruit, and other imports from several countries amid rising grocery prices and mounting political pressure. That includes four new "framework" trade deals that the Trump administration announced Thursday with countries in Central and South America, ...
Source: reason.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! A New Jersey man's death is the first known to be linked to a tick-borne meat allergy , according to researchers at UVAHealth in Virginia. The unidentified man, 47, reportedly died last summer, four hours after eating a hamburger and just two weeks after a similar episode triggered by steak. With the summer episode, the man experienced severe abdominal pain, diarrhea and ...
Source: foxnews.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
Organizations are rethinking their AI strategies as the limits of cloud-only approaches come into focus. On-prem gen AI is emerging as a pragmatic counterweight — delivering advanced models with the control, security and high-performance computing needed for production-grade work, all without relying on external cloud dependencies. Dell is leaning into that shift. Its AI Factory gives enterprises a ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
Blue Origin successfully launches its huge New Glenn rocket on Thursday with a pair of Nasa spacecraft destined for Mars. It is only the second flight of the rocket that Jeff Bezos's company and Nasa are counting on to ferry people and supplies to the moon. The 321ft (98-meter) New Glenn blasts into the afternoon sky from the Cape Canaveral space force station, sending Nasa's twin Mars orbiters on a long journey to ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
YouTube TV subscribers, your channels -- and your football -- are back. Disney and YouTube said Friday night that the two companies had reached an agreement. YouTube TV subscribers lost all of Disney's channels, including ESPN and ESPN2, on Oct. 30. Those who wanted to watch NFL or college football on ABC, ESPN or ESPN2 or Disney family-friendly hits such as Bluey, had to find other alternatives . "We're ...
Source: cnet.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
BEIJING (AP) — Three Chinese astronauts returned from their nation's space station Friday after more than a week's delay because the return capsule they had planned to use was damaged, likely from being hit by space debris. The team left their Shenzhou-20 spacecraft in orbit and came back using the recently arrived Shenzhou-21, which had ferried a three-person replacement crew to the station, China's Manned ...
Source: pbs.org
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
FOXBOROUGH — Instant analysis from the Patriots' 27-14 win over the Jets: ⋅ Thursday night's game felt like a trip in a time machine. With 7:34 left in the fourth quarter, The Outfield's " Your Love " blared on the Gillette Stadium sound system while Rob Gronkowski danced with Robert Kraft in the owners suite, the fans chanted "MVP" for Drake Maye, and the Patriots put the Jets away on national TV with ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
Sequencing an ancient creature's RNA opens up a new window into extinct life. A young woolly mammoth now known as Yuka was frozen in the Siberian permafrost for about 40,000 years before it was discovered by local tusk hunters in 2010. The hunters soon handed it over to scientists, who were excited to see its exquisite level of preservation, with skin, muscle tissue, and even reddish hair intact. Later research ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
Retired "Last Chance U" football coach John Beam died Friday in Northern California and a suspect was arrested in connection with the fatal shooting at Laney College in Oakland, authorities said. The suspect was identified as Cedric Irving Jr., a 27-year-old former high school football player who was arrested without incident, police said. Irving played at Skyline High School in Oakland where Beam once coached, but ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
Nov. 14 (UPI) -- The Georgia Prosecuting Attorneys Council announced a replacement for Fani Willis as the prosecutor in the election interference case against President Donald Trump and 14 others charged. PAC Executive Director Peter J. Skandalakis announced on Friday , that he would prosecute the case because the group couldn't find anyone to take it up. "Several prosecutors were contacted and, while all were ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
NEW YORK (AP) — Walmart CEO Doug McMillon , who turned America's largest retailer into a tech-powered giant and spearheaded a period of robust sales growth since becoming chief executive in 2014, plans to retire early next year, the company said Friday in a surprise announcement. John Furner, 51, the head of Walmart's U.S. operations, will take over on Feb. 1, the day after McMillon's retirement becomes ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday it plans to roll back some of the restrictions on commercial flights it implemented at 40 major U.S. airports during the shutdown. The agency says the current mandatory 6% flight cuts are being downgraded to 3% even though the record 43-day shutdown ended Nov. 12. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has repeatedly said restrictions would remain until staffing at air ...
Source: pbs.org
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
Eating ultra-processed foods could lead to an increased risk of being diagnosed with precancerous colorectal growths for women under 50, according to new research. A study , published Thursday in JAMA Oncology, looked at health outcomes for 29,105 nurses under 50 who underwent at least one colonoscopy. Participants were followed from June 1991 until June 2015 and filled out questionnaires about their eating ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
By When President Donald Trump signed a spending bill Tuesday night to reopen the federal government, he also signed a broad ban on hemp products into law. As Congress hurried to end the government shutdown, lawmakers OK'd a provision that prohibits the sale of hemp products with more than just trace levels of THC. Supporters of the ban say it closes a loophole created in 2018 when lawmakers authorized the sale of ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
Life with humans changed dogs in some dramatic ways, and it didn't take long. Our best friends come in a fantastic array of shapes and sizes; a Borzoi looks nothing like a Boston terrier, except for a certain fundamental, ineffable (except to taxonomists) doggyness about them. And it's been that way almost from the beginning. A recent study of dog and wolf skulls from the last 50,000 years found that dogs living ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia unleashed a major missile and drone attack on Kyiv early Friday, killing four people, starting fires and scattering debris across many districts of the capital, Ukrainian authorities said. At least 27 people were injured as emergency crews responded to multiple strikes during the night, said Tymur Tkachenko, head of Kyiv's military administration. At least 430 drones and 18 ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
By Ben Casselman and Rebecca Davis O'Brien The government shutdown is over. The wait for data about the economy is not. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday that it will release its jobs report for September on Thursday, breaking the more than six-week data drought that began when federal funding lapsed Oct. 1. But economists, policymakers and investors will need to wait weeks for a more up-to-date picture of ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
Luis Rubiales was pelted by eggs thrown by his own uncle when the former head of Spain's soccer federation was presenting a memoir late Thursday relating his downfall after kissing a player at the 2023 Women's World Cup . Rubiales was seated on a stool on a low stage when he jumped up and spun quickly trying to avoid three eggs hurled his way. One impacted on the back of his dark jacket, and another splattered ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
Stock indexes were mixed Friday as a lack of economic data muddied the waters for investors. And analysts preparing their outlooks for 2026 are doing so without key economic information due to the government shutdown. The Nasdaq closed higher Friday with a gain of 0.1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average trimmed its loss to 309 points after being down nearly 600 points earlier in the day. This slight recovery follows ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
Nov. 14 (UPI) -- The Justice Department is suing California over its recently voter-approved congressional maps, alleging they are an unconstitutional "power grab." Earlier this month, Californians approved Gov. Gavin Newsom 's redistricting initiative, introduced in direct response to Texas' effort to create new congressional maps that favor Republicans ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. While Texas Republican ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Kelly claimed that a close friend, with an inside track on the case, believes that Epstein was 'not a pedophile' and that he was instead 'into the barely legal type' is being slammed for questioning whether Jeffrey Epstein was even a pedophile, even though the disgraced financier ...
Source: independent.co.uk
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
Officials urge vaccination against mutated strain of virus that may be more transmissible than usual Hospitals are bracing for a once-in-a-decade flu season, with a mutated version of the virus that is spreading widely in younger people expected to drive a wave of admissions when it reaches the elderly. The threat has prompted NHS managers to redouble efforts to vaccinate staff and communities, expand same-day ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina firing squad has executed a man Friday, the third person to die by that method in the state this year. Three prison employees, all with live ammunition, volunteered to carry out the execution of Stephen Bryant, 44, who was pronounced dead at 6:05 p.m. Bryant killed three people in five days in a rural area of the state in 2004. Bryant chose to die by firing squad instead of ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
Most of the senators whose data was requested as part of the investigation that led to special counsel Jack Smith's Jan. 6 probe have now distanced themselves from a provision included in the shutdown-ending bill , signed into law by President Donald Trump, that would let them sue the government for potentially millions of dollars for not notifying them when accessing their records. "I have no plans at this time" ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Nov 14th, 2025 -
The 2015 Fundao Dam collapse - also known as the Mariana dam disaster - resulted in flooding that devastated two nearby villages. The case was brought in the UK as company BHP was listed on the London Stock Exchange at the time of the collapse. A judge has ruled that a company can be held liable for a dam collapse which devastated indigenous communities in Brazil and became the country's worst environmental ...
Source: news.sky.com
Thursday, Nov 13th, 2025 -
STARKE, Fla. (WWSB) - More than 46 years after he kidnapped, raped and murdered a 6-year-old girl in Brevard County, Bryan Frederick Jennings was put to death by lethal injection Thursday evening at Florida State Prison. Jennings, 66, was pronounced dead at 6:20 p.m. and became a record 16th inmate executed this year in Florida. The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected final legal attempts to halt the ...
Source: mysuncoast.com