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Top News Stories for Wednesday, November 19th 2025
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article The legislation passed with no objections, which means the the bill will go immediately to Trump's desk once the House hands it over The U.S. Senate moved rapidly to pass the legislation to compel the Justice Department to release files related to the late convicted sex offender ...
Source: independent.co.uk
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? WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department is breaking off several of its main offices and giving their responsibilities to other federal agencies, an early look at how President Donald Trump could fulfill his campaign pledge to close the department entirely. Offices ...
Source: huffpost.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Google AI Mode Changes the Customer Journey — Your Content Strategy Must Too AI-powered results reshape how customers search, evaluate and click. Marketers who adapt early will own the next era of organic visibility. Now, months later, the dust has settled — and it's the right moment to take stock of what this feature actually means for marketers, publishers and SEO teams. Early reactions focused on the ...
Source: cmswire.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
infrastructure. The approach reflects broader enterprise concerns about agent sprawl, where teams deploy autonomous systems without coordination, creating duplicated workflows, untracked resource consumption and fragmented security policies. Microsoft is positioning Agent 365 as the control plane of agents deployed within an organization. Five Capabilities Form Agent 365 Governance Framework 1) The registry ...
Source: forbes.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
In Charlotte, North Carolina, federal agents smashed the window of a U.S. citizen's truck before pulling him to the ground. Tens of thousands of public school students have been reported absent. And businesses in immigrant communities shuttered as border agents patrolled the streets. North Carolina has become the latest focus of the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration, as federal agents surge ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
SIDON, Lebanon (AP) — An Israeli airstrike on a car in southern Lebanon on Wednesday killed one person and wounded 11 including students aboard a nearby bus, the Health Ministry and state media said. The strike in the village of Tiri came hours after an Israeli drone attack on the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh in southern Lebanon killed 13 people and wounded several others. The Tuesday night ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Its sale price beat the previous record, set by an Andy Warhol portrait of Marilyn Monroe, which went for $195m in 2022 and puts it second in the all-time list, behind Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi. A painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust has become the most expensive piece of modern art and the second most expensive painting ever sold at auction. The Portrait of ...
Source: news.sky.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 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. The act of kissing may have started long before modern humans existed, a new modeling study suggests. Kissing stretches back roughly 21 million years, to the shared ancestor of humans and other large apes, ...
Source: livescience.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 -
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 -
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
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
Internet infrastructure provider reports 'unusual traffic' spike before errors across network A widespread outage at Cloudflare, an Internet infrastructure provider, has disrupted parts of the internet, including sites like ChatGPT and social media platform X. Cloudflare said on its status page on Tuesday that it identified an issue that was impacting multiple customers and that a fix was being implemented. ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
A US judge dismissed the federal government's antitrust lawsuit against Meta on Tuesday, ruling that the tech giant's acquisition of Instagram and Whatsapp did not constitute an illegal monopoly in social media. The ruling delivered a major victory to Meta after a five-year battle that began when the US agency filed suit claiming the company illegally maintained its monopoly by acquiring Instagram in 2012 and ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli was killed and three were wounded in an attack Tuesday at an intersection in the West Bank, Israel's rescue service said, following a spate of settler attacks on Palestinians across the occupied territory. The violence came a day after the U.N. Security Council gave its backing to U.S. President Donald Trump's blueprint to secure and govern Gaza . Hamas rejected the plan. The ...
Source: apnews.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
US Justice Department scolded by judge for 'profound investigative missteps' in Comey case | US News
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
James Comey is alleged to have made a false statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2020 by denying he had authorised the disclosure of information to the media. The US Justice Department engaged in a "disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps" in the process of securing an indictment against former FBI director James Comey, a judge has said. Magistrate Judge William ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
On November 17, 2025, the US Army Corps of Engineers (the Corps) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a proposed rule revising the regulatory definition of "waters of the United States," or "WOTUS," a key phrase in the Clean Water Act that determines the jurisdictional reach of the Act. The agencies are soliciting comments on the proposed rule, which are due 45 days from the proposed rule's ...
Source: natlawreview.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
Google CEO Sundar Pichai told BBC News that the artificial intelligence (AI) boom contains both rational and irrational elements. Pichai said the tech industry can "overshoot" during investment cycles like the one currently happening with AI, the BBC reported Tuesday (Nov. 18). He compared this investment cycle with the one that happened in the early days of the internet. There was "clearly a lot of excess ...
Source: pymnts.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Trump administration filed a lawsuit Monday over California's new laws banning federal agents from wearing masks and requiring them to have identification while conducting operations in the state. The federal government has argued the laws threaten the safety of officers who are facing "unprecedented" harassment, doxing, and violence and said it will not comply with them. California ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
Researchers warned that rising global consumption of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) poses a major threat to health. Researchers warned Wednesday that rising global consumption of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) poses a major threat to health, calling for countries to subject some products made by huge food companies to marketing restrictions and taxes. The international team of researchers also pushed back against ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
Tech 4 min read If Roblox users want to chat on the online gaming platform, they'll soon have to verify their age by providing a government ID or by letting an artificial intelligence age estimation tool photograph their face. The move comes as the platform faces a string of lawsuits and other claims that it has enabled sexual predators to connect with and abuse children. Roblox said the updated policy will make it ...
Source: edition.cnn.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Scientists have detected some of the oldest signs of life on Earth using a new method that recognizes chemical fingerprints of living organisms in ancient rocks, an approach that also holds promise in the search for life beyond our planet. The researchers found evidence of microbial life in rocks about 3.3 billion years old from South Africa, when Earth was roughly a quarter its ...
Source: reuters.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
David Richardson resigned Monday saying he'd agreed to serve as acting administrator through the 2025 hurricane season, which ends Nov. 30. He was widely criticized for the agency's response to the Texas flooding in July. Acting Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency David Richardson testifies before the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Economic Development, ...
Source: govtech.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
United States President Donald Trump says he may expand his unprecedented strikes against Latin American drug cartels to include Mexico, the Reuters news agency and the TV network NBC report. "Would I launch strikes in Mexico to stop drugs? It's OK with me. I've been speaking to Mexico. They know how I stand," he told reporters at the Oval Office on Monday. "We're losing hundreds of thousands of people to drugs. So ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
Cedric Irving Jr charged over death of 'legend' John Beam, who was shot and killed on Laney College campus last week The 27-year-old man charged with murder in the fatal shooting death of revered Oakland college football coach John Beam made his first appearance in court on Tuesday and was ordered to remain in jail without bail. Cedric Irving Jr, who does not have a criminal record, was charged with murder and use ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
Hate shopping for a new car at a dealership? Dealing with haggling, upsells and test drives is hard work. Fortunately, you might not have to buy your next car from a dealership in person. Ford has partnered with Amazon to offer certified preowned vehicles on Amazon Autos , letting customers browse, finance and schedule pickup of secondhand Fords from their local dealer -- all without leaving home. Through Amazon ...
Source: cnet.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
NEW YORK (AP) — Honda is recalling more than 256,600 of its Accord Hybrid vehicles across the U.S., due to a software error that may result in sudden loss of drive power. According to documents published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the recall covers certain Honda Accord Hybrids between the 2023 and 2025 model years. The error may cause part of these cars' internal software to reset ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
The U.K. government plans to ban resale of concert, sports, and theater tickets at prices above face value, according to multiple reports in the British press over the past day. The nation's Labor Party is making good on a promise to curb bots and bulk buyers as part of consumer protection measures it campaigned on, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer facing additional pressure in recent days from popular artists ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
Joseph Emerson tried to cut the engines mid-flight from Everett, Washington, to San Francisco in October 2023. An off-duty pilot who tried to cut a plane's engines mid-flight won't serve any more time in prison, a US federal judge has ruled. Joseph Emerson, a former Alaska Airlines pilot, was sentenced to time served and three years' supervised release by Judge Amy Baggio in the US District Court in Portland, ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
A woman is in critical condition after she was set on fire riding a Chicago Transit Authority train, police said. Police said a person of interest was taken into custody in connection with the incident Tuesday. No details about the person were released. The woman, 26, was riding what Chicagoans call the "L" on Monday night when she got into an argument with an approximately 45-year-old man, police said in a ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Monday, Nov 17th, 2025 -
Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Swipe for next article Secretary of State Marco Rubio says World Cup ticket holders will get priority appointments but undergo the same vetting as other visa applicants Soccer fans who purchase tickets for next year's FIFA World Cup in the United States will have the opportunity to jump the line for ...
Source: independent.co.uk