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Top News Stories for Wednesday, November 26th 2025
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge's dismissal of criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney Letitia James , two political foes of President Donald Trump, won't be the final word on the matter. The Justice Department says it plans to immediately appeal a pair of rulings that held that Lindsey Halligan was illegally appointed interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
KYIV -- Russia launched a deadly barrage of missiles and drones on the Ukrainian capital Tuesday, as Kremlin officials signaled they would resist changes negotiated by Ukraine to President Trump's peace plan. The attack on Kyiv, the capital, killed at least seven people and injured 20 others, according to the city's mayor. It came as the Trump administration was working to maintain diplomatic momentum behind its ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON — The FBI is working to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who appeared in a video urging members of the military and intelligence community not to comply with illegal orders, according to a person familiar with the efforts. The move, first reported by Fox News, comes days after President Donald Trump accused the Democrats, all of whom served in the military or in intelligence ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
(Reuters) -In a reversal, Indiana Republicans will meet in December to consider whether to heed President Donald Trump's demand for a new congressional district map favoring Republican candidates, part of his national effort aimed at keeping control of the U.S. House of Representatives. The Republican speaker of the state House of Representatives, Todd Huston, said on Tuesday that his chamber ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
A woman who pleaded guilty to the 2014 stabbing of her sixth grade classmate is back in custody after Wisconsin police say she vanished from a group home where she lived under supervised release Saturday night. Morgan Geyser, 23, was found over 100 miles away approximately 24 hours later in Illinois with an acquaintance. Geyser's disappearance comes more than 10 years after investigators say she and a friend, ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
MEBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian senator who is campaigning for a national burqa ban was barred Tuesday from Parliament for the rest of the year for wearing the Muslim garment in the chamber. Pauline Hanson, the 71-year-old leader of the anti-Muslim, anti-immigration One Nation minor party, was accused of performing a disrespectful stunt on Monday when she walked into the Senate shrouded in the ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
HONG KONG — President Donald Trump has spoken with the leaders of U.S. ally Japan and rival superpower China amid the pair's escalating dispute over Taiwan . Trump's surprise call Monday with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping , was followed by a call with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi , who angered China earlier this month with comments on the Beijing-claimed island democracy. Both China and Japan ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
Amazon Web Services is granting government expanded access to its tech products offerings while scaling the infrastructure required to support it. Amazon Web Services announced Monday that it will be aiming to expand its artificial intelligence and supercomputing infrastructure for government customers, unveiling a new investment of up to $50 billion towards scaling capabilities for federal operations. The ...
Source: route-fifty.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
Our brain wiring seems to undergo four major turning points at ages 9, 32, 66 and 83, which could influence our capacity to learn and our risk of certain conditions Our brain function is far from static throughout our lives. We already know that our capacity to learn, and our risk of cognitive decline, varies from when we are a newborn through to our 90s. Now, scientists may have uncovered a potential reason why ...
Source: newscientist.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
But after a weekend update to the social media platform X, it's now clear that the owners of these accounts, and many others, are located in regions such as South Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe. Elon Musk's X unveiled a feature Saturday that lets users see where an account is based. Online sleuths and experts quickly found that many popular accounts posting in support of the MAGA movement to thousands or hundreds ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
RealPage agrees to settle suit over DOJ claims software raised rents across the US. RealPage has agreed to settle an antitrust lawsuit raised by the Department of Justice, alleging that landlords used its tools to coordinate efforts to artificially raise rental prices across the US. In a press release , the DOJ promised the proposed settlement "would help restore free market competition in rental markets for ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
NEW YORK – A federal judge in Manhattan is demanding more information from the Justice Department as he weighs its request to unseal records from the sex trafficking case against Jeffrey Epstein's longtime confidante Judge Paul A. Engelmayer on Tuesday ordered the Justice Department to tell him what materials it plans to publicly release that were subject to secrecy orders in the British socialite's case. The ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
Weight-loss drug no silver bullet for Alzheimer's as big trial fails Scientists have failed to show that weight-loss wonder drug semaglutide slows the progress of Alzheimer's disease (AD), as two-year clinical trials end in disappointment for patients, medical scientists and drugmaker Novo Nordisk. In February 2024, we covered the news that researchers at the University of Toronto had found an intriguing – ...
Source: newatlas.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the magnificent starry population of the Coma Cluster of galaxies, one of the densest known galaxy collections in the universe — and where the effect of dark matter was first described. One of the most mysterious components of the universe — dark matter — may have finally been found after a century-long search. Dark matter emits no light or energy, so it is ...
Source: forbes.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
during the Biden administration, according to a memo reviewed by NBC News. It is the latest in a series of actions taken by the administration to The decision would potentially affect more than 200,000 refugees who began the process of legally immigrating to the U.S. over the last four years. In order to receive refugee status, applicants first must go through an extensive vetting process that often takes years to ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 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 volcano in Ethiopia erupted for the first time in at least 12,000 years on Sunday, sending a cloud of ash and smoke northeast across the Red Sea. Hayli Gubbi, a volcano in the Afar region of northern Ethiopia, ...
Source: livescience.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
China has rushed to launch an uncrewed spacecraft to relieve three astronauts left on board the Tiangong space station without a passage to Earth. State broadcaster CCTV showed a Long March-2F rocket carrying the Shenzhou-22 spacecraft lifting off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre shortly after noon local time (04:00 GMT) on Tuesday. The Shenzhou-22 mission was originally planned to be crewed and take off in ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
Your flight might be grounded, but these savings have already left the tarmac. The government shutdown is over, and it looks like air traffic controllers are getting back into the swing of things because the best early Black Friday luggage deals are hitting the skies before the actual shopping holiday. We've scouted all of the internet's Black Friday luggage deals to bring you discounts on premium suitcase sets, ...
Source: gq.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
JERUSALEM — The U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, set up to distribute aid to Gaza as an alternative to the United Nations but which Palestinians said endangered the lives of civilians as they tried to get food, said Monday it would shutter operations. The foundation had already closed distribution sites after a U.S.-brokered ceasefire took effect six weeks ago in Gaza. It announced Monday ...
Source: military.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
The capsule will fly a cargo mission to the ISS early next year, with no crew on board this time. Reading time 2 minutes Following several delays, mishaps, and a stranded crew, Boeing's Starliner saga is not over just yet. NASA is revising its commercial crew contract with Boeing, reducing the number of Starliner missions to the International Space Station (ISS) pending rigorous testing to prove the spacecraft can ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
Some 95% of the doctors who said they use generative AI in their work reported no professional training and 85% of them said their employer has not encouraged its use. One in four GPs are now using artificial intelligence (AI) in their work, despite almost none having formal training or guidance from their employers, new research has found. The largest year-on-year survey of UK GPs on generative AI has revealed an ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan's Taliban government on Tuesday accused Pakistan of launching overnight strikes in three eastern provinces, killing 10 civilians, including nine children, in a sign of worsening tensions between the two neighbors. Zabihullah Mujahid, the chief spokesperson for the Afghan government, said on X that Pakistan "bombed" the home of a civilian in Khost province, killing nine ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
Nov. 25 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump has directed his departments of Treasury and State to consider designating chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations as he seeks to sanction the transnational Sunni Islamist group. The executive order , signed by Trump on Monday, gives Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Secretary of State Marco Rubio 30 days to submit a joint report evaluating whether ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By DEE-ANN DURBIN, Associated Press The Campbell's Co. said Tuesday it has placed one of its executives on leave while it investigates claims that he made racist comments and mocked the company's products and customers in an audio recording. Martin Bally, Campbell's vice president of information technology, was named in a lawsuit filed last week by Robert Garza, a former ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
Warner Music Settles Lawsuit With Suno And Will Partner With AI Music Generator Warner Music Group said Tuesday it settled its lawsuit accusing AI music company Suno of training its models on copyrighted material, marking the first settlement after the three major record labels and the Recording Industry Association of America sued the fast-growing and controversial AI startup last year. Warner Music and Suno said ...
Source: forbes.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
You can now listen to Fox News articles! A new study from Northwestern Medicine suggests that current lung cancer screening guidelines may be missing most Americans who develop the disease — and researchers say it's time for a major change. Published in JAMA Network Open, the study analyzed nearly 1,000 lung cancer patients who were treated at Northwestern Medicine between 2018 and 2023. The goal was to ...
Source: foxnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
A UN report reveals which cities will likely boast the largest populations in 2050 and predicts London's population will soar. Tokyo has lost its long-held title as the world's most populous megacity and now ranks third, according to a new report. Jakarta, in Indonesia , has taken the top spot and is predicted to keep it until 2050, when the rise of Dhaka is expected to see the Bangladeshi capital top the tables. A ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
The US president made jokes at the annual turkey pardoning ceremony. It went as well as you would expect D on't give up the day job. On Tuesday, Donald Trump came to the annual Thanksgiving turkey pardoning ceremony at the White House ready to serve up some political satire. It went about as well as you would expect. Like a startled turkey flapping in zigzags, the US president's speech ricocheted bafflingly from ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
The fight between Nvidia and one of its loudest naysayers, investor Michael Burry, is escalating. Following the "Big Short" investor's series of social media posts arguing that the artificial intelligence investment boom is replaying the dotcom bubble from the 1990s, with Nvidia at the center of it, the chipmaker quietly circulated a private memo to analysts that explicitly name-checked Burry to push back on many ...
Source: cnbc.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
Shop deals curated by our expert deal finders The US Consumer Product Safety Commission is warning that some lithium‑ion batteries used in certain e‑bikes made by Rad Power Bikes pose a serious fire hazard that could lead to injury or even death. The agency says the batteries, identified by model numbers RP‑1304 and HL‑RP‑S1304, can unexpectedly ignite or explode, especially if the ...
Source: cnet.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
The Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute announced on Nov. 24 that one of its Asian elephants is expecting, marking the first time an elephant calf will be born at the zoo in nearly 25 years. Animal care staff at the zoo, which is located in Washington, D.C., are preparing for the "highly anticipated" birth of an Asian elephant calf, according to a . The zoo said its male elephant, Spike, ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
Staff at Wat Rat Prakhong Tham temple near Bangkok say they were alerted after they heard knocking from inside the coffin moments before the cremation was due to start. A woman brought in for cremation at a Thai temple was found alive in her coffin. The 65-year-old had been taken to Wat Rat Prakhong Tham, a Buddhist temple on the outskirts of Bangkok, after she appeared to stop breathing two days earlier. Her ...
Source: news.sky.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
Late-night hosts discussed Donald Trump 's strangely friendly meeting with New York's mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani . Seth Meyers Seth Meyers devoted his Monday Closer Look segment to the bizarrely friendly White House meeting between Donald Trump and New York's mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, where the president seemed downright pleased to be meeting the Democratic socialist that his administration has long demonized. ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Nov 24th, 2025 -
The U.S. government's designation of the Venezuelan Cartel de los Soles as a foreign terrorist organization officially took effect Monday as part of President Trump's aggressive campaign to combat drug trafficking into the United States. The U.S. identifies Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as the group's leader — and he says the claims of narcoterrorism are actually part of a bid by Mr. Trump to ...
Source: cbsnews.com