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Top News Stories for Thursday, November 27th 2025
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
A Kremlin spokesperson has watered down expectations that a peace deal is close to being struck to end the nearly four-year-long invasion of Ukraine . Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said it's "premature" to say whether the situation in Ukraine was close to a resolution. Peskov also claimed there are people in other countries, including the United States, "who ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
White House pressure campaign has not found willing participants in all states – including Republican-led ones The unprecedented push to create new congressional districts mid-decade is hitting roadblocks in the form of local elected officials from both parties. Republicans face headwinds in the 2026 midterms: the party in power often loses ground in the election after a presidential win, and Trump's agenda ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic lawmakers who appeared in a social media video urging U.S. troops to defy "illegal orders" say the FBI has contacted them to begin scheduling interviews, signaling a possible inquiry into the matter. It would mark the second investigation tied to the video, coming a day after the Pentagon said it was reviewing Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona over potential ...
Source: wfla.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
A new study has found that adolescence can continue until the age of 32, as humans hit four major "turning points" in brain development at the ages of about nine, 32, 66 and 83. Published on Tuesday in the journal, Nature Communications, the study examined nearly 4,000 scans of the brains of participants ranging in age up to 90. Researchers mapped out the brain's development using this data and discovered that ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
Save 50% on a 3-month Digiday+ membership. Ends Dec 5. This Black Friday and Cyber Monday, it's more likely shoppers turn to ChatGPT to help with their holiday wish lists. Over the past year, AI platforms have gone mainstream with more users using them to research products, compare brands, hunt for deals and even automate purchasing. The changes in how people shop online has caused marketers to reconsider their SEO ...
Source: digiday.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
It's one of the biggest mysteries in this universe. Everything you see around you—your phone, your cat, the Earth, the stars—makes up just 15% of the mass in the universe. The remaining 85% is a ghost. We can't see it, touch it, or sense it in any way. We only know it's there because we can notice its gravity pulling on the things we can see. This ghost is, of course, dark matter . We know it holds our ...
Source: zmescience.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
An unknown number of people are still caught in the blaze which is believed to have spread on bamboo scaffolding at the Wang Fuk Court housing complex. At least 13 people have died in a fire which has engulfed multiple buildings at a high-rise residential complex in Hong Kong. Nine people were declared dead on the scene and four others were later confirmed dead at hospital, the authorities said. Some 700 people ...
Source: news.sky.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
A New Zealand woman who killed her two young children and hid their bodies in suitcases was sentenced on Wednesday to life imprisonment. South Korean-born New Zealand citizen Hakyung Lee, 45, was convicted earlier this year of murdering her children, aged eight and six in 2018, a year after their father died of cancer. During the trial, the court was told that Lee gave the children an overdose of prescription ...
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
Music company representing Coldplay and Ed Sheeran had sued tech platform alleging mass copyright infringement Warner Music has signed a licensing deal with the artificial intelligence song generator Suno after settling a copyright infringement lawsuit it launched against the service a year ago Warner, the world's third-largest music company and home to acts including Coldplay, Charli XCX and Ed Sheeran, is the ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
After a high-profile malfunction left two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station, NASA is requiring rigorous testing before humans get back on board. The US space agency ended months of speculation about the next flight of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft , confirming that the vehicle will carry only cargo to the International Space Station. NASA and Boeing are now targeting no earlier than April 2026 ...
Source: wired.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
Walter Cronkite critiqued America's health care system as "neither healthy, caring, nor a system" in 1993. Thirty-two years later, the U.S. health care system continues to flail. In clinical settings across the country, especially those in rural and other underserved communities, shortages of registered nurses hamper the quality-of-care patients and families receive. About 30,000 new advanced practice nurses ...
Source: statnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
During a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden on 25 November, Trump pardoned this year's Thanksgiving turkeys, Waddle and Gobble. During the televised pardon, Waddle, apparently, was nowhere to be found. "Waddle, by the way, is missing in action, but that's okay," the president said. The annual event is a White House tradition going back years when the US president pardons turkeys in the days before ...
Source: bbc.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 -
X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter and owned by Elon Musk, has launched a new "transparency feature" which provides a greater level of information about accounts, including the locations of the users behind them. X says the move will provide greater transparency and address concerns about "bots" that spread misinformation by enabling users to identify where they are based. But it has raised ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
Big Stone Gap, Va. — A Virginia high school football coach who disappeared days before his undefeated team's playoff game is being sought on charges of possessing child pornography and using a computer to solicit a minor, Virginia State Police said Tuesday. Police said Travis L. Turner, 46, of Appalachia, Virginia, is wanted on warrants obtained Monday for five counts of each charge, adding that additional ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 26th, 2025 -
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hospital officials in Gaza said Wednesday that Israel handed over 15 more Palestinian bodies, completing the latest swap of the ceasefire as the first phase of the agreement nears a conclusion and officials convened to discuss moving to the second. It came a day after Palestinian militants returned the remains of Israeli hostage Dror Or, who the Israeli military says was killed ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
'Without prejudice': What this legalese means for the dismissed charges against James Comey and Letitia James A federal judge on Nov. 24, 2025, dismissed the indictments against former FBI Director James B. Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James , blocking the Department of Justice's efforts to prosecute two of President Donald Trump's perceived adversaries . But U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan ...
Source: theconversation.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
Foreign tourists visiting US national parks including the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone will now pay a hefty surcharge. Foreign tourists visiting US national parks including the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone will now pay a hefty surcharge, the Trump administration announced Tuesday. The Department of the Interior, which operates the renowned US national parks, said that starting in 2026 visitors from abroad will have ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
The United States Department of Defense has launched an investigation into Senator Mark Kelly over a video in which he and other Democrats urged soldiers to defy "illegal orders". The video was released last week. It features six Democratic lawmakers who previously held positions in the military and intelligence services: Kelly, Representatives Chris Deluzio and Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania, Representative ...
Source: aljazeera.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 -
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BEIJING (AP) — China launched the Shenzhou 22 spacecraft on Tuesday to help bring back a team of astronauts after a damaged spacecraft left them temporarily stranded on China's space station. The Shenzhou 22, which successfully docked at the Tiangong space station Tuesday, will be used sometime in 2026 by the three astronauts who arrived on Nov. 1 . Earlier this ...
Source: orlandosentinel.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 -
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 -
While each product featured is independently selected by our editors, we may include paid promotion. If you buy something through our links, we may earn commission. Read more about our Product Review Guidelines here . Amazon's Black Friday deals have officially taken over, and the markdowns this year are no joke. Page after page is packed with buzzy beauty finds, editor-loved home upgrades, under-$50 gems, and ...
Source: popsugar.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
A long-inactive volcano in northern Ethiopia unexpectedly erupted on Sunday, sending up plumes of volcanic ash and dust, which have since spread across continents and disrupted flights in India and the United Arab Emirates. No casualties were reported in Ethiopia following the eruption, but local government officials told reporters they are concerned about the impact of the eruption on local communities and their ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
By Daniel Wiessner 2 min read A homeless person sleeps on a bench near the National Mall after U.S. President Donald Trump federalized the Metropolitan Police Department under the Home Rule Act and deployed National Guard to assist in crime prevention in the nation's capital, in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 15, 2025. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -A group of U.S. states filed a lawsuit on ...
Source: yahoo.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 -
Mary Cunningham 2 min read A lawsuit filed in Michigan last week alleges that a Campbell Soup Company executive made offensive comments about Indian workers and said the company's products were for "poor people" during a conversation with a former employee. The suit was filed by Robert Garza, who was hired by Campbell's as a cybersecurity analyst in September 2024. Garza alleges that Campbell's executive Martin ...
Source: yahoo.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
Nov. 25 (UPI) -- In just seven years, Jakarta, Indonesia, took a giant leap from 33rd biggest city in the world to surpass Tokyo at the top of the list. The city has grown to 42 million residents. Nearly half the world's population now lives in cities, and the number of megacities such as Jakarta, which are home to more than 10 million people each, has ballooned from less than 10 to more than 30 in the last 50 ...
Source: upi.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 -
Help Net Security newsletters : Daily and weekly news, cybersecurity jobs, open source projects, breaking news – subscribe here! A convincing (but fake) "Windows Update" screen can be the perfect lure for tricking users into infecting their computers with malware. Add a multi-stage delivery chain with some offbeat techniques, and infostealer operators have everything they need to slip past defenses. The ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
Today, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida announced that they have launched an into United Parks & Resorts Inc. to determine whether it violates Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by discriminating against guests with disabilities. United Parks & Resorts is a global theme park and entertainment company that owns or ...
Source: justice.gov
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 -
Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to cut ties with Scouting America for attacking what he called "boy-friendly spaces," according to leaked documents made public Tuesday. In the documents, first reported by NPR , Hegseth criticizes Scouting America, formerly known as the Boy Scouts, for straying far from what he characterized as its original mission and promoting "gender confusion." Since ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Nov 25th, 2025 -
– All 24 schoolgirls held by assailants following a mass abduction last week from a school in northwestern Nigeria have been rescued, the country's president announced Tuesday. A total of 25 girls were abducted Nov. 17 from the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School in Kebbi state's Maga town, but one of them the same day, the school's principal said. The remaining 24 were all rescued, according to a ...
Source: news4jax.com