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Top News Stories for Saturday, November 22nd 2025
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
Understanding the conflict three years on. Ukraine faces a difficult decision in the days ahead as the Trump administration pushes the country to embrace a 28-point peace plan that would see it make major concessions to Russia—including relinquishing control of territory that Russian forces don't currently occupy. "Right now, Ukraine is under some of the heaviest pressure yet," Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...
Source: foreignpolicy.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
President Trump will host New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani at the White House on Friday for what will be a closely watched meeting between two political rivals who have drawn comparisons in their populist appeals. Mamdani will meet with Trump less than a month after winning his election to become the next mayor of New York City, despite frequent attacks from the president and his allies labeling him a ...
Source: wfla.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has altered its webpage on vaccine safety and autism to reflect the false anti-vaccine talking points peddled by Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The new language contradicts decades of evidence-based research that has found zero link between childhood vaccinations and autism. The original version of the page had included a ...
Source: truthout.org
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
Democrat Senate minority leader says president's remarks are 'outright threat' as other leading Democrats warn 'political violence has no place in America' From Good morning and welcome to the US politics live blog. I'm Tom Ambrose and I'll be bringing you all the latest news lines over the next few hours. We start with the news that Donald Trump has been accused of calling for the "execution" of elected Democratic ...
Source: theguardian.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
. These affordability pressures vary by region, with first-time buyers in the Northeast facing limited inventory, while buyers in the West struggle with elevated home prices. Mortgage rates hovered between 6.5% and 7% earlier this year due to economic and tariff uncertainty. However, with the Total existing home sales, including single-family homes, townhomes, condominiums, and co-ops, rose 1.2% to a ...
Source: lbmjournal.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
President Donald Trump is considering pressuring states to stop regulating artificial intelligence in a draft executive order obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, as some in Congress also consider whether to temporarily block states from regulating AI. Trump and some Republicans argue that the limited regulations already enacted by states, and others that might follow, will dampen innovation and growth for ...
Source: apnews.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
on Thursday after weeks of speculation from AI fans who have either tested the unreleased AI image generator or viewed shared on social media. The images created with the test version of Nano Banana Pro teased the improvements Google made to its viral image generator, including support for improved text rendering. In a , Google highlighted Nano Banana Pro's text abilities in the announcement, suggesting ...
Source: bgr.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said he would no longer teach at Harvard University after his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were recently made public. The scandal, however, continues to play out in his old classrooms. A video posted on TikTok on Thursday showed a professor addressing a room full of Summers' former students about his absence. The Harvard Crimson, the university's student-run ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 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? The U.S. Coast Guard has again classified swastikas and nooses as hate symbols ― and prohibited them. On Thursday, The Washington Post reported that under new guidelines, these items were no longer classified as hate symbols and were instead considered merely ...
Source: huffpost.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
Attorneys for former FBI Director James Comey are asking a federal judge to dismiss the charges against him because, they say, a grand jury never approved the final indictment in the case. The motion to dismiss comes after prosecutors, including interim US Attorney Lindsey Halligan, said in court this week that the indictment — which omitted a count that the grand jury rejected — was not seen in its ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
By Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Offshore oil and gas drilling might resume in federally controlled waters near California and in some waters near Florida after being banned for decades. The Interior Department released a five-year plan Thursday supporting offshore drilling leases, which would include up to 34 lease auctions in federal waters sometime between 2026 and 2031, according to Politico . The auctions would include up ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Spores of moss survived nearly a year outside of the International Space Station and has returned back to Earth alive. The moss survived for the nine month period and returned with more than 80% of its spores able to reproduce once back on Earth, researchers reported in a study published in iScience . "Most living organisms, including humans, cannot survive even briefly in the vacuum of space," ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
The fiery crash of a UPS plane shortly after its left engine flew off its wing and sparked a massive fire during takeoff could spell the end of the 109 remaining MD-11 airliners that have been exclusively hauling cargo for more than a decade. The fate of the planes won't be determined until after UPS, FedEx and Western Global see how expensive the repairs the Federal Aviation Administration orders will be and learn ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
A grizzly bear attacked a group of elementary school students and teachers in Canada , leaving 11 people injured. Two were critically injured and two seriously hurt following the attack while a class was out on a walk in Bella Coola, northwest of Vancouver. Veronica Schooner said her ten-year-old son Alvarez, who was in the Year 4-5 group, was so close to the animal 'he even felt its fur.' 'He was running for ...
Source: dailymail.co.uk
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
ABUJA, Nigeria — Gunmen attacked a Catholic boarding school in a western region of Nigeria and abducted more than 200 schoolchildren Friday, the Christian Association of Nigeria said, in the latest in a spate of abductions in Africa's most populous country . The attack and abductions took place at St. Mary's School, a Catholic institution in the Agwara local government's Papiri community. Attackers seized 215 ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
The back and forth between President Donald Trump and Jimmy Kimmel continued Thursday with Kimmel offering to leave his late-night show if Trump also agrees to leave the White House. "Mr. President, I admire your tenacity," Kimmel said after Trump, yet again, implored ABC to " get the bum off the air " in a Truth Social post. "I'll go when you go, OK?" Kimmel said Thursday. "We'll be a team. Let's ride off into the ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday ordered President Donald Trump to end the deployment of National Guard troops to the nation's capital. But the ruling is unlikely to be the final word by the courts, the president or local leaders in the contentious duel over the federal district. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb put her order on hold for 21 days to allow the Trump administration time to either remove ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
Close to 800 air traffic controllers and technicians with perfect attendance during the more than 40-day shutdown will get $10,000 cash bonuses, the FAA and DOT said. An increase in absences among air traffic controllers during the shutdown, the longest ever, snarled air travel around the U.S. Controllers were required to work during the shutdown even though they weren't receiving regular paychecks. An airplane ...
Source: cnbc.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
SAN DIEGO – The Trump administration has sued California for providing in-state college tuition, scholarships, and state-funded financial aid to students who aren't legally in the United States. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, alleges the practice harms U.S. citizens and encourages illegal immigration. Among the defendants are the state, top state ...
Source: news4jax.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
What's the cost of showing up at airport security without a Real ID, besides annoying TSA and possibly missing your flight? Soon, it could be $18 per person, nonrefundable. The Transportation Security Administration is proposing the fee for travelers who show up at airport security without a valid Real ID, which could include an enhanced driver's license or a passport. States began issuing driver's licenses ...
Source: cnet.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
In the wake of Salesforce's announcement about "unusual activity involving Gainsight-published applications" and the company's revocation of access and refresh tokens associated with them, Gainsight has been doing a good job keeping customers updated on current investigation findings. On the following the incident, the company confirmed that, as a precautionary measure, the Gainsight app has been temporarily pulled ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
NEW YORK (AP) — The clock is ticking for the U.S. government to open up its files on Jeffrey Epstein. After months of rancor and recriminations, Congress has passed and President Donald Trump has signed legislation compelling the Justice Department to give the public everything it has on Epstein — and it has to be done before Christmas. But even that might not be enough for the curious and the ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
Chicago Federation of Labor President Bob Reiter urged Chicago City Council members on Friday to not rule out a property tax increase, arguing there are ways to protect Black homeowners hit hardest by what he called "out of whack assessments." Reiter acknowledged that he urged alderpersons before Mayor Brandon Johnson's Oct. 16 budget address to avoid layoffs and furlough days that would impact his members, and ...
Source: chicago.suntimes.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
Reading time 2 minutes OpenAI has launched a new feature that is destined to leave some users scratching their heads. This week, the company announced a pilot of a new "group chats" feature in ChatGPT that allows users to get their buddies together and hang out with the company's flagship chatbot. That's what everybody's been wanting, right? "Group chats in ChatGPT are now rolling out globally," the company tweeted ...
Source: gizmodo.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
A self-portrait by celebrated Mexican artist Frida Kahlo sold for $54.66 million in New York on Thursday, setting a record for the price of a painting by a woman, the auction house Sotheby's said. The sale of Kahlo's 1940 artwork, titled "El sueno (La cama)" — which translates to "The dream (The bed)" — broke the previous record set by American artist Georgia O'Keeffe, whose 1932 painting "Jimson ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
Nov. 21 (UPI) -- An Indian fighter jet crashed Friday at the Dubai Air Show, which left its pilot dead after the aircraft went up in flames upon impact. The Tejas fighter jet reportedly crashed after 2 p.m. local time during aerial fly demonstrations at Al Maktoum International Airport in the United Arab Emirates as crowds looked on in shock. According to the Indian Air Force, the pilot behind the single-seat light ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
VERO BEACH, Fla. – A Florida sheriff's deputy was killed while attempting to serve an eviction notice Friday in a beachside residence on the state's Atlantic coast, a county sheriff said. The accused shooter, another deputy and a locksmith working for law enforcement were all wounded, Indian River County Sheriff Eric Flowers said at a news conference. The other deputy was hit in the shoulder and was ...
Source: news4jax.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. flu season is starting slowly, and it's unclear if it will be as bad as last winter's , but some health experts are worried as U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data posted Friday shows a new version of the virus has emerged. An early analysis suggests current vaccines may still be somewhat effective against the new version of the flu, which has been the main driver of ...
Source: aol.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
By Queenie Wong and Nilesh Christopher The artificial intelligence boom seems unstoppable, but a growing number of investors and other observers worry it could be a bubble about to burst. After skyrocketing more than 50% from April lows, the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite experienced a decline of close to 5% this month. Investors are concerned it could take longer than expected to see big profits from the trillions of ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
It's looking like investors might get their wish this holiday season. Stocks surged on Friday on comments from a top Federal Reserve official who said the economic situation supports more rate cuts from the central bank. The odds that the Fed will cut interest rates another 25 basis points at its December policy meeting nearly doubled on Friday after New York Fed President John Williams said that he saw room to ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
Nov. 21 (UPI) -- The Department of Transportation has introduced new crash test dummies that have a specifically small female design, to "address the trend of higher injury rates for women than men in certain car crash scenarios." Crash testing has used the Hybrid III dummy in the past, but now it will adopt the THOR-05F for women, the department said in a press release . "The Left doesn't want to hear it, but the ...
Source: upi.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
Fugees rapper Prakazrel Pras Michel has been sentenced to a hefty 14 years in prison, per reporting by . He was convicted of illegally funneling several millions of dollars toward President Obama's 2012 reelection campaign. This sentencing comes on the heels of a federal jury convicting him of ten criminal counts revolving around conspiracy and acting as an agent for a foreign government in 2023. Set in Washington, ...
Source: vice.com
Friday, Nov 21st, 2025 -
Newly identified sound is distinct from 'full-throated roar' of the predators Lions have two types of roar, scientists have found. The newly identified sound is an "intermediary roar" that is mixed in with the recognisable "full-throated roar" of the predators . Researchers from the University of Exeter used artificial intelligence to analyse the roars of animals to determine if there was more than one kind of ...
Source: telegraph.co.uk
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
By Employers notched a respectable month of hiring in September, ending a slow summer on a positive note and assuaging some concern that the labor market had tipped into a contraction. But the data were not unequivocally positive: The unemployment rate edged up to 4.4%, suggesting that more people were looking for work and not finding it. Delayed by six weeks because of the government shutdown, the report is an ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 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? Neither President Donald Trump nor Vice President JD Vance was invited to the funeral of former Vice President Dick Cheney, which took place on Thursday in Washington, D.C., according to multiple reports . Cheney, who served as vice president under George W. Bush, "died due ...
Source: huffpost.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
The Feds Suddenly Want to Drop Their Charges Against a Woman Shot by a Border Patrol Agent The move avoids the release of more messages from a Border Patrol agent whose previous texts showed he had bragged about shooting her. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Remember the horrifying text messages that caught a Border Patrol agent bragging about shooting someone in Chicago ...
Source: motherjones.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Federal agents have now arrested more than 250 people during a North Carolina immigration crackdown centered around Charlotte, the state's largest city, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday. The operation that began over the weekend is the latest phase of Republican President Donald Trump's aggressive mass deportation efforts that have sent the military and immigration ...
Source: pbs.org
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
The handling of the federal investigation into Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff of California is being reviewed by Justice Department investigators, three sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. A Republican congressional candidate who lives in California, Christine Bish, submitted a tip to the Federal Housing Finance Agency, alleging fraud in Schiff's mortgage documentation. She told CBS News that she was ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
4 min read Israel's forced removal of tens of thousands of Palestinians from refugee camps in the occupied West Bank earlier this year amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has alleged. According to a 105-page report released by the non-profit organization, 32,000 Palestinians were expelled by Israeli forces from three camps in January and February, while international ...
Source: edition.cnn.com