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Top News Stories for Thursday, November 20th 2025
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
President Trump's administration moved Wednesday to roll back protections for imperiled species and the places they live, reviving a suite of changes to Endangered Species Act regulations from the Republican's first term that were blocked under former Democratic President Joe Biden. The proposed changes include the elimination of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's "blanket rule" that automatically protects ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Nvidia's blockbuster earnings just blew a hole through Wall Street's AI bubble anxieties . Analysts said the chipmaker's third-quarter results prove the AI boom is nowhere near running out of steam. On Wednesday, Nvidia posted $57 billion in revenue, topping Wall Street's $55 billion estimates. Its data center division generated revenue of $51 billion, surpassing the $49.31 billion analysts had projected. The ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — A pair of Israeli strikes in Gaza's southern city of Khan Younis early Thursday killed five people, hospital officials said, bringing the death toll from airstrikes in the Palestinian territory over a roughly 12-hour period to 33. The strikes have been some of the deadliest since Oct. 10 when a U.S.-brokered ceasefire took effect. The renewed escalation came after Israel said that ...
Source: aol.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
MIAMI (AP) — U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida has been indicted on charges accusing her of stealing $5 million in federal disaster funds and using some of the money to aid her 2021 campaign, the Justice Department said Wednesday. The Democrat is accused of stealing Federal Emergency Management Agency overpayments that her family health care company had received through a federally funded ...
Source: apnews.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Hiring picked up in the early fall after a lackluster summer. An overdue report from the Labor Department Thursday showed U.S. employers added 119,000 jobs in September, while the unemployment rate inched up to 4.4%. The report was released almost seven weeks behind schedule due to the government shutdown. And because the shutdown also delayed data-gathering, there won't be another jobs report until mid-December. ...
Source: npr.org
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Nov. 19 (UPI) -- The United States on Wednesday intensified its manhunt for a former Canadian Olympian who U.S. law enforcement accuses of being a drug kingpin on the scale of Pablo Escobar and Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. It is not immediately clear how long the United States has been hunting Ryan Wedding but he was first indicted in the United States in October 2024. In March, he was added to the FBI's Ten Most ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
Nov. 20 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump announced he will meet New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in the Oval Office on Friday. Trump made the announcement on his social media platform Truth Social on Wednesday. "Communist Mayor of New York City, Zohran 'Kwame' Mamdani, has asked for a meeting. We have agreed that this meeting will take place at the Oval Office on Friday, November 21st," Trump said in the ...
Source: upi.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
The draft plan, reportedly developed by Trump envoy Steve Witkoff and Kremlin adviser Kirill Dmitriev, would force draconian measures on Ukraine From US and Russian officials have reportedly drafted a new plan to end the war in Ukraine and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet with top Pentagon officials in Kyiv on Thursday. But what do the new proposals consist of? The full details are not clear , but ...
Source: theguardian.com
Thursday, Nov 20th, 2025 -
The U.S. Senate passed a continuing resolution (CR) to reopen the government, while also passing three appropriations bills. One of the pieces of legislation is the agricultural appropriations bill, which revises the 2018 Farm Bill language that legalized hemp products with less than 0.3% THC. The new bill would essentially destroy the cannabis industry, including the hemp agricultural and CBD retail industry. The ...
Source: cbd.market
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
(Reuters) -The Trump administration on Wednesday proposed four new rules that would roll back Biden-era regulations that strengthened protections for endangered species. The move is aligned with President Donald Trump's effort to unwind what he says are burdensome federal regulations for businesses. In a statement, the Interior Department said it would restore regulatory language from 2019 ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
The evolutionary history of the kiss goes back over twenty million years. If you think about it, kissing is really weird. You press your sensitive, nerve-filled facial muscles against another person's. You exchange a cocktail of saliva, exposing yourself to millions of foreign bacteria. From a survivalist standpoint, kissing is a biological nightmare without any direct benefits or rewards. Yet, we do it. We crave ...
Source: zmescience.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
A federal judge has rejected the Federal Trade Commission's effort to force Meta to divest its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, saying the government hadn't made its case that the Facebook owner is an illegal monopoly. In his ruling Tuesday, U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg in D.C. agreed with Meta that its purchases of the photo-sharing app Instagram and messaging app WhatsApp, which it bought in 2012 ...
Source: abajournal.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
A rundown of what we know of the third extrasolar object we've identified. Since early July, telescopes around the world have been tracking just our third confirmed interstellar visitor, the comet 3I/ATLAS—3I, for third interstellar, and ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) for the telescope network that first spotted it. But the object's closest approach to the Sun came in late October ...
Source: arstechnica.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
David Maltinsky, a 16-year veteran, says in lawsuit agency retaliated against him for engaging in protected speech A longtime FBI employee has filed a lawsuit alleging that he was fired for displaying a Pride flag at his desk, naming the FBI director, Kash Patel, the justice department and the attorney general, Pam Bondi , as defendants. According to David Maltinsky, an intelligence specialist who had served with ...
Source: theguardian.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
The minutes of the FOMC's October meeting, released today, made official what a majority of Fed speakers have been saying for weeks: Unless the data changes drastically, there is not much chance of a December rate cut, and the Treasury market adjusted to it: The 6-month Treasury yield rose by 2 basis points today and closed at 3.83%, well within the Fed's current target range of 3.75% to 4.0% (shaded area). ...
Source: wolfstreet.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
A portrait by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt was sold for $236.4m (£179m) in New York on Tuesday, making it the second most expensive piece ever sold at auction. Six people took part in a 20-minute bidding battle for the Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer which was painted between 1914 and 1916. Auction house Sotheby's has not disclosed the buyer's identity. The portrait was looted by the Nazis and almost ...
Source: bbc.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
She's holding on against Zoh's thin red line. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch accepted Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's offer to stay on as top cop Wednesday — with a vow to not "mince words" in disagreements over their profound differences. The highly anticipated appointment fulfills Mamdani's campaign promise to keep the respected 44-year-old police executive amid concerns over his arguably soft-on-crime bent. ...
Source: nypost.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
On Tuesday, November 18, The Michelin Guide held its annual award ceremony, announcing which New York restaurants would earn the coveted Michelin stars. This year, Michelin moved the event from New York City to Philadelphia, announcing stars for Boston and Philadelphia restaurants, along with Chicago, New York and Washington D.C. awards. "This year marks a momentous occasion for the Northeast Cities to come ...
Source: forbes.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Major League Baseball's new media rights deals with NBC, Netflix, and ESPN became official Wednesday, with the three-year agreements changing the parameters of watching the sport via television and streaming. NBC will become the new home of "Sunday Night Baseball," which had been a staple of ESPN's baseball package since 1990. With rights deals in place with the NFL and NBA, NBC will now feature a game from a ...
Source: bostonglobe.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
By Julia Harte (Reuters) -A federal judge has ordered a dozen Texas public school districts to remove displays of the Ten Commandments from their classrooms by December, saying that a state law requiring such displays violates the U.S. Constitution. In a win for parents of children who attend school in the 12 Texas districts named as defendants, U.S. District Court Judge Orlando L. Garcia wrote ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Restarting the Three Mile Island reactor would power equivalent of 800,000 homes by 2027 The Trump administration said Tuesday that it is providing a $1 billion loan to Constellation Energy to help restart the nuclear reactor at the former Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania. Constellation reached an agreement in late 2024 with Microsoft to restart the 835-megawatt reactor, which ceased operations in 2019 ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
After 12 years at Meta Platforms Inc. the artificial intelligence visionary Yann LeCun is out the door and about to embark on a mission to be part of what he calls the next big revolution in AI. Known as one of the godfathers of AI, LeCun (pictured) left France decades ago to work at AT&T Bell Laboratories. In 2013, he joined what was then Facebook Inc. to work at the Fundamental AI Research or FAIR lab, later ...
Source: siliconangle.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
The Netherlands has suspended its proposed takeover of Chinese-owned chip maker Nexperia in a sign of "good will" towards Beijing, Dutch Economy Minister Vincent Karremans said Wednesday. The dispute erupted in September when the Dutch government effectively took control of Nexperia, which is based in the Netherlands but whose parent company is China's Wingtech. China responded by banning re-exports of the ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Smoking marijuana is associated with "significantly" reduced rates of alcohol consumption, according to a new federally funded study that involved adults smoking joints in a makeshift bar. Researchers at Brown University investigated the science behind the trend that's come to be known as "California sober," referring to people who abstain from or limit the use of alcohol and most other drugs while still consuming ...
Source: marijuanamoment.net
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
US President Donald Trump said Wednesday he would start "working" on the war in Sudan, after visiting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman asked him to help end the conflict. Since its outbreak in April 2023, the war between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced nearly 12 million. "His majesty would like me to do something very powerful ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Smoking even 2-5 cigarettes a day can more than double your risk of any type of heart disease and raise your risk of death from any cause by 60% compared to people who never smoked, according to new research supported by the American Heart Association's Tobacco Center for Regulatory Science and published in PLOS Medicine. The study found that even after you stop smoking, it could ...
Source: news-medical.net
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Australians younger than 16 will be removed from Facebook and Instagram on December 4, tech giant Meta said. Australians younger than 16 will be removed from Facebook and Instagram on December 4, tech giant Meta said Thursday, as Canberra prepares to enforce sweeping laws banning teens from social media. From December 10, Australia will force social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, to ...
Source: digitaljournal.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
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Tesla CEO says AI and humanoid robots will eliminate poverty and make everyone wealthy Billionaire Elon Musk is signaling that artificial intelligence and robotics could eliminate the need to work in the next few decades. Musk attended the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum and was asked on a panel about the long-term impacts of robotics and AI on the workforce. He offered a bold prediction about the future of ...
Source: foxbusiness.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 -
Curaçao and Cape Verde qualify for a super-sized World Cup, but a 4-time champion is on the brink – A super-sized World Cup has paved the way for tiny Curaçao and Cape Verde to book their places at sport's biggest global event next year. Just as FIFA president Gianni Infantino predicted. It was back in 2017 when world soccer's governing body announced from 32 teams to 48 in 2026. It would create ...
Source: news4jax.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
A strain of bird flu never seen in humans infected a Washington state resident and left the person hospitalized, according to state health authorities. Washington State Department of Health authorities that an older resident was hospitalized in early November with flu-like symptoms. Health department spokesperson Roberto Bonaccorso told USA TODAY on Nov. 19 that the person remains hospitalized. The person has ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams voluntarily recalled one batch of its Passion Fruit Dreamsicle Ice Cream Bars over the potential presence of undeclared soy and wheat. Soy and wheat are products that people can be allergic to, which makes it mandatory for companies to put an allergen warning. Hence, undeclared products can unintentionally harm consumers, causing extreme allergies. "People who have an allergy or severe ...
Source: greenmatters.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Under a new agreement, federal agencies can access Perplexity Enterprise Pro for Government through a direct contract on the General Services Administration's Multiple-Award Schedule. The General Services Administration on Wednesday announced its first direct OneGov agreement with frontier AI firm Perplexity that will significantly discount its enterprise-grade AI capabilities for federal agencies. Through the ...
Source: washingtontechnology.com
Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2025 -
Google is launching Gemini 3 , its most intelligent AI model yet. From the outset, users will have access to the flagship Gemini 3 Pro model, which is multimodal from the ground up and can process text, image, audio, and video in the same flow. This model is said to top several AI benchmark tests in logic, math, and fact checking. It's also said to provide shorter, more direct, and less biased responses. One new ...
Source: pcworld.com
Tuesday, Nov 18th, 2025 -
The increase of UPFs in diets worldwide presents an urgent challenge to health that demands coordinated policies and advocacy action to address, says a new three paper Series authored by 43 global experts and published in The Lancet . The Series exposes the tactics UPF companies use to drive consumption and prevent effective policy. It outlines a roadmap for change towards impactful government regulation, community ...
Source: news-medical.net