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Top News Stories for Wednesday, November 5th 2025
Wednesday, Nov 5th, 2025 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government shutdown has entered its 36th day, breaking the record as the longest ever and disrupting the lives of millions of Americans with program cuts , flight delays and federal workers nationwide left without paychecks . President Donald Trump has refused to negotiate with Democrats over their demands to salvage expiring health insurance subsidies until they agree to reopen the ...
Source: apnews.com
Wednesday, Nov 5th, 2025 -
Ideas The Court Must Decide If the Constitution Means What It Says Conservative justices have worked to curb exactly the kind of power Trump is abusing in the tariff case. Allison Robbert / Bloomberg / Getty Save Today, the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in one of those rare cases that could reshape all three branches of government. The justices deciding Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump , a challenge to ...
Source: theatlantic.com
Wednesday, Nov 5th, 2025 -
LOUISVILLE, KY – Authorities on Wednesday are working to uncover the cause of a that killed at least seven people and sent the United Parcel Service aircraft into a ball of flames the day before. The was departing for Honolulu from the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport when it crashed at about 5:15 p.m. local time Tuesday, authorities said. Video of the crash showed flames on one of the plane's ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Nov 5th, 2025 -
Billionaire Jared Isaacman is once again in the running to lead NASA . Donald Trump announced in a Tuesday, Nov. 4 post on Truth Social that he is nominating Isaacman for a second time to serve as the administrator of the U.S. space agency. The move comes after Trump in May opted to pull Isaacman from consideration for the post after first nominating the tech mogul in December. Isaacman, a close associate of SpaceX ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Nov 5th, 2025 -
Israel on Tuesday said it had received the remains of Itay Chen, the last US-Israeli hostage held in Gaza, as part of the US-brokered ceasefire deal that came into effect last month. Israel said it received a coffin containing the remains via the Red Cross in Gaza and later transported it to Israel's national forensics laboratory where he was identified. The confirmation of the identity of the remains means only ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Nov 5th, 2025 -
Nov. 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. military has killed two people in a strike on a boat involved in alleged drug smuggling in the Eastern Pacific, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said, making it the 16th attack by the Pentagon targeting such vessels. In a post on X, Hegseth said the Department of Defense conducted a "lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization." Since returning to the ...
Source: upi.com
Wednesday, Nov 5th, 2025 -
Paris authorities on Wednesday deployed riot police for the unveiling of Shein's first bricks and mortar store in the world, as controversy swirled over the Asian e-commerce giant's fast fashion and sale of childlike sex dolls online. Riot police officers stood guard in the centre of the French capital as Shein prepared to open its first physical store on the sixth floor of the BHV department store, an iconic ...
Source: digitaljournal.com
Wednesday, Nov 5th, 2025 -
At SAP TechEd 2025 in Berlin, a troika of technical executives unveiled artificial intelligence (AI)-driven features in the supplier's SAP Build platform, disclosed more agents in its Joule AI assistance portfolio and pointed to expanded partnerships with data specialist companies, most notably and recently Snowflake. These relationships betoken, according to SAP, a commitment to opening up its platforms to build a ...
Source: computerweekly.com
Wednesday, Nov 5th, 2025 -
If CIOs don't get ahead of shadow AI, teams could lose the spark that makes them great — real creativity and independent thought. When I first heard the term "shadow AI," it felt familiar. This is a problem that IT leaders have been dealing with for years under various guises. Employees have always used unapproved software or free web tools to get their work done faster. In 2012, a French survey of IT ...
Source: cio.com
Wednesday, Nov 5th, 2025 -
NEW YORK (AP) — The moon will look slightly bigger and brighter Wednesday night during the closest supermoon of the year. The moon's orbit around the Earth isn't a perfect circle, so it gets nearer and farther as it swings around. A so-called supermoon happens when a full moon is closer to Earth in its orbit. That makes the moon look up to 14% bigger and 30% brighter than ...
Source: wfla.com
Wednesday, Nov 5th, 2025 -
It was the first time that the airport in Brussels has been shut down by drones. It comes after a series of unidentified drone flights over the weekend where U.S. nuclear weapons are stored. Brussels Airport said that 54 flights were canceled as a result of the Tuesday evening shutdown "for safety reasons" and apologized, saying that "the safety of our passengers and staff remains our top priority." The airport ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, Nov 4th, 2025 -
CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Political stars often rise and fall but few have had a more dramatic trajectory than Dick Cheney in his home state of Wyoming. Hours after Tuesday at 84, the state lowered flags at the Republican governor's order. Some politicians in the state offered at times measured praise of the former vice president. But among a large majority of voters in Wyoming, Cheney has been persona non grata for ...
Source: news4jax.com
Tuesday, Nov 4th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump said he will withhold November food stamps until the government reopens. "SNAP BENEFITS, which increased by Billions and Billions of Dollars (MANY FOLD!) during Crooked Joe Biden's disastrous term in office. (Due to the fact that they were haphazardly 'handed' to anyone for the asking, as opposed to just those in need, which is the purpose of SNAP!), will be given only when the Radical Left ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Nov 4th, 2025 -
By Laura Dern has been a gifted actress since her teenage years, and given the fact that she's so accomplished in her own right, it's easy to forget that she came from a family of actors. The star's parents, Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd, rose to prominence in the '70s and were both nominated for multiple Academy Awards. Dern and Ladd divorced when Laura was just 2 years old, and the future actress was primarily raised ...
Source: miamiherald.com
Tuesday, Nov 4th, 2025 -
The bank behind the world's largest sovereign wealth fund has just dealt a blow to Elon Musk's $1 trillion payday. Norges Bank Investment Management, which manages Norway's $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund , said on Tuesday it had voted against the Tesla CEO's proposed pay package ahead of the company's annual shareholder meeting on Thursday. The bank said that while it appreciated the "significant value" created ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Tuesday, Nov 4th, 2025 -
As its new right-wing leadership comes under scrutiny, CBS News was found to have edited out a section from the extended online version of Sunday's "60 Minutes" interview with President Donald Trump in which he was interrogated about potential " corruption " stemming from his family's extraordinary cryptocurrency profits during his second term. In the first half of 2025, the Trump family raked in more than $800 ...
Source: commondreams.org
Tuesday, Nov 4th, 2025 -
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Democrat Jay Jones was elected Tuesday as Virginia attorney general, riding a wave of voter dissatisfaction with the White House to overcome the revelation that in 2022 he sent widely condemned texts embracing violence against a fellow state lawmaker. a fellow delegate suggesting the then-House speaker should get "two bullets to the head." Jones apologized for the private messages both in ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Nov 4th, 2025 -
Related video: Scientists Claim Dire Wolf Brought Back From Extinction, But Others Disagree TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Former Bucs Quarterback Tom Brady revealed his current dog is actually a marvel of science Tuesday. According to ESPN , Brady revealed that his pit bull mix Junie is actually a clone of his previous dog, Lua. The clone was created by "de-extinction" company Colossal Biosciences. Brady is an ...
Source: wfla.com
Tuesday, Nov 4th, 2025 -
Starbucks has announced it will sell the majority stake in its Chinese business for $4bn to a Hong Kong-based private equity firm after years of losing market share to local competitors in China. Starbucks announced the sale on Monday, which will see the firm Boyu Capital take a 60 percent stake in its Chinese retail operations through a joint venture. Boyu Capital has offices in Shanghai, Beijing and Singapore, ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Nov 4th, 2025 -
Justice Department lawyers on Monday defended 's role as eastern Virgnia's top federal prosecutor, saying in court filings that even if her appointment as U.S. attorney is ruled invalid, she now has an additional title that will allow her to continue overseeing cases against two of President Donald Trump's perceived foes. The department attorneys said Attorney General Pam Bondi designated Halligan last week as a ...
Source: abajournal.com
Tuesday, Nov 4th, 2025 -
By KELVIN CHAN, Associated Press Business Writer court battle over intellectual property . Seattle-based Getty had accused Stability AI of infringing its copyright and trademark by scraping 12 million images from its website, without permission, to train its popular image generator, Stable Diffusion. The closely followed case at Britain's High Court was among the first in a wave of lawsuits involving generative AI ...
Source: orlandosentinel.com
Tuesday, Nov 4th, 2025 -
Attorneys representing a former Justice Department employee accused of hurling a sandwich at a federal Customs and Border Protection officer questioned in court Tuesday whether the impact of the sub was enough to warrant a federal charge. CBP Agent Gregory Lairmore, who has served with the agency for 23 years, testified in the jury trial in the US District Court for the District of Columbia that the sandwich that ...
Source: news.bloomberglaw.com
Tuesday, Nov 4th, 2025 -
Scientists have documented the most energetic flare ever observed emanating from a supermassive black hole, a cataclysmic event that briefly shone with the light of 10 trillion suns. The new findings were published on Tuesday in the journal Nature Astronomy, with astronomer Matthew Graham of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) leading the study. The phenomenal burst of energy was likely triggered when ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Tuesday, Nov 4th, 2025 -
, have been unavailable on YouTube TV since October 30, after Disney and Google's premium TV service failed to reach a new licensing deal. Disney has a market capitalization of $200 billion. But in Big Tech terms, it's small fry. Google parent Alphabet has a market cap of more than $3 trillion. in a way that it isn't for Google's YouTube, said Rich Greenfield, partner and analyst at LightShed Partners. Greenfield ...
Source: insider.com
Tuesday, Nov 4th, 2025 -
The U.S. military will launch an unarmed nuclear missile across the Pacific Ocean overnight Nov. 4, in a pre-planned firing that marks the Pentagon's first weapons test since President Donald Trump demanded immediate nuclear tests. According to marine navigational warnings, the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile will strike a test range on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Although Trump that ...
Source: aol.com
Tuesday, Nov 4th, 2025 -
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that any Jewish person who votes for Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, is "stupid." "Any Jewish person that votes for Zohran Mamdani, a proven and self professed JEW HATER, is a stupid person!!!" Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. of the Israeli government, has repeatedly that he's antisemitic, a charge he said in June "pains me." ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Nov 4th, 2025 -
The Trump administration is expected to announce, as early as this week, a deal with drugmakers Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to lower the price of their weight loss drugs in exchange for limited Medicare coverage, according to two people familiar with the plan. The deal would reduce the cost of the lowest doses of the blockbuster GLP-1 medications — Lilly's Zepbound and Novo Nordisk's Wegovy — to as ...
Source: nbcnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 4th, 2025 -
Six people became ill and died after eating prepared pasta meals that were contaminated with listeria and sold at major grocery chains across the country, federal health officials said. The meals, sold at Albertsons, Kroger (which owns Smith's Food & Drug in Utah), Sprouts Farmers Market, Trader Joe's and other major stores, were recalled in recent months in connection with the outbreak, which the Centers for ...
Source: sltrib.com
Tuesday, Nov 4th, 2025 -
Democrats maintain 5-2 majority as three judges win 10-year terms in a key swing-state court Three liberal justices won another 10-year term on the Pennsylvania supreme court, giving Democrats a key victory and allowing them to maintain their 5-2 advantage on a vital body that could issue important rulings on abortion and voting rights in an important battleground state in the coming years. In Pennsylvania, supreme ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Nov 4th, 2025 -
Bugcrowd has announced the acquisition of Mayhem Security to advance the next generation of AI-powered, human-in-the-loop security testing. Bugcrowd aims to help organizations ship safer software faster, at lower cost, and with greater confidence, while shrinking their attack surface. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Organizations face increasingly complex attack surfaces, driven by rapid software ...
Source: helpnetsecurity.com
Tuesday, Nov 4th, 2025 -
Original owners acquire chain from bankruptcy, return orange shorts to classic 1980s athletic style Hooters is making a comeback, and its new owners are updating its menu and changing the image that once defined the restaurant chain. Original Hooters LLC , the founders and original investors behind the very first Hooters restaurant, acquired Hooters of America during its bankruptcy restructuring earlier this ...
Source: foxbusiness.com
Tuesday, Nov 4th, 2025 -
Android users can now use the new Sora mobile app. OpenAI, creator of the AI social media app, announced on Tuesday that it is releasing an Android version of its popular app. Previously, Android users were limited to using Sora through a web browser. You can download Sora now on the Google Play Store and start scrolling right away. You no longer need a Sora invite code . This is just one of many updates OpenAI has ...
Source: cnet.com
Tuesday, Nov 4th, 2025 -
Follow Earth on Google A large real-world analysis reports that adults with chronic insomnia who used melatonin for a year or more were more likely to be diagnosed with and hospitalized for heart failure. Moreover, they were more likely to die from any cause over five years than similar patients who did not use melatonin. The findings are preliminary, but they point to safety questions about a supplement many ...
Source: earth.com
Monday, Nov 3rd, 2025 -
– Kim Yong Nam, a longtime North Korean ceremonial head of state best known for his trademark propaganda-filled speeches with a deep, booming voice in support of the ruling has died, state media reported Tuesday. The Korean Central News Agency said that Kim Yong Nam, former president of the Presidium of North Korea's rubber-stamp Supreme People's Assembly from 1998 to 2019, died Monday of multiple organ ...
Source: news4jax.com