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Top News Stories for Thursday, November 21st 2024
Wednesday, Nov 20th, 2024 -
By Bo Erickson and Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House Ethics Committee is expected to meet behind closed doors Wednesday as some Senate Republicans call for it to share the findings of its probe into allegations of sexual misconduct involving Donald Trump's attorney general pick Matt Gaetz. Gaetz, 42, resigned his House of Representatives seat last week, hours after President-elect Trump tapped ...
Source: aol.com
Wednesday, Nov 20th, 2024 -
All eyes should have been on the sky over a launchpad in Texas on Tuesday as the world's largest rocket streaked thunderously toward space. But the orbit currently getting the most attention is not in the heavens — it's the increasingly intimate one back on Earth uniting the planet's soon-to-be-again most powerful man and its richest man. President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk — after trips to see ...
Source: cnn.com
Wednesday, Nov 20th, 2024 -
State of play: The DOJ will ask the presiding judge to force Google to sell off or spin out the Chrome browser, according to a Bloomberg report . It is also likely to urge the judge to demand that Google license its search results and data to third parties and competitors. "Break up Google" is one scenario that no longer seems to be in play, and the government has decided not to seek the sale or spinout of ...
Source: axios.com
Wednesday, Nov 20th, 2024 -
Mortgage rates for November 20, 2024, are around 6.60%. Rates have remained in the mid-to-high 6% range for most of November, and they may not decrease in the near term. If the Fed doesn't cut rates in December, we may see mortgage rates inch up. But they could fall next year. So far in November, mortgage rates haven't moved much. Average 30-year rates have generally been hovering in the mid-to-high 6% range after ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Wednesday, Nov 20th, 2024 -
As President-elect Donald Trump rolls out his controversial Cabinet picks, he has demanded the Republican-led Senate take extended breaks to allow him to make recess appointments rather than subject his nominees to an extensive public vetting process and upper chamber approval. Trump's demand not only tests congressional Republicans' willingness to uphold checks and balances over bending to the ...
Source: salon.com
Wednesday, Nov 20th, 2024 -
The state of California has detected a possible bird flu infection in a child in the Bay Area. The state reported that the child has not had contact with farm animals — which is the case for all but a few other confirmed cases in this growing outbreak — leaving unanswered questions regarding sources of exposure. "The child, who has been treated, is recovering at home," the report states. The bird flu ...
Source: salon.com
Wednesday, Nov 20th, 2024 -
Thousands of disgruntled British farmers marched on London on Tuesday in protest at government plans to change the law regarding the amount of inheritance tax farmers should pay. The demonstrations saw tractors driven by farmers and coach loads of other agricultural workers from the United Kingdom's four nations of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland descend on Parliament Square, to stage a large-scale ...
Source: aljazeera.com
Wednesday, Nov 20th, 2024 -
Personal care brand Tom's of Maine received a warning from the Food and Drug Administration earlier this month after the agency found disease-causing bacteria and mold-like and powdery substances in its products and facilities. In a letter to Tom's that was published Tuesday, an FDA inspector identified several types of bacteria in the water supply at its facility in Sanford, Maine, including Paracoccus yeei; ...
Source: npr.org
Wednesday, Nov 20th, 2024 -
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) that President-elect Trump has tasked Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy with leading is reportedly considering developing a mobile app to make it easier for taxpayers to file their returns for free. The Washington Post on Tuesday reported citing two people familiar with conversations by DOGE leaders on the subject that it may develop an app that taxpayers can use to file ...
Source: nypost.com
Tuesday, Nov 19th, 2024 -
Every knowledgeable observer of the Nippon Steel-U.S. Steel drama knows that the politics of the presidential election had warped what should have been a simple decision: to approve the best available offer for the legacy American steel company, and the only one likely to keep steel manufacturing in the Steel City. With the election and all its political pressures behind us, President Joe Biden should approve ...
Source: post-gazette.com
Tuesday, Nov 19th, 2024 -
Sarah McBride is set to be the first openly transgender woman to serve in Congress after she was elected to represent Delaware's at-large congressional district this month. Having entered politics at a young age, McBride has spent her career campaigning for expanding access to affordable healthcare, advocating gun reforms and supporting anti-discrimination legislation in Delaware to protect trans people. But the ...
Source: newsweek.com
Tuesday, Nov 19th, 2024 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Sean Duffy to become transportation secretary in his new administration, positioning him to oversee a complex system that includes pipelines, railroads, cars, trucks, airlines and mass transit systems, as well as funding for highways. Here are some things to know about Duffy. He is a former member of Congress Duffy, 53, is an attorney who represented ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 19th, 2024 -
Billionaire and former Senate candidate served in president-elect's cabinet in first administration Linda McMahon, co-chair of Donald Trump's transition team, has been named as the president-elect's pick for education secretary in his upcoming administration. In a statement, Trump extolled the "incredible" job McMahon, the billionaire co-founder of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), has been doing as transition ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Nov 19th, 2024 -
on the promise of mass deportations, and on Monday, he said that his administration would use the U.S. military to carry out this expulsion of millions of people, many of whom have lived in America for years or even decades. The U.S. military historically has not conducted immigration enforcement and does not normally conduct law enforcement functions. But when Tom Fitton, president of the ...
Source: theintercept.com
Tuesday, Nov 19th, 2024 -
Multiple brands of organic carrots have been recalled due to a multistate outbreak of E. coli that has sickened at least 39 people. On Saturday (Nov. 16), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that Grimmway Farms, headquartered in Bakersfield, California, had recalled certain brands of its organic whole carrots and organic baby carrots. These carrots should no longer be available in grocery stores ...
Source: livescience.com
Tuesday, Nov 19th, 2024 -
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he'll hold off making a clemency decision on the Menendez brothers' murder case until incoming Los Angeles County District Attorney District Attorney Nathan Hochman reviews the nearly 35-year-old case. "The governor respects the role of the district attorney in ensuring justice is served and recognizes that voters have entrusted District Attorney-elect Hochman to carry out this ...
Source: usatoday.com
Tuesday, Nov 19th, 2024 -
An FBI special agent testified Monday that electronic location data seems to place Georgia nursing student Laken Riley and the man accused of killing her in the same wooded area at the time of her death. Meanwhile, prosecutors also played a recording of Ibarra being grilled by his wife about the case during a jail phone call. Jose Ibarra , 26, is charged with murder and other crimes in Riley's death in February. He ...
Source: cbsnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 19th, 2024 -
A proposed bill to impose network routing requirements on banks that issue credit cards would put payments security at risk with no evidence that retailers would pass their cost savings to consumers, representatives from Visa and Mastercard told lawmakers today. The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on credit card fees and the retailer-backed Credit Card Competition Act, co-sponsored by committee Chair Dick ...
Source: bankingjournal.aba.com
Tuesday, Nov 19th, 2024 -
A Wyoming judge struck down two state abortion bans Monday, including the nation's first explicit prohibition on the use of medication to end pregnancy. Teton County District Judge Melissa Owens said the laws, passed in 2022 and 2023, violated the state constitution's guarantee that adults can make their own health care decisions. Who said what The bans on abortion generally and medication abortion specifically ...
Source: theweek.com
Tuesday, Nov 19th, 2024 -
Joe Mixon ran for three touchdowns to extend his TD streak to six games since coming back from injury, Derek Barnett returned a fumble 28 yards for a score, and the Texans beat the Cowboys 34-10 on Monday night. The Texans (7-4) stopped just the second two-game losing streak of CJ Stroud's young career while maintaining a two-game lead in the AFC South. Houston pulled away in the second-half a week after a 26-23 ...
Source: theguardian.com
Tuesday, Nov 19th, 2024 -
Within hours of the disaster, Biden said the federal government will pay for the entire cost of reconstructing that bridge, and I expect the Congress to support my effort." He In a letter Monday to House Speaker Mike Johnson, Biden said Congress must bolster funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other programs in the wake of Hurricanes Helene and Milton. The request comes as lawmakers meet during ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Tuesday, Nov 19th, 2024 -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency told lawmakers Tuesday she has encouraged the agency's inspector general to review whether an employee was acting alone when directing workers helping hurricane victims not to go to homes with yards signs supporting President-elect Donald Trump. FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell said a critical function of the agency is to go door-to-door ...
Source: apnews.com
Tuesday, Nov 19th, 2024 -
The public has a right to know how taxpayer dollars will be used to deport, ACLU says. Nov. 19 (UPI) -- The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit seeking details from the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency into how it may execute a large deportation program. On Monday, ACLU of Southern California Foundation vs. ICE was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California ...
Source: upi.com
Tuesday, Nov 19th, 2024 -
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has sued a court-appointed bankruptcy trustee and the families of some of the Sandy Hook victims in an attempt to stop the sale of his media empire Infowars to the satirical news outlet The Onion. In a lawsuit filed Monday in the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, Jones claimed trustee Christopher Murray and the families "colluded" for a "flagrantly non-compliant ...
Source: cnn.com
Tuesday, Nov 19th, 2024 -
A federal judge in Delaware on Monday tossed a lawsuit filed by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee against social media giant Meta claiming that the platform unfairly profited from false advertisements for CBD products. Huckabee, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be U.S. ambassador to Israel, sued Meta in July over a series of ads for CBD gummies. CBD gummies are edible candies that contain cannabidiol, or ...
Source: lawandcrime.com
Monday, Nov 18th, 2024 -
Young American adults are increasingly getting their news from social media influencers, a majority of whom are men and lean to the right, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center. While one-fifth of US adults reported "regularly" receiving their news from online "news influencers" who post about current events, that number climbed to nearly 40% of young adults aged 18 to 29, the study published Monday ...
Source: edition.cnn.com
Monday, Nov 18th, 2024 -
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, co-hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," revealed Monday that they visited President-elect Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate on Friday to discuss reopening communications as Trump prepares to return to the Oval Office. Brzezinski said it was the first face-to-face meeting in seven years between Trump and the left-leaning married co-hosts, who are among the most outspoken critics of ...
Source: bostonglobe.com