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On Nov. 20, 2025, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quietly revised a vaccines-and-autism webpage, removing a categorical denial that vaccines cannot cause autism and adopting wording that acknowledges studies have not conclusively ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines might play a role. The change, which was posted and later updated at 8:05 … Read more

Walmart Sales Climb as Shoppers Hunt for Savings Lead: On Nov. 20, 2025, Walmart reported a solid quarter as price-conscious consumers shifted shopping patterns ahead of the holiday season. Same-store sales — at locations open at least a year — rose 4.5 percent, while shoppers made fewer trips but spent more per visit. The company … Read more

Over the past year Windows on Arm has moved from experimental to genuinely playable for many PC games. Qualcomm this week began shipping a Snapdragon Control Panel that automatically detects installed titles on Snapdragon X Elite laptops and applies performance and visual optimizations, and the company has pushed new Adreno GPU drivers and anti-cheat fixes. … Read more

Lead President Donald Trump announced on social media that he signed the legislation to make Jeffrey Epstein case materials public, following congressional transmission of the bill on Wednesday at 4:38 p.m. The measure gives the Justice Department 30 days after the president’s signature to publish records, which would put a release deadline at Dec. 19 … Read more

Lead: On Wednesday, Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 25 Palestinians, the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry reported, marking one of the deadliest days since a ceasefire came into effect five weeks earlier. Attacks struck eastern neighbourhoods of Gaza City and the southern governorate of Khan Younis, including a building used by the … Read more

Lead Fifty years after Francisco Franco’s death, Spain is confronting a contested legacy of repression, memory and political revival. The dictatorship that followed the 1936 military uprising and a three‑year Civil War left an estimated 130,000–200,000 people executed and roughly 6,000 unmarked mass graves across the country. Efforts to exhume victims and settle historical injustices … Read more

Lead: Brihanna Crittendon, a five-star forward ranked No. 8 in the SC Next 100 class of 2026, committed to the University of Texas on Nov. 19, 2025, selecting the Longhorns over a group that included Tennessee, TCU, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Ohio State and UCLA. The 6-foot-3 recruit brings perimeter scoring, length and mobility after a … Read more

Lead: Green industry leaders at the Fortune Innovation Forum in Kuala Lumpur said this week that China is emerging as a practical leader in climate diplomacy and deployment as the COP30 talks unfold in Belém, Brazil. Their comments came amid an unprecedented U.S. absence from the COP delegation after the administration announced a withdrawal from … Read more

Lead: The Labor Department will publish the delayed September jobs report today after an almost seven-week hold-up caused by the recent government shutdown. The data, which cover September only, arrive ahead of the Federal Reserve’s next meeting and will be the last employment snapshot until mid-December. The report may clarify whether the slow summer hiring … Read more

Newly released records from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate and related government files shed expanded light on the network of influential people who maintained contact with the financier after his 2008 conviction. The tranche—part of roughly 23,000 documents made public by the House Oversight Committee—includes emails and texts showing outreach to well-known politicians, academics and business leaders. … Read more

Lead. President Donald Trump will host New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani at the White House on Friday, Nov. 21, 2025, two days after the meeting was announced on Nov. 19, 2025. The encounter follows a sharp public exchange between the two men during the mayoral campaign, with Mr. Trump calling Mr. Mamdani a “communist” … Read more

Amazon has launched its 2025 Black Friday event a week ahead of Thanksgiving, with discounts already hitting the lowest prices seen this year on many headline items. The preview started on Nov. 20, 2025, and the promotion runs through Dec. 1, 2025. Early markdowns include Amazon’s own Fire TV sticks, Kindle models, and headline headphone … Read more

On Nov. 20, 2025, the 50th anniversary of Francisco Franco’s death, Spain confronted a paradox: the dictator’s grave outside Madrid still attracts mourners, while officials launch cultural campaigns aimed at bolstering democratic values. Young people drawn to Franco’s memory have been visible at shrines, in online spaces and at local bars, prompting Madrid to fund … Read more

NASA on 2 October 2025 released a set of new observations that represent the closest imaging of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS so far, with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) capturing the object from about 30 million kilometers (19 million miles). The comet was first detected by the ATLAS survey on 1 July 2025 and reached perihelion … Read more

Lead Creative Bloq is running live coverage of Amazon’s Black Friday event (sale window through December 1) with a focused round-up of 30 early bargains for creative professionals and hobbyists. Between 19–20 November 2025 our editors flagged headline savings across laptops, drawing tablets, 3D printers, art supplies and studio essentials. Selected highlights include a MacBook … Read more