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Lead: President Donald Trump has signaled that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s hold on power may end soon and has not ruled out strikes on Venezuelan soil. CNN reported on Nov. 15, 2025, that Trump received a briefing this week and has approved some covert measures, while the Pentagon announced Operation Southern Spear and moved more … Read more

Lead: Thousands of pages of newly released Jeffrey Epstein files were circulated this week after a federal disclosure, prompting fresh debate over the late financier’s ties to powerful figures. Right-leaning hosts and influencers largely dismissed the material or framed it as exculpatory for former President Donald Trump, while others called for further probes. The disclosures … Read more

Late Friday in Nowgam, a neighborhood of Srinagar, an explosion inside a police station killed at least nine people and injured 32 others while a forensic team examined seized explosives, police said. The region’s director-general of police, Nalin Prabhat, described the incident as an accidental detonation of confiscated material brought from Faridabad, and he dismissed … Read more

Lead On Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025, Iran confirmed that its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps intercepted and took control of a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker in Gulf waters after alleging violations related to an unauthorized petrochemical cargo bound for Singapore. U.S. and maritime security sources said the vessel, identified as the Talara, was diverted into Iranian territorial … Read more

On Friday, a ticket sold in Georgia matched all six numbers in the Mega Millions drawing to claim the $980 million jackpot, overcoming odds of 1 in 290.5 million. The winning sequence was 1, 8, 11, 12 and 57 with a gold Mega Ball 7; the lump-sum cash option is $452.2 million before taxes. Lottery … Read more

On Friday evening a cache of confiscated explosives detonated at Nowgam police station in Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir, killing nine people and injuring 32, police said. The explosives had been seized earlier in the week in Faridabad, Haryana and were being prepared for forensic examination when the blast occurred at about 23:20 local time (17:50 GMT). … Read more

Lead Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump and his administration have faced sustained pressure over the handling and release of Justice Department records tied to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Promises made on the 2024 campaign trail to disclose the files have not resulted in a full public release, spawning disputes across … Read more

Lead John Beam, 66, the longtime athletic director and former head football coach at Laney College in Oakland, was shot on campus on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025, and died the following morning, police said. Officers arrested 27-year-old Cedric Irving early Friday at a BART station; a weapon has been recovered and the case will be … Read more

Lead: China on Friday advised its citizens to avoid travel to Japan after Tokyo’s prime minister made remarks about Taiwan that Beijing called highly provocative. The advisory, issued by the Chinese Foreign Ministry and its missions, is the most tangible retaliatory step so far in a week-long diplomatic dispute and follows public and official condemnations … Read more

Lead: On Saturday, November 15, 2025, the daily horoscope warns of a short Moon Alert from 3:00 a.m. to 4:00 a.m., advising against shopping (except essentials) and major decisions during that hour as the Moon shifts from Virgo into Libra. Across the signs, many will find cooperation, practical improvements, or persuasive moments; a handful are … Read more

Lead Jimmy Kimmel announced two charitable fundraisers on social media this week to honor Cleto Escobedo III, his childhood friend and the longtime bandleader of Jimmy Kimmel Live!. Escobedo, who had led the show’s house band since the program premiered in 2003, died at age 59 after complications related to a liver transplant. Kimmel said … Read more

Lead: Chancellor Rachel Reeves has stepped back from a proposed increase in income tax rates that would have been offset by a matching cut to National Insurance, after an option was sent to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) for costing earlier this month. The measure — a 2p rise in income tax with a … Read more

On Friday, November 14, 2025, U.S. District Judge Rita F. Lin of the Northern District of California issued a preliminary injunction preventing the Trump administration from enforcing a proposed $1.2 billion penalty and sweeping campus mandates against UCLA. The court order pauses a government settlement offer that accompanied the suspension of $584 million in federal … Read more

China on 15 November 2025 publicly advised its citizens to avoid travel to Japan after comments by Japan’s new prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, about a hypothetical armed attack on Taiwan. Beijing’s embassy in Tokyo posted on WeChat that recent Japanese remarks had “severely damaged the atmosphere for people-to-people exchanges” and warned of risks to Chinese … Read more

Lead State officials, grid operators and utilities are locked in a debate after forecasts projecting steep electricity growth to serve new AI-focused data centers. In 2024, several utilities and grid operators said peak demand tied to data center builds could double or triple within a few years, prompting lawmakers from Pennsylvania to Texas to ask … Read more