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On Thursday, Nov. 14, 2025, an Idaho state judge ruled that convicted killer Bryan Kohberger must reimburse about $3,000 to the families of two University of Idaho students for the urns that hold their daughters’ ashes. The order follows a prosecutor request at a recent hearing to add the urn costs to restitution tied to … Read more

Lead: About 24 million people across California were placed under flood watches Friday as Los Angeles prepared for what meteorologists warn could be roughly a month’s worth of rain in a single day. The threat is concentrated across the Los Angeles and San Diego metropolitan areas, with officials flagging heightened danger where recent wildfire burn … Read more

President Donald Trump said on Friday he would ask federal authorities to investigate financier Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged connections to prominent Democrats and major banks after a new release of documents renewed scrutiny. The US Justice Department has confirmed it will open inquiries into Epstein’s reported links to large financial institutions and several high-profile figures, including … Read more

Lead: The White House on Thursday announced framework trade agreements with Argentina, Guatemala, El Salvador and Ecuador intended to reduce costs for some imported groceries, including coffee and bananas. The administration said reciprocal tariffs will be adjusted for certain products that cannot be produced in sufficient quantities in the United States, but officials declined to … Read more

A 26-year-old Australian, identified by local reports as Johnson Wen, has been charged after climbing past red-carpet barriers and attempting to embrace Ariana Grande at the Asia-Pacific premiere of Wicked: For Good in Singapore on Nov. 13, 2025. Video circulating online shows co-star Cynthia Erivo physically removing the man; Wen was briefly detained at the … Read more

Lead On Thursday at a Singapore shopping mall premiere for Wicked: For Good, a 26-year-old Australian, Johnson Wen, rushed the red carpet and physically grabbed singer-actress Ariana Grande. Local authorities detained Wen and charged him with being a public nuisance; reports say the offence carries an approximate $1,500 fine if he is convicted. Grande did … Read more

Lead On November 14, 2025, New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani publicly urged people to avoid Starbucks while baristas staged an open-ended strike over alleged Unfair Labor Practices. The call came as workers walked out during the chain’s Red Cup Day, an annual promotion that typically drives high holiday traffic. Starbucks said the company was … Read more

Lead Researchers report they extracted fragmented RNA from Yuka, a juvenile woolly mammoth recovered from a Siberian permafrost cliff, revealing molecular snapshots of tissues around the time of death. The study, published in Cell, used samples collected in 2012 and analyzed RNA from ten mammoth remains, with three specimens—including Yuka—yielding useful data. The RNA fragments … Read more

Lead: A female chimpanzee briefly left the International Chimpanzee Complex at the Indianapolis Zoo on the morning of Nov. 14, 2024, and was returned to the exhibit after being sedated. The zoo locked down and guided visitors to secure areas while staff contained the animal. Officials report no guests or staff were injured, and the … Read more

Lead: Researchers report recovering RNA from a 39,000‑year‑old woolly mammoth, a find published in Cell on Friday that challenges long‑held assumptions about RNA stability. The molecule set came from Yuka, a partially mummified mammoth discovered in 2010 in melting Siberian permafrost, and shows molecular signs of physiological stress at the time of death. Of 10 … Read more

On November 14, 2025, Iranian forces seized the Marshall Islands‑flagged oil tanker Talara after the vessel passed the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. defense officials and maritime monitors reported. The ship was about 20 nautical miles east of Khor Fakkan in the United Arab Emirates when it lost contact with its manager, Columbia Shipmanagement. U.S. officials … Read more

Lead: Researchers at the University of California San Diego report a sustained rise in internet searches for lorazepam in the weeks after the release of the third season of the HBO series The White Lotus on 16 February 2025. The study finds searches stayed elevated for 12 weeks, amounting to almost twice the expected volume … Read more

Lead The sprawling state racketeering prosecution tied to Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 result in Georgia will move forward under a new prosecutor after Fulton County’s elected district attorney, Fani Willis, was disqualified. The case file was formally assigned in September to Peter Skandalakis, director of the Prosecuting Attorney’s Council of Georgia, who … Read more

Lead: On Nov. 13–14, 2025, three major space stories converged: Blue Origin’s New Glenn successfully launched NASA’s twin ESCAPADE probes to Mars and recovered its first stage; China expedited the return of the Shenzhou-20 crew from the Tiangong space station after a week-long on-orbit anomaly; and new images show comet C/2025 K1 (the “other” ATLAS) … Read more

Lead On Friday, Nov. 13, 2025, U.S. equity markets opened mixed after a volatile week that culminated in Thursday’s sharp sell-off. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 312 points (0.7%), while the Nasdaq Composite rebounded 0.2%, ending a three-day slide; the S&P 500 traded roughly flat. The moves followed Wednesday’s brief push above 48,000 for … Read more