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Lead: On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court extended an emergency order that keeps in place a pause on full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) payments for several more days, even as lawmakers signaled the government shutdown might end soon. The temporary extension preserves a patchwork of benefit deliveries: some households in certain states have received … Read more

Lead: The College Football Playoff selection committee published its second set of 2025 rankings on November 11, 2025, reflecting games played through Saturday, November 8. Ohio State sits atop the list at 9-0, followed by unbeaten Indiana (10-0) and Texas A&M (9-0). The release sets the weekly pecking order that will influence seeding for the … Read more

Cleto Escobedo III, the saxophonist who led the house band Cleto and the Cletones on Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show and who had been a childhood friend of Jimmy Kimmel, died on Tuesday at 59. Jimmy Kimmel announced the news on his Instagram account but did not disclose a cause or the place of death. Escobedo … Read more

Who: The Dallas Mavericks. When: Nov. 11, 2025 — the morning after a home game where fans vocally demanded change. Where: American Airlines Center and team headquarters in Dallas. What: The franchise dismissed general manager and president of basketball operations Nico Harrison after four seasons, citing the team’s 3-8 start and fan unrest following the … Read more

On Nov. 11, 2025, the College Football Playoff selection committee released its second set of rankings, leaving the top five unchanged. Ohio State holds No. 1, followed by Indiana, Texas A&M, Alabama and Georgia. The board also listed a 12-team field that would produce four first-round games Dec. 19–20 and quarterfinals on Dec. 31–Jan. 1, … Read more

Lead: Since the federal government shutdown began on Oct. 1, 2025, commercial travelers have faced mounting delays and service reductions at dozens of major airports, while private aviation activity climbed sharply. Industry tracking shows roughly 245,000 private jet departures in October, up more than 5 percent year-on-year, with most demand concentrated in Florida, Texas and … Read more

Lead On Nov. 11, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court extended an administrative stay preventing immediate enforcement of a lower-court order that would have required the Trump administration to pay full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits for November. The extension preserves the status quo while Congress moves toward resolving a record-long government shutdown and funding … Read more

Lead: Google announced in its November 2025 Pixel feature drop that a new cloud-based system called Private AI Compute will handle some device data for on-device features, and the company says this offloading provides “the same security and privacy assurances” as local processing. The change aims to expand the usefulness of Pixel features such as … Read more

Lead South Africa’s MeerKAT radio array recorded the first radio emission tied to interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on Oct. 24 as the object passed near the Sun. The signal was measured by the 64-dish array and, after analysis, was attributed to hydroxyl (OH) absorption in the comet’s coma rather than any engineered transmission. 3I/ATLAS — the … Read more

Cleto Escobedo III, the longtime bandleader for Jimmy Kimmel Live! and a childhood friend of host Jimmy Kimmel, has died at 59. Kimmel announced the loss on Instagram, describing Escobedo as a close friend and colleague they had been “inseparable” with since childhood. Escobedo led the show’s house band after the program began in 2003 … Read more

Lead The first teaser for Toy Story 5, released by Pixar on 11 November 2025, offers a brief look at the sequel due in theaters next summer. The clip teasers a new arrival — a smart tablet named Lilypad voiced by Greta Lee — and frames the device as “an all-new threat to playtime” with … Read more

Lead: Families of nine children and counselors who died in the catastrophic flooding at Camp Mystic on July 4 have filed three separate lawsuits against the camp and its owners, alleging gross negligence. The filings, lodged Monday in Travis County District Court, seek more than $1 million in damages in each case and name the … Read more

On Day 42 of the U.S. government shutdown, the Senate approved a spending package in a 60-40 vote on Monday, sending the measure to the House as lawmakers race to restore federal funding. The package would extend most agency funding through Jan. 30 and includes three full-year appropriations bills for select programs; if the House … Read more

Lead: Brian Daboll was dismissed by the New York Giants on Monday after three-plus seasons that produced a 20-40-1 record and repeated late-game collapses. The decision follows a Week 10 loss to the Chicago Bears in which the team blew a 10-point fourth-quarter advantage and rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart suffered what was later evaluated as … Read more

Lead: On Monday night, Nov. 10, 2025, a small group of Senate Democrats broke with most of their caucus in Washington to approve a bipartisan plan to reopen the federal government. The measure passed the Senate and now moves to the House, even though it omits a major concession Democrats had been pressing for. The … Read more