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Lead: The Trump administration on Nov. 7, 2025 asked the 1st Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for an emergency stay after a federal judge ordered full Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) payments for November. The request would let the government pay a partial amount — up to 65% — from an emergency contingency fund rather … Read more
Lead: On Day 38 of the federal government shutdown, the Senate is set to reconvene Friday in Washington, D.C., with GOP leaders planning a new procedure to try to advance the House-passed continuing resolution and break the impasse. Republicans propose voting first to advance the CR and then amending it to add three full-year appropriations … Read more
On November 7, 2025, reporting showed China has signalled permission for Nexperia to resume exports from its operations in the country, a development that prompted the Dutch government to prepare to suspend a recently granted authority over the Chinese-owned chipmaker. The move comes after a diplomatic and regulatory standoff that had threatened to ripple through … Read more
Lead: At the Los Angeles premiere for Stranger Things’ fifth and final season, stars Millie Bobby Brown and David Harbour greeted fans and press with laughter and an embrace, appearing to move past recent media reports of discord. Netflix released footage of the pair joking on the red carpet ahead of the series launch. The … Read more
Nov. 7, 2025 — Week 11 of the college football season delivers decisive matchups that could reshape College Football Playoff positioning. Top-10 clashes in Lubbock (No. 7 BYU at No. 8 Texas Tech) and Iowa City (No. 9 Oregon at No. 20 Iowa) headline a slate that also tests the SEC frontrunners (No. 3 Texas … Read more
Lead On Nov. 7, 2025, U.S. forces struck an alleged drug-trafficking vessel in the Caribbean, killing three people, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said. The announcement raised the death toll from Washington’s anti-narcotics campaign to at least 70 since the operation began in early September. The Pentagon released aerial footage on X showing the boat engulfed … Read more
Today’s roundup brings fast-moving developments from archaeology, wildlife management and planetary science: a new digital atlas doubles estimates of the Roman road network, Japan has mobilized troops to assist with a record string of fatal bear attacks, and fresh images of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS — including shots from China’s Tianwen‑1 — continue to reshape scientists’ … Read more
Lead: An NPR team entered northern Gaza on Wednesday, nearly one month into the ceasefire, marking the reporter’s first return after two years of conflict. They toured an Israeli military outpost overlooking the Shujaiya neighborhood outside Gaza City and found widespread destruction where dense residential blocks once stood. The visit highlighted a temporary division of … Read more
Lead Rosalía Vila Tobella, the 33-year-old Catalan singer-producer, has released Lux, a sprawling fourth album built around the lives of female saints and recorded largely in Los Angeles. The 18-track set spans 13 languages, features collaborators from Patti Smith to Björk and the London Symphony Orchestra, and foregrounds themes of devotion, contradiction and absolution. Known … Read more
Lead U.S. forces struck an alleged drug-trafficking vessel in the Caribbean on 7 November, killing three people, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, bringing the reported death toll from the administration’s maritime campaign in Latin America to at least 70. The strike, shown in a short video released by the Pentagon, was carried out in … Read more
President Donald Trump and Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán meet in Washington on Friday, Nov. 7, 2025, against a backdrop of fresh U.S. penalties on Russia’s two largest energy companies. Those sanctions, announced last month to pressure Moscow over the war in Ukraine, threaten Hungary’s energy supply — it imports about 86 percent of its … Read more
Lead: U.S. stock futures eased late on November 6 after a sell-off in major AI-related technology names pushed equity indexes lower during the trading day. At 10:56 p.m. EST, futures on the Nasdaq 100, Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 were down 0.6%, 0.1% and 0.04%, respectively. The downturn followed steep intraday losses in … Read more
Hilary Duff returned to music this week with the single “Mature,” marking her first new release since her June 2015 studio album Breathe In. Breathe Out. The 38-year-old actor-singer, best known to many millennials for Disney’s Lizzie McGuire, issued the song on Thursday and framed it as a reflective, grown-up take on past relationships. The … Read more
Lead: YouTuber Darren Jason Watkins Jr., known as IShowSpeed, publicly vented frustration after Rockstar Games moved Grand Theft Auto VI’s launch to Thursday, November 19, 2026. The announcement, posted on Rockstar’s official social account, pushed the game beyond earlier 2026 and 2025 windows and prompted heated reaction during a recent live stream. Watkins, a high-profile … Read more
China’s customs data released Friday, 7 November 2025, show exports unexpectedly contracted in October 2025, dealing a fresh shock to an economy already slowed by weak domestic demand. Official statistics recorded a 1.1% year‑on‑year decline in total exports, the first monthly fall since February. Shipments to destinations other than the United States rose 3.1%, but … Read more
