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Thanksgiving week stretched the NFL across five days, beginning with a Thursday tripleheader and a Bears win on Black Friday, and it now moves into a packed Sunday slate with 11 games and a Monday night finish in Foxboro. As November winds down, five of last season’s eight division leaders are trailing rivals, leaving playoff … Read more
Lead At least four people were killed and 10 others wounded on 30 November 2025 after gunfire erupted at a child’s birthday party in Stockton, California. The shooting occurred shortly before 6pm local time near the 1900 block of Lucile Avenue inside a banquet hall that shares a car park with other businesses. Local officials, … Read more
Lead: An Afghan asylum seeker, identified by authorities as 29-year-old Rahmanullah Lakanwal, had a multi-year pattern of severe social withdrawal and abrupt cross-country drives before he was charged with first-degree murder in a shooting that wounded two National Guard members near the White House on the eve of Thanksgiving. Community advocates in Bellingham, Washington, shared … Read more
Lane Kiffin’s future remained unresolved after a lengthy Saturday meeting with Ole Miss administrators in Oxford, but multiple sources tell Yahoo Sports that LSU officials now believe Kiffin will sign to be their next head coach. Ole Miss called a team meeting for 9 a.m. CT on Sunday as players and staff await clarity. The … Read more
Lead On Nov. 30, 2025, Russian forces struck the Kyiv area overnight, killing at least one person, injuring 19 and damaging residential buildings in Vyshhorod and parts of the capital, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. The attack occurred as Zelenskyy’s top advisers traveled to Florida for talks with U.S. officials and envoys. Kyiv described the … Read more
Lead On 30 November 2025 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formally asked President Isaac Herzog for a pardon in connection with three long-running corruption prosecutions. The request arrived in two documents — a detailed legal letter from Netanyahu’s lawyer and a personal letter signed by the prime minister — and will be routed to the … Read more
China’s official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) registered 49.2 in November, remaining below the 50 threshold that separates expansion from contraction and marking an eighth consecutive month of contraction — the longest stretch on record. The reading fell short of the Bloomberg-survey median forecast of 49.4, underscoring a deeper cooling in factory output and demand … Read more
An Afghan asylum seeker, 29-year-old Rahmanullah Lakanwal, has been charged with first-degree murder after an ambush that wounded two National Guard members blocks from the White House on the eve of Thanksgiving; Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, later died of her injuries and Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24, was critically wounded. Community emails and case records … Read more
Lead: Week 15 of the 2025 College Football Playoff race produced late-season seismic shifts: Texas upset Texas A&M, SMU’s loss to California opened the ACC title to Virginia and Duke, and Ohio State snapped a four-game skid to Michigan. The Big Ten title game is now a de facto No. 1 seed playoff decider between … Read more
Lead: Lane Kiffin’s status as Ole Miss head coach remained uncertain after a lengthy Saturday meeting with university officials in Oxford, Miss., as LSU officials increasingly expect him to sign a lucrative deal to become their coach. Ole Miss has called a team meeting for 9 a.m. CT Sunday as administrators weigh whether Kiffin can … Read more
Lead On 30 November 2025, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formally submitted a pardon request to President Isaac Herzog, according to a filing made by Netanyahu’s lawyer, Amit Hadad. The submission, reported by The Jerusalem Post, was lodged with the presidential office and recorded publicly on the same day. No decision from the president has been … Read more
Nov. 30, 2025 — Pakistani authorities have accelerated large-scale removals of Afghan residents this year, saying national security concerns tied to clashes with the Taliban and rising cross-border violence make longstanding refugee arrangements untenable. Roughly one million of the roughly three million Afghans who lived in Pakistan have been deported or compelled to return in … Read more
Lead: On Sunday, November 30, 2025, the moon moves through Aries, and astrologers note there are no formal restrictions on shopping or major decisions today. The day leans toward dreamy imagination, gentle social warmth and personal visibility for some signs. Several planetary placements — including sun, Venus and Mars in Sagittarius and a Neptune influence … Read more
Lead On Nov. 29, 2025, a winter storm dumped 6.9 inches of snow at O’Hare International Airport and 5.5 inches at Midway, marking the heaviest one-day total in Chicago since Nov. 21, 2015. The storm triggered widespread travel disruption, with more than 1,300 flights canceled across area airports and O’Hare reporting roughly 1,160 cancellations Saturday … Read more
Global measles cases jumped dramatically in 2024 and the United States has seen widening outbreaks in 2025, prompting World Health Organization officials to call the rise a “fire alarm” that signals broader gaps in routine immunization. WHO director Dr. Kate O’Brien warned that measles’ high contagiousness means even modest declines in vaccine coverage can spark … Read more
