Peru’s ousted ‘president of the poor’ gets 11-year sentence for rebellion

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On 27 November 2025 Peru’s Supreme Court sentenced former president Pedro Castillo to 11 years, five months and 15 days in prison after finding him guilty of rebellion for his December 2022 attempt to dissolve Congress and rule by decree. Castillo, a rural teacher who campaigned as the country’s first president of the poor, was … Read more

Putin doubles down on demands for Ukrainian territory ahead of talks with US

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Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated that Moscow will only cease fighting if Ukrainian forces withdraw from territory Russia claims, comments he made during a trip to Kyrgyzstan ahead of planned US-Russia diplomacy next week. He repeated Moscow’s long-standing demand for legal recognition of areas seized since 2014, including Crimea and large parts of the Donbas, … Read more

Two National Guard members shot near White House: what we know

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On Nov. 26, 2025, two West Virginia National Guard members were critically wounded in a downtown Washington, D.C., shooting near the White House; officials say both remain in critical condition and a 29-year-old suspect has been charged. Authorities identified the victims as 20-year-old Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom and 24-year-old Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, … Read more

How Football Became Synonymous with Thanksgiving

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Lead: Since the 1930s, pro football has been woven into American Thanksgiving, turning the holiday into a daylong television ritual. The tradition began in 1934 when the Detroit Lions staged a Thanksgiving matchup to fill their stadium and reach a national radio audience. Dallas joined the holiday slate in 1966 and, aside from a brief … Read more

Louisiana death row inmate released on bail after conviction overturned nearly 3 decades later

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Lead: On Nov. 27, 2025, a Louisiana man who had spent nearly 27 years on death row was released on bail after a judge vacated his 1998 conviction in the death of a 23‑month‑old child. Jimmie Duncan had been sentenced after prosecutors said he raped and drowned Haley Oliveaux; a Fourth Judicial District Court judge … Read more

Request: Please provide the CNBC Thanksgiving NFL article or permission to access it

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Lead: I can rewrite and expand the CNBC story on Thanksgiving NFL games and prediction platforms into a comprehensive, source-cited feature, but I cannot access paywalled or behind-the-scene content without the full text or explicit permission to fetch the link you supplied. To preserve factual accuracy I must base the rewrite on the original wording … Read more

Scientist may have finally found dark matter after 95 years

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Lead: A new analysis of gamma-ray data has reignited the nine-decade hunt for dark matter. In work led by Professor Tomonori Totani of the University of Tokyo, patterns in NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope data are reported to match the expected gamma-ray signature from annihilating dark matter. The result, published in the Journal of Cosmology … Read more

Mystery foot points to a second early human relative living alongside Lucy

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Lead Scientists report that a distinctive fossil foot from northeastern Ethiopia belongs to a previously unrecognized early hominin that lived about 3.4 million years ago alongside the famed specimen Lucy. Found at the Burtele site in 2009, the foot has an opposable big toe unlike Lucy’s, suggesting a lifestyle more adapted to climbing. New material … Read more

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade kicks off in Manhattan

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Lead Thousands lined Manhattan streets Thursday as Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade moved from the Upper West Side to the store’s flagship at Herald Square, featuring giant balloons of Buzz Lightyear and Pac‑Man alongside new Shrek and Lego floats. The procession included dozens of balloons, marching bands, clown units and celebrity performers, while temperatures sat in … Read more

Quay Walker out, Keisean Nixon active for Thanksgiving at Detroit

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DETROIT — On Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025, the Green Bay Packers announced linebacker Quay Walker will miss his second consecutive game versus the Detroit Lions with a neck/stinger issue, while cornerback Keisean Nixon is active after exiting last week’s contest with a similar neck/stinger. Wide receiver Matthew Golden (wrist) and cornerback Nate Hobbs (knee) are … Read more

Who were Afghanistan’s ‘Zero Units’ tied to the National Guard shooting suspect?

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Lead: U.S. authorities on Nov. 27, 2025 identified a suspect in the National Guard shooting who reportedly had ties to so‑called Afghan “Zero Units,” an elite set of Afghan partner forces active during the U.S. presence in Afghanistan. An ID badge shared online links the suspect to the Kandahar Strike Force (often referenced as “03”) … Read more