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Lead: On Nov. 26, 2025 in London, Chancellor Rachel Reeves unveiled a budget that combined modest spending increases with tax rises aimed at higher earners and middle-income households. The immediate market response was positive: the pound strengthened against the dollar and government borrowing costs fell, easing short-term pressures on Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Labour MPs, … Read more
Lead: On Thanksgiving morning, Nov. 27, 2025, a Soyuz will lift three crew members from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, bound for the International Space Station (ISS). The crew—NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergey Mikaev—are scheduled to reach the orbiting lab about three hours after launch, with a planned docking to the … Read more
US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy this week called on air travellers to show greater courtesy and to dress with more formality as part of a new Department of Transportation campaign launched ahead of the Thanksgiving travel surge. The campaign, titled “The Golden Age of Travel Starts with You”, juxtaposes archival footage of orderly airports with … Read more
Last month, a recorded phone call by White House envoy Steve Witkoff surfaced and, after Bloomberg published the transcript, set off intense debate in Washington about U.S. strategy toward the war in Ukraine. The conversation shows Witkoff telling a senior aide to President Vladimir V. Putin that President Trump would “give me a lot of … Read more
Lead: A three-judge federal panel ruled on Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025, that North Carolina’s new congressional map may remain in use for the 2026 elections, handing a legal victory to Republican lawmakers who drew the lines. The decision came in a nationally watched lawsuit challenging partisan mapmaking and follows similar fights in other states, including … Read more
Lead On Nov. 26, 2025 in Boston, the Celtics snapped the Detroit Pistons’ franchise-record-tying 13-game winning streak with a 117-114 victory. Jaylen Brown paced Boston with 33 points and 10 rebounds, while Derrick White scored 27, pouring in 11 in the final 4½ minutes. Cade Cunningham produced a game-high 42 points for Detroit, but missed … Read more
Lead On 26 November 2025, two National Guard members were shot near Farragut Square in Washington, D.C., leaving both in critical condition and transforming a weekday downtown area into an active crime scene. The incident, outside Farragut North metro station on a Wednesday afternoon, triggered a rapid response from fellow guards, Metropolitan Police, and heavily … Read more
Lead: The first installment of Stranger Things Season 5, released after a three-and-a-half-year gap since May 2022, opens in autumn 1987 and picks up roughly 18 months after Season 4. The Duffers’ eight-episode finale, split into three volumes with Volume 1 arriving on Thanksgiving Eve, returns the story to Hawkins as military forces and a … Read more
Lead: Colorado officials said Wednesday they will not move former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters from a state prison in Pueblo into federal custody after a Nov. 12 request from the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Peters, 70, is serving a nine-year sentence following her 2023 conviction for orchestrating a breach of voting machine data tied … Read more
Actor and DJ Ethan Browne, the eldest son of musician Jackson Browne and the late Phyllis Major, was found unresponsive at his home on the morning of November 25, 2025, and has died at age 52. Jackson Browne, an eight-time Grammy nominee, announced the death in a short Instagram statement asking for privacy; no cause … Read more
Leavitt Relative Targeted in Trump’s Deportation Campaign Lead: On November 12, 33-year-old Bruna Ferreira was stopped by federal agents while driving to pick up her 11-year-old son and has since been held in an ICE facility in Louisiana, far from her Massachusetts home. Ferreira, a Brazilian immigrant who arrived in the U.S. in 1998 and … Read more
Health officials warn that an internationally circulating H3N2 subclade K strain could usher in an early influenza season for California as of late November 2025. The variant emerged after this season’s vaccine composition was finalized and is a poor antigenic match to current shots, raising concerns about increased transmission. Public health agencies report low hospitalizations … Read more
On Nov. 26, 2025, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a package of measures in Ottawa aimed at protecting Canada’s steel and lumber sectors after negotiations with the United States over tariffs broke down. The plan introduces a new tariff on steel products, tightens the volume of foreign steel permitted into Canada and offers reduced rail … Read more
Lead: A prominent attorney for alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein told a federal judge this week that a recent public release of estate files by the House Oversight Committee exposed dozens of unredacted victim names, triggering widespread alarm among survivors. The filing, submitted by lawyer Bradley Edwards, says victims reported panic, sleeplessness and an inability … Read more
Vikings starting quarterback J.J. McCarthy was listed as a limited participant on Wednesday as he progresses through the NFL concussion protocol, and head coach Kevin O’Connell said Max Brosmer took the first-team reps in practice. The move comes during the week ahead of Sunday’s road game against the Seattle Seahawks as the team balances player … Read more
