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Lead The College Football Playoff selection committee released its fourth rankings of the 2025 season on November 25, 2025, reflecting games played through Saturday, November 22. Ohio State sits atop the list at 11-0, followed by fellow unbeaten Indiana (11-0) and Texas A&M (11-0). The top 25 includes a mix of conference leaders and traditional … Read more
November 25, 2025 — West Virginia Republican Sen. Jim Justice has agreed to a consent judgment to pay nearly $5.2 million in overdue personal income taxes dating back to 2009, resolving a federal filing that accused him and his wife of neglecting to make full payments. The agreement, filed the same day the Justice Department … Read more
Lead: D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced on Tuesday that she will not run for a fourth term, saying she will finish her current term, which ends Jan. 2, 2027. The decision, delivered in a video posted on X, comes amid federal interventions affecting the District’s budget and public safety and as major local projects — … Read more
Nov. 25, 2025 — The latest College Football Playoff rankings, released Tuesday, kept Ohio State, Indiana, Texas A&M, Georgia and Texas Tech in the top five while Oregon moved past Ole Miss after beating USC. The Ducks climbed to No. 6 and the Rebels fell to No. 7, marking the only change inside the top … Read more
Nov. 25, 2025 — U.S. stock futures moved little on Tuesday night after the major averages notched back-to-back gains, with the Dow extending a short rally. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose more than 660 points, or roughly 1.4%, marking its third consecutive positive session. Futures tied to the Dow were up 21 points (0.04%), … Read more
Lead: On Tuesday night’s live finale of Dancing With the Stars season 34, the series staged a celebratory, star-studded send-off as the top five competed in three brand-new rounds and a winner was announced. The episode, simulcast on ABC and Disney+, reunited eliminated cast members to cheer the finalists: Alix Earle, Dylan Efron, Elaine Hendrix, … Read more
Lead: A Danish registry analysis found a sharp rise in prescriptions for GLP-1 weight‑loss drugs given to new mothers, climbing from fewer than 5 prescriptions per 10,000 postpartum women in 2018 to 173 per 10,000 by mid‑2024. The study reviewed 382,277 pregnancies recorded in Denmark between 2018 and June 2024 and linked birth records to … Read more
On Oct. 14, U.S. presidential envoy Steve Witkoff placed a short phone call with Yuri Ushakov, a senior Kremlin foreign-policy aide, and proposed a strategy for how Vladimir Putin might present a Ukraine settlement to Donald Trump. The exchange, which lasted a little over five minutes, followed Witkoff’s involvement in brokering a Gaza agreement and … Read more
Nov. 25, 2025 — Senator Jim Justice of West Virginia and his wife have agreed to pay more than $5 million to the Internal Revenue Service to resolve unpaid taxes tied to the 2009 tax year, according to a federal court filing. The settlement, filed on Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern … Read more
Lead On Nov. 25, 2025, a federal judge directed the Department of Justice to accelerate its handling of a Freedom of Information Act request seeking internal records about the July decision not to release files from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. The order responded to a suit from legal nonprofit Democracy Forward, which argued the request … Read more
On November 25, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice announced a settlement with RealPage Inc. that bars the rent‑pricing firm from using real‑time nonpublic data to generate price recommendations, a practice prosecutors said enabled tacit coordination among landlords. The agreement ends a yearlong federal antitrust suit brought during the Biden administration but leaves RealPage without … Read more
Lead: On Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025, Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced she will not seek re-election after a decade in office. Bowser said the choice was driven by family considerations and a desire to “pass the baton” to new leadership. Her tenure included high-profile clashes over federal law enforcement deployments and a public balancing … Read more
Through 11 games this season, Jaxon Smith‑Njigba has emerged as one of the most productive offensive forces in the NFL. He has recorded 80 catches for 1,313 yards and seven touchdowns, pacing to an unprecedented 2,000‑yard season if current trends hold, and has been a central reason the Seattle Seahawks sit at 8–3. A 63‑yard … Read more
Lead A Virginia high school football coach, Travis L. Turner, 46, of Appalachia, is being sought on criminal warrants after state police said they obtained charges on Monday related to child sexual abuse material and computer solicitation of a minor. Turner has been missing since Thursday, when special agents went to his home to speak … Read more
Lead: A Japanese astrophysicist, Tomonori Totani of the University of Tokyo, says he has found a halo-like pattern of gamma rays near the Milky Way’s center that may be the first direct signal of dark matter. The result, reported in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, relies on data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space … Read more
