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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
Lead: On Oct. 14, a phone call lasting just over five minutes took place between Steve Witkoff, named by Donald Trump as a special envoy for peace missions, and Yuri Ushakov, a senior foreign-policy adviser to Vladimir Putin. Bloomberg reviewed a recording of the conversation and prepared a transcript. The brief exchange touched on possible … Read more
Lead The FBI is arranging interviews with six Democratic lawmakers who appeared in a video urging members of the military and intelligence community not to follow illegal orders, according to a person familiar with the matter. The outreach comes days after President Donald Trump publicly accused the lawmakers of “seditious behavior.” Details of the FBI’s … Read more
November 25, 2025 — Rep. Eric Swalwell filed a federal civil suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), alleging improper access to his mortgage records and politically motivated referrals to the Justice Department. The 19‑page complaint says Pulte obtained confidential … Read more
Lead Vahid Abedini, an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma, was released from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody three days after being detained at an Oklahoma City airport while en route to the Middle East Studies Association conference in Washington, D.C. The university and Mr. Abedini said he is in the United States … Read more
Lead: In November 2025, mainstream graphics cards have become easier to buy at or near suggested retail prices while memory and flash prices have surged. The sudden spike — most acute for DDR5 RAM kits and some SSD models — is being driven largely by stronger AI-related demand and stockpiling by manufacturers. The result: buying … Read more
Lead: The St. Louis Cardinals and Boston Red Sox confirmed a trade sending right-hander Sonny Gray to Boston, with the Cardinals receiving righty Richard Fitts, left-handed prospect Brandon Clarke and $20 million in cash or a player to be named later. The deal, announced at 12:05pm, also included a slight restructuring of Gray’s contract that … Read more
Lead The FBI is attempting to schedule interviews with six Democratic members of Congress who appeared in a video advising service members not to follow illegal orders, according to multiple sources. The outreach would be conducted by the FBI on behalf of the Justice Department and comes as the timing remains uncertain amid the upcoming … Read more
