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Valve unveiled its new Steam Machine living-room PC earlier this month, but company representatives have ruled out console-style, heavily subsidized pricing. In a recent Skill Up interview, Valve engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais said the unit’s AMD Zen 4 CPU and RDNA3 GPU are intended to outpace roughly the bottom 70 percent of PCs that report to … Read more
Lead: Speaker Mike Johnson told White House officials on Nov. 25, 2025, that most House Republicans are not inclined to back an extension of the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced premium subsidies, according to people familiar with the call. The message arrived as advisers to former President Trump were drafting a plan to extend the enhanced … Read more
Lead: U.S. consumer sentiment deteriorated in November, with the Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index falling to 88.7 — its weakest reading since April. The expectations index plunged to 63.2 and the present-situation index dropped to 126.9, signalling weaker views of both the near-term economy and current conditions. A survey submeasure tracking whether jobs are “plentiful” … Read more
Lead: Investors pushed Nvidia shares lower after market signals suggested Google was narrowing the technology gap in artificial intelligence, prompting a reassessment of hardware winners in the cloud-era AI race. The move reflected growing investor attention to software and model leadership as well as to custom silicon and data‑centre strategies. Market participants cited a series … Read more
Lead: On Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025, the Nasdaq composite reversed course after a two-session advance as Nvidia and other chip makers fell, reflecting investor concern about mounting competition in artificial intelligence. Alphabet shares climbed further, pushing the company closer to a $4 trillion market value, while the S&P 500 finished near flat and the Dow … Read more
Lead: Jimmy Cliff, who died in 2025, was a restless, opportunistic force whose choices widened what reggae could be and where it could go. From persuading Leslie Kong to found Beverley’s when he was 17 to moving to London and absorbing pop songcraft, Cliff repeatedly pushed Jamaican music beyond its local templates. His early LPs … Read more
Lead: Soft retail-sales readings and an underwhelming ADP private‑payrolls report unsettled markets during live coverage, prompting investors to reassess the Federal Reserve’s near‑term policy path. The data arrived amid routine trading and coincided with broader price and inflation updates, shifting probabilities priced into interest‑rate futures. Market participants interpreted the prints as weighing on growth momentum, … Read more
Lead ProFootballTalk (PFT) published its Week 13 2025 NFL power rankings, assessing every franchise’s playoff prospects and form entering the season’s home stretch. The list (published during Week 13 of the 2025 regular season) keeps the Los Angeles Rams at No. 1 (9-2) while placing the New England Patriots at No. 5 (10-2) and several … Read more
Overnight missile and drone strikes by Russian forces hit Kyiv and surrounding regions, killing seven people and injuring 21 in the capital as a new round of US‑brokered peace talks opened in Abu Dhabi. Ukrainian officials said the assault used 22 missiles, including four hypersonic Kinzhals, and 464 drones, and principally targeted energy infrastructure and … Read more
Lead: Paris prosecutors announced on Tuesday that four additional suspects have been detained in the investigation of the October 19 daylight robbery at the Louvre Museum, in which about $102 million in historic jewels were stolen. The four new detainees — two men and two women from the Paris region aged 31 to 40 — … Read more
Researchers at Cambridge and collaborators say human brains progress through five broad ‘eras’ of structural organisation from infancy to very old age, based on an analysis published alongside a news report on 25 November 2025. The team examined nearly 4,000 brain scans from people aged under one to 90 and identified four major turning points … Read more
Lead On Nov. 25, 2025, U.S. and Ukrainian officials said Kyiv has accepted the core terms of a peace framework brokered by the Trump administration, with only “minor details” left to resolve. Talks tied to the proposal were taking place in Abu Dhabi, where U.S. negotiators engaged with Russian representatives, but Moscow had not issued … Read more
Nov. 25, 2025 — Russian missile and drone strikes struck Kyiv on Tuesday, killing at least seven people and injuring at least 20, officials said, even as U.S. and Russian envoys met in Abu Dhabi to discuss President Trump’s proposed peace plan. Ukraine said senior officials, and possibly President Volodymyr Zelensky, were prepared to advance … Read more
Federal rule changes and a new limit on graduate borrowing are poised to reshape who can afford advanced health training, educators and health groups say. Starting in July 2026, the open-ended Grad PLUS program will stop originating new loans and professional graduate borrowers will face a $50,000 annual cap and a $200,000 aggregate limit across … Read more
2025-11-25 Lead: Best Buy on Tuesday raised its full-year revenue and adjusted earnings guidance after topping Wall Street’s sales expectations for the quarter ending Nov. 1, 2025. The retailer cited stronger demand for computers, gaming systems and smartphones as customers upgraded devices ahead of the holiday season. Management said sales were better than expected across … Read more
