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Christopher Renstrom’s horoscope for Tuesday, November 18, 2025, blends daily sign guidance with dating-site trend data to point readers toward relationship choices and short-term priorities. The piece references a PlentyOfFish analysis of 150,000 users to highlight compatibility patterns while offering sign-by-sign counsel. Planetary notes — notably Mercury’s motion into Scorpio — frame advice about revisiting … Read more

Lead James Franklin, newly hired as Virginia Tech’s head coach, contacted linebacker recruit Mathieu Lamah on Monday night after the Hokies completed the hiring. Lamah, a 6-foot-3, 220-pound linebacker from Nokesville (Va.) Patriot, remains committed to Penn State, the program Franklin led through six games this season. The phone call adds a fresh twist to … Read more

Lead Between 15 and 17 November, analysts estimate roughly 500,000 flight bookings by Chinese travellers to Japan were cancelled as a diplomatic dispute intensified over comments by Japan’s prime minister on Taiwan. The wave of cancellations followed Chinese government warnings aimed at visitors and students, and airline policies offering free refunds. Japan has dispatched a … Read more

Lead On Nov. 18, 2025 at Allegiant Stadium, the Dallas Cowboys beat the Las Vegas Raiders 33-16 in a game that served as both a competitive victory and a tribute to defensive end Marshawn Kneeland, who died on Nov. 6. The team held memorials and grief-counseling sessions during the bye week and displayed visible remembrances … Read more

Lead: A new AidData analysis shows that over the past quarter-century Chinese state-owned banks have directed roughly $200 billion into U.S. businesses, making the United States by far the largest single recipient. Much of that financing was obscured through offshore shell companies in places such as the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and Delaware, hiding the true … Read more

Lead: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is scheduled to visit the United States on Nov. 18–19, 2025, marking his first trip since the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The White House meeting with President Donald Trump is expected to focus on deepening defense, trade and technology ties, including cooperation on artificial intelligence, security … Read more

Lead: A new AidData analysis published after Nov. 18, 2025, finds that Chinese state-owned firms have deployed roughly $2.2 trillion in loans and grants worldwide from 2000 through 2023, far larger than earlier tallies. Much of more than $1 trillion in lending went to developing countries for infrastructure projects, but the single largest country recipient … Read more

On Monday the United Nations Security Council adopted a U.S.-sponsored resolution that endorses a blueprint to stabilize and govern Gaza after two years of war. The measure authorizes an international stabilization force, approves a transitional Board of Peace envisioned to be overseen by President Donald Trump, and sets out a conditional pathway that could eventually … Read more

Harvard economist and former U.S. Treasury secretary Larry Summers announced he will step back from public commitments after newly released documents made public by the House oversight committee exposed a series of email exchanges with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The disclosures, covering messages from 2013 to early 2019, prompted Summers to tell Politico he … Read more

On the morning of Nov. 5 in Whitestown, Boone County prosecutors say 62-year-old Curt Andersen shot and killed 32-year-old house cleaner María Florinda Ríos Pérez de Velásquez after she and her husband arrived at his locked house by mistake. Authorities allege Andersen fired one shot through his front door; medics pronounced Ríos Pérez dead at … Read more

Lead On November 17, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging two California laws that restrict federal agents from masking their faces and require visible identification during operations in the state. The suit, filed in Los Angeles, argues the measures violate the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause and endanger federal officers. … Read more

Nov. 17, 2025 — A Tennessee judge on Monday issued a temporary injunction blocking the state deployment of National Guard troops in Memphis after a group of state and local elected officials argued Governor Bill Lee exceeded his constitutional authority. The ruling pauses the governor’s order while the court considers the legal challenge and gives … Read more

At the New York City premiere of Wicked: For Good on Monday night, Ariana Grande stepped in as the primary on-camera voice after costar Cynthia Erivo lost hers ahead of the red carpet. Organizers had told press earlier that the pair would avoid formal interviews because Erivo needed vocal rest, but the duo still appeared … Read more

On November 17, 2025, U.S. Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick issued a terse opinion finding significant investigative and procedural errors in the Justice Department’s indictment of former FBI director James Comey. The judge concluded that those errors—by at least one FBI agent and a prosecutor—could have compromised the integrity of the grand jury process and may … Read more

Lead Alphabet chief executive Sundar Pichai told the BBC that people should not “blindly trust” information produced by AI tools, warning the models remain “prone to errors.” In an interview published on the BBC website, Pichai urged users to combine AI outputs with other information sources and pointed to products such as Google Search as … Read more