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Legendary actress Sally Kirkland, 84, has been placed in hospice at a Palm Springs hospital after a year-long struggle with dementia, her representative confirmed on Nov. 9, 2025. The announcement, published at 2:04 PM PST, says longtime friend and former student Cody Galloway is at her bedside while her representative Michael Greene is flying from … Read more
9 November 2025 — The United Kingdom has agreed to send military personnel and equipment to Belgium after a series of drone sightings forced temporary closures at Brussels and Liege airports. Air Chief Marshal Richard Knighton said the deployment follows a formal request from Belgian authorities and aims to bolster detection and mitigation around critical … Read more
Lead The Federal Aviation Administration ordered all McDonnell Douglas MD-11 aircraft grounded this weekend after a UPS MD-11 crashed shortly after takeoff from Louisville, Ky., last week, killing 14 people. UPS and FedEx both voluntarily grounded MD-11s and Boeing urged operators to suspend MD-11 flights while engineers perform additional analysis. The directive bars MD-11 operations … Read more
Senators are closing in on a short-term agreement to reopen the government after the longest shutdown in U.S. history, with several Senate Democrats indicating they would back a plan if the White House grants a few final concessions. The emerging approach would pair a stopgap funding extension through January with a larger package to fully … Read more
Hamas handed over the remains of Lt. Hadar Goldin to Israeli authorities on Nov. 9, 2025, ending an 11-year uncertainty for his family after he was taken during the 2014 Gaza conflict. Israeli forensic testing confirmed the identity of the 23-year-old, whose body had been held in Gaza since the Rafah skirmish in August 2014. … Read more
Lead CHICAGO — On Nov. 9, 2025, New York Giants rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart was ruled out with a concussion in the fourth quarter of the Giants’ 24-20 loss to the Chicago Bears. Dart took a heavy hit during a third-quarter fumble, visited the blue medical tent between quarters and walked slowly into the locker … Read more
Lead: Tim Davie, the BBC’s director general, and Deborah Turness, the corporation’s head of News, both announced their resignations on Sunday after criticism that a Panorama programme misrepresented a passage of Donald Trump’s 6 January 2021 speech. The departures come after publication of an internal memo that said two separate portions of the speech—more than … Read more
Lead: Delta Air Lines is carrying out an FAA and U.S. Department of Transportation directive to scale back operations at 40 major U.S. airports, beginning Nov. 7. The carrier completed planned FAA-directed cancellations through Tuesday, Nov. 11 as of its Nov. 9 update, while weather and air-traffic-control (ATC) staffing strains drove additional disruptions over the … Read more
Lead: A stacked deep image of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, obtained by Frank Niebling and Michael Buechner between 05:08–05:22 UT on November 9, 2029, reveals two sunward anti-tail jets reaching 10 arcminutes and a collimated tail jet extending 30 arcminutes away from the Sun. At the reported Earth–3I/ATLAS distance of 326 million kilometers these angles correspond … Read more
Lead Over the weekend of Nov. 8–9, 2025, disruptions tied to the U.S. government shutdown spread from the nation’s skies to its grocery lines. Federal limits on flights at 40 busy airports and growing air-traffic controller absences forced thousands of cancellations and rising delays, while the Agriculture Department moved to block states that began issuing … Read more
Nov. 9, 2025 — President Donald Trump escalated his effort to end a government shutdown this weekend by renewing public attacks on the Affordable Care Act and proposing that federal subsidy money flow directly to consumers rather than insurers. Through social media posts, Mr. Trump framed the law’s premium tax credits as a windfall for … Read more
Lead London — The BBC’s Director‑General Tim Davie and BBC News CEO Deborah Turness announced their resignations on Sunday, Nov. 9, 2025, after sustained criticism over the way the corporation edited a January 6, 2021, speech by then‑President Donald Trump for a 2024 documentary. The departures follow publication of a dossier compiled by standards adviser … Read more
Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment Sunday charging Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz with fraud, conspiracy and bribery over an alleged scheme to manipulate specific pitches so bettors could win prop wagers. Prosecutors say Clase agreed with a bettor as early as May 2023 to deliver particular pitches as balls, and that Ortiz … Read more
Lead: In an early Sunday matchup in Germany, the Indianapolis Colts defeated the Atlanta Falcons 28-25 in overtime. Colts running back Jonathan Taylor carried the offense with 32 rushes for 244 yards and three touchdowns, including the decisive score in OT. The game featured a late fourth-quarter tie by Colts kicker Michael Badgley, who hit … Read more
Lead: The BBC’s director-general Tim Davie and BBC News CEO Deborah Turness have resigned after revelations that a Panorama episode contained misleading edits of a Donald Trump speech. The departures come amid growing scrutiny over editorial standards after an internal memo alleged the programme spliced two parts of the former US president’s remarks together. The … Read more
