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Lead This winter, public-health surveillance suggests norovirus—the highly contagious cause of acute gastroenteritis—is resurging across the United States. Mid-November lab data show roughly 14% test positivity, about double the rate from three months earlier, and several states are recording elevated case counts. Between August 2024 and July 2025 public-health reports documented 2,675 outbreaks, compared with … Read more

Lane Kiffin has turned down a major overture from the University of Florida amid a congested SEC coaching market, sources tell Sports Illustrated. The Ole Miss head coach and his representatives toured Gainesville recently, but Florida officials have moved on to other candidates after making a substantial proposal. Kiffin remains undecided as he weighs a … Read more

Black Friday discounts on Apple hardware and accessories are underway as of Nov. 28, 2025, with major retailers cutting prices across AirPods, Apple Watch, iPad, MacBook and accessories. Shoppers can find record-low offers on recently released items — including AirPods Pro 3 and the M5 iPad Pro — alongside steep markdowns on previous-generation models. Retailers … Read more

Lead President Donald Trump spoke by phone last week with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, according to multiple people with knowledge of the matter, in a call that included Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The conversation, described as taking place late in the week, covered the possibility of a future meeting in the United States, though … Read more

On Nov. 27, 2025, Roscosmos confirmed that a maintenance cabin at Baikonur Cosmodrome’s Site 31/6 was damaged during the Soyuz MS-28 crew launch to the International Space Station. The Soyuz MS-28 mission lifted off on a Soyuz 2.1a rocket and delivered cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut safely to orbit; the platform in the pad’s flame … Read more

Lead: On September 2, U.S. military forces carried out a follow-up strike in the Caribbean that killed surviving crew members of a suspected drug-smuggling vessel after an initial attack, according to sources briefed on the operation. The second strike sank the ship and brought the known death toll from that incident to 11. Officials and … Read more

Lead Federal prosecutors say the suspect accused of a targeted shooting that wounded two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., will face upgraded charges of first-degree murder after one victim died. The announcement followed President Donald Trump’s statement late Thursday and comments from U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro on Friday. Authorities … Read more

Lead: On Friday, Nov. 28, 2025, at 3 p.m. ET, the Chicago Bears (8-3) visit the Philadelphia Eagles (8-3) at Lincoln Financial Field for the NFL’s Black Friday game, carried nationally on Prime Video. Both clubs sit atop their divisions and enter the matchup with contrasting recent storylines: Chicago riding a string of dramatic wins … Read more

Published November 28, 2025 — Tony Germano, a 55-year-old Brazilian-born voice and stage actor known for work on Nickelodeon and Netflix productions, has died after falling from the roof of his home in São Paulo during renovation work. Representatives say the fall occurred on Wednesday and Germano did not survive his injuries. The actor had … Read more

Lead Two members of the West Virginia National Guard were shot outside a downtown Washington, D.C., metro station on Wednesday in what authorities describe as an ambush. Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom, 20, died of her injuries late Thursday; Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24, remains in critical condition after surgery. Federal prosecutors announced on … Read more

Former president Donald Trump announced a plan to “permanently pause” migration from what he described as “third world” countries on the night after two U.S. National Guard members were shot near the White House in Washington, D.C. The Thanksgiving Eve social media message said his administration would end federal benefits for noncitizens and remove people … Read more

Lead On Nov. 28, 2025, Andriy Yermak, President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff and a key negotiator on Ukraine’s international front, resigned amid a widening corruption investigation. The move follows a 15-month inquiry called Operation Midas that investigators say uncovered a roughly $100 million embezzlement scheme. Yermak, 54, stepped down after investigators searched his Kyiv … Read more

On Nov. 28, 2025, PlayStation’s Black Friday promotions expanded with a fresh wave of steep discounts across new and catalog PS5 titles, plus hardware and subscription offers. High-profile 2025 releases like Borderlands 4 and Battlefield 6 fell to $35, while Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater dropped to $30. Retailers including PlayStation Store and Walmart … Read more

At the close of COP30 in Belém, a leaked, presidency-drawn “informal list” claiming 84 countries opposed adding a fossil‑fuel transition roadmap to the summit outcome has been shown to contain multiple contradictions and likely mistakes. Carbon Brief obtained the list and found 14 countries named on both supporter and opposer lists, the full membership of … Read more

On Thursday, a Soyuz liftoff from Baikonur Cosmodrome successfully delivered Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikayev and NASA astronaut Christopher Williams on an eight‑month International Space Station (ISS) mission, while ground teams at Site 31 at Baikonur reported significant pad damage. Video from the site showed a heavy service platform — roughly 20 metric … Read more