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Lead: Scientists say NASA’s Perseverance rover recorded crackling, static-like electrical discharges on Mars—what researchers describe as “mini lightning”—captured by the rover’s microphone over two Martian years. The sounds, 55 discrete events in the analysis, clustered with dust storms and dust devils and were detected at close range by a microphone mounted on the rover’s mast. … Read more

On 27 November 2025 Peru’s Supreme Court sentenced former president Pedro Castillo to 11 years, five months and 15 days in prison after finding him guilty of rebellion for his December 2022 attempt to dissolve Congress and rule by decree. Castillo, a rural teacher who campaigned as the country’s first president of the poor, was … Read more

Colts quarterback Daniel Jones has been diagnosed with a fracture in his fibula but intends to continue playing, sources reported this week. The injury was confirmed by NFL Media reporter Ian Rapoport after Jones appeared on the Colts’ injury report; the team listed him as limited on Wednesday and expected him to be a full … Read more

Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated that Moscow will only cease fighting if Ukrainian forces withdraw from territory Russia claims, comments he made during a trip to Kyrgyzstan ahead of planned US-Russia diplomacy next week. He repeated Moscow’s long-standing demand for legal recognition of areas seized since 2014, including Crimea and large parts of the Donbas, … Read more

On Nov. 27, 2025, a shark attack at Kylies Beach in Crowdy Bay National Park, about 224 miles north of Sydney, left a woman dead and a man in his mid-20s seriously injured after the pair went for an early morning swim, police and state officials said. Emergency responders reached the scene after a bystander … Read more

On Nov. 26, 2025, two West Virginia National Guard members were critically wounded in a downtown Washington, D.C., shooting near the White House; officials say both remain in critical condition and a 29-year-old suspect has been charged. Authorities identified the victims as 20-year-old Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom and 24-year-old Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, … Read more

Lead: Since the 1930s, pro football has been woven into American Thanksgiving, turning the holiday into a daylong television ritual. The tradition began in 1934 when the Detroit Lions staged a Thanksgiving matchup to fill their stadium and reach a national radio audience. Dallas joined the holiday slate in 1966 and, aside from a brief … Read more

Lead: On Nov. 27, 2025, a Louisiana man who had spent nearly 27 years on death row was released on bail after a judge vacated his 1998 conviction in the death of a 23‑month‑old child. Jimmie Duncan had been sentenced after prosecutors said he raped and drowned Haley Oliveaux; a Fourth Judicial District Court judge … Read more

Lead: I can rewrite and expand the CNBC story on Thanksgiving NFL games and prediction platforms into a comprehensive, source-cited feature, but I cannot access paywalled or behind-the-scene content without the full text or explicit permission to fetch the link you supplied. To preserve factual accuracy I must base the rewrite on the original wording … Read more

Lead: The U.S. State Department has instructed staff and grant recipients not to use government funds to commemorate World AIDS Day on 1 December and to avoid public promotion of the observance, reports say. According to reporting first published by Emily Bass and an email reviewed by the New York Times, employees may still discuss … Read more

Lead: A new analysis of gamma-ray data has reignited the nine-decade hunt for dark matter. In work led by Professor Tomonori Totani of the University of Tokyo, patterns in NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope data are reported to match the expected gamma-ray signature from annihilating dark matter. The result, published in the Journal of Cosmology … Read more

Lead Scientists report that a distinctive fossil foot from northeastern Ethiopia belongs to a previously unrecognized early hominin that lived about 3.4 million years ago alongside the famed specimen Lucy. Found at the Burtele site in 2009, the foot has an opposable big toe unlike Lucy’s, suggesting a lifestyle more adapted to climbing. New material … Read more

Lead Thousands lined Manhattan streets Thursday as Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade moved from the Upper West Side to the store’s flagship at Herald Square, featuring giant balloons of Buzz Lightyear and Pac‑Man alongside new Shrek and Lego floats. The procession included dozens of balloons, marching bands, clown units and celebrity performers, while temperatures sat in … Read more

DETROIT — On Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025, the Green Bay Packers announced linebacker Quay Walker will miss his second consecutive game versus the Detroit Lions with a neck/stinger issue, while cornerback Keisean Nixon is active after exiting last week’s contest with a similar neck/stinger. Wide receiver Matthew Golden (wrist) and cornerback Nate Hobbs (knee) are … Read more

Nov. 27, 2025 — An overnight rocket strike on the Khor Mor gas field in northern Iraq knocked out production shortly after midnight and left most of the semiautonomous Kurdistan region without power, local officials said. The attack is the latest in a series of drone and rocket assaults on Kurdish-run oil and gas infrastructure … Read more