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YouTube is experimenting with a prompt-driven option called “Your Custom Feed” that appeared in tests on November 25, 2025. Participants reported seeing the new feed next to the standard Home button, and the interface invites users to enter interest prompts to shape recommendations. The trial aims to reduce mismatches from algorithmic suggestions that can overemphasize … Read more
Lead The Department of the Interior announced on 25 November 2025 a sweeping change to national park entrance charges that will more than triple fees for international visitors starting next year while keeping a resident annual interagency pass priced at $80. Non-residents will be offered either a $250 annual pass or a $100 per-person surcharge … Read more
Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered former president Jair Bolsonaro to begin serving a prison term of 27 years and three months after finding him guilty of leading a conspiracy to remain in power following his 2022 election defeat. Justice Alexandre de Moraes ruled on Tuesday that the case has reached final judgment and that no … Read more
Campbell’s has publicly rejected claims that its canned soups include 3D-printed, lab-grown or other bioengineered chicken after leaked audio circulated online. The company posted a statement on its website saying the remarks in the recording are inaccurate and “absurd,” and that it sources chicken from reputable U.S. suppliers that meet USDA standards. The audio surfaced … Read more
Lead The College Football Playoff selection committee released its fourth rankings of the 2025 season on November 25, 2025, reflecting games played through Saturday, November 22. Ohio State sits atop the list at 11-0, followed by fellow unbeaten Indiana (11-0) and Texas A&M (11-0). The top 25 includes a mix of conference leaders and traditional … Read more
November 25, 2025 — West Virginia Republican Sen. Jim Justice has agreed to a consent judgment to pay nearly $5.2 million in overdue personal income taxes dating back to 2009, resolving a federal filing that accused him and his wife of neglecting to make full payments. The agreement, filed the same day the Justice Department … Read more
Lead: D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced on Tuesday that she will not run for a fourth term, saying she will finish her current term, which ends Jan. 2, 2027. The decision, delivered in a video posted on X, comes amid federal interventions affecting the District’s budget and public safety and as major local projects — … Read more
Nov. 25, 2025 — The latest College Football Playoff rankings, released Tuesday, kept Ohio State, Indiana, Texas A&M, Georgia and Texas Tech in the top five while Oregon moved past Ole Miss after beating USC. The Ducks climbed to No. 6 and the Rebels fell to No. 7, marking the only change inside the top … Read more
Nov. 25, 2025 — U.S. stock futures moved little on Tuesday night after the major averages notched back-to-back gains, with the Dow extending a short rally. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose more than 660 points, or roughly 1.4%, marking its third consecutive positive session. Futures tied to the Dow were up 21 points (0.04%), … Read more
Lead: On Tuesday night’s live finale of Dancing With the Stars season 34, the series staged a celebratory, star-studded send-off as the top five competed in three brand-new rounds and a winner was announced. The episode, simulcast on ABC and Disney+, reunited eliminated cast members to cheer the finalists: Alix Earle, Dylan Efron, Elaine Hendrix, … Read more
Lead: A Danish registry analysis found a sharp rise in prescriptions for GLP-1 weight‑loss drugs given to new mothers, climbing from fewer than 5 prescriptions per 10,000 postpartum women in 2018 to 173 per 10,000 by mid‑2024. The study reviewed 382,277 pregnancies recorded in Denmark between 2018 and June 2024 and linked birth records to … Read more
On Oct. 14, U.S. presidential envoy Steve Witkoff placed a short phone call with Yuri Ushakov, a senior Kremlin foreign-policy aide, and proposed a strategy for how Vladimir Putin might present a Ukraine settlement to Donald Trump. The exchange, which lasted a little over five minutes, followed Witkoff’s involvement in brokering a Gaza agreement and … Read more
Nov. 25, 2025 — Senator Jim Justice of West Virginia and his wife have agreed to pay more than $5 million to the Internal Revenue Service to resolve unpaid taxes tied to the 2009 tax year, according to a federal court filing. The settlement, filed on Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern … Read more
Lead On Nov. 25, 2025, a federal judge directed the Department of Justice to accelerate its handling of a Freedom of Information Act request seeking internal records about the July decision not to release files from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. The order responded to a suit from legal nonprofit Democracy Forward, which argued the request … Read more
On November 25, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice announced a settlement with RealPage Inc. that bars the rent‑pricing firm from using real‑time nonpublic data to generate price recommendations, a practice prosecutors said enabled tacit coordination among landlords. The agreement ends a yearlong federal antitrust suit brought during the Biden administration but leaves RealPage without … Read more
