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Lead Microsoft is testing changes in Windows 11 Dev preview builds that preload File Explorer to improve launch speed and reorganize the context menu to reduce clutter. The changes, reported by Tom Warren at The Verge, move rarely used actions into dedicated flyouts and separate cloud provider options. Preloading is intended to improve performance on … Read more

Lead: Morgan Geyser, the 22-year-old whose 2014 attack on a classmate was tied to the internet character Slender Man, was located and taken into custody Sunday night in Posen, Illinois, after authorities say she removed a Department of Corrections monitoring bracelet and left a Wisconsin group home. Posen police say she was found unharmed at … Read more

Lead: The Las Vegas Raiders dismissed offensive coordinator Chip Kelly on Sunday, 11 games into his first season with the team, following a loss to the Cleveland Browns. Kelly told Jay Glazer of Fox Sports he understood the decision, expressing gratitude for the opportunity and for working with quarterback Geno Smith. The move capped a … Read more

Colonel Andrei Demurenko, 67, was a rare figure who trained in the United States in 1992 at Fort Leavenworth and later returned from retirement to fight for Russia in Ukraine, dying after a mortar strike near Bakhmut in 2023. His life traced a path from classroom exchanges with American officers to front-line patrols in ankle-deep … Read more

Lead In Week 12 of the 2025 NFL season the Los Angeles Rams announced themselves as a clear title contender with a 34-7 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday, moving to 9-2 and extending a six-game streak. The Philadelphia Eagles, by contrast, blew a 21-point lead and fell 24-21 to the Dallas Cowboys, … Read more

Lead On Sunday night, Nov. 24, 2025, the Las Vegas Raiders dismissed offensive coordinator Chip Kelly, hours after a 24–10 loss to the Cleveland Browns that dropped the team to 2–9. Head coach Pete Carroll announced he had informed Kelly of his release and thanked him for his service. The defeat was the Raiders’ fifth … Read more

Lead On Nov. 23, 2025 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, the Dallas Cowboys overturned a 21-0 deficit to beat the Philadelphia Eagles 24-21, turning a 3.3% win probability into victory. The rally unfolded in the second half and energized fans in the stadium and across social media. Key plays included a tumbling touchdown by Dak … Read more

Lead: The Financial Times reports that senior US and Ukrainian officials say they have recently made progress in negotiations over a proposed peace plan intended to end the war in Ukraine. Both parties describe movement on several core elements of the draft, but key details remain under discussion and no final agreement has been announced. … Read more

Lead Monday, November 24, 2025, brings a Capricorn Moon and—according to the daily advisory—no Moon Alert restrictions, so shopping and major decisions face no astro-imposed limits. Across the zodiac the tone leans positive for most signs, with several signs seeing practical or social gains and a minority advised to tidy up loose ends. Notable today: … Read more

ARLINGTON, Texas — The Dallas Cowboys rallied to a 24-21 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles on a Brandon Aubrey 42-yard field goal as time expired, moving Dallas to 5-5-1. The win extended Dak Prescott’s home streak against NFC East opponents to 19 games, one shy of Tom Brady’s NFL record. The game, played at AT&T … Read more

Who: Small-scale producers and large retailers across the United States; When: Thanksgiving shopping season, mid-November; Where: From Old Brick Farm near Chelsea, Michigan, to national grocery chains; What: Retailers promoted discounted or free turkeys even as the national turkey flock hit a 40‑year low and wholesale turkey costs jumped; Result: Consumers saw mixed outcomes — … Read more

Lead: In early October 2025, the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS made a close flyby of Mars, passing within about 30 million km (18.6 million mi). Multiple spacecraft operated around Mars captured the object, but NASA’s images could not be released until the U.S. government resumed operations. With the agency back at work, NASA has published photos … Read more

Morgan Geyser, 23, a Wisconsin woman who was convicted for the 2014 St. Croix County stabbing linked to the online figure known as “Slender Man,” was taken into custody late Sunday a day after she left a group home, authorities said. She had been living under a conditional release from the Winnebago Mental Health Institute … Read more

Qualcomm says it will enable Pixel 10–style AirDrop interoperability on Snapdragon-powered phones in the near future, opening the door for Quick Share–to–AirDrop transfers beyond Google’s phones. The confirmation came as a short reply on X after Google enabled true AirDrop compatibility for the Pixel 10 series last week. Qualcomm did not publish a device list … Read more

Lead Paramount Pictures has scheduled James Cameron’s 3D concert film of Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft for release on March 20, 2026. The announcement follows Eilish’s onstage reveal at the final stop of her Hit Me Hard and Soft tour in San Francisco and posts on her social channels; Cameron also confirmed the … Read more