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Lead: Two days after news broke that James Franklin will be Virginia Tech’s next head football coach, attention has shifted from the hire itself to the staff he will assemble in Blacksburg. Franklin has already launched a recruiting push ahead of the early December signing period, and prospective signees are pressing for clarity on offensive … Read more
Lead: Overnight Russian drone-and-missile strikes on the western Ukrainian city of Ternopil killed at least 25 people, including three children, and wounded dozens more as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traveled to Ankara to meet Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan seeking international backing. The attack struck two nine-story apartment blocks about 200 kilometers from the Polish border, emergency … Read more
Since at least Nov. 19, 2025, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has projected sweeping investment plans abroad, including a public claim of a $1 trillion pledge to the United States. Behind the scenes, however, Riyadh’s powerhouse vehicle—the Public Investment Fund (PIF)—is reported to be under financial strain after nearly a decade of costly, uneven … Read more
On Nov. 19, 2025, NASA published a set of photographs taken in early October showing the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS as it passed near Mars. The images — collected by several government spacecraft — show a diffuse, comet-like object and, agency officials said, provide no evidence that the object is artificial. Release of the pictures was … Read more
Nov. 19, 2025 — Lawrence H. Summers, the economist and former president of Harvard University, said he will step back from his teaching duties as Harvard conducts an inquiry into his long-standing ties to financier Jeffrey Epstein. A spokesman for Mr. Summers, Steven Goldberg, also announced that Summers will leave his post as director of … Read more
The White House has circulated a draft executive order that would empower the attorney general to contest state-level artificial intelligence rules, escalating a national fight over who should govern AI. The proposal, reported this week by The Information and confirmed to reporters by sources familiar with the draft, would direct Attorney General Pam Bondi to … Read more
On Nov. 19, 2025, U.S. stock futures climbed after Nvidia reported stronger-than-expected quarterly results and issued a robust sales forecast, helping to restore confidence in AI-linked technology stocks. Futures tied to the Dow added about 222 points (roughly 0.5%), S&P futures rose 1.1% and Nasdaq 100 futures jumped 1.6% in after-hours trading. Nvidia beat Wall … Read more
NASA on Nov. 19 released a coordinated set of new observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS gathered by spacecraft scattered across the solar system. The campaign drew data from at least 15 missions — from Mars orbiters and rovers to deep-space probes and flagship telescopes — and confirms that the visitor behaves like a typical comet … Read more
At COP30 in Belém, Brazil, delegates reached a late compromise that clears the way for Turkey to host COP31 in Antalya in 2026 after Australia withdrew its competing bid. Under the deal announced during talks in Belém, Australia will back Turkey’s hosting in exchange for Australia’s climate minister chairing the negotiations as COP president. The … Read more
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025, filed a federal terrorism charge after an apparent arson attack on Chicago’s Blue Line transit system. Authorities say 50-year-old Lawrence Reed allegedly doused a 26-year-old woman with what investigators believe was gasoline and then ignited it aboard a train on Monday night; the victim was taken to hospital … Read more
Lead Congress has passed a law requiring the Justice Department to publish its unclassified records relating to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, but the measure contains multiple carveouts that could delay or limit what becomes public. If President Donald Trump signs the bill, the Justice Department would have up to 30 days to make records … Read more
Lead: On Nov. 19, 2025, the Trump administration announced a package of proposed changes to regulations implementing the Endangered Species Act from Billings, Montana, reviving rules first advanced during his presidency. The revisions would rescind the Fish and Wildlife Service’s “blanket rule” that automatically extends endangered-level safeguards to species labeled “threatened,” and would instead require … Read more
Nov. 19, 2025 — British researchers report that behaviors matching a humanlike definition of kissing likely emerged between about 16 million and 21 million years ago. The paper, led by evolutionary biologist Matilda Brindle of Oxford University, documents examples of directed, intraspecific oral–oral contact with lip or mouth movement across a surprising range of species, … Read more
Lead: On Nov. 19, 2025, Nvidia reported net income of $31.9 billion for the quarter that ended in October, a 65% increase from a year earlier and a 245% rise versus two years ago. The company also posted revenue of $57 billion, driven by $51 billion in sales of AI data-center chips. The results beat … Read more
Lead British defence officials say the Russian vessel Yantar has been operating off the UK coast and is suspected of mapping undersea cables that carry the bulk of Britain’s global data. The Ministry of Defence released new images this week and reported an incident in which lasers were directed at Royal Air Force patrol pilots, … Read more
