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Lead: On November 14, 2025, a Los Angeles court formally dissolved the marriage of Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott, ending a relationship that had been publicly fracturing since their June 2023 separation. Court documents reported by TMZ show Tori retains full interest in several of her television and non‑scripted projects while the pair agreed to … Read more
Lead: President Donald Trump increased direct lobbying of House Republicans this week to prevent the Justice Department from making its Jeffrey Epstein investigative files public, ahead of a pivotal floor vote next week. A belated swearing-in of Democratic representative Adelita Grijalva provided the final signature to reach the 218 needed for a discharge petition, forcing … Read more
Lead On Nov. 2, 2025, wildlife photographer Charvet Drucker recorded a pod of at least eight orcas pursuing a harbor seal in the Saratoga Passage, between Camano and Whidbey Islands, roughly 40 miles northwest of Seattle. While on a rented 20-foot boat, Drucker watched the seal leap repeatedly as the whales coordinated beneath the surface. … Read more
Lead Reports in late 2025 indicate Samsung is shifting priorities for its next flagship family, the Galaxy S26, favoring steady pricing over more aggressive thinning and battery increases. Insiders say the company aims to keep the base S26 at $799, matching the Galaxy S25 entry price and Apple’s iPhone 17 starting cost. Early design targets … Read more
Lead: Early on Friday, Nov. 14, 2025, Kyiv was struck by a large coordinated Russian missile-and-drone assault that authorities say left multiple people dead and dozens wounded across the capital and surrounding region. Ukrainian officials reported widespread damage to apartment blocks and infrastructure as emergency teams fought fires and cleared debris. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said … Read more
Lead In mid-November 2025, multiple consumer-facing companies reported quarterly results showing a shift in spending: higher-income shoppers are trading down, younger cohorts are cutting back, and lower-income households remain strained. Those patterns surfaced in earnings calls and private card-data analyses and could pressure some large retailers as they enter the holiday season. At the same … Read more
Lead: D.R. Horton, the largest U.S. homebuilder, has begun using Prophetic’s artificial‑intelligence zoning platform to accelerate land analysis and speed project decisions. The move, announced in a company release and covered by CNBC, comes as the U.S. faces a housing shortfall of roughly 4 million homes since the Great Recession and price growth of more … Read more
Lead: On November 13, 2025, U.S. equities sank as a sudden bout of risk aversion rattled investors after a partial government shutdown deprived Federal Reserve policymakers of timely economic data. The data blackout heightened uncertainty about the timing of interest-rate cuts, pushing the S&P 500 down 1.7% and the Nasdaq 100 lower by 2%. High-growth … Read more
Lead: A fast-moving wildfire known as the Pack Fire in Mono County has burned an estimated 3,400 acres and remains 0% contained as of the latest official updates. Mandatory evacuations were issued Thursday for Crowley Lake, Long Valley and McGee Creek before some orders were later downgraded or lifted; residents began escorted returns to Crowley … Read more
Lead: Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth Friday after a planned November 5 landing was postponed for nine days when the return capsule they had been scheduled to use sustained tiny cracks likely from a hit by space debris. The crew left their Shenzhou-20 vehicle in orbit and used the newly arrived Shenzhou-21 spacecraft to … Read more
The OnePlus 15 marks a clear break from the company’s recent camera approach: the Hasselblad branding is absent, the processing pipeline now uses OnePlus’s new DetailMax engine, and the phone arrives with revised optics and sensor choices compared with the OnePlus 13. Early sample photos and spec sheets show the OnePlus 15 switching to a … Read more
Four people were killed and at least 29 others wounded after Russia launched a large, coordinated assault on Kyiv early Friday, Ukrainian officials said. The strikes, which set fires and scattered debris across multiple districts of the capital, coincided with wider strikes elsewhere in Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the assault involved roughly 430 drones … Read more
Lawyers for former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James asked a federal judge in Alexandria on Thursday to dismiss indictments against their clients, arguing the prosecutor who secured the charges was illegally installed. U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie said she expects to rule by Thanksgiving on challenges to Lindsey … Read more
Lead Friday, November 14, 2025’s daily horoscope (Chicago Sun-Times) opens with a clear Moon Alert: there are no restrictions on shopping or important decisions today. The moon is in Virgo, shaping a practical, detail-oriented mood for many signs. Across the zodiac the tone ranges from quiet restraint to emotionally heightened connection, with several signs urged … Read more
Stanford-led researchers report evidence that the Epstein‑Barr virus (EBV) may underlie virtually every case of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Published in Science Translational Medicine in 2025, the study found markedly higher rates of EBV infection in specific B‑cell populations from people with lupus compared with healthy controls. In laboratory tests, EBV-infected B cells were reprogrammed … Read more
