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Lead: Oscar‑nominated actress Sally Kirkland died at age 84 on the morning of Nov. 10, 2025, in hospice care in Palm Springs, her representative confirmed. She had suffered a period of declining health in recent years, including dementia and multiple falls, and had been in hospice for about a year. A fundraiser and public statements … Read more
Lead: On Nov. 11, 2025, Utah District Court Judge Dianna Gibson rejected a congressional map drawn by Republican state lawmakers and approved an alternative that creates a Democratic-leaning seat anchored in northern Salt Lake County. The decision overturns a GOP-drawn court-ordered map designed to preserve an all-Republican delegation and arrives as state election officials prepare … Read more
Veteran actress Sally Kirkland, a Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominee, died early on November 11, 2025, at 1:50 AM PST while receiving hospice care in Palm Springs. Her representative, Michael Greene, confirmed the death and said she will be deeply missed. In the months before her passing she had been living with dementia and … Read more
Researchers in November 2025 disclosed a cross-platform phishing campaign known as ClickFix that exploits compromised travel-booking accounts and browser-based prompts to trick victims into executing code. Attackers first gain access to hotel Booking.com or other online travel-service accounts and contact people with pending reservations to create trust. Victims who follow a fake CAPTCHA-like prompt are … Read more
Lead Since returning to the White House in January 2025, President Donald Trump has issued an unprecedented run of pardons and commutations aimed at political allies, donors and business partners. The moves — including a one-day grant affecting about 1,500 people tied to the January 6 attack, a commutation of expelled Rep. George Santos’s seven-year … Read more
Lead Federal agents’ tactics at immigration protests in cities including Chicago, Portland, Los Angeles and Broadview, Illinois, have been captured on hundreds of cellphone videos and sparked legal and policy scrutiny. CBS News asked former ICE investigator Eric Balliet to examine dozens of those recordings; he identified multiple instances where tactics appeared to conflict with … Read more
Lead On November 11, 2025, a Utah district judge rejected a congressional map drawn by Republican lawmakers and adopted an alternative plan that creates a Democratic-leaning district ahead of the 2026 midterms. Judge Dianna Gibson found the Legislature’s map “unduly favors Republicans and disfavors Democrats” and accepted a plaintiffs’ map that keeps Salt Lake County … Read more
Lead In July 2025 an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the far eastern coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula and spawned a fast-moving tsunami that propagated across the Pacific. Within minutes authorities issued evacuations across the basin, including orders affecting at least two million people in Japan. As waves raced at more than 400mph (644 km/h) … Read more
Lead Six years after U.S. special forces raided the northwestern Syrian village of Barisha and killed Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2019, Syria’s political landscape has again shifted. Ahmed al-Shara (known formerly as Abu Mohammed al-Jolani), a onetime associate of extremist networks who later broke with them, has risen to national leadership and … Read more
Nov. 11, 2025 — Tatsuya Nakadai, a towering presence of postwar Japanese film who played leading roles in Akira Kurosawa’s Ran and Masaki Kobayashi’s Human Condition trilogy, died in Tokyo at 92. His death, confirmed by Naoko Ema of Mumeijuku, the theatre company and acting school he founded in 1975, was attributed to pneumonia in … Read more
Lead: US President Donald Trump has threatened to sue the BBC for 1 billion dollars over edits to his Panorama speech, demanding apology, retraction and payment by Friday to avoid legal action. The row follows apologies from BBC chairman Samir Shah and the resignation of head of news Deborah Turness, while director general Tim Davie … Read more
Lead: Iraqis went to the polls on Tuesday in a parliamentary election conducted under heightened security and shadowed by a boycott from the influential Sadrist Movement. Voting took place at 8,703 polling stations nationwide, after early voting Sunday for security personnel and displaced people in camps. Early turnout appeared thin at many polling places visited … Read more
Lead: Drake Baldwin was named the 2025 National League Rookie of the Year by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, the organization announced in November 2025. The Atlanta catcher’s breakout season — 446 plate appearances across 124 games with a .274/.341/.469 line and 19 home runs — not only earned individual honors but also triggers … Read more
Lead: On Nov. 11, 2002, in St. Petersburg, Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman posted a paper to an open server that launched a sequence of three preprints which, together, resolved the century-old Poincaré conjecture. The work completed an approach proposed earlier by Richard Hamilton using Ricci flow and addressed the persistent problem of singularities that blocked … Read more
Lead Nick Kurtz of the Oakland Athletics was named the 2025 American League Rookie of the Year by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, the BBWAA announced in November 2025. Kurtz, a unanimous choice, finished ahead of teammate Jacob Wilson (second) and Roman Anthony of the Boston Red Sox (third). Despite a late-season call-up and … Read more
