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China’s commerce ministry announced on Sunday that it has lifted export controls on finished computer chips supplied by the Dutch-based, Chinese-owned firm Nexperia for civilian use, a move expected to ease immediate pressure on European carmakers. The exemption follows a broader, reciprocal softening of trade measures after leaders in Beijing and Washington agreed in October … Read more
Lead Sunday Night Football at SoFi Stadium on Nov. 9, 2025, pitched the Los Angeles Chargers against the Pittsburgh Steelers in a tight, early evening defensive battle. Justin Herbert and Aaron Rodgers faced off under prime-time lights while both teams coped with notable injury and roster changes. A sequence including a safety and a long … Read more
Lead On Sunday the US Senate moved toward a vote to reopen the federal government as the shutdown entered its 40th day. Senators indicated they could vote as early as Sunday night to advance a House-passed stopgap funding bill, with plans to amend it to include a short-term continuing resolution plus three full-year appropriations bills. … Read more
Lead Images that appear to depict Yoshi from The Super Mario Galaxy Movie were posted on a Tops Markets product listing tied to Pillsbury in November 2025, ahead of the film’s scheduled April 3, 2026 release. The uploads show Yoshi prominently on packaging art and a rear image of Mario riding Yoshi through space, along … Read more
Lead MINNEAPOLIS — On Nov. 9, 2025, in his 100th regular-season start, Lamar Jackson guided the Baltimore Ravens to a 27-19 road win over the Minnesota Vikings. Jackson completed a late touchdown and ran effectively enough while Baltimore’s defense produced three takeaways that were converted into 13 points. J.J. McCarthy, making only his fourth NFL … Read more
Legendary actress Sally Kirkland, 84, has been placed in hospice at a Palm Springs hospital after a year-long struggle with dementia, her representative confirmed on Nov. 9, 2025. The announcement, published at 2:04 PM PST, says longtime friend and former student Cody Galloway is at her bedside while her representative Michael Greene is flying from … Read more
9 November 2025 — The United Kingdom has agreed to send military personnel and equipment to Belgium after a series of drone sightings forced temporary closures at Brussels and Liege airports. Air Chief Marshal Richard Knighton said the deployment follows a formal request from Belgian authorities and aims to bolster detection and mitigation around critical … Read more
Lead The Federal Aviation Administration ordered all McDonnell Douglas MD-11 aircraft grounded this weekend after a UPS MD-11 crashed shortly after takeoff from Louisville, Ky., last week, killing 14 people. UPS and FedEx both voluntarily grounded MD-11s and Boeing urged operators to suspend MD-11 flights while engineers perform additional analysis. The directive bars MD-11 operations … Read more
Senators are closing in on a short-term agreement to reopen the government after the longest shutdown in U.S. history, with several Senate Democrats indicating they would back a plan if the White House grants a few final concessions. The emerging approach would pair a stopgap funding extension through January with a larger package to fully … Read more
Hamas handed over the remains of Lt. Hadar Goldin to Israeli authorities on Nov. 9, 2025, ending an 11-year uncertainty for his family after he was taken during the 2014 Gaza conflict. Israeli forensic testing confirmed the identity of the 23-year-old, whose body had been held in Gaza since the Rafah skirmish in August 2014. … Read more
Lead CHICAGO — On Nov. 9, 2025, New York Giants rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart was ruled out with a concussion in the fourth quarter of the Giants’ 24-20 loss to the Chicago Bears. Dart took a heavy hit during a third-quarter fumble, visited the blue medical tent between quarters and walked slowly into the locker … Read more
Lead: Tim Davie, the BBC’s director general, and Deborah Turness, the corporation’s head of News, both announced their resignations on Sunday after criticism that a Panorama programme misrepresented a passage of Donald Trump’s 6 January 2021 speech. The departures come after publication of an internal memo that said two separate portions of the speech—more than … Read more
Lead: Delta Air Lines is carrying out an FAA and U.S. Department of Transportation directive to scale back operations at 40 major U.S. airports, beginning Nov. 7. The carrier completed planned FAA-directed cancellations through Tuesday, Nov. 11 as of its Nov. 9 update, while weather and air-traffic-control (ATC) staffing strains drove additional disruptions over the … Read more
Lead: A stacked deep image of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, obtained by Frank Niebling and Michael Buechner between 05:08–05:22 UT on November 9, 2029, reveals two sunward anti-tail jets reaching 10 arcminutes and a collimated tail jet extending 30 arcminutes away from the Sun. At the reported Earth–3I/ATLAS distance of 326 million kilometers these angles correspond … Read more
Lead Over the weekend of Nov. 8–9, 2025, disruptions tied to the U.S. government shutdown spread from the nation’s skies to its grocery lines. Federal limits on flights at 40 busy airports and growing air-traffic controller absences forced thousands of cancellations and rising delays, while the Agriculture Department moved to block states that began issuing … Read more
