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Cold #temperatures and heavy #rainfall are worsening already dire conditions for displaced #Palestinian families across #Gaza, as #Israel continues to block the deliveries of #tents and other critical #shelter supplies into the besieged #territory.⁠
November 17, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Everything is less affordable these days, it seems — including the humble #penny.

The cost of minting a single #penny has surged way beyond its actual value, to 3.69 cents in 2024 from 0.93 cents 20 years earlier, according to the U.S. Mint.
November 17, 2025 at 4:58 AM
🚨 The Dept of #Homeland Security, in response to pressure from Trump, is diverting #resources intended for fighting #terrorism and #child #abuse to focus on arresting #undocumented #immigrants, a New York Times investigation found. nyti.ms/3M5GZgb
November 16, 2025 at 9:24 PM
#Britain said it would make refugee status temporary and the wait for permanent settlement would be quadrupled to 20 years.

The govt said it would take inspiration from Denmark one of the toughest in Europe, where growing anti-immigrant sentiment has led to increased restrictions.

reut.rs/444rxHm
November 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
🤡 #CNN's Donie O'Sullivan goes inside a #Whites-only #settlement in #Arkansas and talks to its co-founder Eric #Orwoll about what led him to start it.

Watch "MisinfoNation: White Genocide," airing Sunday, November 16, at 8pm ET/PT on "The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper."
November 16, 2025 at 7:21 AM
How many #moons does #Earth have? #Astronomers recently detected a stray #quasi-moon in our planet’s #orbit, but this particular space #rock is just one of several—the latest in a perpetual parade of tiny, #moonlike #objects.

Learn more about quasi-moons: on.natgeo.com/BRWA20251511
November 16, 2025 at 6:48 AM
🤣 Trump says he's asking the #Justice Department to investigate Jeffrey Epstein's ties to #high-profile figures, including political #foes.
cnn.it/43ue2AA
November 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
🚨The sprawling 2023 #racketeering #indictment case against Trump and several allies for their efforts to overturn his 2020 #electoral defeat in #Georgia will continue and is now in the hands of a new #prosecutor.
cnn.it/3JLqtRZ
November 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The House #Oversight Committee on Wednesday released an additional 20,000 pages of #documents the #GOP-led panel received from the estate of Jeffrey #Epstein, a convicted sex offender whose death by #suicide spawned intense scrutiny of the #high-profile people he knew. cnn.it/48bkCyC
November 14, 2025 at 4:45 AM
⚠️Among the more than 20,000 Epstein documents released are several email exchanges Epstein had in 2015 and 2016 with friends, attorneys and reporters about the prospect of a Trump presidency.

In one email, Epstein writes: "would you like photso [sic] of donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen."
November 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
😱At least 69,182 #people, including at least 20,000 #children, have been killed in #Israeli attacks on #Gaza since October 2023.
November 12, 2025 at 9:12 AM
🚨BREAKING: The Supreme Court has extended Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's administrative stay of a lower court order that the Trump administration immediately complete payment of full SNAP benefits for November.
November 12, 2025 at 1:12 AM
🚨 BREAKING: Trump is pardoning #key #figures involved in the efforts to #overturn the 2020 #election, according to Ed Martin, the United States Pardon Attorney.
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM
💯 Zohran #Mamdani’s election as New York’s next #mayor exposed a deepening rift between traditional #Democratic #Jewish voters and younger #progressives — one that could reshape politics for years in the metropolitan area with the #world’s #largest #Jewish population outside #Israel.
November 9, 2025 at 8:19 PM
If #history is any guide, #AI risks turning educated workers into #revolutionaries, Adrian Wooldridge writes.

Read more: bloom.bg/47QUec3

📷: VioletaStoimenova/E+
November 9, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Nearly a million people have evacuated their homes in the Philippines as the country braced for another powerful storm, days after a typhoon killed at least 224 people
November 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
🚨The #UN #Human #Rights #Office in #Sudan says that “brutal attacks” are escalating in #el-Fasher after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized the city in the western region of #Darfur last month.⁠
November 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
🛩 #Nationwide #flight #disruption stretched into Sunday following cancellations or delays to thousands of #flights on Saturday, as the #FAA limited #capacity at 40 major U.S. #airports amid the longest government #shutdown in American #history.
November 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
⚾️ The remote mining town of #Sangdong was on the brink of #extinction, as South Korea's #population crisis emptied rural communities. Now high school #baseball is giving it a second chance. Read more: bloom.bg/3LjSAYZ

📷: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
For the world’s rich, there’s no location more accommodating than #Dubai.

The emirate is attracting a flurry of wealthy movers, many of whom are drawn to the city’s tax advantages zero inheritance, capital gains and wealth taxes — as well as strong family infrastructure and high levels of security
November 8, 2025 at 11:52 PM
The Trump administration has moved to dissolve the ban on #Kilmar #Abrego #Garcia's removal so that it can proceed with his #deportation to #Liberia.

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November 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
🚨BREAKING: A Supreme Court justice has temporarily paused a lower court's ruling requiring the Trump administration to fully fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for the month of November by the end of Friday.
November 8, 2025 at 4:47 AM
👏 #Inter #Miami has announced a new contract for #Lionel #Messi, keeping one of soccer’s biggest names in the United States for the foreseeable future.
November 8, 2025 at 1:29 AM
🚨BREAKING: A court has denied the administration's request to lift a judge's order that it fully fund SNAP for November, as several states have already begun issuing benefits.
November 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
💩 BREAKING: #Tesla shareholders have awarded CEO Elon #Musk a pay package that could grant the tech entrepreneur nearly $1 #trillion in #compensation over the next decade.
November 6, 2025 at 11:39 PM