11.4.25
ABCnews.com—Zohran Mamdani wins NYC's mayoral race, one of several Democrats who won important off-year elections today
BBC News—California voters approve redistricting measure which will allow the state to create new Democratic districts in response to the GOP-led Texas legislature doing the same thing for Republicans
CNN.com—Former vice president and piece of human garbage Dick Cheney is finally dead. Despite his turn against Trump in the past few years, he is still one of the major architects of the lawlessness of the current Republican party, and he never repented his actions or had any consequences for them.
NBC News—Federal appeals court rules that Florida is allowed to ban Chinese citizens from buying property in the state
USA Today—Waymo plans to expand to Las Vegas, San Diego, and Detroit next year
CBS News—Trump re-nominates billionaire Jared Isaacman to lead NASA after pulling his previous nomination

11.5.25
BBC News—Thousands of flights cut at major US airports due to government shutdown
CNN.com—Man who threw a sandwich at a federal officer on the streets of DC found not guilty of assault by a jury
CBS News—The GOP supermajority on the Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to remove the non-binary X gender designation from US passports
NBC News—Nancy Pelosi announces that she will not seek another term in next year's Congressional elections
USA Today—Atlanta Braves name bench coach and former player Walt Weiss as their new manager
BBC News—Grand Theft Auto 6 delayed again, this time from fall 2025 to November 2026. The last game in the series was released over a decade ago.

11.6.25
CNN.com—Trump proposes $2,000 tariff rebate checks, which anyone with a basic grasp of math and facts knows will not happen
NBC News—Judge dismisses criminal conspiracy case against Boeing related to 737 Max crashes
ABCnews.com—OpenAI facing multiple lawsuits from people who claim that ChatGPT drove their loved ones to suicide and harmful delusions
BBC News—Trump asks Supreme Court to overturn E. Jean Carroll verdict, in which a jury found that he defamed and sexually abused the writer
USA Today—Dallas Cowboys player Marshawn Kneeland commits suicide at age 24
CBS News—Starbucks unionized works preparing to strike on Nov 13 if new contract is not finalized by then

11.11.25
BBC News—Senate passes funding bill, meaning the end of the government shutdown will likely happen in the next few days
CBS News—Judge orders ICE to release hundreds of people who were illegally detained in Chicago o peration
ABCnews.com—Trump proposes 50 year mortgage plan to increase home ownership. Of course this would also mean that people might not live long enough to pay it off and therefore would never truly own their property.
USA Today—Former NFL star Antonio Brown pleads not guilty to attempted murder charge in Florida after being extradited from Dubai
NBC News—3 Bob Ross paintings auctioned for $600,000 to help with funding PBS and NPR in the wake of the GOP cuts to the nonprofit media outlets
CNN.com—Canada loses its status as a country that had eliminated measles after massive outbreak

11.12.25
ABCnews.com—House Dems release new trove of Epstein emails that specifically reference Trump
CBS News—Judge orders ICE to release hundreds of people who were illegally detained in Chicago operation
BBC News—The US Mint stops producing pennies
CNN.com—Kansas county agrees to publicly apologize and pay $3 million in damages to small town newspaper that was illegal raided by the police
NBC News—US bishops officially ban gender-affirming care at Catholic hospitals
USA Today—Disney releases first trailer for Toy Story 5

11.13.25
CBS News—Federal agencies begin to reopen after the shutdown ends
CNN.com—Trump's DOJ sues California over new electoral maps that were overwhelmingly approved by the state's voters. If the DOJ thinks this is wrong, why didn't they take similar action months ago when the Texas legislature did this unilaterally with no voter input? We all know why: everything is allowed as long as a Republican is doing it.
NBC News—Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin spaceflight company achieves major milestone with launch of new Glenn rocket, which is designed to help get probes and supplies to Mars
BBC News—Oklahoma governor grants clemency to death row inmate hours before his planned execution
USA Today—Jesse Jackson hospitalized
ABCnews.com—MLS owners vote to shift the league calendar to be in sync with other major global leagues starting with the 2927-2028 season

11.18.25
ABCnews.com—House only has one No vote to release the Epstein files and Senate votes unanimously to release them, creating a veto-proof bill that will land on Trump's desk
CBS News—Trump welcomes Saudi Arabian crown prince to the White House who ordered the killing of a journalist critical of the Saudi royal family
CNN.com—Cloudflare outage takes down several popular website
BBC News—Roblox adds new security feature that prevents child accounts from talking to adult accounts who are strangers
NBC News—Trump administration still moving forward with plans to dismantle the Department of Education
USA Today—NBA fines Cavaliers for benching star players to give them a rest day even though they weren't injured

11.19.25
CBS News—A federal judge who was appointed by Trump blocks Texas' use of new heavily gerrymandered maps because they were explicitly created to disenfranchise minority racial groups
ABCnews.com—NATO planes scrambled after Russian strikes on Ukraine close to the borders of Romania and Poland
BBC News—Harvard launches probe into its former president Larry Summers after Epstein emails reveal deep ties to the sex trafficker
CNN.com—Judge agrees with Meta's arguments that it is not an illegal monopoly in the social media space despite owning Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp
NBC News—FAA returns airports to normal operations after reducing the number of flights due to the government shutdown
USA Today—Former US Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding indicted on murder and drug trafficking charges

11.20.25
USA Today—Federal judge rules that Trump's months-long deployment of the National Guard to DC is illegal. But who's going to hold him accountable or force the removal of the troops?
CNN.com—Trump opens parts of waters off the coasts of Florida and California to offshore oil drilling, breaking decades of precedent
CBS News—Fugees rapper Pras sentenced to 14 years in prison after being convicted of illegally funneling millions of dollars from foreign contributions to Obama's 2012 presidential campaign
ABCnews.com—$55 million sale of Frida Kahlo self-portrait sets new auction record for a female artist
NBC News—Pfizer's mRNA flu shot outperforms traditional flu shot in human clinical trials
BBC News—MLB signs new broadcast deals with Netflix, ESPN, and NBC

11.25.25
USA Today—Judge dismisses politically-motivated prosecutions of James Comey and Letitia James because the prosecutor who brought the charges was appointed illegally
CNN.com—Sales of AI-enabled teddy bear aimed at children suspended after it gave enaged in sexual explicit conversations
NBC News—New Twitter transparency feature reveals that many pro-MAGA accounts that claim to be based in the US are in fact based in other countries
CBS News—Toy inventor Burt Meyer, who created Lite Brite and Rock Em Sock Em Robots, dies at 99
BBC News—High school football coach facing child pornography charges is apparently on the run after going missing last week
ABCnews.com—Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff dies at 81