Connections: Sports Edition is a new version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans. Like the original Connections, the game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints and tips to get you over the hurdle. Read More

President-elect picks Fox News personalities and key loyalists as he looks to fill crucial agency and advisory roles. In a flurry of announcements late Friday evening, Donald Trump released his picks for some of the most important agency and advisory roles in the country, further revealing his preference for Fox News personalities and those that are loyal to him. Read More

Howard Lutnick and Scott Bessent, commerce and Treasury nominees respectively, are sure to ignore economist’s warnings and follow Trump’s lead. Certain events happen during every presidential campaign. The parties crown their candidates. The candidates debate on live TV, with millions watching. Tens of millions heads to the polls. And at some point in this process, Jamie Dimon will be tipped as the next Treasury secretary. Sure enough, the veteran boss of JPMorgan Chase – Wall Street’s de facto ambassador to the world – was, indeed, linked with the role this time around as the Kamala Harris and Donald Trump campaigns mulled their options in the final stretch of the 2024 presidential election. Read More

Readers, Instead of sucking up to the political and corporate powers that dominate America, The Daily Caller is fighting for you — our readers. We humbly ask you to consider joining us in this fight. Now that millions of readers are rejecting the increasingly biased and even corrupt corporate media and joining us daily, there are powerful forces lined up to stop us: the old guard of the news media hopes to marginalize us; the big corporate ad agencies want to deprive us of revenue and put us out of business; senators threaten to have our reporters arrested for asking simple questions; the big tech platforms want to limit our ability to communicate with you; and the political party establishments feel threatened by our independence. Read More

When you buy through our links, Business Insider may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more Though Black Friday is still a week away, we're already seeing fantastic early discounts on the PS5. The best Black Friday PS5 deals available right now include savings on console bundles, SSDs, controllers, and more. It's rare to see PS5 sales this good, so we don't expect these deals to change dramatically once Black Friday actually comes around. Read More

Transgender ideology has made its way to the halls of Congress. For anyone who has been in the fight against the gender cult long enough, it was obvious that it would only be a matter of time before it came knocking on their door. Like most cults, it’s a cancer that spreads slowly at first, but if you don’t fight it, the disease will metastasize, killing you from every angle. The U.S. Congress is just its latest victim. Read More

Gwynne Shotwell spoke with investor Ron Baron about interstellar travel, competition among space companies and the potential for better tech regulation. Read More

We now confront a second Trump presidency. There’s not a moment to lose. We must harness our fears, our grief, and yes, our anger, to resist the dangerous policies Donald Trump will unleash on our country. We rededicate ourselves to our role as journalists and writers of principle and conscience. Today, we also steel ourselves for the fight ahead. It will demand a fearless spirit, an informed mind, wise analysis, and humane resistance. We face the enactment of Project 2025, a far-right supreme court, political authoritarianism, increasing inequality and record homelessness, a looming climate crisis, and conflicts abroad. The Nation will expose and propose, nurture investigative reporting, and stand together as a community to keep hope and possibility alive. The Nation’s work will continue—as it has in good and not-so-good times—to develop alternative ideas and visions, to deepen our mission of truth-telling and deep reporting, and to further solidarity in a nation divided. Read More

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces arrest if he travels to the UK, after an international arrest warrant was issued for him, Downing Street has indicated. A No 10 spokesman refused to comment on the specific case but said the government would fulfil its "legal obligations". Read More

Amazon on Friday announced it would invest an additional $4 billion in Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup founded by ex-OpenAI research executives. Read More

More than two weeks after Election Day, deep-blue California is still yet to finish counting ballots. The lengthy waiting period is the result of a combination of convoluted policy and a lack of manpower, with staffing shortages, lax mail-in ballot rules and a lengthy window to certify votes all impeding the process, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The two uncalled races could have significant impacts on the balance of power in the House as the GOP currently has just 219 seats locked up — one more than the 218 needed for a majority — with three of the seats to be left vacant as special elections are conducted to replace Trump cabinet nominees and former Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz. (RELATED: GOP Challenger Unseats Dem Incumbent To Win Alaska’s Lone House Seat) Read More

‘I served in Congress,’ Gaetz’s page says. ‘Trump nominated me to be US attorney general (that didn’t work out).’ The Florida Republican Matt Gaetz has made his first big move since withdrawing from consideration to be Donald Trump’s attorney general – by starting an account on Cameo, the website that lets ordinary people pay for video messages from celebrities, dubious or otherwise. The news website Semafor first reported the move on Friday. The revelation came a day after Gaetz withdrew from the confirmation process, under fire over a House ethics committee investigation of allegations of misconduct including allegedly paying an underage girl for sex – all of which Gaetz vehemently denies. Read More

Oklahoma senator Markwayne Mullin reportedly stalling promotion of Lt Gen Christopher Donahue. The US general who oversaw the withdrawal from Afghanistan and was famously photographed as the last American soldier to leave is seeing a promotion blocked by a sole Republican senator, multiple outlets reported. The move comes amid separate reports that the incoming Trump administration is considering courts martial, for offenses including treason, for officers involved in the evacuation. Read More

Teachers can opt in, but state is offering financial incentive of $60 a student for participating school districts. The Texas board of education voted 8-7 on Friday to approve a new Bible-based curriculum in elementary schools. The curriculum, called “Bluebonnet Learning”, could be implemented as soon as August 2025 and affects English and language arts teaching material for kindergarten through fifth grade public school classes. Read More

New regulations could add up to 200 Chinese chip companies to a trade restriction list, according to email. The Biden administration is set to unveil new export restrictions on China as soon as next week, the US Chamber of Commerce told members in a Thursday email. The new regulations could add up to 200 Chinese chip companies to a trade restriction list that bars most US suppliers from shipping goods to the targeted firms, the email from the powerful Washington-based lobbying group said, according to an excerpt seen by Reuters on Friday. Read More

I shopped at West Elm and Crate & Barrel to see which store had better holiday decor.Crate & Barrel offered chic, modern decorations, but West Elm had classic, cozy options.As an interior designer, I liked both stores, but West Elm ultimately felt warmer and more festive. As an interior designer, I use my eye and skills when decorating for the holidays. Read More

Taco Bell is reviving five menu items from past decades for a limited time.The nostalgic menu includes items like the Tostada, Meximelt, and Gordita Supreme.We tried the new Decades menu, and the Caramel Apple Empanada was our clear favorite. Taco Bell is the latest fast-food brand to bank on nostalgia, with a new limited-time menu featuring fan-favorite items from the past. Read More

The ICC’s arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders challenge decades of impunity, testing global resolve to uphold international justice. The arrest warrants from the international criminal court (ICC) for the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the defence minister Yoav Gallant, and the Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif, represent a historic milestone in the fight for accountability over war crimes. Hamas’s October massacre of 1,200 Israelis was a shocking violation of international humanitarian law, justifying prosecution. However, with many of Hamas’s senior commanders killed in Israeli military strikes, courtroom justice may remain elusive. For Israel’s leadership, the ICC’s action ends decades of perceived impunity and challenges what critics describe as Israel’s longstanding “shield of immunity”. There were predictable reactions: Mr Netanyahu condemned the ICC’s decision as “antisemitic”, while Hamas praised the warrants against Israel’s leaders as an “important historical precedent”. The ICC’s jurisdiction over Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem provides the legal foundation for this bold step. Yet, the real test of these warrants lies with the ICC’s 124 member states, which are legally obliged to arrest the accused and transfer them to The Hague. Failure to act would expose international law as a facade, undermining its credibility and allowing powerful nations and their allies to trample justice with impunity. Enforcing these warrants is not just a legal obligation – it is a moral imperative to uphold the principle that no leader is above the law. Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Read More

Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing Trump’s case, did not provide a new sentencing date in his scheduling order. The sentencing in Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal hush-money case has been postponed indefinitely while attorneys on both sides argue over its future given his recent win. Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing Trump’s case, did not provide a new sentencing date in his one-page scheduling order on Friday. Read More

An infant has died and 10 adults have been sickened amid a four-state listeria outbreak connected to ready-to-eat meat products, officials said. The outbreak has been tied to ready-to-eat meat produced by Yu Shang Food, Inc. of Spartanburg, South Carolina, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in an update Friday. Read More

Anthony Irungu / BBC The mourners at a cemetery in crisis-hit Mozambique's capital, Maputo, were strikingly young - children shedding tears as they bade farewell to a 16-year-old friend, who was shot dead while banging pots and pans in an opposition-organised protest against the outcome of last month's presidential election. "Antonio was shot in the mouth, and the bullet went through the back of his head," his uncle, Manuel Samuel, told the BBC. Read More

Cool change expected to push through state late on Saturday, bringing intense rain and thunderstorms across the wider region into next week.Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Extreme fire danger alerts are in place in parts of Victoria, as swathes of south-east Australia continue to swelter through a heatwave sweeping across the region. However, the weather system driving the warm conditions is expected to bring a cool change by late on Saturday for much of Victoria, before it triggers intense rain and thunderstorms by the end of the weekend and into the middle of next week. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email. Read More

"Outlander" season seven has seen one major member of Jamie Fraser's family recast.Jenny Murray was played by Laura Donnelly in earlier seasons.As of season seven part two, Kristin Atherton has taken over the role. Warning: Spoilers ahead for "Outlander" season seven, episode nine, "Unfinished Business." Read More

When we started dating eight years ago, my now-wife said she didn't want kids. I wanted to have kids, but I chose to put my focus on our relationship and it paid off. We enjoy our childfree marriage and have dogs that we put sweaters on. When starting a relationship, the topic of kids will come up at some point. And in certain situations, one person isn't interested in bringing children into their lives. That is exactly what happened with my wife and I. Read More

The police chief of a small town in central Mexico took his own life as troops closed in to arrest him as part of a large-scale anticorruption raid that also detained the mayor of another town Read More

On Friday, Florida’s Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced that communities in the state shouldn’t add fluoride to drinking water because of what he called the “neuropsychiatric risk associated with fluoride exposure.” Read More

Getty Images The stakes have never been higher in the Ukraine-Russia war. In the week that saw the conflict pass its 1000th day, Western powers substantially boosted Ukraine's military arsenal - and the Kremlin made its loudest threats yet of a nuclear strike. Read More

A study suggests that expanded screening for lung cancer could save more lives, especially among Black Americans. A 70-year-old woman who participated in the study says she was saved by earlier screening. NBC News' Anne Thompson. Read More

CNBC's Jim Cramer on Friday previewed next week's important Wall Street action, suggesting it's wise to pay attention to a slew of retail earnings as well as reports from Dell and CrowdStrike. He also said that the coming week is typically a good one for the market and advised investors to ring the register on some of their more volatile stocks that have seen significant gains. "If you have huge profits in the month of November, could you do me a favor?" he said. "I would show a little thanks next week and take something off the table in your most risky positions." Read More

Whoever said happy and healthy don't mix probably hasn't tasted the nutritional fare the happiest place on earth has to offer. Sure, Disneyland and adjacent Disney California Adventure (DCA) offer plenty of unhealthy foods like fried Monte Cristo sandwiches, Ghirardelli milkshakes, and cream-covered churros — and it's a major blemish that the park doesn't publish calorie content on its menus or websites. But Disney is known for working harder than most theme parks at providing a wide variety of nutrient-dense foods to choose from. Read More

Makeup artist Alexandra Rutkay launched City Mouse after growing frustrated by most diaper bags. Her side hustle now brings in six figures in annual revenue. Read More

Vancouver-based UniDoc Health is releasing a shippable doctor’s office, lab, or even tiny mobile hospital. It’s called the H3 Health Cube, and the company says its AI-powered health clinics will deliver medical care closer to those in rural areas, bringing high-tech diagnostic tools and real-time automated triage assessments to wherever there’s a need. “Limited access to comprehensive medical care affects people globally, particularly remote areas with limited transportation and infrastructure,” Antonio Baldassarre, CEO of UniDoc, said in a statement. “The H3 Health Cube can help to fill the gap for care and reduce the burden placed on hospitals and local clinics by offering robust medical care access independently of existing infrastructure.” Read More

Social media censorship and arrests over posts online have become prevalent in the United Kingdom (U.K.), especially in 2024. The U.K. has been at the forefront of implementing digital speech laws that regulate what civilians can and cannot say online, with prohibitions on what it defines as “hate speech” or disinformation. As the country’s definition of what constitutes acceptable speech expands, individuals with seemingly no harmful intent have found themselves under arrest or criminally charged, especially this year, according to a review of multiple reports. (RELATED: Trump, Elon Musk Reportedly Spoke To Zelenskyy About Future Support For Ukraine) Read More

(Permanent Musical Accompaniment To The Last Post Of The Week From The Blog's Favourite Living Canadian) So is Pete Hegseth, Fox weekend host, Urban I fan boy, and nominee for Secretary of Defense, the next one over the side? By what we now can call the Gaetz Standard, he ought to be. He's vain, unqualified, and he has a history of sexual assault allegations that he denies, but which has a considerable mound of evidence piling up behind it. And Vanity Fair seems to think the skids are getting greasy beneath him. Read More

Far-right influencer and self-described misogynist Andrew Tate has become the target of an anonymous hacktivist group. Sensitive data from hundreds of thousands of subscribers to Tate’s “online university” was stolen. On Thursday, hackers announced their breach of Tate's "The Real World" website by flooding the private members' chatroom with pro-feminist emojis and transgender pride flags, as first reported by DailyDot. The hackers also uploaded an emoji featuring an AI-generated photo of Tate with an exaggerated rear end, draped in the trans pride flag. Tate was streaming on the right-wring video platform Rumble while the hackers took over his website's primary chatroom. Read More

In the emerging AI software battle between Microsoft and Salesforce , investors do not need to pick a side. Jim Cramer says own both. The news Deutsche Bank on Friday raised its price target on Salesforce to $365 a share from $325, implying nearly 9% upside from Thursday's close. Analysts cited the software maker's new suite of artificial intelligence tools, dubbed Agentforce, as a catalyst for additional stock gains. "Our industry conversations suggest bullishness around Agentforce and how it is driving renewed interest in the core Salesforce portfolio," the analysts said in a note ahead of Salesforce's Dec. 3 earnings report. With Agentforce, customers can create AI agents that are capable of taking action and completing tasks without supervision — for example, updating a shipping address on an order after it was already placed. While Deutsche Bank said its industry checks indicate Salesforce inked an Agentforce deal in the mid-seven figures, analysts still had a word of caution for clients. Investors should not "get too far ahead of the opportunity as it remains very early days" for Agentforce, they wrote. After all, Salesforce didn't roll out Agentforce for general availability until Oct. 25. Shares of Salesforce are up 1.5% Friday, extending a more-than-30% rally that began in mid-September when the company detailed Agentforce at its influential annual conference. The stock on Friday afternoon traded within a dollar of its all-time closing high of $341.73, set on Nov. 11. CRM YTD mountain Salesforce (CRM) year-to-date performance Big picture Agentforce is the company's second attempt to capitalize on the generative AI boom that began two years ago with the launch of ChatGPT. Its first initiative, which carried the Einstein Copilot branding, largely failed to move the needle. The reception to Agentforce on Wall Street has been quite positive. With its second foray,... Read More

I’ve always been a little bit of a skeptic when it comes to Amazon Echo devices. Most of my family were early adopters — even my parents have multiple Echos throughout their home — but, while I love the concept of a fully integrated smart home, I wasn’t really sure if adding an Alexa device would really “level up” my experience. While I use (and love) things like WiFi-enabled lights and a smart thermostat, I was satisfied with using my iPhone to help me control all of these devices. When I got the opportunity to try out the 3rd generation of the Amazon Echo Show 10, however, I was able to see for myself if it was just a glorified speaker or something more robust. Everything you need to know about the Echo Show 10 Straight out of the box, the Echo Show 10 was a quick and easy install. Once I decided where it was going to live on my kitchen counter, it only took a few minutes to connect it to my WiFi, give it access to my Amazon account, and install a few updates before it was ready to go. Read More

The woman at the center of sexual assault allegations against Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth did not appear to witnesses to be intoxicated before or after their sexual encounter, according to the police report on the incident. The alleged victim, referred to throughout the redacted report as “Jane Doe,” said that she did not remember details of how she returned from a bar to a hotel room with Hegseth or much of their tryst, possibly because she may have been drugged or because she had been drinking, the police report states. However, multiple witnesses who recounted what they saw that night in October 2017 to the investigating police officers said that Jane Doe did not appear to be drunk before or after the sexual encounter. Read More

Russia has a stock of powerful new missiles "ready to be used", President Vladimir Putin has said, a day after his country fired a new ballistic missile at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. In an unscheduled TV address, the Russian leader said the Oreshnik missile could not be intercepted and promised to carry out more tests, including in "combat conditions". Read More

Richard Lingeman. Noel Parmentel was, according to his former lover and mentee, Joan Didion, the ‘outsider who lived by his ability to manipulate the inside.’ The post Sundays With Noel appeared first on The Nation. Read More

Six foreign tourists, including an unnamed U.S. man, have died of suspected methanol poisoning in Laos, Southeast Asia. The tourists are thought to have fallen ill after drinking alcohol laced with the deadly chemical about a week ago in the backpacking town of Vang Vieng. But methanol poisoning is has not yet been confirmed. Read More

A post on X implies that a SpaceX Super Heavy Booster rocket “exploded” unintentionally when landing in the Gulf of Mexico. SpaceX Super Heavy booster has exploded while attempting a landing in the Gulf of Mexico. pic.twitter.com/k8DkXsECG1 — 🆂🅲🅾🆃🆃 (@RandomHeroWX) November 19, 2024 Verdict: False The maneuver was pre-planned, and the result was expected. Fact […] Read More

Policy stances from the incoming Trump administration, bullish quarterly earnings and an "Elon Musk premium" led to lofty stock returns, experts said. Read More

Google's Pixel Tablet once felt like a solid contender in a crowded market. But apparently, it didn’t make enough of a splash, as the follow-up might have been canceled. Android Authority reported on Thursday that the so-called Pixel Tablet 2 has been canceled internally at Google before it was ever officially announced. The timing on this report is a bit strange for multiple reasons. Read More

We now confront a second Trump presidency. There’s not a moment to lose. We must harness our fears, our grief, and yes, our anger, to resist the dangerous policies Donald Trump will unleash on our country. We rededicate ourselves to our role as journalists and writers of principle and conscience. Today, we also steel ourselves for the fight ahead. It will demand a fearless spirit, an informed mind, wise analysis, and humane resistance. We face the enactment of Project 2025, a far-right supreme court, political authoritarianism, increasing inequality and record homelessness, a looming climate crisis, and conflicts abroad. The Nation will expose and propose, nurture investigative reporting, and stand together as a community to keep hope and possibility alive. The Nation’s work will continue—as it has in good and not-so-good times—to develop alternative ideas and visions, to deepen our mission of truth-telling and deep reporting, and to further solidarity in a nation divided. Read More

With the Biden administration's new student loan repayment plan is tied up in legal battles, millions of borrowers have had their monthly payments put on hold. Read More

Apple is reportedly working on a Siri LLM to compete with ChatGPT. While the voice assistant has been given some updates, this project will rebuild Siri from the ground up. Read More

A viral post shared on Threads claims 10 major companies, including Disney, have stopped posting on X as of November 2024.   View on Threads   Verdict: Misleading The claim is misleading. Only IBM and The Colbert Show have stopped posting on X, with their last activity on the platform being in late 2023. Fact […] Read More

A new report from the CDC finds that vaccination rates for the flu and COVID-19 are low so far this season. The agency has recommended flu and COVID shots for everyone six months and older. Read More

When Eric Brunner, an artist in Philadelphia, was diagnosed with ALS at just 33 years old, he turned to art to spotlight the diverse faces of people living with ALS through 3-D printed images that he hopes will spark a conversation about the disease. WCAU's Matt DeLucia reports. Read More