- Cory Mills Was Caught With Sex Workers Before Mission to Afghanistan in 2021, Sources Say NOTUS — News of the United States
- 'It was every night': New report exposes MAGA lawmaker's purported sex worker scandal rawstory.com
- A Work-Life Balance is always important..... Daily Kos
- Rep. Cory Mills Just Got Busted for Yet Another Sex Scandal: Report Yahoo
Zelenskyy’s lame-duck presidency – politico.eu
- Zelenskyy’s lame-duck presidency politico.eu
- Zelenskyy needs to change the way he governs Financial Times
- Zelensky is losing touch with reality The Telegraph
- Zelensky must get a grip of his government The Spectator
- The tragedy of Zelensky’s Ukraine Engelsberg Ideas
Pelosi calls Trump ‘the biggest con job in American history’ in reply to climate comment
US speaker emerita criticizes Trump’s anti-climate stance and his remarks to the UN general assembly
“President Trump is the biggest con job in American history,” said Nancy Pelosi, the US speaker emerita, to reporters on Thursday while criticizing his anti-climate agenda.
Donald Trump told the UN general assembly in September that the climate crisis was “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world”. But he was “projecting”, Pelosi said at a press conference. The meeting was convened by Democrats on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works to comment on the US’s official absence from the United Nations Cop30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, where 195 countries are represented.
Continue reading...Death toll reaches 33 in some of the deadliest Israeli strikes in Gaza since the ceasefire’s start – AP News
- Death toll reaches 33 in some of the deadliest Israeli strikes in Gaza since the ceasefire's start AP News
- Palestinians ‘squeezed’ as Israel moves beyond ‘yellow line’ in Gaza City Al Jazeera
- Israeli Strikes Kill at Least 25 in Gaza Amid Cease-Fire, Officials Say The New York Times
- Israeli airstrikes kill 33 people in Gaza in escalation of post-ceasefire attacks The Guardian
- Headlines for November 20, 2025 Democracy Now!
Russian Army Says It Captured Key City of Kupiansk as Putin Visits Command Post – The Moscow Times
- Russian Army Says It Captured Key City of Kupiansk as Putin Visits Command Post The Moscow Times
- Russian forces take Ukraine's Kupiansk, top military official says, Ukraine denies it Reuters
- Ukraine War Latest Update: Kremlin Announces Capture of Major Ukraine City That Didn’t Happen Kyiv Post
- Kremlin Says Around 5,000 Ukrainian Troops Are Trapped in the Kharkiv Region U.S. News & World Report
- 'Cheap provocations' — Ukraine denies Russia's claim that it has captured Kupiansk, as fighting continues The Kyiv Independent
Iran Withdraws From Deal to Let International Nuclear Inspections Resume – The New York Times
- Iran Withdraws From Deal to Let International Nuclear Inspections Resume The New York Times
- Iran cancels new nuclear inspections it agreed to after bombing campaign The Washington Post
- IAEA passes resolution demanding nuclear access from Iran; Tehran rejects Al Jazeera
- Introductory Statement to the Board of Governors International Atomic Energy Agency
- IAEA puts pressure on Iran, targeting 60% enriched uranium The Jerusalem Post
Documents reveal Gerald Ford’s effort to block report on CIA assassination plots
Release of documents comes amid conjecture Trump may have authorized the agency to assassinate Venezuelan president
The White House under Gerald Ford tried to block a landmark Senate report that disclosed the CIA’s role in assassination attempts against foreign leaders and ultimately led to a radical overhaul in how the agency was held to account, documents released to mark the 50th anniversary of the report’s publication reveal.
The documents, dating from 1975, were posted on Thursday by the National Security Archive, an independent research group, as it sought to highlight the report’s significance amid conjecture that Donald Trump may have authorized the agency to assassinate Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, amid a massive US military build-up against the country.
Continue reading...Fire forces evacuation from climate summit as talks reach critical stage – Politico
- Fire forces evacuation from climate summit as talks reach critical stage Politico
- 'Huge columns of smoke': BBC at the scene of fire at COP30 BBC
- Fire prompts evacuations at U.N. climate talks in Brazil; 13 suffer smoke inhalation NPR
- Cop30 climate summit in Brazil disrupted after fire breaks out in venue The Guardian
- Fire breaks out in pavilion at COP30 venue in Brazil The Hindu
Spycops inquiry: Doreen Lawrence says she does not believe ex-home secretary
Stephen Lawrence’s mother tells inquiry she did not believe Michael Howard when he told her he did not know police had spied on her family
The mother of the murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence has told a public inquiry that she does not believe claims by the former home secretary Michael Howard that he did not know undercover police officers had spied on her family.
Doreen Lawrence told the spycops inquiry on Thursday that Lord Howard, a former leader of the Conservative party, invited her to a meeting shortly after the inquiry was set up in 2014.
Continue reading...Bush lauds Dick Cheney as a ‘thinker and listener’ at funeral
Cheney died aged 84 from complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease in early November.
COP30 climate talks evacuated after fire breaks out
Thousands of people are attending the UN climate talks in Brazil.
UK’s Covid response was ‘too little, too late’ and cost thousands of lives, inquiry says – CNN
- UK’s Covid response was ‘too little, too late’ and cost thousands of lives, inquiry says CNN
- 'Fatal cost' of 'toxic No 10' and 'Migration overhaul' BBC
- ‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response The Guardian
- Ex-UK PM Johnson oversaw 'chaotic' response to COVID which led to more deaths, inquiry finds Reuters
- Lockdowns could have been avoided entirely, Covid inquiry finds The Telegraph
As Russia is accused of hybrid warfare against the West, vital undersea cables show their vulnerability – CBS News
- As Russia is accused of hybrid warfare against the West, vital undersea cables show their vulnerability CBS News
- 99% of the Internet Runs Through These Cables and They’re at Risk Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- CHAIRMAN CARLOS GIMENEZ HOLDS HEARING TO EXAMINE THREATS POSED TO SUBSEA CABLES Congressman Carlos Gimenez (.gov)
- Review of Submarine Cable Landing License Rules and Procedures To Assess Evolving National Security, Law Enforcement, Foreign Policy, and Trade Policy Risks Foundation for Defense of Democracies
- Protection our undersea cables The Australian Naval Institute
Covid inquiry: Lockdown could have been avoided and other key findings – BBC
- Covid inquiry: Lockdown could have been avoided and other key findings BBC
- Martin Rowson on the report into the UK’s response to Covid – cartoon The Guardian
- Boris Johnson ‘beyond contempt’ for attack on Covid inquiry’s findings and refusal to apologise The Independent
- Ex-UK PM Johnson oversaw 'chaotic' response to COVID which led to more deaths, inquiry finds Reuters
- Baroness Hallett has dodged the key Covid questions The Times
US in talks to attend G20 summit after initial boycott, South Africa says
Cyril Ramaphosa says US has had ‘change of mind’ but does not confirm Trump’s attendance in Johannesburg
The US has changed its mind about attending the G20 summit in Johannesburg, South Africa’s president has said, without confirming whether Donald Trump, who had said the US would boycott the event, now wanted to come.
Trump has claimed that South Africa racially discriminates against the minority white Afrikaner community, which led the country during the apartheid regime that ended in 1994.
Continue reading...‘Chaotic’ culture in UK government led to more COVID deaths, inquiry finds
An inquiry commissioned in 2021 has found ex-PM Boris Johnson failed to act decisively to combat the global pandemic.
Spain’s attorney general convicted in controversial leak case
Álvaro García Ortiz is barred from the post for two years and must pay €10,000 in compensation.
UK to Allow High-Earners New, Faster Visa Path to Residency – Bloomberg.com
- UK to Allow High-Earners New, Faster Visa Path to Residency Bloomberg.com
- Want to Immigrate to the UK? The Government Says You Must Earn It. The New York Times
- Labour’s immigration policy is not the Britain we want | Letters The Guardian
- Some migrants to face 20-year wait for settled status BBC
- Will Britain copy asylum policy from a place with poor integration? The Economist
‘Punishable by DEATH’: Trump threatens Democrats with sedition charges
The US president forcefully denounced Democratic lawmakers for calling on the military to reject any 'illegal orders'.
Israel finds underground terror city built by Hamas in Gaza – The Jerusalem Post
- Israel finds underground terror city built by Hamas in Gaza The Jerusalem Post
- Hamas commander's diary found in Gaza details use of schools, hospitals, UNRWA equipment – report The Times of Israel
- Hamas member's diary published, reveals exploitation of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure Yahoo
- IDF publishes footage of Hamas tunnel shaft located inside abandoned school in northern Gaza The Times of Israel
- Explosive Testimony: IDF Soldier Confirms Armed Hamas Terrorists Steal H JFeed