November 2025 NEWS

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Cleveland Guardians pitcher Luis Ortiz appeared in federal court Monday on charges accusing him and teammate Emmanuel Clase of taking bribes to help associates in their native Dominican Republic win prop bets placed on pitches they threw.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Donald Cabell in Boston granted Ortiz his release but with several conditions, including that he surrender his passport, restrict his travel to the Northeast and post a $500,000 bond, $50,000 of it secured. He also was ordered to avoid contact with anyone who could be viewed as a victim, witness or co-defendant in the case.

Donald Trump became the first sitting president in nearly a half-century at a regular-season NFL game, attending the Washington Commanders’ 44-22 loss to the visiting Detroit Lions on Sunday. There were loud boos from some spectators in the stands when Trump was shown on the videoboard late in the first half — standing in a suite with House Speaker Mike Johnson — and again when the president was introduced by the stadium announcer at halftime.

NOW: The Senate has begun a series of votes that will end with a final vote to pass a compromise funding package to reopen the government. If approved, the House will have to return and adopt the deal before it is sent to President Donald Trump’s desk to be signed.

• President’s reaction: Trump this afternoon said he supports the Senate federal funding deal to reopen the government in exchange for a future vote on extending enhanced Affordable Care subsidies.

President Donald Trump, embattled by America’s growing affordability problems, has once again floated a unique solution: Sending Americans rebate checks for the tariffs that his administration has collected.

“People that are against Tariffs are FOOLS!” Trump posted on Truth Social Sunday. “A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high income people!) will be paid to everyone.” It’s a bold promise with several significant complications.

A Michigan Democrat seeking his party’s nomination for the U.S. Senate scrubbed his past support for defunding the police from his X account, CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck found. “Most major US cities spend WAY TOO MUCH on police departments to police poverty & WAY TOO LITTLE on public schools, health departments, recreation departments, & housing to eliminate poverty. Fixing that is what the #Defund movement is about,” declared Abdul El-Sayed in 2020.

Allison Mack — the former “Smallville” star, who became known as the infamous enabler of NXIVM leader Keith Raniere as the Ghislaine Maxwell to his Jeffrey Epstein — is finally telling her story in the new CBC podcast “Allison After NXIVM.” The seven-episode podcast, part of CBC’s “Uncover,” premiered on Nov. 10, is hosted by Natalie Robehmed and produced by Vanessa Grigoriadis of Campside Media. 

A Malaysian court remanded popular rapper Namewee in custody on Monday, his lawyer said, part of a murder investigation looking into the death of a Tawainese influencer in a Kuala Lumpur hotel room. Namewee, whose real name is Wee Meng Chee, handed himself over to police on Wednesday after he was named a "person of interest" in the probe into the death of Iris Hsieh, also known as Hsieh Yu-hsin, or "nurse goddess" to fans.

The 31-year-old influencer was found dead on Oct. 22 in a bathtub at a high-end hotel in the Malaysian capital. She was in Malaysia to discuss a commercial video Namewee had agreed to direct, her social media manager told the BBC.

William Meyers, a 19-year-old Ohio State University student, was found dead on Sept. 26. The university said at the time that no foul play was suspected. An autopsy report stated Meyers died by suicide. Authorities have announced the cause of death for an Ohio State University student whose body was found inside the school’s stadium.

Betty Harford, who was best known for playing Carrington family cook Hilda on Dynasty, died in Santa Barbara, California, on Sunday, November 2. She was 98.The actress “passed away peacefully with family at her side,” according to a friend’s Facebook post. No other details were shared.

For more than two weeks now during the government shutdown, Imelda Avila-Thomas has been trying in vain to get approved for unemployment compensation to help cover essentials such as food and mortgage payments for her family while she's on unpaid furlough from her federal government job. 

The state program intended to give additional exposure to businesses owned by women, minorities and disabled veterans seeking state contracts was frozen by the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts’ office this week, the latest instance of Republican state officials targeting a program perceived as promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. Information regarding the Historically Underutilized Business program was removed from the comptroller’s website and the office said it was pausing the issuance of all new and renewed certifications for state procurement, according to a statement by the comptroller’s office.

President Donald Trump sees tariffs — or the threat of them — as a powerful tool to bend nations to his will. He has used them in an unprecedented way, not only as the underpinning of his economic agenda, but also as the cornerstone of his foreign policy in his second term. He has wielded the import taxes as a threat to secure cease fires from countries at war. He has used them to browbeat nations into promising to do more to stop people and drugs from flowing across their borders. He has used them, in Brazil's case, as political pressure because its judicial system prosecuted a former leader who was a Trump ally, and in a recent blowup with Canada, as punishment for a television ad. This week, the Supreme Court hears arguments on whether the Republican president has overstepped federal law with many of his tariffs. A ruling against him could limit or even take away that swift and blunt leverage that much of his foreign policy has relied on.

 Lost prophets singer Ian Watkins was found dead after being attacked in jail on Saturday, according to BBC. He was 48. Watkins was sentenced to 29 years in prison at HMP Wakefield after he was convicted of multiple sexual assault and exploitation offenses, including heinous crimes against children, babies and animals. West Yorkshire Police confirmed the 48-year-old singer’s death after being called to the prison on Saturday morning about an assaulted prisoner and finding Watkins. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Name a better flavor duo than chocolate and peanut butter. I’ll wait. The two are divine in ice cream, creamy spreads, layered desserts, chewy cookies, you name it. So earlier this month when Oreo and Reese’s announced they were collaborating on an Oreo x Reese’s cookie and a Reese’s x Oreo cup, I RACED (aka swiftly emailed the brands) to snag some more details. I was lucky enough to try some ahead of their official launch (work perks!), and I’m happy to report that this collaboration is everything I dreamed of and more.

A father of one of the slain University of Idaho students is calling for a harsher form of justice for Bryan Kohberger. Steve Goncalves, whose daughter Kaylee was among the four students murdered, said in a new interview that he initially thought that the convicted killer's commissary funds should be used to pay for a firing squad.

Six people, including a 5-year-old girl, were injured in a Baltimore shooting on Aug. 9. Baltimore police said they responded to the scene of the shooting at 8:46 p.m. Shots rang out at Spaulding and Queensbury Avenues, an intersection in northwestern Baltimore, police said in a statement on X. They called the incident a mass shooting.

Cambodia’s prime minister said on Thursday he has nominated US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, lauding his “extraordinary statesmanship” in halting a border conflict between Cambodia and Thailand. 

 QUITO, Ecuador — He says he was 18 years old when he first joined a gang in Ecuador a decade ago. Now a senior commander with a wife and kids, the man almost casually acknowledges he’s contributing to the deadly drug trade plaguing the country.