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More snow, cold expected this week

By Steve Zalusky
Nov 30, 2025 7:23 am - More snow and freezing temperatures are ahead for the suburbs, following a weekend snowstorm that made driving difficult and challenged best efforts to meet the onslaught with shovels and plows.
Airlines work to fix software glitch on A320 aircraft and some flights are disrupted

By AUDREY McAVOY
Nov 29, 2025 9:23 pm - Airlines around the world reported short-term disruptions heading into the weekend as they fixed software on a widely used commercial aircraft, after an analysis found the computer code may have contributed to a sudden drop in the altitude of a JetBlue plane last month.
Tom Stoppard, sparkling playwright who won an Oscar for ‘Shakespeare In Love,’ dies at 88

By JILL LAWLESS
Nov 29, 2025 9:19 pm - British playwright Tom Stoppard, a playful, probing dramatist who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s “Shakespeare In Love,” has died. He was 88.
Senate committee vows ‘vigorous oversight’ in killing of boat strike survivors

By Victoria Bisset, Alex Horton, Ellen Nakashima and Noah Robertson
Nov 29, 2025 9:15 pm - The head of the Republican-led Senate Armed Services Committee has pledged “vigorous oversight” after a Washington Post report that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken order to kill all crew members during the first U.S. strike against suspected drug smugglers in the Caribbean earlier this year.
US halts all asylum decisions after shooting of National Guard members

By CEDAR ATTANASIO, COLLIN BINKLEY, and BEN FINLEY
Nov 29, 2025 9:05 pm - The Trump administration has halted all asylum decisions and paused issuing visas for people traveling on Afghan passports, seizing on the National Guard shooting in the nation's capital to intensify efforts to rein in legal immigration.
Authorities probe corruption and negligence in Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades

By CHAN HO-HIM and HUIZHONG WU
Nov 29, 2025 7:55 pm - Hong Kong's deadliest fire in decades has raised questions about corruption and negligence in the renovations of the apartment complex where at least 128 people died.
Blaming some child deaths on COVID shots, FDA vows stricter vaccine rules

By Dan Diamond and Rachel Roubein
Nov 29, 2025 7:25 pm - The nation’s top vaccine regulator on Friday laid out a stricter approach for federal vaccine approvals, citing his team’s conclusion, without detailing the evidence, that coronavirus vaccines had contributed to the deaths of at least 10 children, according to an internal Food and Drug Administration email obtained by The Washington Post.
Trump says airlines should consider Venezuelan airspace closed

By Michael Birnbaum, Tara Copp, Victoria Bisset and Samantha Schmidt
Nov 29, 2025 5:56 pm - President Donald Trump on Saturday said that commercial airlines should consider Venezuelan airspace closed, increasing pressure on the country’s leadership after weeks of escalating tensions between Washington and Caracas and the growing threat of a U.S. attack against the country.
Trump ramps up reporter attacks with White House media bias tracker

By Scott Nover
Nov 29, 2025 5:01 pm - The White House launched a page on its website Friday devoted to naming and shaming media outlets and reporters that publish stories it disagrees with.
Why a 400-mile long fog bank lingered over California for a week

By Matthew Cappucci
Nov 29, 2025 4:47 pm - A fog bank hundreds of miles long in California’s Central Valley reappeared every day for a week and was likely to linger into the weekend.

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