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Europe is using AI in health care without enough guardrails, WHO warns: just four out of 50 surveyed countries have national strategies for AI in health care (LINK) 19 November 2025
European Commission proposes delaying AI Act implementation to 2027 (LINK) 19 November 2025
US CDC on Wednesday revised its webpage to change its 'vaccines don’t cause autism' stance, and has updated it to "the claim 'vaccines do not cause autism' is not evidence-based" (LINK) 19 November 2025
— The updated webpage also states that "studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism." It added that studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.
Larry Summers going on leave at Harvard as university investigates ties to Jeffrey Epstein: The former treasury secretary announced earlier that he would step down from the board of directors at OpenAI. (LINK) 19 November 2025
Clay Higgins, US Louisiana congressman who voted no on Epstein files release (LINK) 19 November 2025
The Russian commander wanted by Ukraine over Bucha massacres: Yurii Vladimirovich Kim, 28, the lieutenant platoon commander in the 76th Air Assault Division is the first military official to be accused of systematic and coordinated war crimes related to the Bucha massacre: over 400 bodies were recovered after Russia carried out atrocities in the town of Bucha in 2022 (LINK) 19 November 2025
U.S. trade deficit drops 24% in August as Trump's tariffs reduce imports (LINK) 19 November 2025
Trump takes aim at State AI laws in draft Executive Order (LINK) 19 November 2025
Methane pollution still rises, but UN reports hope for near future reductions (LINK) 17 November 2025
— If countries do what they say in their climate-fighting plans, global methane emissions in 2030 will be 8% below 2020 levels. That would be an improvement, because with no effort at all, those emissions are expected to actually rise by 13%. But the goal of the 2021 U.N. global methane pledge is a 30% cut.
Cities now home to nearly half of humanity: UNDESA report (LINK) 18 November 2025
Catchup: Freed from 24-year prison term for $240m fraud of investors after 4 years by Trump in 2021, New Jersey con man gets 37 years in latest $44m scheme (LINK limited outside U.S.) 14 November 2025
Breaking news
Trump calls Democrat video to troops urging them not to obey unlawful commands 'seditious behaviour, punishable by death' (LINK) 20 November 2025
— Six lawmakers, all of whom have served in the military or intelligence community, called Trump's remarks dangerous and said they amounted to threats against elected officials. In a post Trump wrote: SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!" He also reposted a TruthSocial post that read "HANG THEM GEORGE WASHINGTON WOULD !!"
Trump's full 28-point Ukraine-Russia peace plan: plan presented to Zelensky on Thursday in writing. Afterward, Zelensky said he was prepared to hold talks about it with Trump and his team (LINK) 20 November 2025
Turkey set to host COP31 after reaching compromise with Australia (LINK) 20 November 2025
Germany pledges €1 billion to Brazil's rainforest fund (LINK) 19 November 2025
Major news
Europe is using AI in health care without enough guardrails, WHO warns: just four out of 50 surveyed countries have national strategies for AI in health care (LINK) 19 November 2025
European Commission proposes delaying AI Act implementation to 2027 (LINK) 19 November 2025
US CDC on Wednesday revised its webpage to change its 'vaccines don’t cause autism' stance, and has updated it to "the claim 'vaccines do not cause autism' is not evidence-based" (LINK) 19 November 2025
— The updated webpage also states that "studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism." It added that studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.
Larry Summers going on leave at Harvard as university investigates ties to Jeffrey Epstein: The former treasury secretary announced earlier that he would step down from the board of directors at OpenAI. (LINK) 19 November 2025
Clay Higgins, US Louisiana congressman who voted no on Epstein files release (LINK) 19 November 2025
The Russian commander wanted by Ukraine over Bucha massacres: Yurii Vladimirovich Kim, 28, the lieutenant platoon commander in the 76th Air Assault Division is the first military official to be accused of systematic and coordinated war crimes related to the Bucha massacre: over 400 bodies were recovered after Russia carried out atrocities in the town of Bucha in 2022 (LINK) 19 November 2025
U.S. trade deficit drops 24% in August as Trump's tariffs reduce imports (LINK) 19 November 2025
Trump takes aim at State AI laws in draft Executive Order (LINK) 19 November 2025
Methane pollution still rises, but UN reports hope for near future reductions (LINK) 17 November 2025
— If countries do what they say in their climate-fighting plans, global methane emissions in 2030 will be 8% below 2020 levels. That would be an improvement, because with no effort at all, those emissions are expected to actually rise by 13%. But the goal of the 2021 U.N. global methane pledge is a 30% cut.
Cities now home to nearly half of humanity: UNDESA report (LINK) 18 November 2025
Catchup: Freed from 24-year prison term for $240m fraud of investors after 4 years by Trump in 2021, New Jersey con man gets 37 years in latest $44m scheme (LINK limited outside U.S.) 14 November 2025
Miscellaneous
Bitcoin plunges: $82K is crucial to avoid a 2022-style BTC crash (LINK) 20 November 2025
Bitcoin crashes to 'extreme fear' and 7-month low — but history shows that's not a buy signal (LINK) 19 November 2025
Cameron Winkelvoss: This is the last time you'll ever be able to buy bitcoin below $90k! (LINK) 18 November 2025
The five winners of the 2025 National Book awards announced (LINK) 19 November 2025
— Nonfiction: Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Knopf / Penguin Random House. Publishers submitted a total of 1,835 books for this year's National Book Awards: 434 in Fiction, 652 in Nonfiction, 285 in Poetry, 139 in Translated Literature, and 325 in Young People's Literature.
Elon Musk announces massive xAI data center in Saudi Arabia (LINK) 19 November 2025
1914-16 portrait of Elisabeth Lederer by Klimt, hidden from public view for decades, sold for $236m: most expensive ever to be sold by Sotheby's (LINK) 18 November 2025
— The sale saw Klimt's canvas pass Andy Warhol's portrait of Marilyn Monroe, Shot Sage Blue Marilyn, 1964 (which sold at Christie's in New York in 2022 for $195m), to become the second priciest work of art ever to go under the hammer, behind Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi (Saviour of the World), c 1500, which sold in 2017 for $450.3m (£343m).
US: Baltimore bridge collapse in 2024 caused by one faulty wire: electrical failure on a container ship sent it on a collision course with the bridge, causing its partial collapse. (LINK) 18 November 2025
Woman pleads guilty to falsely claiming astronaut ex committed crime in space (LINK) 19 November 2025
Roger Federer elected to International Tennis Hall of Fame (LINK) 19 November 2025
— Federer's 20 Grand Slam count eventually was surpassed by Nadal, who got to 22 before retiring last year at age 38, and Djokovic, who has 24 and is still active at 38.TV announcer and journalist Mary Carillo, who also was a player, was elected in the contributor category. Carillo was the first woman to regularly commentate on tennis broadcasts and was a correspondent for HBO's "Real Sports". She won six Emmy Awards and three Peabody Awards and was inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame in 2018. The induction ceremony is in August.
We are slowly turning into scatterbrained zombies: Researchers analyzed 71 other studies and data from 98,299 participants, and concluded that short-form videos are making people's attention spans worse (LINK) 17 November 2025
Record-breaking storm brings flooding, road closures to Death Valley (LINK) 19 November 2025
Historic opera house on the edge of Death Valley now under threat of destruction from recent flooding — (LINK)
TimeOut's Coolest street in America: Orchard Street in the Lower East Side of New York, an area that through much of the 20th century was one of the most impoverished in NYC, rife with pick-pocketing and gang activity (LINK) 19 November 2025
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