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November 2021
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- November 30th
- FDA advisory panel recommends use of Merck's COVID-19 pill
- Biden laments 'unimaginable grief' of families affected by Michigan school shooting
- Bradley Cooper was held up at knifepoint on the subway in 2019: 'It was crazy'
- Tiger Woods opens up about 'tough' recovery after car accident: 'I'm lucky to be alive'
- Could Rita Moreno win a 2nd Oscar for starring in West Side Story?
- Facebook's parent company ordered to sell Giphy 'in its entirety'
- Police reportedly seize hard drives from Marilyn Manson's home amid sexual assault probe
- Late night hosts crack Cyber Monday jokes, compare the Biden and Trump White House Christmas decorations
- Barbados drops Britain and its queen, becomes the world's newest republic
- Trevor Noah, a South African, explains why the Omicron-fueled Southern Africa travel ban is 'total bulls--t'
- In an encouraging sign, more monarch butterflies are migrating to California
- Federal labor official rules there must be a new union vote at Amazon warehouse
- CDC expands COVID-19 booster recommendation
- Parag Agrawal takes over as Twitter CEO
- November 29th
- Prosecutors ask Supreme Court to step in after Bill Cosby's conviction was overturned
- Channing Tatum says 'the stripperverse will never be the same' after new Magic Mike
- What to know about the trial of Jussie Smollett as jury selection begins
- Jack Dorsey will reportedly step down as Twitter's CEO
- The Simpsons episode that references Tiananmen Square missing on Disney+ in Hong Kong
- Phil Saviano, key advocate for survivors of sex abuse by Catholic clergy, had died at 69
- Merriam-Webster's 2021 word of the year is 'vaccine.' The runner-up is 'insurrection.'
- Biden meets with COVID team on Omicron variant, is told we won't know its threat profile for 2 weeks
- Virgil Abloh, leading fashion designer and artistic polymath, dies of cancer at 41
- November 28th
- Dutch health ministry confirms 13 cases of Omicron variant
- Swiss voters uphold COVID restrictions, approve increased healthcare funding
- Taiwanese air force warns off incursion from increasingly bellicose China
- Wisconsin senators issue bipartisan plea to stop politicizing Waukesha killings
- South African foreign ministry objects to Omicron travel bans
- Hondurans vote for new president as incumbent faces extradition
- How Facebook's metaverse could change your life
- November 27th
- Omicron strain reaches U.K., Germany, Italy, Czechia, and more
- Conservatives cry hypocrisy after Biden bans travel from 8 African countries
- When will Omicron hit the U.S.? Fauci says it might be here already.
- Planes from South Africa carrying COVID-positive passengers land in Amsterdam
- The pursuit of longer life
- November 26th
- Broadway stars mourn death of musical theater icon Stephen Sondheim
- Biden to restrict travel from South Africa and 7 other countries in response to Omicron variant
- WHO classifies new Omicron variant as COVID 'variant of concern'
- Fauci says U.S. is in 'active communication' with South African scientists to 'get the facts' on new COVID variant
- Siberian coal mine explosion kills dozens
- Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade returns full swing
- Raiders trump Cowboys in Thanksgiving nail-biter
- November 24th
- Ahmaud Arbery's father bursts out in a cheer after jury finds 3 men guilty of murder
- Chris Cuomo delivers Thanksgiving tirade on XM radio show: 'Don't come up at me with all this pilgrim stuff'
- Shoppers urged not to buy into dodgy Black Friday deals
- Initial unemployment claims sink to their lowest level since 1969: 'A positive signal'
- Scientists thrilled by 'stunning' discovery of mammoth tusk at bottom of the ocean
- For 51 years, this former grocer has hosted a free Thanksgiving feast for his community
- Man stumbles upon brother's 30-year-old letterman jacket in thrift store
- Kevin Strickland exonerated after 43 years in prison
- 8-year-old dies from injuries in Waukesha parade crash
- November 23rd
- Jury finds Unite the Right defendants liable for millions in damages
- Tucker Carlson's Kyle Rittenhouse interview smashed the cable ratings competition
- This could be the 'most vegan Thanksgiving ever'
- Jay-Z becomes the most-nominated artist in Grammys history
- Louis C.K. earns a Grammy nomination 4 years after sexual misconduct scandal
- Matthew McConaughey will 'let you know shortly' if he's running for governor of Texas
- 2 out of 3 Americans will be celebrating Thanksgiving with people outside their immediate households
- Making sense of the latest COVID surge
- Good Morning America anchor Michael Strahan is going to space
- Man arrested after attacking wrestler Seth Rollins live on WWE's Monday Night Raw
- California School for the Deaf football team has undefeated season: 'We're showing the world we can play'
- Grandmother and teen who met accidentally by text will celebrate Thanksgiving together again
- El Salvador's president plans to create a 'Bitcoin City' at the base of an active volcano
- Justice Department settles with families of Parkland shooting victims
- LeBron James, Isaiah Stewart suspended after altercation
- November 22nd
- White House to invest $1.5 billion in nation's health care workforce
- Netflix employee at the center of Dave Chappelle uproar resigns
- 95 percent of the federal workforce has complied with Biden's vaccine mandate
- Suspect in Waukesha parade incident was reportedly fleeing a knife fight, official says
- Kevin Spacey breached House of Cards contract and must pay $31 million, arbitrator rules
- CNN shows 'live, real-time example' of Chinese censorship during report on tennis star Peng Shuai
- Supply chain snarls are reportedly tentatively starting to ease
- Health minister warns Germans will be 'either vaccinated, recovered or dead' by end of winter
- Eddie Redmayne regrets role as a transgender character: 'It was a mistake'
- Kyle Rittenhouse lawyer says he tried to eject Tucker Carlson's embedded film crew, 'but I'm not always the boss'
- SNL's Pete Davidson sings an ambivalent love song to Staten Island, to Marc Cohn's 'Walking in Memphis'
- At least 23 injured, 'some fatalities' after red SUV rams through Christmas Parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin
- November 21st
- This year's COVID death toll tops 2020's with over 385,000 dead
- Pregnant woman shot dead while unloading baby shower gifts in Philadelphia
- Chileans cast votes in polarizing presidential election, runoff likely
- Convicted felon accidentally fires gun during Atlanta airport security check, flees scene
- SNL cold open tackles Rittenhouse verdict, Biden colonoscopy
- Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Sony's 2nd attempt to revive the franchise, scores a better-than-expected debut
- How the holidays will look different this year
- November 20th
- Chinese tennis star who accused CCP bigwig of sexual misconduct will appear in public 'soon,' state media claim
- Riot breaks out in Portland after Rittenhouse verdict, Kenosha remains peaceful
- Rotterdammers riot as Dutch government imposes new COVID restrictions
- Kansas City cop convicted, Colorado city settles in police killings of Black men
- Drivers gather spilled bills from California freeway after armored car drops bag of cash
- November 19th
- Time's Up plans to 'rebuild and reset' after Andrew Cuomo controversy
- Kyle Rittenhouse's testimony was likely 'quite significant' for the jury, says legal analyst
- Jury finds Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty on all charges
- Will COVID boosters change who is considered 'fully vaccinated'?
- Black Panther star Letitia Wright suffered 'concussion with severe side effects' in accident on set
- FDA clears COVID boosters for all adults
- Evolutionary virologist once open to Wuhan lab leak theory now says COVID spread from animal market
- Scarlett Johansson is working on a 'top secret' Marvel project after suing Disney
- Ethiopia’s civil war: how the country is on the brink of ‘irreversible state collapse’
- Women's Tennis Association threatens to pull out of China over Peng Shuai's disappearance
- Late night hosts picture Trump's reaction to Biden's Mexico-Canada summit, mock CPAC for canceling Sesame Street
- Oklahoma governor commutes death sentence of Julius Jones hours before planned execution
- November 18th
- Son of Khalil Islam is happy his father's been exonerated in Malcom X killing, 'but there's still sadness'
- Judge exonerates 2 men convicted of killing Malcolm X: 'A case that calls out for fundamental justice'
- Initial unemployment claims have fallen to yet another pandemic-era low
- MSNBC banned from Kyle Rittenhouse trial courthouse after producer allegedly followed jury bus
- Martin Scorsese to direct a Grateful Dead movie starring Jonah Hill as Jerry Garcia
- Kim Kardashian funds Afghan women soccer players' flight to the U.K.
- Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: held to a £400m ransom
- Channel crossing crisis: why Priti Patel’s ‘push-back tactic’ is not working
- A shortage of shipping containers has companies rethinking 'how they stock shelves'
- R. Kelly associate who set car on fire outside witness' home sentenced to 8 years in prison
- Should you get a COVID booster shot as soon as you are eligible?
- Women's Tennis Association CEO doubts missing Chinese athlete wrote email claiming 'I'm not missing'
- Trevor Noah puts Paul Gosar's AOC murder anime in context, while The Late Show animates his censure
- Deere workers end strike after accepting 3rd contract offer
- November 17th
- Rapper Young Dolph reportedly shot and killed while buying cookies in Memphis
- 2 men convicted in 1966 for Malcolm X's assassination to be exonerated
- Belarus shuts down Russian oil pipeline to EU, despite Putin's warnings
- Drug overdose deaths top 100,000 in 12 months for the 1st time: 'A tragic milestone'
- Naomi Osaka expresses concern for Peng Shuai, tennis star missing since accusing former Chinese official of assault
- Staples Center to be renamed the Crypto.com Arena — but Reggie Jackson will 'still be calling it Staples'
- Late night hosts round up new 'cuckoo banana cakes' revelations about Trump's Jan. 6 'attempted coup'
- Virginia local school board reverses ban of 'sexually explicit' books after public outcry
- U.S. journalist Danny Fenster arrives home after 6 months in Myanmar prison
- The Port of Los Angeles is making 'great progress' in clearing its shipping cargo backlog, director says
- 10-year-old starts recycling program to help fund clean water initiative
- Frida Kahlo's 'Diego y yo' self-portrait sells for $34.9 million, shattering records
- Boston hospital starts 1st human trial of nasal vaccine for Alzheimer's disease
- Kyle Rittenhouse picks numbers at random to determine his jury
- November 16th
- Pfizer has applied for emergency authorization of its COVID pill, and the White House is reportedly ready to buy
- LeVar Burton to host a Trivial Pursuit game show after being passed over by Jeopardy!
- A Harry Potter reunion is happening, reportedly without J.K. Rowling
- Biden expected to approve diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics
- Actor Miles Teller assures Taylor Swift fans he's vaccinated after starring in her new music video
- Biden administration reportedly eyeing booster expansion, following in several states' footsteps
- Russia blasts satellite to smithereens, insists it didn't put astronauts in danger with space shrapnel
- Film crew members narrowly approve deal averting strike
- California pump prices hit record high
- Vanessa Bryant must turn over therapy records in Kobe Bryant crash photos lawsuit
- Texas hospital suspends doctor for spreading 'dangerous' COVID-19 misinformation
- Drive-by shooting near Colorado high school leaves 6 teens injured
- Judge in Ahmaud Arbery case calls defense remarks about Black pastors 'reprehensible'
- November 15th
- Britney Spears gets 'my first glass of champagne' after being freed from conservatorship
- The role social media is playing in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial
- Alex Jones found liable in Sandy Hook defamation lawsuits
- Esmé Bianco says Marilyn Manson 'told the whole world' who he was, but 'nobody tried to stop him'
- 52 years later, authorities identify fugitive behind one of Ohio's biggest bank heists
- Austria imposes lockdown for people who aren't vaccinated
- 9-year-old boy trampled at Astroworld festival dies
- Queen Elizabeth misses Remembrance Sunday service after spraining her back
- Trump Organization is reportedly selling lease on D.C. hotel for $375 million
- November 14th
- November 13th
- California and New Mexico join Colorado, open COVID-19 booster shots to all adults
- Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary tells Bill Maher workers are 'never coming back' to the office, and that's 'okay'
- U.S. 5th Circuit appellate panel extends stay of Biden workplace vaccine requirement
- Can crowd surges be prevented?
- November 12th
- COP26 may be the 'highest emitting United Nations environmental summit so far'
- Britney Spears freed from her conservatorship after 13 years
- Passenger on William Shatner's flight to space dies in a plane crash
- Where the COP26 negotiations stand on the summit's last day
- Obi-Wan Kenobi sizzle reel teases rematch with Darth Vader as Ewan McGregor returns to Star Wars
- Travis Scott attorney says he was unaware of mass casualty declaration while on stage: 'That never got to Travis'
- A record number of Americans quit their jobs in September
- Qatar to reportedly represent U.S. 'diplomatic interests' in Afghanistan
- Britney Spears' conservatorship could end today
- Colorado opens COVID-19 boosters to all adults, but CDC director is reportedly iffy on national approval
- Myanmar's military junta sentences U.S. journalist Danny Fenster to 11 years in jail, lawyer says
- Mississippi teen's wish to feed the homeless in his community has been granted
- Defense attorney in Arbery case tells judge 'we don't want any more Black pastors coming in here'
- Belarus threatens to cut off Europe's Russian gas, escalating 'hybrid' assault on EU
- U.S. calls on Houthis to release embassy employees detained in Yemen
- Brooklyn neighborhood surprises World War II veteran with tokens of appreciation
- With COVID-19 numbers rising, Colorado activates crisis standards of care
- Federal appeals court temporarily blocks release of Trump White House records
- November 11th
- Teacher shortages across the country are creating an opening for subs
- College student dies from 'horrific, horrific injuries' sustained at Astroworld, attorney says
- Olympic gymnast Suni Lee says she was pepper sprayed during a racist attack
- COVID vaccine misinformation and hesitancy are 'spreading as fast as the virus' in Eastern Europe
- Matthew McConaughey says he's not 'against vaccinating kids at all' after backlash
- Is a 'predictable' and 'manageable' phase of COVID finally upon us?
- Inflation is making it harder to feed and clothe a young family
- MoviePass cofounder teases that the service is 'exploring the possibility of relaunching soon'
- Meghan Markle apologizes for misleading court, says she didn't recall exchanges about biography
- Boomers use 'woke' more than other generations, hate 'OK boomer,' 'mansplain,' slang survey finds
- Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell swap late-night shows, promote movies they haven't seen on Fallon and Kimmel
- High school runner pushes her brother in his wheelchair during every race
- Houston Police chief walks back story of Astroworld Festival guard knocked out with drug injection
- At 74, this Kentucky woman finally fulfilled her dream of getting a tattoo
- Federal judge overrules Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's ban on school mask mandates
- Top aid official says thousands of Afghan refugees are entering Iran every day
- Kids care most about education, climate change, new Week Junior survey finds
- Ex-MMA fighter is 1st person sentenced for assaulting police officer during Capitol riot
- November 10th
- Week Junior survey finds Generation Alpha wants adults to listen more
- U.S. and China issue surprise joint climate pledge during COP26: 'A step we can build on'
- DOJ sues Uber for allegedly overcharging disabled people
- White House estimates 900,000 kids have already gotten their first dose of the vaccine
- YouTube will hide dislike counts on videos to reduce harassment
- Biden maintains his Build Back Better plan will 'ease inflationary pressures'
- Santa Fe DA rejects 'conspiracy theories' that the Rust set was sabotaged
- Inflation was up in October. Economists warn 'things are going to get worse before they get better.'
- Youth activists demand UN declare a climate emergency: 'We have had 26 COPs that have been failures'
- Aaron Rodgers fined $14,650 for violating COVID-19 protocols
- Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Trevor Noah are bemused at the partisan fury over infrastructure
- Prosecutors seek 4 1/4 years in prison for 'QAnon Shaman' Jacob Chansley over Jan. 6 Capitol riot
- Brian Williams does a 'dramatic reading' of his resignation memo after 28 years at NBC
- People names Paul Rudd 2021's 'Sexiest Man Alive.' Stephen Colbert made him earn it.
- Oklahoma Supreme Court throws out $465 million opioid verdict against Johnson & Johnson
- November 9th
- Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen fears the metaverse will create 'a whole new set of dangers'
- Astronauts splash down in SpaceX capsule after 200 days in space, 8 hours without a bathroom
- Late night hosts mock Ted Cruz for picking a vaccine fight with Big Bird
- Adorable rare leopard cub makes her debut at Santa Barbara Zoo
- Ohio coach launches innovative soccer program for kids in Liberia
- Travis Scott and Astroworld festival promoter Live Nation both have checkered safety histories, records show
- Wild honeybees believed to have been wiped out discovered in ancient woodlands
- Capitol riot suspect is applying for asylum in Belarus, state media says
- State Farm says it won't drop pitchman Aaron Rodgers after vaccine comments
- November 8th
- Republicans are 3 times more likely than Democrats to believe falsehoods about COVID-19
- Star Wars' return to movie theaters hits a snag
- Howard Stern says Aaron Rodgers would be thrown out of the NFL 'if there was decency in this world'
- Alec Baldwin calls for hiring police officers to monitor weapon safety on film sets
- Houston police chief reportedly met with Travis Scott ahead of Astroworld show to express concern about crowd
- U.S. opens its borders to fully vaccinated visitors from Mexico, Canada, 31 other countries
- John Oliver explains the U.S. power grid and the challenge of upgrading it for America's electric future
- The infrastructure bill will pour $15 billion into replacing lead pipes. Newark shows it can be done.
- SNL's 'Weekend Update' sends in a clown to make abortion real talk 'more palatable'
- November 7th
- How New York City Marathon winner Peres Jepchirchir made history
- Eternals tops the box office but earns the MCU's lowest audience grade
- Iraq's prime minister survives assassination attempt
- Criminal investigation ongoing after deaths at Astroworld music festival
- SNL debuts a new Trump and takes on Aaron Rodgers' vaccine stance in cold open
- November 6th
- Travis Scott says he's 'devastated' by deaths at festival, supports probe into 'tragic loss of life'
- Fuel tanker explodes in Sierra Leone, killing at least 99
- Angelina Jolie calls Eternals ban in multiple Gulf nations 'ignorant'
- Participants in massive Glasgow protest demand immediate climate action
- Biden hails bipartisan infrastructure package as 'once-in-a-generation' investment
- At least 8 die in crowd surge at Astroworld music festival
- The next phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
- November 5th
- Here's who that mysterious voice was at the end of Eternals
- Facebook negatively impacts sleep, work, relationships for about 1 in 8 users, documents show
- Aaron Rodgers complains he's being targeted by the 'woke mob' for not being vaccinated
- Why the latest jobs report should calm fears of stagflation
- Former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb: 'By Jan. 4, this pandemic may well be over'
- States and cities continue 'sweetening the deal' with vaccination incentives for young kids
- October jobs report smashes expectations with 531,000 gains
- Pfizer says effectiveness of COVID antiviral pill is 'beyond our wildest dreams'
- Late night hosts are less than shocked at Aaron Rodgers' NFL-rejected homeopathic COVID 'immunization'
- Handball: swapping bikini bottoms for tight pants
- Ryanair: readying for departure from London
- 'Europe is back at the epicenter' of COVID-19, WHO warns. 'Enough idiocy,' Italian official tells anti-vaxxers.
- 63-year-old college student is 'getting to live the dream' by playing on golf team
- Following allegations of racist and misogynistic behavior, NBA to investigate Phoenix Suns owner
- Texas woman who said she wouldn't go to jail for Capitol riot sentenced to 60 days in prison
- Gunmen kill 69 people in volatile region of southwestern Niger
- November 4th
- Who pays for the vaccine mandate's testing alternative?
- Marvel's Eternals banned in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Qatar in apparent response to same-sex couple
- Juror in Kyle Rittenhouse trial dismissed after telling joke about Jacob Blake shooting
- Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin loses lawsuit over NASA contract awarded to SpaceX
- Will Smith recalls thinking he could kill his father and get away with it: 'I'm one of the best actors in the world'
- 'A historic day': Britain becomes first country to authorize Merck's COVID-19 pill
- Dwayne Johnson announces his productions will only use rubber guns after Rust shooting
- Kathleen Stock resigns: the ‘hounding’ of an academic on the front line of transgender rights debate
- More than 40 countries agree to phase out coal, but critics say it's 'not a game-changer'
- Late night hosts debate why Democrats lost big on Tuesday, lean toward Terry McAuliffe's dancing
- QAnon has now dragged the Rolling Stones into its Trump-JFK Jr. fantasy, and Stephen Colbert has questions
- Trick-or-treaters bring gifts to woman who didn't have candy to pass out
- Prosecutors protest predominantly white jury in trial for Ahmaud Arbery's killing
- Nursing school applications are up amid pandemic
- November 3rd
- U.S. surpasses 750,000 COVID-19 deaths
- Lady Gaga says she wanted to be a combat journalist if she weren't a pop star: 'That was one of my dreams'
- Late night hosts recap, queensplain the COP26 climate summit's modest accomplishments
- Nonprofit connects women who lose their hair to cancer with free wigs
- Atlanta Braves win 2021 World Series
- CDC director signs off on COVID-19 vaccine for kids 5 to 11
- Inmates to be moved from D.C. jail after inspection found unsanitary conditions
- November 2nd
- Biden says China made a 'big mistake' by skipping COP26 climate summit
- CDC advisory panel unanimously backs Pfizer vaccine for kids ages 5 to 11
- Facebook to shut down facial recognition system, delete templates for more than 1 billion people
- Eternals earns the MCU's lowest Rotten Tomatoes score ever
- Microsoft joins the metaverse madness
- Kyle Rittenhouse was drawn to Kenosha chaos like a moth to a flame, prosecutor says
- Companies are trying to lure employees back to work with high-end office spaces
- Kristen Stewart reveals she's getting married and her girlfriend 'nailed' the proposal
- Artists behind bisexual Superman comic reportedly needed LAPD protection
- Vanessa Bryant won't have to undergo psychiatric exam in lawsuit over Kobe Bryant crash photos
- Late night hosts recap Biden's papal conclave and COP26 summit, mock the Trumps' 'tomahawk chop' game night
- Biden unveils sweeping new U.S. methane emission rules at COP26 climate summit
- Oklahoma woman looking for her missing son disappears
- India sets 2070 as target for net-zero carbon emissions
- Only 34 NYPD cops placed on leave over vaccine mandate, but firefighters are apparently staging sick-out
- Mother-son duo write book to help kids learn how to appreciate their differences
- Britain says 100 countries have committed to ending deforestation
- Oklahoma parole board recommends clemency for death row inmate Julius Jones
- November 1st
- Robert Durst indicted in 1982 murder of wife
- China moves to curb excess eating and food waste
- Over 30,000 people were locked inside Shanghai Disneyland over a single COVID-19 case
- Steve Buscemi dresses as his 'fellow kids' meme for Halloween
- 3 reasons Brett Kavanaugh is the justice to watch in Texas abortion law hearings
- Epstein investigation leads Barclays CEO to resign
- Atlantic hurricane season runs out of names for the 2nd year in a row, 3rd time in history
- World surpasses 5 million COVID-19 deaths as the U.S. settles into a new normal
- 2021 World Series: Astros rally to beat Braves in Game 5
- Washington Post investigation details red flags federal law enforcement overlooked before Jan. 6
- Suspect arrested in Tokyo train stabbing spree
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