THE WEEK

11/14/2025

Have you started your holiday shopping yet? If so, you probably noticed the price hikes, largely due to the tariffs enacted under President Donald Trump. Here's what you can expect this season, especially with Black Friday coming up.

Prices may not be so holly jolly this year

11/14/2025

Israeli President Isaac Herzog this week condemned the latest outbreak of settler-instigated violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, decrying a recent arson attack near the city of Tulkarm as “shocking and serious” in some of his most high-profile public statements on the longstanding trend to date.

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11/14/2025

The people may be long gone, but what they left behind fascinates. These five ghost towns are time capsules, whether you're planning to visit Bodie, California or Burke, Idaho, you can get a peek into what life was like in each community during its heyday.

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11/14/2025

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A greedy gull, the fall of AI, and more

A greedy gull, the fall of AI, and more

11/14/2025

The American dream feels increasingly out of reach. The average age of first-time home buyers is now 40, and home prices have skyrocketed for years. President Donald Trump is offering a purported solution: The 50-year mortgage.

“Could you imagine having to make mortgage payments until age 85?”

Trump critics say the proposal is bad policy

11/14/2025

The worldwide effort to mitigate climate change is not going well, and now authorities are thinking more about how to adapt. The biggest question is cost. Here's what countries would need for adaptation efforts.

As the world gets hotter, COP30 leaders consider resilience efforts

11/14/2025

“Trump strikes a nerve in MAGA,” drawing “rare resistance from faithful base,” The Washington Post says on Friday’s front page.

Read more of today's newspapers here.

A roundup of the headlines from the US front pages

11/14/2025

Starbucks is selling a majority stake in its business in China. Yet even as the U.S. coffee chain’s popularity has waned in China in recent years, the country’s coffee consumption has been “increasing by double-digits annually,” to a 300 billion yuan ($42 billion) industry today, said the South China Morning Post. So what gives?

Local chains are thriving as young middle-class consumers turn away from tea

11/14/2025

In today's Morning Report: Deal breaking, California scheming and Blue Origin liftoff

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11/13/2025

The U.S. Mint in Philadelphia Wednesday stamped what the Treasury Department said were the final pennies, ending production of the one-cent coin after 232 years.

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11/13/2025

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Wednesday issued a rare “special message” that implicitly rebuked President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration crackdown.

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11/13/2025

House Democrats Wednesday released a small batch of emails that appear to suggest President Donald Trump knew more about Jeffrey Epstein’s s*x trafficking of underage women than he has acknowledged.

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The emails suggest Trump knew more about Epstein’s s*x trafficking of underage women than he has claimed