just now (307+ words) Jimmy Kimmel said President Donald Trump finally got a little good news over the past few days. "His administration has a new sex scandal that for once has nothing to do with him," Kimmel said, referring to reports that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.allegedly sent a lurid "poem" to journalist Olivia Nuzzi during their affair last year. Politics: Cheryl Hines Is Asked About Marriage To RFK Jr. And His Alleged Sexting Scandal "Poems like, "I am a river. You are my canyon. I mean to flow through you. I mean to subdue and tame you." And, "Drink from me, love," Kimmel read, then added his own RFK Jr.-esque touch: "It is safe for I have removed all the fluoride from my blood." Read more of the sexually charged poetry here. But Kimmel also had a…...

just now (902+ words) A plan to slash the national default speed limit on non-signposted rural and regional roads has been slammed by farming groups and politicians, who fear a blanket cut would not address the nation's climbing road toll. The Federal Government called for public comment into its controversial proposal in September, revealing plans to cut the national speed limit to as low as 70km/h on non-signposted sealed and unsealed regional roads. The current default speed limit across Australia outside of built-up areas is 100km/h unless otherwise sign-posted. The move has been slammed for being unsafe by road users concerned already lengthy trips for services and essentials could become even longer and heighten risk of fatigue-related crashes. In Federal Parliament on November 3, member for Durack Melissa Price said the proposed policy proved how out of touch the Federal Government was with regional Australia....

just now (902+ words) A plan to slash the national default speed limit on non-signposted rural and regional roads has been slammed by farming groups and politicians, who fear a blanket cut would not address the nation's climbing road toll. The Federal Government called for public comment into its controversial proposal in September, revealing plans to cut the national speed limit to as low as 70km/h on non-signposted sealed and unsealed regional roads. The current default speed limit across Australia outside of built-up areas is 100km/h unless otherwise sign-posted. The move has been slammed for being unsafe by road users concerned already lengthy trips for services and essentials could become even longer and heighten risk of fatigue-related crashes. In Federal Parliament on November 3, member for Durack Melissa Price said the proposed policy proved how out of touch the Federal Government was with regional Australia....

1+ min ago (93+ words) Two early morning commuter train services to Inverness have been cancelled. ScotRail Ardgay and Kingussie to Inverness commuter services both cancelled because of broken down trains Two early morning commuter train services to Inverness have been cancelled. ScotRail blamed "faults" for the non-running of both the 06:13 Ardgay-Inverness and the 06:47 Kingussie-Inverness services. A spokesman said passengers from Kingussie were able to use their tickets on the Caledonian Sleeper train at 07:17 train from Kingussie to Inverness. No alternative transport was offered for the service from Ardgay....

1+ min ago (131+ words) Opus 4.5 ranks among the most powerful models in the Claude family Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic unveiled an upgraded Opus model on Monday, boosting Claude's ability to write detailed code, create sophisticated agents and streamline enterprise workflows through spreadsheet and financial analysis. The new model comes as Amazon and Alphabet-backed Anthropic races against OpenAI and other rivals to develop cutting-edge large language models aimed at achieving capabilities that could surpass human intelligence. Opus 4.5 ranks among the most powerful models in the Claude family, offering deep reasoning and memory, coding and a versatile performance across a range of computer applications, including financial tasks such as modeling and forecasting. Its agents autonomously refine their own capabilities and store insights from past work to apply at a later date, Anthropic said....

2+ min ago (399+ words) Pharrel Payne recorded 20 points and eight rebounds and Maryland excelled over the final 13 minutes en route to a 74-67 victory over UNLV on Monday night in the Players Era men's tournament at Las Vegas. Darius Adams added 15 points for the Terrapins (5-1), who scored 47 second-half points. David Coit made three 3-pointers and scored 11 points for Maryland. Dra Gibbs-Lawhorn put up 17 points and Kimami Hamilton added 11 before fouling out for UNLV (3-3). The Rebels shot 36.7% from the field, including 8 of 29 (29.6%) from 3-point range. Howie Fleming Jr. had five steals for UNLV. Maryland connected on 42.4% of its attempts and was 9 of 31 (29%) from behind the arc. The Terrapins held a 46-34 rebounding edge. Coit drained two key late 3-pointers but shot just 3 of 11 for the Terrapins. He scored a career-high 41 points on Wednesday -- tying for third most in program history -- in a 95-90 overtime victory over Mount St....

2+ min ago (93+ words) [Shabti figurines inscribed with the name of Pharaoh Shoshenq III, found inside Osorkon II's tomb at Tanis, northern Egypt. (photo credit: Screenshot via Maariv/section 27A, SCREENSHOT/X)]Archaeologists uncovered 225 inscribed funerary statues beside an unmarked sarcophagus in Osorkon II's tomb, strengthening the case for two royal burials at Tanis, Egypt. Possible double-burial of pharaohs in Osorkon II's tomb, newly discovered statues show Archaeologists uncovered 225 inscribed funerary statues beside an unmarked sarcophagus in Osorkon II's tomb, strengthening the case for two royal burials at Tanis, Egypt....

2+ min ago (162+ words) Adri" Calatayud is deputy breaking news editor for the EMEA desk at Dow Jones Newswires in Barcelona. Adri" covers European telecommunications, media and logistics companies. He was previously a market insights writer and a reporter at the U.K. desk in Barcelona. Before joining the company in 2017, he worked for Spanish news agency EFE as a correspondent in China and the U.S. EasyJet Posts Higher Profit on Growth Across Businesses Headline pretax profit rose to "773 million for its fiscal fourth quarter from "724 million in the year-earlier period U.K. budget airline easyJet reported a higher headline pretax profit for its fiscal fourth quarter, helped by revenue increases across its core airline business and its expanding vacation-services unit. The company said Tuesday that headline pretax profit, which strips out exceptional and other one-off items, rose to 773 million pounds ($1.01 billion) in the quarter ended Sept. 30 from 724 million…...

3+ min ago (53+ words) Drivers are facing disruption on Tuesday morning due to the closure of a stretch of the M8 motorway ... Live updates as M8 motorway closes due to roadworks - A stretch of the M8 motorway has been closed due to overrunning roadworks Those ads you do see are predominantly from local businesses promoting local services....

3+ min ago (27+ words) Drivers faced disruption on Tuesday morning after a stretch of the M8 motorway was closed ... M8 motorway closed due to roadworks Our live feed has now finished....