For the entire day we are having a gas problem in the south of Hamburg. Hundrets of Homes don't have warm water nor Heat. We are Close to freezing Temperatures. Usually, you'd read something at news outlets but they are radio silent. No informations from authorities besides "we are working on a fix". No informations about damage, no information about a estimate time. Absolutelly nothing. The Problem does Not only affect homes but also Institutions like daycares and eldery homes. You've heard it here first.

Usual page for any news in the area:
https://harburg-aktuell.de/

Democrats have announced their intent to fold like lawn chairs, finally ending the Democrat Shutdown and to take Republicans up on their offer to negotiate healthcare without holding the government hostage

Thune has repeatedly promised to negotiate with Democrats on extending ACA subsidies once the government is open and has even offered them a vote on their own proposal to extend those tax credits beyond December

The GOP leader, however, has stuck to his position that he won’t negotiate specific health care policy concessions with Democrats while the government remains closed.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5580101-democrats-republicans-negotiate-aca-subsidies/
Senate GOP, Democrats looking for ‘off-ramp’ to end shutdown next week

Senate Republicans and Democrats are trying to hammer out a proposal to end the 30-day government shutdown as soon as next week, as some centrist Democrats argue behind the scenes that their party has successfully highlighted rising health care costs and it’s time to end the stalemate.

Shutdown fatigue on Capitol Hill is growing as the government stoppage approaches the one-month mark, and the pain is increasing.

With open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) marketplace set to begin next month, Democrats say the higher costs are already baked in because Republicans have steadfastly refused to extend enhanced subsidies that are due to expire at the end of December.

“My assessment is that we’ve won anything that we can possibly win and the costs of continuing the shutdown are going to be felt by people who are going to food banks and federal employees,” said one Democratic senator, who argued that any political benefit of extending the shutdown is about to be outweighed by the harms inflicted on ordinary Americans.

A huge factor in this thinking is that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits are due to expire Saturday, putting 42 million Americans at risk of not having enough to eat.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/learning-with-chatgpt-disturbing

ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are replacing the search engine. Instead of letting you suffer the laborious task of looking up sources of information, these powerful large language models will simply concoct an answer for you, with the minor risk that it might be totally made up.

It turns out there’s another hazard: while getting your answers this way may be quick, it isn’t great for actually learning, according to a new study published in the journal PNAS Nexus.

“When people rely on large language models to summarize information on a topic for them, they tend to develop shallower knowledge about it compared to learning through a standard Google search,” study co-lead author Shiri Melumad, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, wrote in an essay for The Conversation about her work.

The findings are based on an analysis of seven studies with more than 10,000 participants. The gist of their experiments went like this: the participants were told to learn about a topic, and were randomly assigned to either only use an AI chatbot like ChatGPT to do their research, or a standard search engine like Google. At the end, the participants were asked to write advice to a friend about what they learned.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/21/at-least-67-palestinian-children-killed-in-gaza-since-ceasefire-began-un

UNICEF says baby girl among several children killed this week as Israel carried out a wave of bombings despite truce.

At least 67 Palestinian children have been killed in the Gaza Strip since a United States-brokered ceasefire agreement came into effect last month, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says.

Speaking during a news conference in Geneva on Friday, UNICEF spokesperson Ricardo Pires said the death toll includes a baby girl who was killed in an Israeli air strike on a home in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis on Thursday.

It also includes seven other children killed a day earlier, as Israel carried out a wave of attacks across the enclave.

“This is during an agreed ceasefire. The pattern is staggering,” Pires told reporters of the death toll since October 11, the first full day of the truce between Israel and Hamas.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj38m11218xo
Dozens of high-engagement accounts on X have been accused of misleading users following the roll-out of a new transparency feature that shows user locations.

Users on the social network seized on examples of pro-Trump accounts that posted about US politics, but which turned out to be based outside the US. There were also anti-Trump accounts with misleading locations too.

Posts from some of the accounts have attracted millions of impressions - views, likes, reposts and replies - which can result in payment from X.

BBC Verify is not able to independently confirm the information X provides about each account.

The location data is visible in a new "about this account" tab which appears on every profile.

It also contains a warning that the location data may be affected by recent travel, temporary relocation and the use of virtual private networks (VPNs).

However, according to X's head of product, Nikita Bier, the information is 99% accurate.

On Saturday, Trump shared on Truth Social a screenshot of a post from an X account called "TRUMP_ARMY_" celebrating a Supreme Court ruling it says will allow the president to deport criminals to El Salvador.

This account has gathered more than half a million followers, including a senior Republican senator.

But X's data has revealed the account is based in India and the username changed four times since March 2022.

The account profile has now been changed to "an Indian who loves America, President Trump, Musk!"

Another, account called "IvankaNews_", which describes itself as a fan account for Trump's daughter, has gathered more than one million followers and has previously posted about voting for the president last year.

However, the account is based in Nigeria and its username has changed 11 times since 2010, according to X.

After its location was revealed, the account posted that "some of us living outside the USA genuinely support President Trump's movement".

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-ukraine-european-officials-hold-talks-geneva-trumps-plan-end-war-2025-11-23/

GENEVA, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Ukrainian, U.S. and European officials met in Geneva on Sunday to discuss a draft U.S. plan to end the war in Ukraine, after Kyiv and its allies voiced alarm over what they saw as major concessions to Russia and pressed for changes.

U.S. President Donald Trump, who has championed the 28-point plan, said on Sunday that Ukraine had not been grateful for American efforts over the war, prompting Ukrainian officials to stress their gratitude to the U.S. president for his support.

European officials joined the U.S. and Ukrainian delegations for talks late on Sunday after crafting a modified version of the U.S. plan for Ukraine that pushes back on proposed limits to Kyiv's armed forces and mooted territorial concessions.

The European plan proposes that Ukraine be granted a larger military than under the U.S. plan and that talks on land swaps should start from the front line rather than a pre-determined view of which areas should be considered Russian.

On Friday, Trump said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had until Thursday to approve the plan, which calls on Ukraine to cede territory, accept limits on its military and renounce ambitions to join NATO.

For many Ukrainians, including soldiers fighting on the front lines, such terms would amount to capitulation after nearly four years of fighting in Europe's deadliest conflict since World War Two. On Saturday, Trump said the current proposal for ending the war is not his final offer.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/22/supreme-court-texas-congressional-map

> Supreme court blocks order that found Texas congressional map was probably racially biased

The US supreme court on Friday temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that found Texas’s 2026 congressional redistricting plan pushed by Donald Trump probably discriminated on the basis of race.

The order, signed by Justice Samuel Alito, will remain in place at least for the next few days while the court considers whether to allow the new map, which is favorable to Republicans, to be used in the midterm elections.

The court’s conservative majority has blocked similar lower court rulings because they have come too close to elections.

The order came about an hour after the state called on the supreme court to intervene to avoid confusion as congressional primary elections approach in March. The justices have blocked past lower-court rulings in congressional redistricting cases, most recently in Alabama and Louisiana, that came several months before elections.

The order was signed by Alito because he is the justice who handles emergency appeals from Texas.

Texas redrew its congressional map in the summer as part of Trump’s efforts to preserve a slim Republican majority in the House in next year’s elections, touching off a nationwide redistricting battle. The new redistricting map was engineered to give Republicans five additional House seats, but a panel of federal judges in El Paso ruled 2-1 on Tuesday that the civil rights groups that challenged the map on behalf of Black and Hispanic voters were likely to win their case.

If that ruling eventually holds, Texas could be forced to hold elections next year using the map drawn by the GOP-controlled legislature in 2021 based on the 2020 census.

MAGA mayhem triggered by President Donald Trump's rage again against Marjorie Taylor Greene, as MAGA supporters exclaimed that Trump rescinded support for Marjorie but made a fresh endorsement for Ramaswamy -- as MAGA equations are changing.

Greene objected to Trump's H-1B stand and said America does not need foreign workers. Greene said she would introduce a bill to stop H-1B visa program completely though Trump believes America needs certain foreign talent.

The H-1B row amid MAGA was triggered last year during Christmas when Vivek Ramaswamy called out American culture and said American education system does not produce enough STEM workers needed for American tech companies and hence companies have to rely on H-1B. Ramaswamy was cornered, he exited from DOGE and chose Ohio politics for his future.

A viral post has claimed that Vivek's ethnicity is not the problem, but the fact that he's "culturally Indian' makes him an outsider in MAGA. Some posts claimed that Vivek should have converted and changed his name if he took the Ohio election seriously.

"Vivek has insane ideas of what America should look like, as if EVERY AMERICAN needs to be a hyper-productive AP-Calculus HS Robotics Champion and Computer Engineering major--and if that's not what America is, America is a failure. No nation has ever been exclusively that, no population has ever consisted entirely of top 5% engineering performers--BY DEFINITION," the viral post said slamming India's average IQ.

"Indeed, his OWN CULTURE, India, has an AVERAGE IQ of 76. Mentally retarded is 75. So it's fair to say that ON AVERAGE Indians are retard adjacent. India itself is not a nation full of engineers, and that's before we even consider the 20% who even in 2025 habitually sh** on the ground every day," the post read.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/vivek-ramaswamy-is-culturally-indian-maga-debates-why-they-hate-trump-backed-ohio-guv-candidate/articleshow/125355294.cms

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-grizzly-bear-attack-schoolchildren-teachers-bella-coola/

Educators used bear spray, bear bangers and anything they could to fend off a grizzly bear that attacked their Grade 4 and 5 students on a field trip into the woods on B.C.’s central coast.

Four people – one adult and three children – were badly mauled Thursday in the coastal community of Bella Coola and were airlifted to hospital in Vancouver, with two in critical condition, BC Emergency Health Services said. Seven others were treated for mild injuries and nine students from the Acwsalcta School unscathed, authorities said.

As the tightknit Nuxalk First Nation grappled with the brutal attack on students of their private school, the provincial Conservation Officer Service was warning everyone to stay indoors Friday. Eight officers were dispatched to investigate and to set traps. The officers collected physical evidence so they can try to match it to any animals they catch.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/20/insurance-premiums-employer-increase-affordability-00660176

Rising Obamacare premiums are a political problem for Republicans. Rising premiums for workers who get health insurance from their employers could be an even bigger one.

Republicans in Congress are focused on finding a way to counteract an expected 26 percent rise in premiums for people who buy insurance through the Affordable Care Act, without extending government subsidies that make insurance more affordable.

What the GOP isn’t talking about: Nearly seven times as many Americans get health insurance through an employer as those who buy it individually. Those 165 million people are expected to see their premiums spike by up to 7 percent.

“That’s going to absolutely put pressure on whoever’s [in power],” said Katherine Hempstead, senior policy adviser at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a health care-focused philanthropy.

Voters have started making it clear that affordability of basic necessities — including health care — will be a defining issue in determining who holds the balance of power in Congress after next year’s midterm elections. That means the GOP may need to look beyond fixing Affordable Care Act subsidies to maintain control of the House and Senate.

Meanwhile, Democratic lawmakers and candidates say they plan to make affordability their top issue in next year’s midterm elections, but it remains to be seen whether they’ll include the plight of workers with employer-provided insurance in their push.

People with group coverage are expected to see an average 6 to 7 percent premium increase this month as they re-enroll in coverage that will start in January.

That comes as their employers are expecting the largest jump in health costs in 15 years in 2026, at 6.7 percent, more than double the rate of inflation and the typical pay raise workers are getting.