Gov. Gavin Newsom commuted the sentences of 548 condemned California prisoners, described as the nation's largest act of mass clemency, in a state that has not executed anyone since 2006. District attorneys in San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Riverside and Orange counties say they will keep seeking death sentences, while a pending case alleging racial bias could halt them.

A CalMatters investigation found that the California DMV did not suspend or revoke licenses for unsafe commercial drivers, including some after they killed someone; nearly half retained valid licenses after vehicular manslaughter charges. The report centers on Jenny Chow, who died in 2022 when a speeding semitruck struck her family's SUV near Fresno.

The FBI says North Korean state-sponsored hackers stole over $400 million in cryptocurrency via fake video calls, with more than 900 victims in 18 months. Authorities say imposter Zoom, Teams and Google Meet links installed malware; the account follows a $6.3bn Binance hack attributed to North Korea-linked actors, which Pyongyang denies.

Robert Pattinson has reportedly become the frontrunner to succeed Daniel Craig as James Bond, according to Puck's Matthew Belloni. Belloni reports that Pattinson's test deal covered three films and a larger unspecified fee than other shortlisted actors, who were asked to commit to four.

Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang reportedly described CFO Colette Kress, who is now interim chief executive, as "a deer in the headlights" in a summer presentation, according to the Wall Street Journal, which cited an anonymous source. Huang resigned Thursday after reports of extramarital affairs, and Nvidia is searching for a permanent CEO while investigating a possible Chinese espionage plot.

The Navy recently removed several senior officers without its usual public announcements, prompting two Democratic lawmakers to complain that Congress was not informed. Reps. Joe Courtney and Adam Smith said the USS South Dakota submarine's leadership was dismissed after a seabed collision.

Eight people, including two children, died after a three-story apartment building in Brooklyn's Flatbush neighborhood collapsed into an excavation site, with 18 others injured. New York City officials ended search and rescue operations Thursday and are investigating the developer, whose site records show earlier safety violations.

Amy Pope, the U.N. migration agency's director general, warned at COP31 in Antalya that without action climate change could displace more than 200 million people. She said adaptation estimated at about $310 billion has drawn only roughly $30 billion, while nearly 30 million were displaced in 2025.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he was frustrated that the Commerce Department had delayed adding Megaspeed to an export control list, noting that President Trump wanted China barred from receiving Nvidia chips above H100s. The public rebuke came as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick faced scrutiny over Nvidia ties, according to a New York Times report.

Democrats including Abdul El-Sayed and James Talarico are floating proposals designed to draw President Trump into bipartisan deals, such as universal healthcare marketed as “TrumpCare” and honors comparing him to Lyndon B. Johnson. The AP reports Trump says he is willing to negotiate on healthcare and drug prices, though his selection of Stephen Miller as chief of staff may hinder cooperation.

A study led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientists, drawing on over 30 years of atmospheric oxygen and carbon dioxide measurements, finds the ocean's carbon uptake has grown since 1990 while the net land sink has not. Land ecosystems showed no notable long-term growth and have generally declined since peaking in the decade centered on 2009, a result the authors say conflicts with many land-carbon models used for climate projections.

A global synthesis of nitrogen-addition experiments in forests and grasslands found soil respiration is stimulated in the short term and then suppressed over time, with the decline slowing. High-rate additions reduced respiration by roughly 11%, while low-rate additions had no significant overall effect.

KTVU obtained surveillance and witness video of tense encounters between ICE officers and activists in the Santa Rita Jail lobby on Nov. 8, 2026. Alameda County sent ICE a cease-and-desist over county property access, while DHS said officers do not need local permission to enforce federal immigration law.

The FAA lifted a nationwide ground stop after roughly four hours, a longer halt than its 2023 outage. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said restoring normal flights would take time and told travelers to check with their airlines.

The Federal Aviation Administration lifted a nationwide ground stop after communications issues disrupted regional air traffic control, allowing departures to resume. Flight Aware reported more than 600 delays and over 350 cancellations at Denver International Airport as of 7 p.m. Friday.

Cisco Talos reports growing criminal use of AI-enabled penetration-testing frameworks, including ARTEX, which automates planning and attack tasks. Talos cites CrowdStrike and Microsoft attributions linking ARTEX activity to several threat groups and campaigns.

Portland Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Kimberlee Armstrong recommended on Friday that the district close 10 elementary schools, while Sellwood Middle School would be spared under the proposal.

The Federal Aviation Administration ordered a nationwide ground stop at U.S. airports on Friday afternoon, citing a communications problem affecting air traffic control centers. By 3 p.m., San Francisco International Airport reported that Pacific-bound departures, including flights to Hawaii and Asia, were cleared to take off.

American Oversight sued the Social Security Administration in the District of Columbia, saying it has produced no records sought under FOIA about DOGE-related handling of personal data. The complaint cites whistleblower and court filings alleging DOGE copied the Numident database to a cloud server without standard security protocols and that personal information may have been exposed through a third-party server.

Developers told Bronzeville residents that three southern Prairie Shores buildings may be razed only if the site is chosen for the Bears’ proposed stadium; without it, they plan to build over the former Michael Reese Hospital site. The project could displace roughly 1,000 people, and 200 long-term tenants would be guaranteed replacement units at their current Prairie Shores rents under proposed protections.

The Trump administration is pushing federal agencies to replace “artificial intelligence” with “Super Intelligence,” or “SI,” through a September executive order and a State Department instruction to diplomats. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin used the term during a briefing on a nationwide flight ground stop whose cause was unclear, while Free Press advocacy director Jenna Ruddock described the rebrand as posturing.

The FAA issued a nationwide ground stop at U.S. airports Friday afternoon, citing a temporary telecommunications outage that halted departures out of caution. San Francisco International Airport began releasing Pacific-bound flights to Asia and Hawaii as controllers incrementally verified communications, with further delays possible.

FedRAMP is requiring more than 550 certified cloud providers to adopt new vulnerability detection and reporting rules by Dec. 7, with a grace period through March 7, 2027 for those submitting corrective action plans. Providers that have not migrated or secured an approved plan by March 8, 2027 risk having certification revoked and a one-year FedRAMP ban, a shift officials link to faster AI-assisted attacks.

Experiments on the Large Helical Device indicate that unstable plasma can heat itself through waves produced by its instabilities, contrary to the expectation that such waves only drain energy. After a wave-induced distortion in particle velocities eased, researchers found a broader spread of particle motion, pointing to a temperature rise.