Malcolm X’s daughters sue FBI, CIA and police
Nearly 60 years after Malcolm X’s assassination at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan, his family filed a federal lawsuit Friday claiming that the New York Police Department, CIA and FBI played a role in his killing.
North Korea deploys a new weapon against the South: Unbearable noise
DANGSAN-RI, South Korea — Loud, crackly noises that sounded like an ominous, giant gong being beaten again and again washed over this village on a recent night. On other nights, some residents described hearing wolves howling, metal grinding together or ghosts screaming as if out of a horror movie. Others said they heard the sound of incoming artillery, or even a furious monkey pounding on a broken piano.
Georgia poll workers defamed by Giuliani receive some of his assets
Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, the two Georgia poll workers defamed by Rudy Giuliani after the 2020 election, received his watch collection, a ring and his vintage Mercedes-Benz on Friday.
Democrats draw up an entirely new anti-Trump battle plan
WASHINGTON — Locked out of power next year, Democrats are hatching plans to oppose President-elect Donald Trump that look nothing like the liberal “resistance” of 2017.
With initial cabinet picks, Trump takes on biggest foes
President-elect Donald Trump is wasting little time in taking on the three governmental institutions that most frustrated his political ambitions during his first term and making clear he will not brook resistance in his second.
Why Kennedy sees an ‘epidemic’ of chronic disease among children
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., now President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, has for years called attention to what he considers an “epidemic” of chronic disease that has left America’s children among the sickest in the developed world.
Trump immigration targets: Ukrainians, Venezuelans, Haitians
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed a crackdown on immigration like never before.
Teen who made nearly 400 swatting calls to schools and officials pleads guilty
An 18-year-old California man admitted Wednesday that he had made nearly 400 false reports of bomb threats and mass shootings that targeted schools, religious institutions and government officials across the country over a 16-month period, federal prosecutors announced.
A big climate goal is getting further out of reach
Countries have made scant progress in curbing their greenhouse gas emissions over the past year, keeping the planet on track for dangerous levels of warming this century, according to a new report published Thursday.
Nation and World news — At a glance — for November 15
Justice Dept. reports broad civil rights abuses at Georgia jail system
Trump picks RFK Jr. to be head of Health and Human Services Dept.
President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday that he would nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services — setting up a debate over whether Kennedy, whose vaccine skepticism and unorthodox views about medicine make public health officials deeply uneasy, can be confirmed.
Russia launches missiles against Ukraine’s capital
KYIV, Ukraine — Russia ramped up its deep strikes into Ukraine on Wednesday with a volley of missiles aimed at Kyiv and a northeastern border area, ending a more than two-month pause in such attacks on the capital, the Ukrainian air force said.
Nation and World news — At a glance — for November 14
2 workers killed in explosion at Kentucky plant
Emboldened by reelection, Trump renews bid to overturn his conviction
President-elect Donald Trump is mounting a resurgent bid to dismiss his criminal conviction in New York in the wake of his electoral victory, hoping to clear his record of 34 felonies before returning to the White House, court records unsealed Tuesday show.
Who are the next leaders of the Democratic party?
WASHINGTON — American presidential elections tend to be a zero-sum game for the parties and their voters. Win, and everything is great. Lose, and your party is rudderless, leaderless and powerless.
Archbishop of Canterbury resigns over UK church abuse scandal
LONDON — The archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Justin Welby, resigned Tuesday after a damning report concluded that he had failed to pursue a proper investigation into claims of widespread abuse of boys and young men decades ago at Christian summer camps.
Israel intensifies strikes in Lebanon amid push for cease-fire
BEIRUT — Israel’s military struck neighborhoods south of Beirut where Hezbollah holds sway and issued sweeping new evacuation warnings across southern Lebanon on Tuesday, intensifying Israel’s conflict with the militant group just as diplomatic momentum appeared to be building toward talks aimed at a temporary cease-fire.
Texas attorney general seeks order to preserve Jack Smith’s Trump records
Ken Paxton, the attorney general of Texas, has asked a federal judge for an emergency order that would force the special counsel, Jack Smith, to preserve all of his investigative records even as Smith moves toward shutting down the criminal cases he has brought against President-elect Donald Trump.
Music and morale in a country at war
As Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine nears the end of its third year, music has become an important way to keep people’s spirits up — and a pillar of Ukraine’s defense.
At the pandemic’s start, Americans began drinking more. They still are
Americans started drinking more as the COVID-19 pandemic got underway. They were stressed, isolated, uncertain — the world as they had known it had changed overnight.
