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.
Spirit Airlines plane hit by gunfire in Haiti and forced to divert
A Spirit Airlines flight attempting to land in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, was shot at Monday and forced to divert, marking a sharp escalation in the violence that has gripped the nation.
Army private is identified almost 80 years after death in World War II
Seven months after the pivotal D-Day invasion of the French coast, a baby-faced Army private from Chicago and his anti-tank company were resupplying and reinforcing Allied forces for weeks along a 40-mile-wide front on the France-Germany border in early January 1945.
Elon Musk is positioning X behind the new Trump presidency
SAN FRANCISCO — Since Donald Trump won the presidential election, Elon Musk has gone all-in on the social network X to promote the incoming administration.
After a 2,000-mile trip, a penguin finds itself on an Australian beach
It was a day as Australian as you can get: Sun, waves and surfing at the beach.
They were ashamed about their debt. Bankruptcy gave them a second chance
In my 20s, while attending law school at New York University by day and concerts by night, I racked up more than $30,000 in credit card debt. I wasn’t thinking about my credit score; I was solely living in the moment.
Unions bet big on Harris. Now they’re bracing for consequences
Besides the Harris campaign and its affiliated political action committees, few economic or political sectors placed larger bets than organized labor on Vice President Kamala Harris winning the presidency.
25 escaped monkeys of 43 are captured in South Carolina
Twenty-five of the 43 monkeys that escaped an enclosure at a South Carolina research center were captured Saturday and Sunday while the rest remain at large, officials said.
Biden and environmental groups try to protect climate policies from Trump
Biden administration aides are racing to award hundreds of millions of dollars in grants and finalize environmental regulations in an effort to lock in President Joe Biden’s climate agenda before Donald Trump enters the White House, said John Podesta, the president’s senior adviser on clean energy.
NFL fines 49ers’ Nick Bosa for his MAGA hat following Dallas game
The NFL fined San Francisco 49ers defensive end Nick Bosa $11,255 for interrupting a postgame interview with his teammates by pointing to his “Make America Great Again” hat, a league source confirmedSaturday.
A museum in England explores why we take drugs
NORWICH, England — In January 1953, William S. Burroughs went into the Colombian Amazon to look for drugs. Ayahuasca, to be specific, also called yage — one of the most potent hallucinogenic substances on Earth, and a fundamental aspect of the social and spiritual life of over 150 Indigenous Amazonian groups.
FEMA fires employee for telling milton relief workers to skip houses with Trump signs
An employee with the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been fired after reports that after Hurricane Milton, the employee told relief workers in Florida to pass over houses with signs supporting Donald Trump, the agency said Saturday.
‘It was a total nightmare’
LOS ANGELES — Firefighters in Southern California expected a reprieve from extreme weather conditions Friday as they continued to battle a fast-moving fire that has already destroyed over 130 structures and damaged nearly 90 others.
With ready orders and an energy czar, Trump plots pivot to fossil fuels
As President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team plans his energy and environment agenda, it is relying on two seasoned former Cabinet leaders and fossil fuel lobbyists to dramatically reshape the agencies charged with protecting the nation’s air, water, climate and public lands, according to six people familiar with the matter.
With Trump tariffs looming, businesses try to ‘run from a moving target’
WASHINGTON — Rick Muskat woke up the morning after the election with an urgent task. He got his agent in China on the phone at 4:30 a.m. Beijing time and pressed him to ask their factory how many more pairs of men’s dress shoes they could make before Chinese New Year, at the end of January.
Iranian agents plotted to kill Trump, US Says in unsealed charges
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan said Friday that Iranian plotters had discussed a plan to assassinate Donald Trump before he was reelected as president this week.
Temperatures are on track for a record high, researchers find
This year will almost certainly be the hottest on record, beating the high set in 2023, researchers announced Wednesday.
Leaders in Democratic states begin planning to fight Trump policies
As Donald Trump savored a victory in the presidential race, Democratic leaders in at least three state capitals have begun mobilizing to push back against potential Republican policies on issues like reproductive health and the environment.
