Amazon tells corporate workers to be back in the office 5 days a week
SEATTLE — Amazon told its corporate employees on Monday that they had to return to working in the company’s offices five days a week starting in January.
Tim Walz, a ‘snowman melting,’ tests his appeal in the Sun Belt
When Vice President Kamala Harris selected Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, many Democrats hoped that his folksy charm, quick-witted jabs at Republican opponents and “Minnesota nice” values would draw in white, working-class voters from across the Midwest — and potentially beyond.
Man arrested at Trump golf course had a history of crusading for causes
MIAMI — The man arrested after apparently plotting to assassinate former President Donald Trump at one of his Florida golf courses Sunday appeared to tell Iran in a rambling self-published book last year that it was “free to assassinate Trump.”
Trump, outrage and the modern era of political violence
WASHINGTON — Within days of former President Donald Trump vilifying immigrants on national television with false stories about Haitian migrants eating pet dogs and cats in an Ohio town, someone began threatening to blow up schools, City Hall and other public buildings, forcing evacuations and prompting a wave of fear.
Three hostages were likely killed in November by Israeli strike, IDF Says
JERUSALEM — The Israeli military announced Sunday that, according to an internal investigation, three hostages were probably killed in November as a result of an airstrike targeting a senior Hamas commander.
Polaris Dawn astronauts return to Earth after first private spacewalk
After conducting the first-ever commercial spacewalk and traveling farther from Earth than anyone in more than half a century, the astronauts of the Polaris Dawn mission returned to Earth safely early Sunday.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he is being investigated for whale carcass
GLENDALE, Ariz. — At his first major campaign event for former President Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a crowd Saturday night that he was being investigated for his handling of a whale carcass decades ago.
Vance sticks by pet-eating claims and says he’s willing to ‘create stories’
Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, the Republican vice presidential nominee, said Sunday that he stood by the debunked claims he and former President Donald Trump have spread suggesting Haitian migrants were eating pets, saying that he was willing “to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention.”
Climate lawsuits are exploding across the world. Are homicide charges next?
Lawsuits against fossil fuel companies over climate change are piling up. Legislators and activists are pushing prosecutors to pursue criminal charges. Children are suing governments, arguing that their right to a healthy environment is being trampled on.
Second assassination attempt raises new questions about Secret Service
WASHINGTON — A would-be killer got within shooting distance of former President Donald Trump for the second time in about two months — stopped only by the swift, keen-eyed response of Secret Service agents — raising new questions about the agency’s broader ability to protect candidates in its charge.
Trump safe after what FBI describes as an assassination attempt
MIAMI — Former President Donald Trump was playing golf Sunday afternoon in Florida when a Secret Service agent spotted a man with a rifle standing by a chain-link fence on the perimeter of the course, law enforcement officials said.
Suspected gunman with Hawaii ties said he was willing to fight and die in Ukraine
Ryan Wesley Routh, the 58-year-old man who was arrested Sunday in connection with what the FBI described as an attempted assassination on former President Donald Trump, had expressed the desire to fight and die in Ukraine.
At funeral in Turkey, family mourns American activist killed by Israeli gunfire
DIDIM, Turkey — With Turkish flags flying and chants of “God is great” resounding through the cemetery, Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a Turkish American activist killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank, was laid to rest Saturday in a town on Turkey’s Aegean coast.
In Springfield, Ohio, threats leave Haitian residents shaken
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — After a week that saw schools, businesses and City Hall closed in Springfield, Ohio, by bomb threats, this weekend began with two of the city’s hospitals going on lockdown. A sweep of both facilities Saturday morning turned up nothing, but the new threats only added to the unease hanging over the city since former President Donald Trump dragged it into the race for the White House.
Japan tries to reclaim its clout as a global tech leader
China’s envy-inducing success in using industrial policy to expand its economy and finance green manufacturing has helped kick off a fevered scrimmage among nations to develop and protect their own hometown businesses.
Starliner astronauts say what they’ll miss during extended stay in space
Nineteen astronauts across three spacecraft are in orbit around Earth — a record in the history of human spaceflight. Two of them, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore of NASA, were not originally scheduled to be up there at this time.
Boar’s Head shuts down Virginia plant tied to listeria deaths
Boar’s Head announced Friday that it would indefinitely shut down the troubled Virginia deli meat plant that it acknowledged had caused a deadly listeria outbreak, killing nine people and sickening dozens more in 18 states.
Boeing’s strike halts airplane production at key plants
Thousands of Boeing workers went on strike Friday after overwhelmingly rejecting a contract their union negotiated, a potentially costly disruption to the aerospace giant as it tries to recover from a series of safety crises.
Harris visits red areas of Pennsylvania, hoping to cut into Trump’s edge
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned through Pennsylvania’s conservative interior Friday, aiming to shave a few percentage points off former President Donald Trump’s winning margins in parts of the state where he remains popular.
China raises retirement age for the first time since the 1950s
BEIJING — The Chinese government on Friday approved a plan to raise the country’s statutory retirement age, currently among the lowest in the world, in a long-awaited but broadly unpopular effort to address the challenge of its rapidly aging population.
