How Harris’ effort to neutralize immigration as a campaign issue failed
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned for the presidency on the toughest immigration platform of any Democrat in decades: She vowed to continue the Biden administrations’s crackdown on asylum and to impose order on the southern border. She championed her record as a border-state prosecutor and her support of a bipartisan border bill that failed after former President Donald Trump urged Republicans to reject it.
Why 2 big-league teams will squeeze into small homes in 2025
Major League Baseball teams are worth billions of dollars and generally fill mighty, 40,000- to 50,000-seat stadiums at premium prices dozens of nights each year.
Americans have regained modest trust in scientists, survey finds
For the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the public’s trust in scientists has improved, according to a survey published Thursday by the Pew Research Center.
Norway apologizes for forced assimilation of Sami and other minorities
LONDON — For more than a century, Norway forcibly suppressed the language and culture of Indigenous people and other minority groups, including removing children from their parents, in a system of “Norwegianization” whose devastation continues to be felt.
The investigations into Matt Gaetz: What to know
President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement that he will nominate Matt Gaetz to be attorney general has resurrected questions about Justice Department and House ethics investigations into Gaetz’s conduct and whether he had sex with a 17-year-old girl who was being paid for her services.
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.
‘Devious’ new deep sea creature hid its identity from scientists
Bruce Robison, a marine biologist, has long used robotic vehicles to explore the Monterey Canyon off California — a gargantuan rift of the Pacific seabed that descends rapidly from coastal shallows to a depth of more than 2 miles. In early 2000, he stumbled on a strange creature he had never seen before.
Master of Hawaiian dance Vicky Holt Takamine awarded the Gish Prize
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.
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.
Why Trump’s deportations will drive up your grocery bill
For the past few years, over and over, voters have told pollsters and pundits that they’re hopping mad about inflation. Well, we just elected a president who, if he follows through on two of his central campaign promises — across-the-board tariffs and mass deportation of immigrants lacking permanent legal status — will probably cause soaring inflation.
Biden honors veterans in ceremony at Arlington Cemetery
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden urged Americans to take a moment to honor those who serve in the military and their families on Monday, using the backdrop of Arlington National Cemetery to observe Veterans Day one last time as the country’s commander in chief.
Uranus might have experienced a freak event when Voyager 2 visited
Our understanding of Uranus might have been all wrong for nearly 40 years.
Iran debates whether it could make a deal with Trump
President Donald Trump pulled out of the 2015 nuclear pact between Iran and world powers, imposed tough economic sanctions on Iran and ordered the killing of its top general. And Iran, federal prosecutors said Friday, plotted to assassinate Trump before November’s election.
Trump chooses Lee Zeldin to run EPA as he plans to gut climate rules
President-elect Donald Trump announced Monday that he will nominate former Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, a position that is expected to be central to Trump’s plans to dismantle landmark climate regulations.
Trump plans series of executive orders for day 1, Susie Wiles tells donors
LAS VEGAS — Susie Wiles, the next White House chief of staff, privately told a group of Republican donors Monday that President-elect Donald Trump would move on his first day in office to reinstate several executive orders from Trump’s first term that President Joe Biden had revoked, according to two people in the room who insisted on anonymity to describe the closed-door remarks.
Israel issues new evacuation warnings in Lebanon
BEIRUT — The Israeli military issued new evacuation warnings for more than 20 towns and villages in southern Lebanon on Monday, and Hezbollah unleashed a large rocket barrage into northern Israel, the latest indications that the conflict showed few signs of abating.
As wildfire burns in New Jersey and New York, rain offers little relief
Firefighters in New Jersey and New York were working on Sunday to contain the latest of several recent wildfires in the region, where the first forecast rainfall in weeks was expected to bring little relief to areas experiencing drought conditions.
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.
Senators vying to be GOP leader vow to quickly confirm Trump nominees
WASHINGTON — Senators vying to become the next leader of the Republican conference pledged on Sunday to quickly push through President-elect Donald Trump’s appointees after he demanded on social media that they do so.
