Lebanon cease-fire appears to hold despite Israeli strike
TEL AVIV, Israel — The uneasy truce between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah largely held through its second day in Lebanon on Thursday, although Israel conducted an airstrike that it said targeted militants violating terms of the ceasefire deal.
The US is building an early warning system to detect geoengineering
BOULDER, Colo. — In a guarded compound at the foot of the Rockies, government scientists are working on a new kind of global alarm system: one that can detect if another country, or maybe just an adventurous billionaire, tries to dim the sun.
Crowds turn out for Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade despite rain
NEW YORK — They stood in inches-deep puddles on street corners, heedless of soaked feet. They huddled under garbage bags turned raincoats, and sodden umbrellas — but everyone was smiling.
Trump’s pick to lead the NIH gets some things right
It’s a welcome sign that, unlike many of Donald Trump’s picks to lead parts of the nation’s health system, his pick for director of the National Institutes of Health, Jay Bhattacharya, is actually qualified. Though his record during the COVID-19 pandemic includes making catastrophically wrong predictions, he was also correct, especially later, on the need to consider the societal cost of prolonging early pandemic measures, including closures, hospital rules limiting visits, extended mask and vaccine mandates and social distancing rules.
Trump picks Stanford physician who opposed lockdowns to head NIH
President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday evening that he had selected Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford physician and economist whose authorship of an anti-lockdown treatise during the coronavirus pandemic made him a central figure in a bitter public health debate, to be the director of the National Institutes of Health.
EU vessels surround anchored Chinese ship after Baltic Sea cables are severed
For more than a week, a Chinese commercial ship has apparently been forced to anchor in the Baltic Sea, surrounded and monitored by naval and coast guard vessels from European countries as authorities attempt to unravel a maritime mystery.
It’s not your imagination. Airlines are padding flight times
The average flight today from Kennedy Airport to LAX is slower than it was in 1995 in every conceivable way. Planes face longer delays leaving the gate; take more time taxiing before taking off; and spend more time in the air.
Emergency crews walk 14 hours to save sole survivor of Costa Rica plane crash
Emergency workers in Costa Rica walked through a remote mountain forest on Tuesday carrying a woman who was in critical condition after she survived a plane crash that killed five of the six people aboard.
Obesity drugs would be covered by Medicare and Medicaid under Biden proposal
The Biden administration, in one of its last major policy directives, proposed Tuesday that Medicare and Medicaid cover obesity medications, a costly and probably popular move that the Trump administration would need to endorse to become official.
Judge approves settlement that changes rules for real estate agents
It’s official: A legal settlement that will rewrite the way many real estate agents are paid in the United States has received its final approval from a federal judge.
Trump adviser accused of pay-for-sway scheme
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump’s legal team found evidence that a top adviser asked for retainer fees from potential appointees in order to promote them for jobs in the new administration, five people briefed on the matter said Monday.
Crony capitalism is coming to America
It’s late 2025, and Donald Trump has done what he said he would do: impose high tariffs — taxes on imports — on goods coming from abroad, with extremely high tariffs on imports from China. These tariffs have had exactly the effect many economists predicted, although Trump insisted otherwise: higher prices for American buyers.
Newsom challenges Trump on electric vehicle tax credits
California will step in and provide rebates to eligible residents who buy electric vehicles if President-elect Donald Trump ends the $7,500 federal EV tax credit, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday.
Macy’s discovers employee hid millions in delivery expenses
Macy’s said Monday that an employee had “intentionally” misstated and hidden up to $154 million in delivery expenses over the past few years, forcing the retailer to delay a much-anticipated earnings report that Wall Street uses to gauge the strength of holiday shopping.
Driver kills 3 Florida deputies in a ‘gut punch’ to Palm Beach County
Law enforcement officials in Palm Beach County, Florida, were planning a memorial for two members of the sheriff’s office who were killed in a crash last week when they learned Monday that a third, who was in critical condition, had died.
Netanyahu signals openness to cease-fire with Hezbollah, officials say
TEL AVIV, Israel — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has indicated he is open to a cease-fire in the yearlong conflict with Hezbollah, as U.S. officials pressured him to finalize a deal before Thanksgiving, according to two Israeli officials briefed on his thinking.
Philippines president slams vice president’s assassination plot
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said Monday that he was taking seriously “deeply concerning” threats that had been made against him, days after his vice president said she had arranged for an assassin to kill Marcos if she were murdered.
When Sasaki signs his deal, other amateurs will suffer
The excitement over Japanese phenom Roki Sasaki coming to Major League Baseball should be tempered by the likelihood that his signing will produce unintended consequences: teenage Latin American prospects who will be abandoned by the team that signs him.
Trump plans tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China that could cripple trade
President-elect Donald Trump said Monday that he would impose tariffs on all products coming into the United States from Canada, Mexico and China on his first day in office, a move that would scramble global supply chains and impose heavy costs on companies that rely on doing business with some of the world’s largest economies.
Jack Smith seeks dismissal of 2 federal cases against Trump
Special counsel Jack Smith asked two courts Monday to effectively shut down the federal criminal cases he brought against President-elect Donald Trump last year, bowing to a Justice Department policy that says it is unconstitutional to pursue prosecutions against sitting presidents.
