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Russia wants foreign visitors to sign ‘loyalty’ pledge to regime

UPDATED: Wed., Nov. 29, 2023

Russia wants foreigners entering the country to sign a “loyalty agreement” pledging not to challenge the Kremlin on issues like President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine and a ban on promoting LGBT relationships, according to the Tass news service.

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Astronomers discover six planets orbiting a nearby sun-like star

UPDATED: Wed., Nov. 29, 2023

Astronomers have discovered a six-pack of planets, formed at least 4 billion years ago and remarkably unchanged since, orbiting a nearby sun-like star. The new planets, described in a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature, could provide a breakthrough in the understanding of how planets form and why there are so many between the sizes of Earth and Neptune, a class known as "sub Neptunes" that is astoundingly common in our galaxy.

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Detroit bus driver kept job through 19 accidents until second fatality

UPDATED: Wed., Nov. 29, 2023

During Geraldine Johnson's 26-year career as a Detroit Department of Transportation bus driver, she was involved in 19 on-the-job accidents — two of which resulted in fatalities — and was written up multiple times for reckless driving and other infractions, according to personnel files reviewed by The Detroit News.

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Damaged sheet music was discovered at Auschwitz. A composer got to work.

UPDATED: Wed., Nov. 29, 2023

With the wave of a conductor's baton, a heartbreaking melody began to resound inside a concert hall in London - a song composed by a prisoner in a Nazi death camp that, until Monday, had not been played in public.

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Australian police officer charged with manslaughter after 95-year-old was Tasered

UPDATED: Wed., Nov. 29, 2023

An Australian police officer has been charged with manslaughter in the death of a 95-year-old woman who was Tasered after authorities were called to her nursing home on reports that she was armed with a knife.

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House prepares to drop China investment curbs from defense bill

UPDATED: Tue., Nov. 28, 2023

WASHINGTON — Congressional negotiators on Tuesday were poised to abandon plans to use the annual defense policy bill to tighten controls on U.S. investment in Chinese technology, according to people familiar with the discussions. House Financial Services Chairman Patrick McHenry is effectively blocking a measure that would require firms to notify the government about certain investments in ...

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Senate intelligence chairman proposes revamp of surveillance program

UPDATED: Tue., Nov. 28, 2023

With the clock ticking toward an end-of-year deadline, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday introduced a bipartisan bill aimed at renewing a powerful but controversial surveillance program - known as Section 702 - that he hopes addresses concerns from fiercely skeptical privacy-minded lawmakers on both ends of the political spectrum without sapping the tool's usefulness.

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Chicago’s first migrant camp slated to begin construction, as environmental report remains pending

UPDATED: Tue., Nov. 28, 2023

Workers are set to start building Chicago’s first government-run tent encampment for migrants at a Southwest Side lot, officials said after a series of recent false starts and stops over the controversial base camp.

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CIA director pushes big hostage deal in secret meeting with Mossad chief

UPDATED: Tue., Nov. 28, 2023

CIA Director William J. Burns arrived in Qatar on Tuesday for secret meetings with Israel’s spy chief and Qatar’s prime minister aimed at brokering an expansive deal between Israel and Hamas, said three people familiar with the visit.

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In D.C. 2020 election case, Trump demands information on U.S. government

UPDATED: Tue., Nov. 28, 2023

Donald Trump's attorneys are seeking a vast trove of information about how the U.S. government investigated both him and his allegations of voter fraud in 2020 - the latest sign that the former president and 2024 Republican front-runner will fight charges in D.C. of election obstruction by relying on his unfounded allegation that President Biden's victory was "stolen" and other baseless conspiratorial claims.

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Massachusetts looks to hire ‘chief coastal resilience officer’ to respond to rising sea levels, extreme storms

UPDATED: Tue., Nov. 28, 2023

BOSTON — A new employee within the state’s Office of Coastal Zone Management will be tasked with identifying the strategies, funding and a regulatory framework to address the impacts of climate change along Massachusetts’ 1,500-plus mile coastline. Warning that climate change “poses a very real threat to our coastal way of life,” Gov. Maura Healey said Tuesday a state planning initiative dubbed ...

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Rosalynn Carter honored by Jimmy, Bidens and admirers at Georgia memorial

UPDATED: Tue., Nov. 28, 2023

ATLANTA - Margie Ryman wanted to linger, but a Secret Service agent nudged her to move along. Hundreds of mourners were waiting behind her in line to see the flower-adorned casket of Rosalynn Carter.

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Can U.S.-China student exchanges survive geopolitics?

UPDATED: Tue., Nov. 28, 2023

BEIJING – On a cool Saturday morning, in a hotel basement in Beijing, throngs of young Chinese gathered to do what millions had done before them: dream of an American education.

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An architect has found a way to build flood-proof homes

UPDATED: Tue., Nov. 28, 2023

Yasmeen Lari spent a four-decade career designing award-winning structures out of concrete, glass and steel before stumbling into her ideal material.

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Elon Musk boosts Pizzagate conspiracy theory that led to D.C. gunfire

UPDATED: Tue., Nov. 28, 2023

Elon Musk voiced support Tuesday morning for Pizzagate, the long-debunked conspiracy theory that led a man to fire a rifle inside a Washington, D.C., restaurant in 2016.

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Newsom vs. DeSantis debate: A battle between 2 Disney governors

UPDATED: Tue., Nov. 28, 2023

There are many ways to view this week’s unusual debate between Govs. Ron DeSantis of Florida and Gavin Newsom of California: Red State vs. Blue. A presidential candidate vying for attention in the 2024 cycle vs. an ambitious governor possibly setting ground work for the next one. It’s also a battle of the two Disney governors.

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Ukraine military intelligence chief’s wife was poisoned, Kyiv officials say

UPDATED: Tue., Nov. 28, 2023

The wife of Ukraine's military intelligence chief has been hospitalized after being poisoned with heavy metals, a top Ukrainian official said Tuesday.

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Koch network endorses Nikki Haley for president as it looks to stop Trump

UPDATED: Tue., Nov. 28, 2023

The powerful political network led by conservative billionaire Charles Koch endorsed Nikki Haley for president on Tuesday, as it looks to stop Donald Trump from being the Republican nominee.

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Sandy Hook families offer Alex Jones a deal to settle $1.5 billion debt

UPDATED: Tue., Nov. 28, 2023

The families of victims of the mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School have offered Infowars founder Alex Jones a deal to settle the $1.5 billion debt for only about 6 percent of what he owes them for saying the 2012 massacre in Newtown, Conn., was a hoax, according to a new court filing.

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Most Russians back war in Ukraine and buy Putin’s case for it, report says

UPDATED: Tue., Nov. 28, 2023

Russians are growing weary of the war against Ukraine but are divided about how much harm it has done and how to end it, according to a report based on polling and focus groups by the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center and the Levada Center, an independent polling group.

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