Ukraine fired several American-supplied longer-range missiles into Russia, officials said Tuesday, marking the first time Kyiv used the weapons that way in 1,000 days of war. Read More. |
President-elect Donald Trump chose Howard Lutnick, head of brokerage and investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald and a cryptocurrency enthusiast, as his nominee for commerce secretary — a position in which he’d have a key role in carrying out Trump’s plans to raise and enforce tariffs. Read More. |
Two women told House Ethics Committee investigators that former Rep. Matt Gaetz, who has been tapped to be attorney general in the next Trump administration, paid them for sex, and one of the women testified she saw him having sex with a 17-year-old, according to an attorney for the women. Gaetz has denied ever having a relationship with a 17-year-old, and any other wrongdoing. Read More. |
New York prosecutors oppose any effort to dismiss President-elect Donald Trump’s hush money conviction, but they expressed some openness Tuesday to delaying sentencing until after his impending second term. Read More. |
Forests of native trees and plants once blanketed the Western Ghats mountains in southern India. But nearly 200 years ago, British colonists installed tea plantations there. The few groves that stand today are either protected by Indigenous communities, or are being grown and tended back into existence by ecologists who plant seeds native to this biodiverse region. Read More. |
Brazil’s federal police arrested Tuesday five officers accused of plotting a coup that included plans to overthrow the government following the 2022 elections and kill then-President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, authorities said. Read More. |
San Joaquin Valley Republican Vince Fong was on the ballot this fall for an Assembly race, but he didn’t want to win it. Voters chose Fong anyway for the Assembly. They chose him again for Congress, too, since he was listed on the same ballot twice. Read More. |
An endangered fin whale that washed up near a coastal trail in Alaska’s largest city has attracted curious onlookers while biologists seek answers as to what caused the animal’s death. Read More. |
The Cartner family had known since last year that one of their farm’s Christmas trees would be headed to the White House this winter. But then Hurricane Helene struck, unleashing a deadly deluge across western North Carolina, including Avery County, where Cartner’s Christmas Tree Farm has stood for decades. Read More. |
A New Hampshire company is working to develop a fleet of autonomous helicopters that it hopes can be used to put out fires, spray crops and handle other dangerous jobs. Read More. |
