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- Taliban seeks to share power in Afghanistan's government, but will ethnic groups approve?Illusionist Derren Brown pushes the boundaries of mentalismHouse set for historic floor vote on impeachmentAP Fact Check: Trump's impeachment rage, Bloomberg on coalUN climate talks in limbo as chair Chile bids for compromise
- Jamaican wins Miss World title, says will work for sustainable changeCalifornia governor rejects PG&E bankruptcy reorganization planQueen Elizabeth to set out UK PM Johnson's agenda on ThursdayMexico objects to labor enforcement provision in North American trade deal'I will repay your trust,' UK PM Johnson tells ex-Labour voters on trip to north
- Anger as rifts scupper hopes of breakthrough at UN climate talksEU looks at extending Brexit transition period beyond 2020Rohingya fury at Aung San Suu Kyi’s genocide denial to world courtThousands join biggest protest in Bangkok since 2014 coupAfghanistan papers detail US dysfunction: 'We did not know what we were doing'
- How does Devin Nunes pay for all the lawsuits he’s filing against journalists, satirists and political critics? Good question‘Bombshell’ is a muddled mess that doesn’t do Fox News nor #MeToo any favorsA 7-year-old complained about a scary office at school. This is the video his parents saw — a month later.Melania Trump’s statement on bullying of Greta Thunberg is weird, stupid and hypocritical — just like her husbandHave the Democrats missed an opportunity?
- "You Backing The Russians, Boy?" - Illinois Man Charged With Threatening To Murder GOP CongressmanEdward Snowden Speaks Out For Julian Assange And Chelsea ManningChina's "Moment Of Reckoning" Arrives: $38BN State-Owned Giant Announces Largest Dollar Bond Default In Two DecadesRepo-Market Turmoil: Are We Staring Into The Financial Abyss?Hundreds Of Billions In Gold And Cash Are Quietly Disappearing
- In Final Hours, COP 25 Denounced as 'Utter Failure' as Deal Is Stripped of Ambition and US Refuses to Accept Liability for Climate CrisisIlhan Omar Joins Sanders in Drawing 1,300 People to Largest New Hampshire Rally of 2020 Primary So FarOutrage After South Carolina Gets Trump OK to Attack Medicaid With Work Requirement PolicyWarren and Sanders Lead 2020 Candidates in Backing Workers Demanding Fair Wages, Vowing Not to Cross Picket Line for Debate'Sick to my Stomach': Explosive Report Details ICE Negligence in Medical Care for Detained Children Resulted in Deaths, Preventable Surgeries
- The UN Climate Negotiations Are Officially a Disaster and the US Helped Screw It UpIvanka Trump Never Ever Gets Special Treatment. Nope, Never.Matt Bevin, Formerly Our Nation’s Trumpiest Governor, Has Created a Real Mess for HimselfThe New York Times Editorial Board Calls to Impeach President TrumpAmerica In 2020 Will Probably Rhyme With Britain In 2019
- ‘Mayors for Mike’: How Bloomberg’s Money Built a 2020 Political NetworkCory Booker Leads the Charge to Change Debate Rules That Excluded HimShe’s 16 and Wants to Be President: Meet the Teenagers Planning Their CampaignsHe Was One of Mexico’s Deadliest Assassins. Then He Turned on His Cartel.Representative Jeff Van Drew, Anti-Impeachment Democrat, Plans to Switch Parties
- 10 years. 179 arrests. No white defendants. DEA tactics face scrutiny in New York.Bass Reeves, the fiercest federal lawman you never knew — and he was African AmericanCalifornia governor rejects PG&E’s bankruptcy planFormer Kentucky governor defends pardons; argues America is a nation that supports redemptionDemocrats plan ‘unprecedented’ effort to flip state legislative chambers in 2020 state races
- Heisman Trophy: LSU quarterback Joe Burrow wins award as top college football playerSalesian wins one for Richmond pride: ‘I couldn’t be happier for my city’Under pressure, Hallmark pulls gay-themed wedding adsCIF state football championship scoreboardTrump impeachment vote underscores a harshly partisan era
- Newtown wins football state championship with a walk-off touchdown on anniversary of Sandy Hook school shootingDemocratic New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew plans to become a Republican, sources sayReparations mark a new front for colleges tied to slaveryWisconsin judge orders 234,000 voter registrations tossed because they did not respond to mailer within 30 daysFact check: Trump on Ivanka’s 14 million jobs, Bloomberg on killing coal and other less than accurate politicians
- Warren man fatally struck by freight train in Royal OakDetroit teacher: I'll never forget day my students saw mutilated body on way to schoolHe's changing the way Michigan teachers help children with traumaFlat Rock family inspired to keep giving at NICULyft lists most popular destinations in Detroit, according to drivers
- Far from U.S. epidemic, 'the other opioid crisis' rages in vulnerable countriesAfter bruising campaign, victorious Johnson searches for Brexit unity. It may prove elusiveNewsletter: A House committee dividedSenate Republicans are resisting President Trump's desire for a drawn-out impeachment trialChina confirms tentative trade deal with U.S., but releases few details
- Video shows North Carolina school resource officer violently slamming child to the floorRunner accused of groping reporter during live TV broadcast charged with sexual batteryNew Orleans under a state of emergency after cyberattackDisturbing new details in the stabbing death of New York City college studentShooting at crowded Atlanta mall sparks panic; 1 injured
- The long-anticipated announcement could come as early as next week, an administration official saysOpinion: The truth died in AfghanistanWaPo: American public misled over war in AfghanistanThe Post's Afghanistan Papers probe started with a single tipWhat can US learn from Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan?
- Sunday Deadline Looms For Affordable Care Act Open EnrollmentCalifornia Rejects State's Largest Utility's Bankruptcy PlanDivers Search Contaminated Water For Body Of New Zealand Volcano VictimLife Along Pakistan's Mountain Highway Where China Is Investing Billions Of DollarsOpinion: Should It Be Illegal To Sleep Outside?
- Coming soon to a menswear store near you, it’s the...codpiece?‘We must show US that the jokes are over’: Top German MP says Berlin shouldn’t sit idle as Washington hampers its energy projectsVIDEO showcases artifacts recovered from Hitler’s ‘Wolf's Lair’ bunkerFresh tests to be used for ‘strategic weapons,’ US should back off for a ‘peaceful’ year’s end – North Korea’s militaryPity that reference to human rights sometimes serves as basis to interfere in other states’ domestic issues – Hungarian FM to RT
- Mexico holds assemblies to consider controversial Maya Train planStreet battles in Beirut as counter-protesters clash with policeTurkey says S-400 system 'vital', will retaliate any US sanctionsItaly's 'Sardines' pack Rome for anti far-right rallyBangladesh editor arrested after report on executed Jamaat leader
- Democratic lawmaker from New Jersey reportedly plans to become RepublicanAnger erupts at UN climate summit as major economies resist bold actionJohnson keeps focus on election win and Brexit, not on regions opposed to leaving EUFormer president of Sudan sentenced to 2 years for corruption, money-launderingThousands join Bangkok's biggest political protest since 2014 coup
- 'We don't give up easily: Recovery team go back to White Island to search for last victimsNew Zealand police confirm IDs of three more Australian victims from volcano eruptionWe lost, big time, and now I fear Johnson will turn Great Britain into Little BritainChina welcomes preliminary deal in trade war it blames on USChina deletes data, destroys documents after leaks on Uighur camps
- North Korea conducts new test at rocket site, aims to ‘overpower U.S. nuclear threats’Grizzly bears move north in High Arctic as climate change expands rangeTrudeau gives nearly 300 tasks for ministers to take on in new parliamentFrom fourth place, Singh says he’d rather push Liberals than work with ToriesChris Selley: John Tory’s property tax hike is necessary, overdue, and thoroughly disreputable