IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. UP NEXT 119th Congress set to begin with a House speaker vote to re-elect Mike Johnson 04:43 ‘This wasn’t the man I knew:’ Brother of New Orleans attacker speaks out 00:41 New Orleans mourns and also starts to heal in...
Alcohol is the third leading cause of cancer in the U.S., after tobacco and obesity, according to a new report from Surgeon General Vivek Murthy. The advisory, released Friday, suggests that cancer risk warning labels be included on alcoholic beverages. The report cites a direct link between alcohol consumption and at least seven types of...
President Joe Biden announced Friday that the White House would block a $15 billion bid by the Japanese company Nippon Steel to acquire U.S. Steel, capping off a yearlong business saga that drifted into election-year politics. “As I have said many times, steel production—and the steel workers who produce it—are the backbone of our nation,”...
Thousands of miles from Washington, where the funeral of Jimmy Carter is set for next week, an Indian village named after the former U.S. president fondly remembers his visit almost 50 years ago, paying tribute. A one-term president from 1977, Carter, who died on Sunday at age 100, is to be given a state funeral at the Washington National Cathedral on Thursday. Carterpuri,...
Five-time Olympic champion Hungarian gymnast Agnes Keleti, the world’s oldest living Olympic gold medalist and a survivor of the persecution of Jews in World War II, died at the age of 103 on Thursday, the Hungarian Olympic Committee said. Born as Agnes Klein in Budapest on Jan. 9, 1921, Keleti joined the National Gymnastics Association...
Italy’s foreign ministry summoned the Iranian ambassador on Thursday to demand the immediate release of reporter Cecilia Sala, who was seized in Tehran on Dec. 19 while working under a regular journalistic visa. The ministry said in a statement it had relayed “serious concern” over Sala’s detention and stressed the need for humane treatment and...
WASHINGTON — The new Congress will begin Friday, ushering in a tiny House Republican majority to tackle enormous tasks in the first year of Donald Trump’s second term, from keeping the government open to averting a calamitous debt default to advancing the president-elect’s immigration and tax ambitions. Republicans won a 220-215 seat majority in the...
Holding the motionless body of his newborn baby wrapped in a blanket, Yahya Al-Batran imagines what his son, Jumaa, would say if he could speak. “I left you for God, Daddy,” Batran says as Jumaa, eyes open and dressed in a jumper too big for his frail body, lies still in his arms. Jumaa is...
FULLERTON, Calif. — Two people died and 18 were injured Thursday when a small plane crashed through the roof of a sprawling furniture manufacturing building in Southern California where at least 200 people were working, police said. The identities of the people who died, and whether they were in the plane or on the ground,...
BEAUMONT, Texas — Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s high school friends knew him as “Sham” — a good student with a quiet disposition and a bright future. He went on to become a model soldier in the Army, where his work ethic and attitude impressed his commander during a tour in Afghanistan. “He was a great soldier, someone...