Nation and World
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Official: Canada’s Trudeau is set to resign as Liberal Party leader, spelling end to time in power
Jan 06, 2025 9:27 am - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plans to announce his resignation Monday, an official said, in the face of rising discontent over his leadership, and after the abrupt departure of his finance minister signaled growing turmoil within his government.
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Trump is certified as the 2024 election winner without challenge, in stark contrast to 2021 violence
Jan 06, 2025 7:31 am - Congress certified President-elect Donald Trump as the winner of the 2024 election in proceedings that unfolded Monday without violence or mayhem, in stark contrast to the Jan. 6, 2021, violence as his mob of supporters stormed the Capitol.
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Lawmakers brace for Trump's promised Jan. 6 pardons. Some are urging restraint
Jan 05, 2025 4:57 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) — The fourth anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has a new focus as lawmakers brace for the prospect that President-elect Donald Trump may soo...
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Higher Social Security payments coming for millions of people from bill that Biden is signing
Jan 05, 2025 4:56 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Sunday plans to sign into law a measure that boosts Social Security payments for current and former public employees, affecting n...
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Man behind New Year's attack visited New Orleans before, recorded video with smart glasses, FBI says
Jan 05, 2025 4:55 pm - NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The man responsible for the truck attack in New Orleans on New Year's Day that killed 14 people visited the city twice before and recorded video of the...
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Congress is set to certify Trump’s win on Monday. Here’s what to know.
Jan 05, 2025 4:54 pm - Congress will meet Monday to certify the results of the 2024 election, finalizing President-elect Donald Trump’s win ahead of his inauguration Jan. 20. Unlike the certifi...
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Tesla data helped police after Las Vegas truck explosion, but experts have wider privacy concerns
Jan 04, 2025 8:36 pm - NEW YORK — Your car is spying on you. That is one takeaway from the fast, detailed data that Tesla collected on the driver of one of its Cybertrucks that exploded in Las ...
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Drivers skid and crash as wintry mix grips central US before moving east
Jan 04, 2025 8:34 pm - MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Road conditions were deteriorating Saturday in the central U.S. as a winter storm brought a mix of snow, ice and plunging temperatures, with forecast...
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Israeli airstrikes in Gaza kill at least 21, hospital workers say, as talks underway
Jan 04, 2025 8:10 pm - DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli airstrikes killed at least 21 people, including at least two children, on Saturday in Gaza, hospital staff said, while a new effort at...
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Jimmy Carter’s flag-draped casket is on its way to Atlanta as 39th president's state funeral begins
Jan 04, 2025 5:20 pm - PLAINS, Ga. — Jimmy Carter 's long public goodbye began Saturday in Georgia, with the 39th U.S. president’s flag-draped casket rolling through his tiny hometown and past ...