Trina Turner asked people in attendance to look in each other’s eyes and get to know one another.

Turner, a pastor at Victory in Praise Church in Stockton, participated in a vigil on Sunday afternoon. It came less than 24 hours after 15 people were shot at a children’s party in an unincorporated part of San Joaquin County just north of ...Read more

Elaine Miles was walking to a bus stop in Redmond to go to Target, she said, when four men wearing masks and vests with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement label stepped out of two black SUVs with no front plates and pressed her for her ID.

Miles, an Indigenous actor best known for her roles in Northern Exposure," "Smoke Signals," "Wyvern"...Read more

Australia will soon ban its youth from popular services like TikTok and Instagram, becoming the world’s first democracy to carry out such a crackdown in response to growing concerns about social media’s harms. It’s likely to be the first of many.

The platforms will be required by law to block under-16s from holding accounts from Dec. 10, ...Read more

Vote counting has started in Honduras’ presidential election in which Donald Trump unexpectedly intervened at the last minute, and in which the two frontrunners pledged to end diplomatic ties with Beijing.

Former vice-president and sportscaster Salvador Nasralla, who Trump attacked as a “borderline communist,” led polls heading in to ...Read more

Taiwan plans to buy its first weapons for a major air-defense system announced less than two months ago, underscoring Taipei’s urgency to get the program online as China escalates its military intimidation.

The Defense Ministry is working with the de facto U.S. embassy to acquire Northrop Grumman Corp.’s Integrated Battle Command System so ...Read more

As travelers prepare to fly home on what is anticipated to be one of the busiest travel days in 15 years, a powerful winter storm in the Midwest and Great Lakes region has prompted the cancellation of hundreds of flights nationwide.

As of noon Sunday, 6,211 flights have been delayed into and out of the United States, and 1,006 flights have ...Read more

President Donald Trump said Sunday that people shouldn’t read much into a social media post where he said Venezuelan airspace should be considered closed.

His post from Saturday morning, addressed to airlines and “Drug Dealers,” added to jitters in the region about possible U.S. strikes on Venezuelan territory.

“Don’t read anything ...Read more

President Donald Trump said Sunday he has decided on his pick for the next Federal Reserve chair after making clear he expects his nominee to deliver interest-rate cuts.

“I know who I am going to pick, yeah,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One on his way back to Washington, without naming his choice. “We’ll be announcing it.”

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As Chicagoans woke up to “Winter Wonderland”-like conditions Sunday, snowfall recorded at Chicago O’Hare International Airport Saturday was confirmed as a record 8.4 inches, the highest snowfall on a single calendar day in November since 1951, according to the National Weather Service.

The snow tapered out by late morning Sunday, and the...Read more

After more than a dozen protesters were arrested for blocking a planned Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdown in lower Manhattan, local politicians gathered Sunday to praise the dissenters and call for all charges against them to be dropped.

Politicians including Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, city Comptroller Brad Lander and City ...Read more

U.S. and Ukrainian negotiators said they had productive discussions about a framework for a peace deal, but there was no final breakthrough as President Donald Trump continues to push for a truce with Russia.

“There’s more work to be done,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters in Florida after meeting for at least four hours with...Read more

After a brief engagement, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and real estate executive Alexis Lewis celebrated their nuptials Saturday in Washington, after a courthouse wedding last Monday.

The couple, who have been relatively low-key about their relationship, posted the news to Instagram on Sunday, along with a carousel of photos highlighting the ...Read more

Authorities on Sunday released the ages of the four people fatally shot during a child’s birthday party at a Stockton, California, banquet hall, including three children under the age of 15.

The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office said the deceased victims were 8, 9 and 14 years old, along with a 21-year-old adult. In total, 15 people were ...Read more

A deadly shooting at a child’s birthday party in Stockton, California, has prompted online reactions of sorrow and anger.

Gunshots rang out at a banquet hall in the 1900 block of Lucile Avenue just before 6 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 29, resulting in four deaths and at least 10 people injured, The Sacramento Bee reported. Stockton is less than 50 ...Read more

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, unrepentant in a Texas prison, may be angling for a pardon from President Donald Trump.

The convicted fraudster’s account on social media platform X has in recent months repeatedly claimed innocence, and posted a steady stream of comments and content aligned with Trump and his Make America Great Again ...Read more

U.S. authorities believe the man suspected of fatally shooting a National Guard member and seriously wounding another in Washington, D.C., was radicalized while in the U.S., Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said.

Asked on NBC’s "Meet the Press" about the suspect’s motive, Noem said investigators are still collecting information and ...Read more

The immigrant rights group Siembra NC says it has learned that ICE is deploying 50 agents to the Triangle on Sunday or Monday.

The group says ICE has reserved charter flights from Charlotte Douglas International Airport to Jacksonville International Airport in Florida, between Dec. 2 and Dec. 6 — similar to patterns the group observed during ...Read more

Despite more than a third of women reporting moderate to severe menopause symptoms in 2021, few sought treatment, according to a new study by Mayo Clinic researchers published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

Women reported being too busy, unaware of effective treatment and concerned about the safety of hormone therapy as reasons why they didn't ...Read more

Most of the attention on President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda has focused on one agency: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which signed partnerships with hundreds of regional law enforcement groups and has drawn the ire of protesters nationwide.

But increasingly, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has taken a lead ...Read more