Ukrainian Airplane Crashes in Iran, Killing 176
A Ukrainian airplane carrying at least 170 people crashed on Wednesday shortly after takeoff from Tehran’s main airport, killing all onboard, state TV reported.
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Feds Set to List Nearly Extinct Sierra Nevada Red Fox as Endangered
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed listing the Sierra Nevada red fox as endangered Tuesday, given there are fewer than 100 animals left in its namesake mountain range.
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Australian Prime Minister Jeered in Fire-Ravaged State
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison was confronted by angry residents who cursed and insulted him Thursday as he visited a wildfire-ravaged corner of the country.
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Spilled Coffee on Plane Can Leave Airline Liable, EU Court Finds
A child who was scalded with her father’s hot coffee on a flight does not need to prove that there was turbulence to seek compensation from the aircraft, the EU’s highest court ruled Thursday.
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Hawks Use Pompeo in Horse-Trading Over Iran Policy
Iran hawks in Congress have leveraged Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s interest in a Senate run to win a key concession from the Trump administration that could help kill the nuclear deal with Tehran.
Read moreTop EU Court Upholds Semiautomatic Gun Ban
The EU’s highest court gutted a challenge Tuesday from the Czech Republic over a ban on semiautomatic guns put in place following a wave of terrorist attacks.
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China Fights British Charge That It Tortured Diplomat
Chinese police on Thursday published a video purporting to show a former employee of the British consulate in Hong Kong confessing to soliciting prostitutes, after Britain backed his allegation that he was tortured over pro-democracy protests.
Read moreBiden and Warren in Dead Heat Among California Democrats
Many likely California voters in a statewide poll published Monday say their top qualification for a 2020 Democratic candidate choice is simple: can they beat President Donald Trump at the polls?
Read moreGhostly Nazi-Era Motorway Resurfaces in German Forest
In the middle of a dense Bavarian forest, amateur historian Dieter Stockmann points to the ghostly shapes of an abandoned motorway from the Nazi era.
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Acting White House Chief of Staff Moves to Join Lawsuit Over House Subpoena
After refusing to comply with a subpoena and skipping out on scheduled testimony earlier in the day, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney Friday night filed a motion to intervene in a pending lawsuit asking a court to determine whether the president’s advisers are required to testify in the House impeachment probe.
Read moreNY Law Giving Licenses to Noncitizens Upheld
A federal judge Friday upheld a law that lets undocumented immigrants apply for driver’s licenses in New York.
Read moreFeds Tell Merging Banks to Shed $2.3 Billion for Approval
Seven months after BB&T and SunTrust announced plans to merge, the Justice Department cleared them a path Friday that requires one of the largest divestitures in a bank merger in the last decade.
Read moreRoyal Mail Goes to Court to Block Pre-Christmas Strike
Royal Mail on Friday made a High Court bid to block a postal strike by workers due next month ahead of Christmas and around the time of Britain’s general election.
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Major Water Deal Proposed for Ex-Client of Interior Secretary
The Interior Department is proposing to award one of the first contracts for federal water in perpetuity to a powerful rural water district that employed Secretary David Bernhardt as a lawyer and lobbyist.
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Trump Attacks Whistleblower Anonymity, but Won’t Say the Name
President Trump is blasting the media for not reporting the name of a person who has been identified in conservative circles as the whistleblower who spurred the impeachment inquiry. Yet Trump has avoided using the name himself.
Read moreIn High Court Seas, Blackbeard’s Ship Sails Again
For a year in the early 18th century, the fearsome pirate Blackbeard terrorized the Caribbean and the Atlantic coast of what would become the United States aboard his prized Queen Anne’s Revenge.
Read moreToughened Up Gun Laws for Pittsburgh Thrown Out
Just days after the first anniversary of a synagogue shooting that left 11 dead, a Pennsylvania judge struck down proposed gun regulations that the Pittsburgh City Council proposed in the wake of the Tree of Life tragedy.
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Google Claims Quantum Computing Milestone
Google said it has achieved a breakthrough in quantum computing research: that an experimental quantum processor has completed a calculation in just a few minutes that would take a traditional supercomputer thousands of years.
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Scientists Fight to Save Unique Guiana Coral Reef
Off the coast of Guiana, a French overseas department perched on the north coast of South America, scientists scour the choppy waters for signs of life.
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