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Senate sends Trump defense bill he has vowed to veto | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-11/senate-sends-trump-defense-bill-he-has-vowed-to-veto | 2020-12-11T18:32:41 | The Senate on Friday approved a wide-ranging defense policy bill, sending it to President Trump despite his threat to veto the measure because it does not clamp down on big tech companies he claims were biased during the election.
The final vote was 84-13, mirroring a similarly overwhelming margin in the House that, i... |
Wisconsin state court judge rules against Trump lawsuit | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-11/wisconsin-state-court-judge-rules-against-trump-lawsuit | 2020-12-11T16:58:05 | A Wisconsin judge on Friday ruled against President Trump’s lawsuit seeking to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s win in the state, another in a string of defeats in the president’s extraordinary attempts to undo his loss.
Trump was expected to quickly appeal the ruling from Reserve Judge Stephen Simanek to the conservati... |
Trump administration plans 2nd execution in as many days | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-11/trump-execution-alfred-bourgeois-brandon-bernard | 2020-12-11T14:46:18 | The Trump administration plans to continue its unprecedented series of post-election federal executions Friday by putting to death a Louisiana truck driver who severely abused his 2-year-old daughter for weeks in 2002, then killed her by slamming her head against a truck’s windows and dashboard.
Lawyers for 56-year-ol... |
EU leaders agree to reduce emissions after all-night talks | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-10/eu-leaders-agree-to-reduce-emissions-after-all-night-talks | 2020-12-11T09:01:59 | European Union leaders reached a hard-fought deal Friday to cut the bloc’s greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by the end of the decade compared with 1990 levels, avoiding a hugely embarrassing deadlock ahead of a U.N. climate meeting this weekend.
Following all-night discussions at their two-day summit in Brusse... |
Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, who played Deebo in 'Friday,' dies at 62 | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-10/tommy-tiny-lister-who-played-deebo-in-friday-dies | 2020-12-11T03:03:31 | Tommy “Tiny” Lister, a former wrestler who was known for his Deebo character in the “Friday” films, has died. He was 62.
Lister’s manager, Cindy Cowan, said Lister was found unconscious in his home in Marina del Rey on Thursday afternoon. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Cowan said Lister was diagnosed with COVI... |
Anthony Veasna So, acclaimed fiction writer and promising talent, dead at 28 | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-10/anthony-veasna-so-acclaimed-fiction-writer-dead-at-age-28 | 2020-12-11T00:41:05 | The author of a highly anticipated debut story collection has died. Anthony Veasna So was 28. His death was announced Thursday by his publisher, Ecco, which did not provide additional details.
A native of Stockton who had settled in San Francisco, So once described himself as a “queer boy, a Khmer American son of for... |
U.S. bombers fly to Middle East in mission to deter Iran | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-10/us-b-52h-bombers-fly-to-middle-east-in-mission-to-deter-iran | 2020-12-10T17:52:33 | In a new show of military might, two American bomber aircraft flew from the United States to the Middle East on Thursday, in a round-trip mission that U.S. officials said covered a wide swath of the region and was a direct message of deterrence to Iran.
The flight of the two massive B-52H Stratofortress bombers, the s... |
Justices rule Muslim men can sue FBI agents over no-fly list | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-10/justices-rule-muslim-men-can-sue-fbi-agents-over-no-fly-list | 2020-12-10T17:50:34 | A unanimous Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Muslim men who were placed on the government’s no-fly list because they refused to serve as FBI informants can seek to hold federal agents financially liable.
The justices continued a string of decisions friendly to religious interests in holding that the men could sue ... |
Trump announces that Israel and Morocco will normalize relations | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-10/trump-announces-israel-morocco-to-normalize-relations | 2020-12-10T16:55:22 | Israel and Morocco have agreed to normalize relations, President Trump said Thursday, marking the fourth Arab-Israeli agreement in four months. As part of the deal announced near the end of Trump’s term, the United States will recognize Morocco’s claim over the disputed Western Sahara region.
Trump said Israel and Mo... |
U.S. jobless claims jump to 853,000 amid resurgence of coronavirus | https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-12-10/us-jobless-claims-jump-to-853-000-amid-resurgence-of-virus | 2020-12-10T13:43:39 | The number of people applying for unemployment aid jumped last week to 853,000, the most since September, evidence that companies are cutting more jobs as virus cases spiral higher.
The Labor Department said Thursday that the number of applications increased from 716,000 the previous week. Before the coronavirus paral... |
China says 2 Canadians have been indicted, tried | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-10/china-says-2-canadians-have-been-indicted-tried | 2020-12-10T10:55:02 | China’s Foreign Ministry said Thursday that two Canadians held for two years in a case linked to a Huawei executive have been indicted and put on trial, but gave no details.
Former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor have been confined since Dec. 10, 2018, just days after Canada detained Huawei exec... |
Man who was serving 90-year marijuana sentence is released from Florida prison | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-10/man-who-was-serving-90-year-sentence-for-marijuana-released | 2020-12-10T09:15:36 | While he served a 90-year prison sentence for selling marijuana, Richard DeLisi’s wife died, as did his 23-year-old son and both his parents. His adult daughter was in a horrific car accident and suffered a paralyzing stroke as a result. He never met two granddaughters — a lifetime of missed memories.
Yet, 71-year-old... |
Senate fails in attempt to block Trump administration's $23-billion arms deal with United Arab Emirates | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-09/senate-falls-short-of-halting-trumps-23b-arms-sales-to-uae | 2020-12-10T03:48:23 | The Senate fell short Wednesday in trying to halt the Trump administration’s proposed $23-billion arms sales to the United Arab Emirates, despite bipartisan objections to the package of F-35 fighter jets and drones stemming from a broader Middle East peace agreement.
Senators argued that the sale of the defense equipm... |
Newsom-affiliated companies got $2.9 million in relief loans | https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-09/newsom-companies-got-3-million-in-relief-loans | 2020-12-10T01:43:36 | Companies affiliated with California Gov. Gavin Newsom received nearly $3 million in federal loans created to help small businesses survive the pandemic, more than eight times the amount originally reported, according to newly released information from the U.S. government.
Nine businesses tied to Newsom’s PlumpJack Gr... |
SpaceX launches Starship on highest test flight before it crash-lands | https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-12-09/spacex-launches-starship-on-highest-test-flight-crash-lands | 2020-12-10T00:05:47 | SpaceX launched its shiny, bullet-shaped, straight-out-of-science fiction Starship several miles into the air from a remote corner of Texas on Wednesday, but the 6 1/2-minute test flight ended in an explosive fireball at touchdown.
It was the highest and most elaborate flight yet for the rocketship that Elon Musk says... |
Ohio sheriff's deputy shot Black man 'multiple' times, autopsy shows | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-09/mother-of-black-man-killed-by-ohio-deputy-i-want-answers | 2020-12-09T22:46:36 | The mother of a Black man shot by an Ohio sheriff’s deputy demanded answers Wednesday about her son’s death, saying he’d done nothing wrong and was returning from the dentist with sandwiches for his family when he was killed.
Tamala Payne said she wants the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office deputy involved to be jailed... |
House passes one-week spending bill to avert shutdown, buying time for COVID talks | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-09/lawmakers-act-to-avert-shutdown-buying-time-for-covid-talks | 2020-12-09T22:42:24 | Still spinning their wheels on COVID-19 relief, lawmakers approved a one-week government funding extension Wednesday that buys time for more talks — though there is considerable disagreement over who is supposed to be taking the lead from there.
Amid the uncertainty, the House easily passed the government-wide funding... |
Stocks fall broadly, led by weakness in tech companies | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-09/weakness-in-tech-companies-leads-stocks-lower-on-wall-street | 2020-12-09T22:24:24 | U.S. stock indexes pulled back from their recent record highs Wednesday as COVID-19 cases surged and coronavirus vaccines moved closer to distribution.
The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 0.8%, as losses in technology companies outweighed gains in industrial, energy and materials stocks. The benchmark index is still ... |
Weeks after election, YouTube cracks down on misinformation | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-09/weeks-after-election-youtube-cracks-down-on-misinformation | 2020-12-09T19:02:57 | More than a month after the U.S. presidential election, YouTube says it will start removing newly uploaded material that claims widespread voter fraud or errors changed the outcome.
The Google-owned video service said Wednesday that this is in line with how it has dealt with previous elections. That’s because Tuesday... |
Biden calls for action on coronavirus as he introduces his healthcare team | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-08/biden-calls-for-action-on-virus-as-he-introduces-health-team | 2020-12-08T20:21:56 | President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday called for urgent action on the COVID-19 pandemic as he introduced his healthcare team, which will be tested at every turn while striving to restore normality to the nation.
Biden laid out three coronavirus priorities for his first 100 days in office: a call for all Americans to vo... |
14 Ft. Hood officers, soldiers fired or suspended over violence at base | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-08/14-fort-hood-soldiers-fired-suspended-over-violence-at-base | 2020-12-08T17:30:30 | The Army on Tuesday said it had fired or suspended 14 officers and enlisted soldiers at Ft. Hood, Texas, and ordered policy changes to address chronic leadership failures at the base that contributed to a widespread pattern of violence including murder, sexual assaults and harassment.
Two general officers were among ... |
Families of California shooting victims sue sellers of 'ghost guns' | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-08/families-of-shooting-victims-sue-sellers-of-ghost-guns | 2020-12-08T05:36:36 | Families of people killed and wounded in a rural California shooting rampage three years ago are suing manufacturers and sellers of “ghost gun” kits that provide easy-to-assemble firearm parts that make it difficult to track or regulate owners.
A pair of wrongful death lawsuits filed last month in separate state court... |
EPA overrides scientists' calls for tougher pollutant limit | https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-12-07/epa-overrides-scientists-calls-tougher-pollutant-limit | 2020-12-07T21:59:32 | The Trump administration on Monday made final its decision to leave limits for a deadly kind of air pollutant unchanged, overriding scientific findings that tougher standards could save tens of thousands of lives yearly.
Environmental groups and many scientists have condemned the decision, slated to be among the final... |
Ranchers who avoid cheetah 'hangouts' can protect cattle without killing the rare cats | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-07/avoiding-cheetah-hangouts-helps-ranchers-protect-calves | 2020-12-07T20:07:44 | On the dusty savannahs of Namibia, one of the last strongholds of cheetah populations on Earth, conflicts between cattle ranchers and big cats threaten the survival of the embattled carnivores.
But new research on how the cats use their terrain has allowed some ranchers to reduce the number of calves killed annually b... |
U.K. readies for 'V-Day,' its first shots in the war on the coronavirus | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-07/uk-readies-for-v-day-its-1st-shots-in-war-on-coronavirus | 2020-12-07T17:39:54 | It’s been dubbed “V-Day” in Britain — recalling the D-Day landings in France that marked the start of the final push in World War II to defeat Nazi Germany.
A week after the U.K. became the first Western country to authorize widespread use of a vaccine against COVID-19, it is preparing to administer its first shots on... |
Will the U.S. ever have a national COVID-19 testing strategy? | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-07/will-the-us-ever-have-a-national-covid-19-testing-strategy | 2020-12-07T09:42:31 | As the coronavirus epidemic worsens, U.S. health experts hope Joe Biden’s administration will put in place something Donald Trump’s has not — a comprehensive national testing strategy.
Such a strategy, they say, could systematically check more people for infections and spot surges before they take off. Health experts ... |
NYC bar owner hits deputy with car amid arrest for defying COVID rules, officials say | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-06/sheriff-defiant-nyc-bar-owner-struck-deputy-with-his-car | 2020-12-06T18:31:27 | The co-owner of a New York City bar that authorities said had been defying coronavirus restrictions was taken into custody early Sunday after striking a deputy with a car, authorities said.
Danny Presti tried to drive away from his bar, Mac’s Public House, as deputies were arresting him on suspicion of serving patrons... |
Israeli police cleared in shooting of maimed Palestinian boy | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-06/israeli-police-cleared-in-shooting-of-maimed-palestinian-boy | 2020-12-06T13:41:23 | Israeli authorities have cleared police of any wrongdoing in the case of a 9-year-old boy who lost an eye after apparently being shot in the face by an Israeli officer earlier this year.
Malik Eissa was struck by what appeared to be a sponge-tipped munition in February and lost vision in his left eye. Residents said h... |
Saudi prince strongly criticizes Israel at Bahrain summit | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-06/saudi-prince-strongly-criticizes-israel-at-bahrain-summit | 2020-12-06T10:23:46 | A prominent Saudi prince harshly criticized Israel on Sunday at a Bahrain security summit that was remotely attended by Israel’s foreign minister.
Prince Turki al-Faisal, who led Saudi intelligence for more than two decades and served as ambassador to the U.S. and U.K., said any normalization deals needed to help the... |
Europe battles surge in coronavirus-related deaths in nursing homes | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-05/europe-battles-surge-in-coronavirus-deaths-in-nursing-homes | 2020-12-06T09:01:42 | As the two mortuary workers pushed a stretcher with a corpse in a bag out of the room, the elderly man in the adjacent bed briefly awakened from his dementia. “Is he dead?” he muttered, extending his arm, trying to touch his roommate for the last time.
Reflecting on a scene repeated too many times, one of the workers,... |
Microwave energy probably made U.S. diplomats in Cuba ill, report finds | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-05/report-finds-microwave-energy-likely-made-us-diplomats-ill | 2020-12-06T04:47:51 | A new report by a National Academy of Sciences committee has found that “directed” microwave radiation is the likely cause of illnesses among American diplomats in Cuba and China.
The study commissioned by the State Department and released Saturday is the latest attempt to find a cause for the mysterious illnesses th... |
A bleak outlook for millions facing cutoff of U.S. unemployment aid | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-05/a-bleak-outlook-for-millions-facing-cutoff-of-us-jobless-aid | 2020-12-05T17:01:31 | Tina Morton recently faced a choice: pay her bills or buy a birthday gift for a child. Derrisa Green is falling further behind on rent. Sylvia Soliz has had her electricity cut off.
Unemployment has forced aching decisions on millions of Americans and their families in the face of a rampaging viral pandemic that has ... |
Overburdened Idaho health facilities on brink of rationing care amid COVID-19 onslaught | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-05/overtaxed-idaho-health-facilities-on-brink-of-rationing-care | 2020-12-05T16:13:00 | Soldiers triaging patients in parking lots in a capital city is normally the stuff of science fiction.
Yet that’s the reality in Boise, Idaho, where troops direct people outside an urgent care clinic revamped into a facility for coronavirus patients as infections and deaths surge in Idaho and nationwide.
Inside Prima... |
Moscow opens dozens of coronavirus vaccination centers | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-05/moscow-opens-dozens-of-coronavirus-vaccination-centers | 2020-12-05T11:42:14 | Thousands of doctors, teachers and others in high-risk groups began receiving COVID-19 vaccinations in Moscow on Saturday in a precursor to a sweeping Russia-wide immunization effort.
The vaccinations come three days after President Vladimir Putin ordered the launch of a “large-scale” immunization campaign even though... |
Kuwait votes for parliament amid economic and coronavirus challenges | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-05/kuwait-votes-for-parliament-amid-economic-virus-challenges | 2020-12-05T11:07:03 | Kuwait began voting Saturday for its National Assembly, the first election since the death of its longtime ruling emir at a time the oil-rich nation struggles with serious economic problems during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This tiny country’s hundreds of thousands of voters will select lawmakers for 50 seats in the parl... |
New Jersey gala attended by Rep. Matt Gaetz that ignored COVID rules prompts restaurant closure | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-05/gala-ignites-political-dispute-over-covid-19-restrictions | 2020-12-05T08:36:50 | A New Jersey restaurant that hosted a political gala put on by a New York Republican club was ordered temporarily closed Friday over potential violations of coronavirus guidelines.
Photos and video posted on Twitter showed dozens of maskless partiers at the New York Young Republican Club event Thursday night in Jerse... |
With red carpets rolled up, the Oscar race goes virtual | https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2020-12-06/with-red-carpets-rolled-up-the-oscar-race-goes-virtual | 2020-12-04T19:38:28 | This is the time of year when Hollywood’s awards-season-industrial complex usually shifts into high gear. It’s a frothy, festive run of the year’s final premieres and screenings — all part of a carefully orchestrated dance to court tastemakers and, ultimately, academy voters.
The movies may be finished -- picture loc... |
Data show Americans couldn't resist Thanksgiving travel | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-03/data-shows-americans-couldnt-resist-thanksgiving-travel | 2020-12-04T06:47:23 | Americans couldn’t resist the urge to gather for Thanksgiving, driving only slightly less than a year ago and largely ignoring the pleas of public health experts, who begged them to forgo holiday travel to help contain the COVID-19 pandemic, data from roadways and airports show.
The nation’s unwillingness to tamp down... |
Among first acts, Biden to call for 100 days of mask wearing | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-03/among-first-acts-biden-to-call-for-100-days-of-mask-wearing | 2020-12-04T02:34:48 | Joe Biden said Thursday that he will ask Americans to commit to 100 days of wearing masks as one of his first acts as president, stopping just short of the nationwide mandate he’s pushed before to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
The move marks a notable shift from President Trump, whose own skepticism of mask wear... |
Alison Lurie, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, dies at 94 | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-04/alison-lurie-prize-winning-novelist-dead-at-94 | 2020-12-04T00:58:25 | Alison Lurie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist whose satirical and cerebral tales of love and academia included the marital saga “The War Between the Tates” and the comedy of Americans abroad “Foreign Affairs,” has died at age 94.
Lurie, a professor emerita at Cornell University, died Thursday of natural causes, sa... |
Fatal shooting of young Black man roils liberal town in Oregon | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-03/fatal-shooting-of-black-teen-roils-liberal-town-in-oregon | 2020-12-03T22:49:20 | The killing of a young Black man last month by a white man who complained that he was playing loud music has roiled Ashland, Ore., forcing the liberal college town that is famous for its Shakespeare festival to take a hard look at race relations.
The death of Aidan Ellison, 19, added another name to the list of Black... |
Stocks' late stumble leaves S&P 500 just short of a record high | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-03/late-stumble-leaves-s-p-500-just-short-of-a-record-high | 2020-12-03T22:07:12 | U.S. stock indexes closed mostly higher Thursday after a late stumble pulled the Standard & Poor’s 500 index just short of its third consecutive all-time high.
The benchmark index ended the day down 0.1%, though it’s still on track for its second weekly gain. Stocks on Wall Street are continuing to coast after their ... |
Survivors remember Pearl Harbor at home this year amid virus | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-03/survivors-remember-pearl-harbor-at-home-this-year-amid-virus | 2020-12-03T15:15:47 | Navy sailor Mickey Ganitch was getting ready to play in a Pearl Harbor football game as the sun came up on Dec. 7, 1941. Instead, he spent the morning — still wearing his football padding and brown team shirt — scanning the sky as Japanese planes rained bombs on the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
Seventy-nine years later, the CO... |
COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations in U.S. smash records for a single day | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-03/us-virus-deaths-top-3-100-in-a-single-day-for-the-first-time | 2020-12-03T15:02:29 | The U.S. logged more than 3,100 COVID-19 deaths in a single day Wednesday — more than 20% higher than the previous record set last spring — while the number of Americans hospitalized with the coronavirus eclipsed 100,000 for the first time and new cases are topping 200,000 a day, according to figures released Thursday.... |
Trump expected to flex pardon powers on his way out the door | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-03/trump-expected-to-flex-pardon-powers-on-way-out-door | 2020-12-03T09:16:17 | Advocates and lawyers anticipate a flurry of clemency action from President Trump in the coming weeks that could test the limits of presidential pardon power.
Trump is said to be considering a slew of pardons and commutations before he leaves office, including potentially members of his family, former aides and even h... |
Thousands lose power as fire danger looms in Southern California | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-02/power-goes-out-as-fire-danger-looms-in-southern-california | 2020-12-03T07:53:29 | Southern California utilities cut the power to tens of thousands of customers to avoid the threat of wildfires as the region found itself whipped by Santa Ana winds that could turn sparks into catastrophes.
Red flag warnings of extreme fire danger were in place Thursday throughout much of the region because of low hum... |
Top Democrats swing behind bipartisan COVID-19 relief bill | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-02/top-democrats-swing-behind-bipartisan-coronavirus-aid-bill | 2020-12-02T20:14:45 | Democratic leaders swung behind a bipartisan COVID-19 relief effort Wednesday, cutting their demands for a $2-trillion-plus measure by more than half in hopes of breaking a months-long logjam and delivering much-sought aid as a coda to a tempestuous congressional session.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) a... |
Say goodbye to emotional-support animals in airplane cabins | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-02/us-tightens-definition-of-service-animals-allowed-on-planes | 2020-12-02T16:51:44 | The U.S. government has decided that when it comes to air travel, only dogs can be service animals, and companions used for emotional support don’t count.
The Transportation Department issued a final rule Wednesday that aims to settle years of tension between airlines and passengers who bring their pets on board for f... |
Chinese spacecraft collects moon rocks to take back to Earth | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-02/china-spacecraft-collects-moon-samples-to-take-back-to-earth | 2020-12-02T09:29:58 | A Chinese spacecraft took samples of the moon’s surface Wednesday as part of a mission to bring lunar rocks back to Earth for the first time since the 1970s, adding to a string of successes for Beijing’s increasingly ambitious space program.
The Chang’e 5 probe touched down Tuesday on the Sea of Storms on the moon’s n... |
2 children die in San Bernardino drunk-driving crash that also killed their father | https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-02/2-children-die-san-bernardino-drunk-driving-crash | 2020-12-02T05:29:42 | Two of four children who were injured in a San Bernardino drunk-driving crash that killed their father have also died, police say.
The children were 2 and 4 years old, Sgt. John Echevarria told the Riverside Press-Enterprise on Tuesday.
Police did not indicate when the children died.
Another child was in serious co... |
GOP Georgia election official urges Trump to rein in supporters amid threats of violence | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-01/georgia-elections-official-urges-trump-to-rein-in-supporters | 2020-12-02T02:16:04 | A top Georgia election official on Tuesday lashed out angrily at the rhetoric surrounding the election and the threats of violence that have resulted, specifically calling on President Trump to rein in his supporters.
Gabriel Sterling is a Republican who oversaw the implementation of the state’s new voting system. Dur... |
Justice Dept. investigating potential bribery and lobbying scheme for presidential pardon | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-01/us-probing-potential-bribery-lobbying-scheme-for-pardon | 2020-12-02T01:22:21 | The Justice Department is investigating whether there was a secret scheme to lobby White House officials for a pardon as well as a related plot to offer a hefty political contribution in exchange for clemency, according to a court document unsealed Tuesday.
Most of the information in the 18-page court order is redacte... |
First COVID-19 vaccines should go to healthcare workers and nursing homes, panel says | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-01/us-panel-1st-vaccines-to-health-care-workers-nursing-homes | 2020-12-02T00:09:04 | Healthcare workers and nursing home residents should be at the front of the line when the first coronavirus vaccine shots become available, an influential government advisory panel said Tuesday.
The panel voted 13-1 to recommend that those groups get priority in the first days of any coming vaccination program, when d... |
Mountain pine tree that feeds grizzlies is threatened, U.S. officials say | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-01/us-mountain-pine-tree-that-feeds-grizzlies-is-threatened | 2020-12-01T23:42:40 | Climate change, voracious beetles and disease are imperiling the long-term survival of a high-elevation pine tree that’s a key source of food for some grizzly bears and found across the West, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
A Fish and Wildlife Service proposal scheduled to be published Wednesday would protect the whiteba... |
Barr has appointed Durham as special counsel in Russia probe investigation | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-12-01/barr-appoints-special-counsel-in-russia-probe-investigation | 2020-12-01T20:45:09 | Atty. Gen. William Barr has given extra protection to the prosecutor he appointed to investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia probe, giving him the authority of a special counsel to complete the work without being easily fired.
Barr told the Associated Press on Tuesday that he had appointed U.S. Atty. John Durham a... |
Atty. Gen. William Barr says Justice Dept. has seen no evidence of fraud that would affect election result | https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-12-01/barr-no-evidence-of-fraud-thatd-change-election-outcome | 2020-12-01T19:18:17 | Disputing President Trump’s persistent, baseless claims, Atty. Gen. William Barr declared Tuesday that the Justice Department has uncovered no evidence of widespread voter fraud that could change the outcome of the 2020 election.
Barr’s comments, in an interview with the Associated Press, contradict the concerted effo... |
Trump science advisor Scott Atlas is leaving White House job | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-30/trump-science-adviser-scott-atlas-leaving-white-house-job | 2020-12-01T03:18:45 | Dr. Scott Atlas, a science advisor to President Trump who was skeptical of measures to control the coronavirus outbreak, is leaving his White House post.
A White House official confirmed that the Stanford University neuroradiologist, who had no formal experience in public health or infectious diseases, resigned at th... |
Hacker who sent bogus threats to LAX, school districts gets prison sentence | https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-01/hacker-bogus-threats-lax-schools-sentenced | 2020-12-01T01:11:56 | A hacker who issued dozens of phony bombing and shooting threats — including to LAX and Southern California schools — and who made a false hijacking report about a California-bound jetliner has been sentenced to nearly eight years in federal prison.
Timothy Dalton Vaughn, 22, of Winston-Salem, N.C., was sentenced Mond... |
Wisconsin certifies Joe Biden as winner following recount | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-30/wisconsin-certifies-joe-biden-as-winner-following-recount | 2020-11-30T23:36:51 | Joe Biden’s victory in battleground Wisconsin was certified Monday following a partial recount that added to his 20,600-vote margin over President Trump, who has promised to file a lawsuit seeking to undo the results.
Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, signed a certificate that completed the process after the canvass report... |
Arizona certifies Biden's narrow victory over Trump | https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-11-30/arizona-certifies-biden-victory | 2020-11-30T19:10:42 | Arizona officials certified the state’s election results Monday, formalizing Democrat Joe Biden’s narrow victory over Donald Trump even as the Republican president’s attorneys continued making baseless claims of fraud in the state’s vote count.
Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs certified the election results a... |
Vanderbilt kicker Sarah Fuller is named SEC co-special teams player of the week | https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-11-30/vanderbilt-womens-soccer-player-receives-sec-football-honor | 2020-11-30T18:11:05 | The Southeastern Conference has named Vanderbilt kicker Sarah Fuller the league’s co-special teams player of the week after she became the first woman to play in a Power 5 conference football game.
Fuller shared the award Monday with Florida punt returner Kadarius Toney after serving as Vanderbilt’s primary kicker in... |
NATO mulls Afghan dilemma as U.S. draws down, attacks mount | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-30/nato-mulls-afghan-dilemma-as-us-draws-down-attacks-mount | 2020-11-30T15:41:23 | NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Monday that the military alliance is grappling with a dilemma over its future in Afghanistan, as the United States starts pulling troops out while attacks by the Taliban and extremist groups mount.
More than 17 years after taking the lead on international security efforts i... |
On London street, virus forces small shops to adapt or close | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-30/on-london-street-virus-forces-small-shops-to-adapt-or-close | 2020-11-30T07:31:41 | In late October, Matthew Jones was enjoying a rare “bit of normality” at his London barbershop in a year that has been short on that. He was cutting hair and laughing with colleagues — when the news landed that the business would have to close for the second time.
Jones, 43, endured 15 weeks without any income after t... |
Doctor says President-elect Joe Biden fractured foot while playing with his dog | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-29/doctor-says-biden-fractured-foot-while-playing-with-his-dog | 2020-11-30T00:40:09 | President-elect Joe Biden suffered hairline fractures in his foot while playing with one of his dogs, but doctors found “no obvious fracture” while examining him Sunday, according to his doctor.
Biden suffered the injury on Saturday and visited an orthopedist at Delaware Orthopaedic Specialists in Newark, Del., for an... |
Biden chooses an all-female senior White House press team | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-29/biden-chooses-an-all-female-senior-white-house-press-team | 2020-11-29T22:11:49 | President-elect Joe Biden will have an all-female senior communications team at his White House, led by campaign communications director Kate Bedingfield.
Bedingfield will serve as Biden’s White House communications director, and Jen Psaki, a longtime Democratic spokeswoman, will be his press secretary. Psaki has alre... |
Completed Wisconsin recount confirms Biden's win over Trump | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-29/completed-wisconsin-recount-confirms-bidens-win-over-trump | 2020-11-29T17:49:54 | Wisconsin finished its recount of votes cast in this month’s presidential election on Sunday, with only minuscule changes in the results that saw Democrat Joe Biden defeat Republican Donald Trump in the battleground state.
Dane County, which includes the state capital of Madison, reported only small changes in its vot... |
Over 300 detained in Belarus during anti-government protests | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-29/300-detained-belarus-anti-government-protests | 2020-11-29T17:35:03 | A human rights group in Belarus says more than 300 people have been detained during protests against the country’s authoritarian president, who won his sixth term in office in a vote widely seen as rigged.
The protests took place Sunday in Minsk, the capital, and other cities and attracted thousands of people. In Min... |
New York City to reopen schools even as virus spread intensifies | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-29/nyc-to-reopen-schools-even-as-virus-spread-intensifies | 2020-11-29T17:18:40 | New York City will reopen its school system to in-person learning, and increase the number of days a week many children attend class, even as the coronavirus pandemic intensifies in the city, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday.
The announcement marked a major policy reversal for the nation’s largest school system just 1... |
34 killed in separate suicide bombings in Afghanistan, officials say | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-29/afghan-officials-say-34-killed-in-separate-suicide-bombings | 2020-11-29T12:01:57 | At least 34 people were killed on Sunday in two separate suicide bombings in Afghanistan that targeted a military base and a provincial chief, officials said.
There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the attacks, which took place as Afghan government representatives and the Taliban hold face-to-face talks... |
Pope, with new cardinals, warns church against mediocrity | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-29/pope-with-new-cardinals-warns-church-against-mediocrity | 2020-11-29T11:46:30 | Pope Francis, joined by the church’s newest cardinals in a Mass on Sunday, warned against mediocrity as well as seeking out “godfathers” to promote one’s own career.
Eleven of the 13 new cardinals sat near the central altar of St. Peter’s Basilica, where Francis on Saturday had bestowed upon them the red hats symboli... |
David Prowse, actor who played Darth Vader in original 'Star Wars' trilogy, dies at 85 | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-29/dave-prowse-actor-who-played-darth-vader-dies-at-85 | 2020-11-29T10:34:09 | David Prowse, the British weightlifter-turned-actor who played Darth Vader in the original “Star Wars” trilogy, has died. He was 85.
Prowse died Saturday after a short illness, his agent Thomas Bowington said Sunday.
Born in Bristol, southwest England, in 1935, Prowse represented England in weightlifting at the Commo... |
Newsom nixes parole for Manson follower Leslie Van Houten | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-28/governor-nixes-parole-for-manson-follower-leslie-van-houten | 2020-11-29T05:20:06 | California Gov. Gavin Newson has reversed parole for Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten, marking the fourth time a governor has blocked her release.
A California panel recommended parole in July for Van Houten, who has spent nearly five decades in prison. Newsom reversed her release once previously and his pre... |
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis tests positive for the coronavirus | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-28/colorado-governor-tests-positive-for-coronavirus | 2020-11-29T03:57:07 | Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has tested positive for the coronavirus.
Polis and his partner, Marlon Reis, both have COVID-19 and are asymptomatic, the governor said in a statement Saturday night.
The governor had started quarantining Wednesday after he said he was exposed to the virus. Polis had tweeted late Wednesday... |
With no action by Washington, states race to offer virus aid | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-28/with-no-action-by-washington-states-race-to-offer-virus-aid | 2020-11-29T01:37:26 | Faulting inaction in Washington, governors and state lawmakers are racing to get pandemic relief to small business owners, the unemployed, renters and others whose livelihoods have been upended by the widening coronavirus outbreak.
In some cases, elected officials are spending the last of a federal relief package pass... |
Pennsylvania high court rejects latest lawsuit challenging election | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-28/pennsylvania-high-court-rejects-lawsuit-challenging-election | 2020-11-29T01:22:23 | Pennsylvania’s highest court on Saturday night threw out a lower court’s order preventing the state from certifying dozens of contests on its Nov. 3 election ballot in the latest lawsuit filed by Republicans attempting to thwart President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the battleground state.
The state Supreme Court, in... |
Artists say Cuba government agrees to dialogue, tolerance after protests | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-28/artists-say-cuba-government-agrees-to-dialogue-tolerance-after-protests | 2020-11-29T01:09:49 | A group of Cuban artists and intellectuals say they won an unusual government vow of greater tolerance for independent art on Saturday after a demonstration in front of the Culture Ministry.
About 20 artists had gathered Friday and the crowd grew to 200 by late night, when Vice Minister Fernando Rojas and the director... |
Iran's supreme leader vows revenge for assassination of nuclear scientist | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-28/irans-supreme-leader-vows-revenge-over-slain-scientist | 2020-11-28T16:42:40 | Iran’s supreme leader on Saturday demanded the “definitive punishment” of those behind the killing of a scientist who led Tehran’s disbanded military nuclear program, as the Islamic Republic blamed Israel for a slaying that has raised fears of reignited tensions across the Middle East.
After years in the shadows, Moh... |
Biden plans swift moves to protect and advance LGBTQ rights | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-28/biden-plans-swift-moves-to-protect-and-advance-lgbtq-rights | 2020-11-28T14:02:07 | As vice president in 2012, Joe Biden endeared himself to many LGBTQ Americans by endorsing same-sex marriage even before his boss, President Obama.
Now, as president-elect, Biden is making sweeping promises to LGBTQ activists, proposing to carry out virtually every major proposal on their wish lists. Among them: lifti... |
New rule could allow gas, firing squads for U.S. executions | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-27/new-rule-could-allow-gas-firing-squads-for-u-s-executions | 2020-11-27T21:56:22 | The Justice Department is quietly amending its execution protocols, no longer requiring federal death sentences to be carried out by lethal injection and clearing the way to use other methods such as firing squads and poison gas.
The amended rule, published Friday in the Federal Register, allows the U.S. government to... |
Family of jailed oil exec asks for Venezuelan leader's mercy | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-27/family-of-jailed-oil-exec-asks-for-venezuelan-leaders-mercy | 2020-11-27T19:56:03 | The family of a Houston-based Citgo oil executive convicted and ordered to prison in Venezuela alongside five others appealed directly to President Nicolás Maduro on Friday for mercy.
In an open letter, relatives of José Pereira, 63, wrote to Maduro that he has a long list of health problems that need medical attentio... |
U.S. appeals court rejects Trump appeal over Pennsylvania race | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-27/us-appeals-court-rejects-trump-appeal-over-pennsylvania-race | 2020-11-27T18:10:51 | President Trump’s legal team suffered yet another defeat in court Friday as a federal appeals court in Philadelphia roundly rejected its latest effort to challenge the state’s election results.
Trump’s lawyers vowed to appeal to the Supreme Court despite the judges’ assessment that the “campaign’s claims have no meri... |
Trump administration moves ahead on gutting bird protections | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-27/trump-administration-moves-ahead-on-gutting-bird-protections | 2020-11-27T17:23:07 | The Trump administration moved forward Friday on gutting a long-standing federal protection for the nation’s birds, over objections from former federal officials and many scientists that billions more birds will likely perish as a result.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published its take on the proposed rollback i... |
S. Korea agency says N. Korea killed 2, shut capital to stop coronavirus | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-27/s-korea-agency-says-n-korea-executed-people-shut-capital | 2020-11-27T15:00:31 | North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered at least two people executed, banned fishing at sea and locked down the capital, Pyongyang, as part of frantic efforts to guard against the coronavirus and its economic damage, South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers Friday.
Kim’s government also ordered diplomats overseas t... |
Germany preps vaccine drive as COVID cases hit 1 million | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-27/keep-cool-germany-preps-vaccine-drive-as-covid-cases-hit-1m | 2020-11-27T11:16:09 | Hulking gray boxes are rolling off the production line at a factory in the southern town of Tuttlingen, ready to be shipped to the front in the next phase of Germany’s battle against the coronavirus as it became the latest country to hit the milestone of 1 million confirmed cases Friday.
Man-sized freezers such as tho... |
Lawmakers throw pig organs on Taiwan parliament floor over U.S. pork and beef import policy | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-27/lawmakers-throw-pig-guts-punches-on-taiwan-parliament-floor | 2020-11-27T10:00:06 | Lawmakers in Taiwan got into a fistfight and threw pig organs at each other Friday over a soon-to-be enacted policy that would allow imports of U.S. pork and beef.
Premier Su Tseng-chang was due to give a regularly scheduled policy report to lawmakers on Friday morning about the pork policy when opposition party lawma... |
Academic detained in Iran for 2 years returns to Australia | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-27/academic-detained-in-iran-for-2-years-returns-to-australia | 2020-11-27T08:24:28 | British Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert arrived back in Australia on Friday and will soon reunite with her family after more than two years in an Iranian prison.
Moore-Gilbert was met by public health officials and members of the Australian Defense Force after leaving her plane at Canberra Airport, less than 2... |
Venezuela judge convicts 6 American oil executives, orders prison | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-26/venezuela-judge-convicts-6-american-oil-execs-orders-prison | 2020-11-27T03:10:09 | Six American oil executives held for three years in Venezuela were found guilty of corruption charges by a judge Thursday and immediately sentenced to prison, defense lawyers said, dashing hopes of a quick release that would send them home to their families in the United States.
Some relatives had been bracing for th... |
Tens of thousands bid farewell to Diego Maradona in Argentina | https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-11-26/tearful-thousands-bid-farewell-to-maradona-in-argentina | 2020-11-26T16:35:08 | Tens of thousands of fans, many weeping but eager to honor Diego Maradona, filed past the coffin of Argentina’s most iconic soccer star on Thursday, some confronting police who tried to maintain order at the country’s presidential mansion.
Fans blew kisses as they passed Maradona’s wooden casket in the main lobby of t... |
Schools nationwide struggle to stay open as quarantines sideline staff | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-26/schools-struggle-to-stay-open-as-quarantines-sideline-staff | 2020-11-26T16:05:45 | The infection of a single cafeteria worker was all it took to close classrooms in the small Lowellville school district in northeastern Ohio, forcing at least two weeks of remote learning.
Not only did the worker who tested positive for the coronavirus need to quarantine, but so did the entire cafeteria staff and most... |
Ethiopian PM says troops ordered to move on Tigray capital | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-26/ethiopian-pm-says-troops-ordered-to-move-on-tigray-capital | 2020-11-26T12:47:13 | Ethiopia’s prime minister said Thursday the army has been ordered to move on the embattled Tigray regional capital after his 72-hour ultimatum ended for Tigray leaders to surrender, and he warned the city’s half-million residents to stay indoors and disarm.
The military offensive “has reached its final stage” after th... |
Culled mink rise from their shallow graves in Denmark | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-26/culled-mink-resurface-after-burial-in-denmark | 2020-11-26T12:01:48 | Some of the thousands of mink culled to minimize the risk of them retransmitting the new coronavirus to humans have risen from their shallow graves in western Denmark after gases built up inside the bodies, Danish authorities said Thursday.
“The gases cause the animals to expand and in the worst cases, the mink get pu... |
'Why now?' Somalia's advocates are dismayed as U.S. considers troop pullout | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-26/why-now-dismay-as-us-considers-troop-pullout-from-somalia | 2020-11-26T10:14:03 | No country has been involved in Somalia’s future as much as the United States. Now the Trump administration is thinking of withdrawing the several hundred U.S. troops from the Horn of Africa nation at what some experts call the worst possible time.
Three decades of chaos — from warlords to the Al Qaeda affiliate Shaba... |
Rocky, a tiny owl that was found on the Rockefeller tree, returns to the wild | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-26/rocky-the-christmas-tree-stowaway-owl-returns-to-the-wild | 2020-11-26T09:55:17 | Rocky the stowaway owl is back in the wild.
The tiny Saw-whet owl was named Rockefeller after it was found by a worker setting up the holiday tree Nov. 16 at Manhattan’s Rockefeller Center. The owl was apparently trapped in the 75-foot-tall Norway spruce when it was cut down 170 miles north, in upstate New York, on N... |
Thailand approves transfer of 3 Iranians as Australian is freed | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-26/thailand-approves-transfer-of-3-iranians-as-australian-freed | 2020-11-26T09:46:50 | Thai officials said Thursday they approved the transfer back to Tehran of three Iranians who were involved in a botched 2012 bomb plot, as Iran released a 33-year-old Australian academic who was imprisoned for more than two years on spying charges.
Thai officials did not go so far as to call it a prisoner swap or say... |
Trump administration denies permit for controversial Alaska mine | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-25/trump-administration-denies-permit-for-divisive-alaska-mine | 2020-11-25T18:19:53 | The Trump administration on Wednesday denied a permit for a controversial gold and copper mine near the headwaters of the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery in southwest Alaska.
The Army Corps of Engineers said in a statement that the permit application to build the Pebble Mine was denied under both the Clean Wate... |
U.K. eases restrictions so families can gather over Christmas | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-24/uk-eases-restrictions-so-families-can-gather-over-christmas | 2020-11-24T21:53:59 | British authorities gave the green light Tuesday to holiday reunions, relaxing restrictions on social mixing over Christmas and offering arriving international travelers a way to cut short quarantine if they test negative for COVID-19.
The U.K. government and administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland str... |
The first COVID-19 vaccines won't end the U.S. crisis right away | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-24/keep-the-mask-a-vaccine-wont-end-the-us-crisis-right-away | 2020-11-24T15:52:30 | Don’t even think of putting your mask away anytime soon.
Despite the expected arrival of the first COVID-19 vaccines in just a few weeks, it could take several months — probably well into 2021 — before things get back to something close to normal in the U.S. and Americans can once again go to the movies, cheer at an ... |
Michigan certifies Biden win despite Trump's GOP overtures | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-23/michigan-certifies-biden-win-despite-trumps-gop-overtures | 2020-11-23T21:45:22 | Michigan election officials on Monday certified Democrat Joe Biden’s 154,000-vote victory in the state despite President Trump’s brazen attempts to subvert the results of the election.
The Board of State Canvassers, which has two Republicans and two Democrats, confirmed the results on a 3-0 vote, with one abstention.... |
GM flips to California's side in pollution fight against Trump | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-23/gm-flips-to-californias-side-in-pollution-fight-with-trump | 2020-11-23T18:45:29 | General Motors Co. is switching sides in the legal fight against California’s right to set its own clean-air standards, abandoning the Trump administration as the president’s term nears its close.
Chief Executive Mary Barra said in a letter Monday to environmental groups that GM will no longer support the Trump admini... |
Customer has a $7.02 beer, leaves $3,000 tip for staff facing restaurant's closure | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-23/man-leaves-3k-tip-for-a-beer-as-restaurant-closes-for-virus | 2020-11-23T14:35:32 | A customer left a $3,000 tip for a single beer as a Cleveland restaurant voluntarily closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The man walked into Nighttown restaurant Sunday, ordered the beer and asked for the check, which came to $7.02, owner Brendan Ring wrote on Facebook.
Ring said the man wished him well and told... |
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