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Trump team making false argument about his 2016 transition | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-22/trump-team-making-false-argument-about-his-2016-transition | 2020-11-22T19:10:22 | It’s not just President-elect Joe Biden’s transition that’s under a microscope.
President Trump and his allies are harking back to his own transition four years ago to make a false argument that Trump’s presidency was denied a fair chance for a clean launch. Press secretary Kayleigh McEnany laid out the case from th... |
Trump slams global climate agreement Biden intends to rejoin | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-22/trump-slams-paris-climate-agreement-biden-intends-to-rejoin | 2020-11-22T16:40:27 | President Trump railed against the Paris climate accord on Sunday, telling world leaders at a virtual summit that the agreement was designed to cripple the U.S. economy, not save the planet.
“To protect American workers, I withdrew the United States from the unfair and one-sided Paris climate accord, a very unfair act... |
Trump election challenges sound alarm among voters of color | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-22/trump-election-challenges-sound-alarm-among-voters-of-color | 2020-11-22T14:55:12 | When longtime Detroit community advocate Frank McGhee watched two Republican canvassers vote against certifying election results in the majority Black city, he was furious.
McGhee, 58, has spent more than two decades working with Detroit youth and educating them on the electoral process. He said it was “outrageous” to... |
Thousands march in Taiwan streets against U.S. pork imports | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-22/thousands-march-in-taiwan-streets-against-us-pork-imports | 2020-11-22T10:33:11 | Thousands of people marched in Taipei’s streets on Sunday demanding the reversal of a decision to allow U.S. pork imports into Taiwan, alleging food safety issues.
President Tsai Ing-wen’s administration lifted a long-standing ban on U.S. pork and beef imports in August, in a move seen as one of the first steps toward... |
Russia's health system under strain as the coronavirus surges back | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-22/russias-health-system-under-strain-as-the-virus-surges-back | 2020-11-22T08:34:00 | When Yekaterina Kobzeva, a nurse at a preschool in Russia’s Ural Mountains, began having trouble breathing, she called an ambulance. It was four days before she managed to find a free hospital bed.
The ambulance first took her to get a scan — which showed damage from pneumonia to 50% of her lungs, an indication she ha... |
FDA allows emergency use of antibody drug Trump received | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-21/fda-allows-emergency-use-of-antibody-drug-trump-received | 2020-11-22T04:52:45 | U.S. health officials Saturday agreed to allow emergency use of a second antibody drug to help the immune system fight COVID-19, an experimental medicine that President Trump was given when he was sickened last month.
The Food and Drug Administration authorized use of the Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc. drug to try to ... |
Protesters torch Guatemala's Congress building amid unrest | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-21/protesters-burn-part-of-guatemalas-congress-building | 2020-11-22T03:08:10 | Hundreds of protesters broke into Guatemala’s Congress and burned part of the building Saturday amid growing demonstrations against President Alejandro Giammattei and the legislature for approving a budget that cut educational and health spending.
The protest came as about 7,000 people were demonstrating in front of t... |
Many GOP lawmakers shrug off statehouse mask-wearing rules | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-21/many-gop-lawmakers-shrug-off-statehouse-mask-wearing-rules | 2020-11-21T22:39:25 | Many Republican lawmakers in states where coronavirus cases and hospitalizations have surged are not only rejecting statewide mask mandates. They’re also resisting rules requiring them in their own capitols.
Efforts to require lawmakers and staff to wear masks have received a cool reception even in statehouses that ha... |
Wisconsin officials say Trump observers are obstructing recount | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-21/wisconsin-officials-trump-observers-obstructing-recount | 2020-11-21T21:47:13 | Election officials in Wisconsin’s largest county accused observers for President Trump’s campaign Saturday of seeking to obstruct a recount of the presidential results, in some instances by objecting to every ballot tabulators pulled to count.
Trump requested the recount in Milwaukee and Dane counties, both heavily l... |
'My Missing Valentine' wins big at Golden Horse Awards | https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2020-11-22/my-missing-valentine-wins-big-at-golden-horse-awards | 2020-11-21T16:11:07 | The Taiwanese film “My Missing Valentine” won big Saturday night at the annual Golden Horse Awards, taking five honors, including best feature film.
The romantic comedy, which tells the love story of a bus driver and a post office worker, also won for best director, best visual effects, best film editing and best orig... |
Tens of thousands mourn radical cleric's death in Pakistan | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-21/tens-of-thousands-mourn-radical-clerics-death-in-pakistan | 2020-11-21T12:29:40 | Tens of thousands of mourners Saturday attended the funeral of a radical cleric whose Islamist party has defended Pakistan’s controversial blasphemy law that calls for the death penalty for insulting Islam.
The mourners gathered in the eastern city of Lahore, where the Islamist scholar and leader, Khadim Hussein Rizvi... |
Daily COVID-19 deaths in U.S. reach highest level since May | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-20/daily-covid-19-deaths-in-u-s-reach-highest-level-since-may | 2020-11-20T23:41:26 | The coronavirus is taking an increasingly dire toll across the U.S. just as a vaccine appears close at hand, with the country now averaging more than 1,300 COVID-19 deaths per day — the highest level since the calamitous spring in and around New York City.
The U.S. death toll is nearly 254,000, by far the most in the ... |
Jan Morris, author and transgender pioneer, dies at 94 | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-20/jan-morris-author-and-transgender-pioneer-dies-at-94 | 2020-11-20T18:52:29 | Jan Morris, the celebrated journalist, historian, world traveler and fiction writer who in middle age became a pioneer of the transgender movement, has died at 94.
Morris died in Wales on Friday morning, according to her literary representative, United Agents. Her agent Sophie Scard confirmed her death. Morris had bee... |
Biden adds Obama administration veterans to top staff | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-20/biden-adds-obama-administration-veterans-to-top-staff | 2020-11-20T15:59:48 | President-elect Joe Biden is adding four Obama-Biden administration veterans to his top ranks as he continues to build out his White House team.
Cathy Russell, who was Jill Biden’s chief of staff during the Obama administration, will serve as director of the White House Office of Presidential Personnel, evaluating app... |
What does emergency use for a COVID-19 vaccine mean? | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-20/what-does-emergency-use-for-a-covid-19-vaccine-mean | 2020-11-20T14:46:11 | What does emergency use of a COVID-19 vaccine mean?
It’s when regulators allow shots to be given to certain people while studies of safety and effectiveness are ongoing.
Before any vaccine is permitted in the U.S., it must be reviewed by the Food and Drug Administration, which requires study in thousands of people. N... |
37 dead in Uganda as protests over arrest of politician continue | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-20/death-toll-at-37-in-uganda-unrest-after-bobi-wines-arrest | 2020-11-20T10:39:48 | The death toll from protests over the arrest of Ugandan opposition presidential hopeful and musician Bobi Wine has risen to 37, police said Friday. This is the country’s worst unrest in a decade, and more is expected ahead of the election early next year.
The Uganda police pathologist and the head of police health ser... |
Health experts clash over use of certain drugs to treat COVID-19 | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-20/health-experts-clash-over-use-of-certain-drugs-for-covid-19 | 2020-11-20T05:38:01 | Health officials around the world are clashing over the use of certain drugs for COVID-19, leading to different treatment options for patients depending on where they live.
On Friday, a World Health Organization guidelines panel advised against using the antiviral remdesivir for hospitalized patients, saying there’s n... |
Mnuchin rejects renewal of some Fed emergency loan programs | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-19/mnuchin-rejects-renewal-of-some-fed-emergency-loan-programs | 2020-11-19T23:03:33 | Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin said Thursday he will not to extend several emergency loan programs set up with the Federal Reserve to support the economy in the midst of the coronavirus crisis.
The decision drew a terse rebuke from the Fed.
The central bank said it “would prefer that the full suite of emergenc... |
Mossimo Giannulli follows wife Lori Loughlin to prison in college admissions scandal | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-19/mossimo-giannulli-reports-to-prison-in-college-bribery-case | 2020-11-19T19:42:18 | Fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli reported to prison on Thursday to begin serving his five-month sentence for bribing his daughters’ way into college, officials said.
Giannulli’s wife, actress Lori Loughlin, is already behind bars for her role in the college admissions bribery scheme involving prominent parents and... |
In a first for a secretary of State, Pompeo visits Israeli settlement in the West Bank | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-19/pompeo-visits-israeli-settlement-west-bank | 2020-11-19T13:32:50 | U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo on Thursday became the first top American diplomat to visit an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank as the State Department announced a major policy shift that will allow products from the settlements to be labeled “made in Israel.”
The two moves reflected the Trump ad... |
Worker finds tiny owl in Rockefeller Center Christmas tree | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-19/hoot-hoot-hoot-owl-in-rockefeller-center-christmas-tree | 2020-11-19T09:34:24 | It wasn’t quite a partridge in a pear tree, but a worker helping set up the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree found a holiday surprise — a tiny owl among the massive branches.
The little bird, now named what else but Rockefeller, was discovered on Monday, dehydrated and hungry, but otherwise unharmed, said Ellen Kalis... |
Australian troops unlawfully killed 39 Afghans, report finds | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-18/report-finds-australian-troops-unlawfully-killed-39-afghans | 2020-11-19T04:21:40 | A shocking Australian military report into suspected war crimes has found evidence that elite Australian troops unlawfully killed 39 Afghan prisoners, farmers and civilians.
Gen. Angus Campbell, chief of the Australian Defense Force Chief, said Thursday the shameful record included alleged instances in which new patro... |
Biden approaches 80 million votes in historic victory | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-18/biden-approaches-80-million-votes-in-historic-victory | 2020-11-19T00:05:29 | President-elect Joe Biden’s winning tally is approaching a record 80 million votes as Democratic bastions continue to count ballots and the 2020 election cracks turnout records.
Biden has already set a record for the highest number of votes for a winning presidential candidate, and President Trump has also notched a ... |
Man convicted of 9 'NorCal Rapist' attacks from 1991 to 2006 | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-18/man-convicted-of-9-norcal-rapist-attacks-from-1991-to-2006 | 2020-11-18T21:51:38 | A man dubbed the “NorCal Rapist” was convicted Wednesday of raping nine women in their homes between 1991 and 2006 after investigators used DNA technology to identify him.
A jury in Sacramento found Roy Charles Waller, 60, guilty on all 46 counts after 2½ hours of deliberations a day earlier.
Waller showed no emotio... |
Judge orders U.S. to stop expelling children who cross border | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-18/judge-orders-us-to-stop-expelling-children-who-cross-border | 2020-11-18T15:51:34 | A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to stop expelling immigrant children who cross the southern border alone, halting a policy that has resulted in thousands of rapid deportations of minors during the coronavirus pandemic.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan issued a preliminary injunction sou... |
FDA allows first rapid virus test that gives results at home | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-17/fda-allows-1st-rapid-virus-test-that-gives-results-at-home | 2020-11-18T03:21:03 | U.S. regulators on Tuesday allowed emergency use of the first rapid coronavirus test that can be performed and developed entirely at home.
The announcement by the Food and Drug Administration represents an important step in U.S. efforts to expand testing options for COVID-19 beyond healthcare facilities and testing si... |
Detroit-area county certifies vote after first blocking it | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-17/detroit-area-county-certifies-vote-after-first-blocking-it | 2020-11-18T02:53:24 | Michigan’s largest county reversed course and unanimously certified its presidential election results Tuesday night after Republicans first blocked the move in a party-line vote that threatened to temporarily stall official approval of Democrat Joe Biden’s win in the state.
The Wayne County Board of Canvassers acted ... |
Trump fires agency head who vouched for 2020 vote security | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-17/trump-fires-agency-head-who-vouched-for-2020-vote-security | 2020-11-18T00:59:16 | President Trump on Tuesday fired the director of the federal agency that vouched for the reliability of the 2020 election.
Trump fired Christopher Krebs in a tweet, saying his recent statement defending the security of the election was “highly inaccurate.”
The firing of Krebs, a Trump appointee and director of the ... |
Klamath River deal revives plan for major dam demolition to save salmon | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-17/apnewsbreak-deal-revives-plan-for-largest-us-dam-demolition | 2020-11-17T21:43:26 | An agreement announced Tuesday paves the way for the largest dam demolition in U.S. history, a project that promises to reopen hundreds of miles of waterway along the Oregon-California border to salmon that are critical to tribes but have dwindled to almost nothing in recent years.
If it goes forward, the deal would r... |
Despite COVID-19 vaccine successes, volunteers still needed for testing | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-17/volunteers-still-needed-to-test-variety-of-covid-19-vaccines | 2020-11-17T16:49:52 | Two COVID-19 vaccines might be nearing the finish line, but scientists caution it’s critical that enough people volunteer to help finish studying other vaccine candidates in the U.S. and around the world.
Moderna Inc. and competitor Pfizer Inc. recently announced preliminary results showing their vaccines appeared to ... |
Biden fills top White House team with campaign veterans | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-17/biden-filling-top-white-house-team-with-campaign-veterans | 2020-11-17T15:50:01 | President-elect Joe Biden announced a raft of top White House staff positions on Tuesday, drawing from the senior ranks of his campaign and some of his closest confidants to fill out an increasingly diverse White House leadership team.
Biden confirmed that former campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon would serve as a d... |
Poll workers contract coronavirus, but election day link is unclear | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-15/poll-workers-contract-virus-but-election-day-link-unclear | 2020-11-15T16:21:21 | Despite painstaking efforts to keep election sites safe, some poll workers who came in contact with voters on election day have tested positive for the coronavirus, including more than two dozen in Missouri and cases in New York, Iowa, Indiana and Virginia.
The infections cannot be tied definitively to polling places.... |
Belgian racing pigeon fetches record price of $1.9 million | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-15/belgian-racing-pigeon-fetches-record-price-of-1-9-million | 2020-11-15T12:54:19 | New Kim is worth her weight in gold and then some — actually much, much more.
A wealthy Chinese pigeon-racing fan put down a world-record price of $1.9 million for the Belgian-bred bird, saying a lot more than merely what kind of money can be made in the once-quaint sport, which seemed destined to decline only a few ... |
Hiker 'died' in the ER after rescue from Mt. Rainier. Now he's recovering | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-15/hiker-whose-heart-stopped-after-mt-rainier-rescue-recovers | 2020-11-15T10:13:14 | A hiker who was rescued after being lost overnight in a whiteout in Mt. Rainier National Park has been brought back to life after what his medical team is calling an amazing recovery.
The Seattle Times reports that 45-year-old Michael Knapinski, of Woodinville, died in the emergency room at Harborview Medical Center a... |
Ethiopia’s Tigray leader confirms firing missiles at Eritrea | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-15/ethiopias-tigray-leader-confirms-firing-missiles-at-eritrea | 2020-11-15T09:14:02 | The leader of Ethiopia’s rebellious Tigray region has confirmed firing missiles at neighboring Eritrea’s capital and is threatening more, marking a huge escalation as the deadly fighting in northern Ethiopia between Tigray forces and the federal government spills across an international border.
Tigray regional Preside... |
Suspect arrested in attack on actor Rick Moranis in New York | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-14/suspect-arrested-in-attack-on-actor-rick-moranis | 2020-11-15T04:20:55 | A New York man was arrested Saturday in connection with an unprovoked assault against Rick Moranis that occurred as the 67-year-old actor was walking near Central Park in October.
New York City police said 35-year-old Marquis Ventura, whom authorities listed as homeless, was arrested Saturday afternoon. It wasn’t kno... |
Department of Homeland Security head didn't have authority to suspend DACA, judge says | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-14/judge-dhs-head-didnt-have-authority-to-suspend-daca | 2020-11-15T01:30:29 | A federal judge in New York ruled Saturday that Chad Wolf, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, assumed his position unlawfully, a determination that invalidated Wolf’s suspension of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which shields young people from deportation.
“DHS failed to ... |
Biden expected to select Michele Flournoy to become first woman to lead the Pentagon | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-14/biden-likely-to-break-barriers-pick-woman-to-lead-pentagon | 2020-11-14T14:14:37 | President-elect Joe Biden is expected to take a historic step and select a woman to head the Pentagon for the first time, shattering one of the few remaining barriers to women in the department and the presidential Cabinet.
Michele Flournoy, a politically moderate Pentagon veteran, is regarded by U.S. officials and po... |
Armenians torch their homes as they flee land ceded to Azerbaijan | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-14/armenians-torch-their-homes-on-land-ceded-to-azerbaijan | 2020-11-14T13:01:24 | In a bitter farewell to his home of 21 years, Garo Dadevusyan wrenched off its metal roof and prepared to set the stone house on fire. Thick smoke poured from houses that his neighbors had already torched before fleeing this ethnic Armenian village about to come under Azerbaijani control.
The village is to be turned o... |
Egypt unveils ancient coffins and statues found in vast necropolis | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-14/egypt-unveils-ancient-coffins-statues-found-in-saqqara | 2020-11-14T12:40:15 | Egyptian antiquities officials on Saturday announced the discovery of at least 100 ancient coffins, some with mummies inside, and around 40 gilded statues in a vast Pharaonic necropolis south of Cairo.
Colorful, sealed sarcophagi and statues that were buried more than 2,500 years ago were displayed in a makeshift exhi... |
Can Trump win with 'fantasy' electors bid? State GOP leaders say no | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-14/can-trump-win-with-fantasy-electors-bid-state-gop-says-no | 2020-11-14T10:13:23 | Republican leaders in four critical states won by President-elect Joe Biden say they won’t participate in a legally dubious scheme to flip their state’s electors to vote for President Trump. Their comments effectively shut down a half-baked plot some Republicans floated as a last chance to keep Trump in the White House... |
Iota poses another tropical storm threat for Nicaragua and Honduras | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-13/tropical-storm-iota-forms-could-follow-etas-deadly-path | 2020-11-14T09:31:44 | Tropical Storm Iota was brewing in the Caribbean Sea early Saturday, threatening another strike for Nicaragua and Honduras, countries recently hammered by Category 4 Hurricane Eta.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Iota could bring dangerous wind, storm surge and as much as 30 inches of rainfall to the two C... |
CDC says wearing a mask could keep you from catching coronavirus | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-13/cdc-wearing-a-mask-could-keep-you-from-catching-virus | 2020-11-13T22:04:08 | U.S. health officials are taking a new tack to encourage Americans to wear masks: They’re emphasizing recent research showing that a mask protects the person who wears it.
Previously, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised people to wear masks because of evidence that it stops people who are infected w... |
GM recalls nearly 69,000 Chevy Bolt electric cars because of fire risk | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-13/gm-recalling-nearly-69k-bolt-electric-cars-due-to-fire-risk | 2020-11-13T21:22:29 | General Motors is recalling nearly 69,000 Chevrolet Bolt electric cars worldwide because the batteries have caught fire in five of them.
The company said Friday that engineers are working to figure out what’s causing the fires. Two people have suffered smoke inhalation due to the fires, and a house was set ablaze.
U.... |
Big study supports cheap combo pill to lower heart risks | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-13/big-study-supports-cheap-combo-pill-to-lower-heart-risks | 2020-11-13T18:10:23 | A daily pill combining a cholesterol drug and three blood pressure medicines, taken with low-dose aspirin, cut the risk of heart attacks, strokes and heart-related deaths by nearly one third in a large international study that’s expected to lead to wider use of this “polypill” approach.
For more than a decade, doctors... |
White supremacists killed a man — but his son is thriving thanks to this San Diego attorney | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-13/white-supremacists-killed-ethiopian-man-but-his-son-thrives | 2020-11-13T15:07:13 | The California lawyer who for years made sure white supremacist Tom Metzger made payments on a judgment for his role in the killing of an Ethiopian man studying in the U.S. took no money for himself from the case but ended up with something priceless: a son.
Attorney James McElroy became close with the victim’s famil... |
Zimbabweans mend shabby dollar notes amid economic crisis | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-13/zimbabweans-mend-shabby-dollar-notes-amid-economic-crisis | 2020-11-13T10:13:57 | Albert Marombe takes a grimy, tattered $1 note and delicately, expertly glues it back into one piece, holding it up for inspection.
“I don’t care how torn it is. All I want to see is the serial number being visible on both sides,” said Marombe. He’ll sell that shabby American dollar note for 80 cents and it will get b... |
U.K. serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, known as 'Yorkshire Ripper,' dies at 74 | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-13/uks-yorkshire-ripper-serial-killer-peter-sutcliffe-dies | 2020-11-13T09:16:01 | Britain’s Prison Service says that serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, who was widely known as the “Yorkshire Ripper,” has died in the hospital.
The 74-year-old had tested positive for COVID-19 and was suffering from underlying health conditions. His cause of death will be investigated by the coroner.
Sutcliffe was servin... |
U.S. military flew terminally ill Bahrain premier to Mayo Clinic in Minnesota | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-12/us-military-flew-terminally-ill-bahrain-premier-to-america | 2020-11-13T05:50:14 | The U.S. military flew Bahrain’s terminally ill prime minister to America for hospital care two months before his death, the State Department acknowledged Friday, underlining the importance of the island kingdom.
The care offered to Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa came just after the U.S. military similarly flew... |
Angels select Perry Minasian as their next general manager | https://www.latimes.com/sports/angels/story/2020-11-12/angels-select-perry-minasian-as-their-next-general-manager | 2020-11-12T22:12:23 | The Angels on Thursday chose Perry Minasian, a baseball executive with more than 30 years in the sport, as their new general manager.
It is the first time Minasian, who accepted a four-year deal, will lead a team’s baseball operations. He replaces Billy Eppler, who was fired Sept. 27 after five losing seasons. The An... |
Georgia secretary of state will quarantine after wife's positive coronavirus test | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-12/georgia-secretary-of-state-isolates-after-wifes-virus-test | 2020-11-12T18:53:15 | After his wife tested positive for the coronavirus, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger plans to get tested and to quarantine just as the state is preparing for a hand tally of the presidential race, his office said.
Tricia Raffensperger tested positive Thursday, Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs told t... |
Biden moves forward without help from Trump's intel team | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-12/biden-moves-forward-without-help-from-trumps-intel-team | 2020-11-12T16:57:15 | The presidential race was hovering in limbo in 2000 when outgoing President Clinton decided to let then-Gov. George W. Bush read the ultra-secret daily brief of the nation’s most sensitive intelligence.
Clinton was a Democrat and his vice president, Al Gore, was running against Republican Bush. Gore had been reading t... |
709,000 seek U.S. jobless aid as pandemic escalates | https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-11-12/709-000-seek-us-jobless-aid-as-pandemic-escalates | 2020-11-12T13:38:39 | The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits fell last week to 709,000, a still-high level but the lowest figure since March and a sign that the job market might be slowly healing.
The figures coincide with a sharp resurgence in confirmed viral infections to an all-time high above 120,000 a day. Cases are r... |
Journalist killed in bomb blast in Afghanistan, official says | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-12/official-journalist-killed-in-bomb-blast-in-afghanistan | 2020-11-12T09:15:03 | A bomb attached to the vehicle of a radio journalist in southern Afghanistan exploded early Thursday, killing him, a provincial official said.
Omer Zwak, spokesman for the provincial governor in southern Helmand province, said a sticky bomb attached to Elyas Dayee’s vehicle killed Dayee and wounded three others, inclu... |
Vatican’s report into former cardinal forces debate on power and abuse | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-13/vaticans-mccarrick-report-forces-debate-on-power-and-abuse | 2020-11-12T08:03:40 | The Vatican’s report about former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has raised uncomfortable questions the Holy See will have to confront going forward, chief among them what it’s going to do about current and future clergy who abuse their power to sexually abuse adults.
Priests, lay experts and canon lawyers alike say the ... |
Singapore arrests 21 members of South Korean religious sect tied to virus outbreak | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-11/singapore-arrests-21-members-of-south-korean-religious-sect | 2020-11-12T07:13:27 | Singaporean authorities have arrested 21 people who are thought to be connected to a secretive South Korean religious sect that was widely blamed for thousands of virus infections in that country.
The 12 women and nine men were arrested for “allegedly being members of an unlawful society,” Singapore’s Home Affairs Min... |
Screening for fever and other COVID-19 symptoms misses many cases, study finds | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-11/fever-symptom-screening-misses-many-coronavirus-cases | 2020-11-11T22:06:07 | Temperature and other COVID-19 symptom checks like those used at schools and doctors’ offices have again proved inadequate for spotting coronavirus infections and preventing outbreaks.
A study of Marine recruits found that despite these measures and strict quarantines before they started training, the recruits spread... |
President Trump emerges from White House to mark Veterans Day | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-11/trump-emerges-from-white-house-to-mark-veterans-day | 2020-11-11T17:32:11 | President Trump visited the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday, emerging in public for the first time since his failed reelection bid to take part in the annual presidential rite.
Trump, who honored veterans in a ceremony that was held during a steady rain, has spent the last seve... |
Stock rally fades, but investors’ hopes for the economy remain | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-10/global-rally-fades-but-investors-hopes-remain-for-economy | 2020-11-10T21:40:03 | Stocks downshifted Tuesday, the day after their powerful worldwide rally, but optimism remained high that the global economy may still be headed for a return to normal.
It was the second day in a row that rising hopes for a COVID-19 vaccine pushed investors to rethink which stocks they see winning and losing, and tha... |
Cunningham concedes to U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis in North Carolina | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-10/cunningham-concedes-to-us-sen-tillis-in-north-carolina | 2020-11-10T20:52:17 | Democrat Cal Cunningham conceded to incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis in North Carolina on Tuesday, saying “the voters have spoken” and it was clear Tillis had won.
With Cunningham’s concession, all eyes turned to Georgia, where two U.S. Senate runoff races in January are likely to determine the balance of th... |
EU files antitrust charges against Amazon over use of data | https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-11-10/eu-antitrust-charges-amazon-use-of-data | 2020-11-10T11:48:40 | European Union regulators have filed antitrust charges against Amazon, accusing the e-commerce giant of using data to gain an unfair advantage over merchants using its platform.
The EU’s executive commission, the bloc’s top antitrust enforcer, said Tuesday that the charges have been sent to the company.
The commissio... |
Trump election party draws scrutiny as guests test positive | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-08/trumps-election-night-party-adds-to-virus-scrutiny | 2020-11-10T00:39:02 | It was supposed to be a scene of celebration.
Instead, the Trump campaign’s election night watch party in the White House East Room has become another symbol of President Trump’s cavalier attitude toward a virus that is ripping across the nation and infecting more than 100,000 people a day.
Polls suggest that attitu... |
FDA allows first emergency use of a COVID-19 antibody drug | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-09/us-allows-1st-emergency-use-of-a-covid-19-antibody-drug | 2020-11-10T00:12:38 | U.S. health officials have allowed emergency use of the first antibody drug to help the immune system fight COVID-19, a disease that has killed more than 238,000 Americans.
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday cleared the experimental drug from Eli Lilly for people 12 and older with mild or moderate COVID-19 wh... |
Barr OKs election probes despite little evidence of fraud | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-09/barr-oks-election-probes-despite-little-evidence-of-fraud | 2020-11-09T23:42:55 | Atty. Gen. William Barr has authorized federal prosecutors across the U.S. to pursue “substantial allegations” of voting irregularities before the 2020 presidential election is certified, despite little evidence of fraud.
Barr’s action comes days after Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump and raises the ... |
Trump books are definitely not going away | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-09/trump-books-will-continue-after-trump-leaves-office | 2020-11-09T20:35:40 | One of publishing’s most thriving genres of the last four years, books about President Donald Trump, is not going to end when he leaves office.
In 2021 and beyond, look for waves of releases about the Trump administration and about the president’s loss to Democratic candidate Joe Biden. Works already planned include t... |
HUD Secretary Ben Carson tests positive for coronavirus; aide says he's in 'good spirits' | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-09/hud-secretary-ben-carson-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-aide-says-hes-in-good-spirits | 2020-11-09T17:20:14 | Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson has tested positive for the coronavirus. Carson is the first member of President Trump’s Cabinet known to have tested positive.
The department’s deputy chief of staff, Coalter Baker, said Monday that Carson was “in good spirits and feels fortunate to have access to ef... |
Study finds long-acting shot helps women avoid HIV infection | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-09/study-finds-long-acting-shot-helps-women-avoid-hiv-infection | 2020-11-09T17:00:12 | A shot every two months of the experimental medicine cabotegravir is more effective than daily Truvada pills at preventing women from acquiring HIV from an infected sex partner, a study finds. The regimen worked so well that researchers are stopping the study early.
The news is a boon for AIDS prevention efforts, expe... |
Voter fraud claims are aimed in part at keeping Trump base loyal | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-08/fraud-claims-aimed-in-part-at-keeping-trump-base-loyal | 2020-11-09T14:22:10 | The Trump campaign’s strategy to file a barrage of lawsuits challenging Joe Biden’s election win is more about providing the president with an offramp for a loss he can’t quite grasp than about changing the outcome, according to senior officials, campaign aides and allies who spoke to the Associated Press.
President T... |
Tropical storm Eta makes landfall in Florida Keys | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-08/eta-makes-landfall-on-cuba-as-guatemala-searches-for-victims | 2020-11-09T05:30:34 | A strengthening tropical storm Eta made landfall Sunday night on Florida’s Lower Matecumbe Key, days after after leaving scores of people dead and more than 100 missing in Mexico and Central America.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami declared hurricane and storm surge warnings for the Keys from Ocean Reef to... |
Biden win may curb U.S. oil drilling, supercharge renewables | https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-11-08/biden-energy-renewables | 2020-11-09T02:04:13 | Joe Biden’s election victory could end up reshaping the U.S. energy sector in years to come, although the president-elect may have limited room to maneuver given that control of the Senate remains unclear.
Biden has pledged to spend trillions of dollars to speed up the transition from fossil fuels, slash emissions and... |
Nursing home COVID-19 cases rise four-fold in surge states | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-08/nursing-home-covid-19-cases-rise-four-fold-in-surge-states | 2020-11-08T20:20:38 | Despite the Trump administration’s announcement of efforts to erect a protective shield around nursing homes, coronavirus cases are surging within facilities in states hard hit by the latest onslaught of COVID-19.
The administration has allocated $5 billion to nursing homes, shipped nearly 14,000 fast-test machines w... |
Boris Johnson denies his Trump ties weaken U.K.-U.S. bond under Biden | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-08/johnson-denies-his-trump-ties-weaken-uk-us-bond-under-biden | 2020-11-08T12:43:27 | Britain and the United States will work together to support democracy and combat climate change, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Sunday, while denying that his close ties to President Trump would hurt U.K.-U.S. relations once President-elect Joe Biden takes office.
Johnson congratulated Biden and Vice Presid... |
Iran's president calls on Biden to return to nuclear deal | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-08/irans-president-calls-on-biden-to-return-to-nuclear-deal | 2020-11-08T11:09:58 | Iran’s president called on President-elect Joe Biden to “compensate for past mistakes” and return the U.S. to Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, a state-run news agency reported Sunday.
Hassan Rouhani’s comments mark the highest-level response from Iran to Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ clinc... |
Azerbaijani forces seize key Nagorno-Karabakh city, leader says | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-08/azerbaijani-leader-forces-seize-key-nagorno-karabakh-city | 2020-11-08T10:53:20 | Azerbaijani forces have taken control of the strategically key city of Shushi in Nagorno-Karabakh where fighting with Armenia has raged for more than a month, the country’s president said Sunday.
In a televised address to the nation, President Ilham Aliyev said, “Shusha is ours — Karabakh is ours,” using the Azerbaij... |
Bail set at $750,000 for 2 arrested on weapons counts | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-07/bail-set-at-750-000-for-2-arrested-on-weapons-counts | 2020-11-07T23:11:09 | Bail has been set at $750,000 each for two Virginia men authorities said were armed with loaded handguns when they were arrested near the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, where votes were being counted.
Joshua Macias, 42, and Antonio LaMotta, 61, traveled from the Virginia Beach area in a Hummer and did... |
1st woman free-climbs El Capitan's Golden Gate route in a day | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-09/1st-woman-free-climbs-el-capitans-golden-gate-route-in-day | 2020-11-07T19:51:19 | Rock climber Emily Harrington has become the first woman, and fourth person, to free-climb the Golden Gate route on Yosemite National Park’s 3,000-foot granite wall in a single day.
While most of the country was focused on the results of the U.S. presidential election early Wednesday, the 34-year-old began to scale E... |
Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows diagnosed with COVID-19 | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-06/trump-chief-of-staff-meadows-diagnosed-with-covid-19 | 2020-11-07T06:20:24 | President Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows was diagnosed with the coronavirus as the nation set daily records for confirmed cases for the pandemic.
Two senior administration officials confirmed Friday that Meadows had tested positive for the virus, which has killed more than 236,000 Americans so far this year. They... |
Vatican to release report on sexual abuse by now-defrocked Cardinal | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-06/vatican-to-release-mccarrick-report-tuesday-spans-1930-2017 | 2020-11-06T22:03:30 | The Vatican on Tuesday will release its long-awaited report into what it knew about ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s sexual misconduct during his rise through the church hierarchy, setting up a remarkable moment in the Vatican’s long reckoning with clergy sexual abuse and cover-up.
The Vatican said Friday the report w... |
U.N. sets summit in December to push action on COVID-19 pandemic | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-05/un-summit-in-december-to-push-action-on-covid-19-pandemic | 2020-11-05T19:41:39 | The United Nations voted Thursday to hold a summit on the COVID-19 pandemic in early December to press for action on the global spread of the coronavirus and its “unprecedented” effects on societies, economies, jobs, global trade and travel.
The General Assembly voted 150-0 — with the United States, Israel and Armenia... |
Pope moves against secretariat of state amid finance scandal | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-05/pope-moves-against-secretariat-of-state-amid-finance-scandal | 2020-11-05T19:27:39 | Pope Francis is giving the Vatican secretariat of state three months to transfer all of its financial holdings to another Vatican office following its bungled management of hundreds of millions of dollars in donations and investments that are now the subject of a corruption investigation.
Francis summoned the secreta... |
Election worker came to polls despite positive coronavirus test, then died | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-05/election-judge-worked-despite-covid-19-diagnosis-then-died | 2020-11-05T18:21:08 | A suburban St. Louis election official who worked at a polling place on election day despite a positive test for the coronavirus has died, raising concerns for the nearly 2,000 people who voted there.
A spokeswoman for St. Charles County, Mo., said Thursday that the person, whose cause of death is not yet known, was a... |
Danish farmers lament decision to cull all Denmark's minks | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-05/danish-farmers-lament-decision-to-cull-all-denmarks-minks | 2020-11-05T17:09:28 | Danish fur farmers say they’ve been dealt a major blow after the world’s largest mink fur exporter decided to cull all 15 million minks in Denmark’s farms, to minimize the risk of them re-transmitting the coronavirus to humans — a decision that has also raised eyebrows among health experts.
“I do not think there is a ... |
AstraZeneca aims to deliver vaccine trial data by year's end | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-05/astrazeneca-to-deliver-vaccine-trial-data-by-years-end | 2020-11-05T14:56:32 | AstraZeneca hopes to show its COVID-19 vaccine is effective by the end of this year and is ramping up manufacturing so it can supply hundreds of millions of doses in January, Chief Executive Pascal Soriot said Thursday.
The Anglo-Swedish drugmaker is working with the University of Oxford to develop one of the most clo... |
Eta brings heavy rains and deadly mudslides to Honduras | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-04/eta-brings-heavy-rains-deadly-mudslides-to-honduras | 2020-11-05T00:44:50 | Eta moved into Honduras on Wednesday afternoon as a weakened tropical depression but still bringing the heavy rains that have drenched and caused deadly landslides in the country’s east and in northern Nicaragua.
The storm no longer carried the winds of the Category 4 hurricane that battered Nicaragua’s coast Tuesday,... |
San Francisco 49ers close facility after player's positive coronavirus test | https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2020-11-04/ap-source-49ers-close-facility-after-positive-covid-19-test | 2020-11-04T16:33:22 | The San Francisco 49ers have shut down their facility following a positive test for the coronavirus but are still scheduled to play Green Bay on Thursday night.
The team said a player tested positive on Wednesday and immediately went into self-quarantine after getting the result.
“Our organization has entered the NF... |
Some California legislative incumbents fighting to survive | https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-11-03/some-california-legislative-incumbents-fighting-to-survive | 2020-11-03T15:02:54 | California Democrats are in no danger of losing control of the state Legislature and may well expand their supermajorities in the 80-member Assembly and 40-member Senate after votes are tallied.
But incumbents aren’t invulnerable — particularly with California’s top-two balloting system. In some cases, it has set up ... |
Louisiana man gets 25 years for torching three Black churches | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-02/louisiana-man-gets-25-years-for-torching-3-black-churches | 2020-11-03T02:35:22 | A Louisiana man who admitted to burning down three predominantly African American churches to promote himself as a “black metal” musician was sentenced Monday to 25 years in prison and ordered to pay the churches $2.6 million.
U.S. District Judge Robert Summerhays of Lafayette sentenced Holden Matthews, giving the 23... |
Bail set at $2M for Illinois teen accused in Wisconsin shootings | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-02/bail-set-at-2m-for-teen-accused-in-wisconsin-shootings | 2020-11-02T21:27:14 | Bail was set at $2 million on Monday for a 17-year-old from Illinois accused of killing two men during an August protest in Kenosha, Wis., after the father of one victim told the court the teen “thinks he’s above the law” and would disappear if freed before the trial.
Kyle Rittenhouse, of Antioch, Ill., is charged wi... |
Texas high court denies GOP effort to reject Houston votes | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-01/texas-high-court-denies-gop-effort-to-reject-houston-votes | 2020-11-01T21:17:46 | The Texas Supreme Court on Sunday denied a Republican-led petition to toss nearly 127,000 ballots cast at drive-through voting places in the Houston area.
The state’s all-Republican high court rejected the request from GOP activists and candidates without explaining its decision. The effort to have the Harris County b... |
U.K. says 4-week coronavirus lockdown may have to last longer | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-01/uk-says-4-week-coronavirus-lockdown-may-have-to-last-longer | 2020-11-01T12:47:01 | A new national lockdown in England may have to last longer than the planned four weeks if coronavirus infection rates don’t fall quickly enough, a senior government minister said Sunday.
The lockdown announced Saturday by Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to run from Thursday until Dec. 2. Johnson says it’s needed to st... |
Ruling due in Johnny Depp's high-stakes libel suit against tabloid | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-01/ruling-due-in-depps-high-stakes-libel-suit-against-tabloid | 2020-11-01T11:37:11 | A British judge will decide Monday whether a tabloid newspaper defamed Johnny Depp by calling him a “wife beater,” a ruling with huge implications for the careers of both Depp and former spouse Amber Heard.
Justice Andrew Nicol is due to deliver his judgement in writing, three months after the end of a trial that expo... |
Hong Kong lawmakers arrested over May disruption of legislature | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-10-31/hong-kong-lawmakers-arrested-over-disruption-of-legislature | 2020-11-01T05:27:11 | Hong Kong police arrested seven people Sunday over scuffles that broke out in the city’s legislature during a face-off between pro-democracy and pro-Beijing lawmakers earlier this year.
The arrested include current and former opposition lawmakers, according to their political parties and media reports.
A police stat... |
Gospel star Bishop Rance Allen dead at 71 | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-11-01/gospel-star-bishop-rance-allen-dead-at-71 | 2020-10-31T21:31:30 | Gospel star Rance Allen, whose Rance Allen Group drew upon contemporary sounds for such 1970s hits as “Ain’t No Need of Crying” and “I Belong To You” and anticipated such crossover gospel artists as the Winans and Amy Grant, has died at age 71.
Allen’s wife, Ellen Allen, and manager Toby Jackson announced in a joint ... |
England faces new lockdown as U.K. coronavirus case count passes 1 million | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-10-31/england-faces-new-lockdown-as-uk-virus-cases-pass-1-million | 2020-10-31T20:46:33 | British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday announced a new monthlong lockdown for England after being warned that without tough action a resurgent coronavirus outbreak will overwhelm hospitals in weeks.
On the day the U.K. passed 1 million confirmed COVID-19 cases, Johnson made a sudden about-face and confirmed ... |
Tension runs high after fatal police shooting of Black man near Vancouver, Wash. | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-10-31/unrest-erupts-in-police-shooting-of-black-man-near-portland | 2020-10-31T07:17:51 | Tensions boiled over into unrest late Friday following a vigil for a Black man shot and killed by law enforcement in a city near Portland, Ore., in southwestern Washington state.
Mourners gathered in Hazel Dell, an unincorporated area near Vancouver, Wash., where family and friends say Kevin E. Peterson Jr., 21, was s... |
Suspect in California hit-and-run is extradited from Australia to face charges | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-10-30/suspect-in-california-hit-and-run-returned-from-australia | 2020-10-30T21:10:25 | A woman suspected in a hit-and-run crash that killed a bicyclist in Southern California three years ago has been returned to the U.S. to face trial after her arrest in Australia.
Authorities say Andrea Dorothy Chan Reyes fled the country after hitting Agustin Rodriguez Jr. with her Lexus in 2017. The car dragged the ... |
Actress Lori Loughlin reports to prison for her role in college admissions scandal | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-10-30/actress-lori-loughlin-reports-to-prison-in-college-scam | 2020-10-30T18:18:10 | Authorities say “Full House” actress Lori Loughlin has reported to a federal prison in California to begin serving her two-month sentence for her role in the college admissions bribery scandal.
The U.S. attorney’s office in Boston said Friday that Loughlin was being processed at the federal lockup in Dublin, Calif.
... |
More than 1 million tons a year of U.S. plastic trash goes astray, study says | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-10-30/study-1-to-2-million-tons-of-us-plastic-trash-goes-astray | 2020-10-30T18:03:28 | More than a million tons a year of America’s plastic trash isn’t ending up where it should. The equivalent of as many as 1,300 plastic grocery bags per person is landing in places such as oceans and roadways, according to a new study of U.S. plastic trash.
In 2016 — the last year enough data were available and before ... |
Texas' early voting numbers exceed total of all ballots cast in 2016 | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-10-30/texas-early-voting-exceeds-total-of-all-2016-ballots | 2020-10-30T14:03:54 | Texans have already cast more ballots in the presidential election than they did during all of 2016, an unprecedented surge of early voting in a state that was once the country’s most reliably Republican, but may now be drifting toward battleground status.
More than 9 million ballots had been cast as of Friday mornin... |
Police who shot Walter Wallace were improperly trained, family says | https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-10-30/police-who-shot-wallace-were-improperly-trained-family-says | 2020-10-30T10:28:44 | The footage from body-worn cameras that was taken as police responded to a call about Walter Wallace Jr. shows him emerging from a house with a knife as relatives shout at officers about his mental health condition, a lawyer for the man’s family said Thursday.
The video also shows Wallace became incapacitated after th... |
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