President Donald Trump’s formal designation of Venezuela’s Cartel de los Soles as a foreign terrorist organization will go into effect on Nov. 24, escalating tensions between the U.S. and Venezuela.

The U.S. government explicitly accuses the group, whose name translates to Cartel of the Suns, of being led by Venezuelan President Nicolás ...Read more

Japan’s defense minister, visiting a military base close to Taiwan, said plans to deploy missiles to the post would move forward as tensions smolder between Tokyo and Beijing over the East Asian island.

“The deployment can help lower the chance of an armed attack on our country,” Shinjiro Koizumi told reporters on Sunday as he wrapped up ...Read more

President Donald Trump said no television networks should be able to expand, citing the potential growth of what he considers left-wing news networks.

“If this would also allow the Radical Left Networks to ‘enlarge,’ I would not be happy. ABC & NBC, in particular, are a disaster - A VIRTUAL ARM OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY,” Trump said in a ...Read more

General Dan Caine, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, will meet service members of the U.S. Southern Command on Monday in Puerto Rico, where the American military presence has swelled as the Trump administration weighs military action against Venezuela.

The Pentagon said in a statement that Caine and David L. Isom, a Navy SEAL and ...Read more

In a sea of dark-suited men and G-20 stalwarts, a bonding moment this weekend between two populist women stood out.

When Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi locked eyes with her Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni for the first time on Saturday at the Group of 20 summit in Johannesburg, the enthusiasm on both sides was hard to miss.

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More Americans than ever are expected to travel over the Thanksgiving holiday period, and the lion’s share of the nearly 82 million people making a getaway will be going by car.

AAA predicts that 73 million people will drive to their destination, and that number could rise if those who originally opted to fly switch to driving after the ...Read more

The Alaska State Medical Board canceled its meeting Friday for the second consecutive month because it lacked the quorum to operate.

The board is tasked with adopting regulations governing the practice of medicine in Alaska, and takes disciplinary action against physicians accused of medical malpractice.

But it has been hampered for months as ...Read more

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem stopped at Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport on Sunday to honor TSA employees who worked without pay during the nation’s longest federal shutdown — and to announce new technology investments and $10,000 bonuses for front-line staff.

MSP has roughly 600 TSA employees, though only a small ...Read more

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch apologized to the congregation of Manhattan’s historic Park East Synagogue after a pro-Palestinian protest outside the house of worship turned into “turmoil” last week.

Tisch, speaking to the congregation during Saturday services, said the NYPD should have set up a “frozen zone” outside the entrance ...Read more

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney agreed to resume discussions on a bilateral free trade deal, the latest sign of warming relations between the two countries.

The talks were announced after Modi and Carney met on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in South Africa. The leaders decided to “begin ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s proposed Nov. 27 deadline to secure Ukraine’s support for a U.S.-backed peace plan isn’t set in stone and could drift into the following week, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, suggesting that plenty of work remains.

Rubio’s note of caution followed U.S.-Ukrainian talks Sunday in Geneva that both sides ...Read more

Democratic U.S. Senators Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal are leading a bill to expand federal background checks to all gun sales made in the United States, officials said.

The legislation, called the Background Check Expansion Act, is being reintroduced by a bipartisan group of 45 senators including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-...Read more

The union representing FDNY firefighters is demanding answers after City Hall officials discovered 68 boxes of information on the dangers of Sept. 11 toxins despite claiming for years they couldn’t find any records on what authorities knew about Ground Zero health hazards.

“For years, our members made life-and-death medical decisions based ...Read more

High surf swept three people off the beach and into the ocean in Big Sur on Saturday, the second such incident at Garrapata State Park in a week.

Two women and a man were swept off the rocks at Sobrenas Point around 3 p.m., according to a news release from the California State Parks.

Both women made it back to shore on their own and were taken...Read more

A domestic flight was struck by bullets on Sunday while landing at the Guy Malary terminal of the Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, sources told the Miami Herald.

The aircraft, operated by Sunrise Airways, was arriving from Les Cayes in the country’s southwest region. No injuries were reported.

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New York mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said Sunday he still believes President Trump is a fascist and despot despite their surprisingly cordial meeting at the White House on Friday — but believes they can work together on affordability.

“Everything that I’ve said in the past, I continue to believe,” Mamdani said on NBC’s “Meet the ...Read more

As the number of children in the infant botulism continues to rise, the company manufacturing the recalled formula admits third-party testing found botulism in its formula.

And, the FDA says, some of the nation’s largest grocery sellers, including No. 1 Walmart and No. 2 Kroger, are still selling ByHeart Whole Nutrition Infant Formula.

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As vicious infighting in President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again movement over the controversial H-1B visa magnifies uncertainty for foreign workers in the U.S., Canada last week approved a new fast track program to entice holders of the visa into taking their skills northward.

The budget Canada passed Nov. 17 contained a provision ...Read more