National & World

• Trump says he’s withdrawing National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland
• Iran’s ailing supreme leader resorts to his only playbook as crises mount and protests erupt
• Trump vetoes two bipartisan bills, marking first vetoes of second term
• ‘The Wire’ actor and South Bend native Isiah Whitlock Jr. has died
• British boxer Anthony Joshua injured in car crash that killed two close friends in Nigeria
• Israel to suspend operations of several aid groups in Gaza as countries warn of renewed ‘catastrophic’ humanitarian crisis
• Federal payment freeze puts some Minnesota families in danger of losing child care amid investigation into alleged fraud
• A second pilot has died after a midair helicopter crash in New Jersey, police say
• Russia doubles down on claim of Ukrainian attack on Putin residence, but offers no concrete proof
• At least 13 dead after Mexico’s Interoceanic Train derails
• China stages war games around Taiwan after hitting out at major US arms deal
• Annual Christmas Eve jazz concert canceled after Trump’s name installed on Kennedy Center
• Ahead of peace talks with Trump, Zelensky calls Putin ‘man of war’ after Russian attack on Kyiv region
• Trump says US military struck ISIS terrorists in Nigeria
• 2 dead and 20 injured after fire and explosion at a Pennsylvania nursing home
• Botched Epstein redactions trace back to Virgin Islands’ 2020 civil racketeering case against estate
• Libya’s army chief killed in plane crash in Turkey
• He reached to grab a toddler he said he thought was falling. Then he spent weeks in jail before the case was thrown out
• The UK wants to scrap jury trials for many crimes. Opponents fear the loss of an ancient right
• Brown places its vice president of public safety on leave as feds open investigation into safety after mass shooting
• 2-year-old among 6 killed in Mexican Navy plane crash off Texas, officials say
• A timeline of US strikes on boats that have killed 115
• Israeli soldiers shot and killed a West Bank teen they say ‘hurled a block.’ Video shows them shooting him point blank
• White House pushes Smithsonian to comply with review to receive federal funding
• US pursuing another tanker ship near Venezuela amid Trump blockade
• Gaza no longer in famine, says global hunger watchdog, after influx of aid following ceasefire
• How investigators zeroed in on the Brown University shooting suspect and linked him to the killing of an MIT professor
• Brown University shooting suspect found dead
• Former NASCAR driver and 6 others dead after private jet crashes in North Carolina
• What we know about the hours before and after Rob and Michele Reiner’s deaths
• Brown University has over 1,200 surveillance cameras. Why that wasn’t enough to capture video of the shooting suspect
• Trump repurposing money earmarked for troop housing for ‘warrior dividend’ bonuses
• Trump signs executive order expediting marijuana reclassification after lobbying from cannabis industry