At Hanukkah reception, Biden will condemn rising antisemitism

The Democratic president will tell guests at the Monday night event that silence is complicity.

In Twitter poll, users tell Musk to step down as CEO

More than half of 17.5 million users who responded to a Twitter poll created by Musk over whether he should step down as head of the company had voted yes by the time the poll closed Monday morning.

Ex-Mafia boss ‘Cadillac Frank’ Salemme dies in prison at 89

Salemme led the Patriarca crime family in Boston in the early 1990s before helping prosecutors convict a corrupt FBI agent after learning that other mobsters had been talking about him to authorities.

Anti-abortion priest Pavone defrocked for blasphemous posts

The Vatican cited Frank Pavone's 'blasphemous communications on social media' as well as 'persistent disobedience' of his bishop.

3 escaped chimpanzees recaptured in Sweden; 4 shot dead

The animals broke out of their enclosure at the Furuvik zoo, which has previously been criticized for lack of security arrangements around the chimpanzees.

What to watch for as Jan. 6 panel cites Trump’s ‘attempted coup’

Twitter bans linking to Facebook, Instagram, other rivals

It's the latest move by new owner Elon Musk to crack down on certain speech.

Peru’s dark past surfaces as young protester is laid to rest

Hundreds of people poured into the streets of a rural hamlet in Peru’s Andean highlands on Saturday to pay their final respects to a 23-year-old student killed in clashes with the army a day earlier.

Biden marks 50th anniversary of death of wife, daughter

The tragedy almost prompted Biden, age 30 when the accident happened, to give up his fledgling political career.

Hanukkah begins in Ukraine as battles rage

Dozens gathered in Maidan Independence Square in the capital, Kyiv, at sundown for the lighting of the first candle of what local Jewish leaders say is Europe’s tallest menorah.