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Investigation into Chinese hacking reveals ‘broad and significant’ spying effort, FBI says

November 14, 2024, 9:44am Nation & World

A federal investigation into Chinese government efforts to hack into U.S. telecommunications networks has revealed a “broad and significant” cyberespionage campaign aimed at stealing information from Americans who work in government and politics, the FBI said Wednesday. Read story

A pumpjack operates at dawn in a pasture, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024, near Hays, Kan.

Earth’s projected warming hasn’t improved for 3 years. UN climate talks are still pushing

A pumpjack operates at dawn in a pasture, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024, near Hays, Kan.

November 14, 2024, 9:43am Latest News

For the third straight year, efforts to fight climate change haven’t lowered projections for how hot the world is likely to get — even as countries gather for another round of talks to curb warming, according to an analysis Thursday. Read story

Protests erupt in Paris over pro-Israel gala organized by far-right figures

November 14, 2024, 9:42am Nation & World

Protests erupted in Paris on Wednesday against a controversial gala organized by far-right figures in support of Israel. The event, intended to raise funds for the Israeli military, included Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich among its invited guests. Read story

This combination of images from video shows scenes from Nasonex television commercials broadcast in the U.S. in the 2000s.

New FDA rules for TV drug ads: Simpler language and no distractions

This combination of images from video shows scenes from Nasonex television commercials broadcast in the U.S. in the 2000s.

November 14, 2024, 9:38am Health

Those ever-present TV drug ads showing patients hiking, biking or enjoying a day at the beach could soon have a different look: New rules require drugmakers to be clearer and more direct when explaining their medications’ risks and side effects. Read story

Strong typhoon prompts more evacuations in Philippines, the fifth major storm to hit in three weeks

November 14, 2024, 9:38am Nation & World

The fifth major storm in three weeks slammed into the northeastern Philippines on Thursday, prompting more largescale evacuations and a United Nations call for emergency funds to help the government address the plight of hard-hit rural villagers. Read story

Wildfires burn along the New York and New Jersey border in Greenwood Lake, New York, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024.

2 charged with setting some Northeast wildfires amid New Jersey drought warning and blazes out West

Wildfires burn along the New York and New Jersey border in Greenwood Lake, New York, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024.

November 14, 2024, 9:38am Nation & World

New Jersey’s governor declared a drought warning. Black Hawk helicopters scooped water from a lake to dump on a burning forest in New York state. A park in Manhattan caught fire. And authorities in two states revealed criminal charges Wednesday against people accused of setting some of the wildfires that… Read story

FILE - Adriana Kugler of Maryland, speaks during the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing to examine her nomination to be a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, June 21, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Top Federal Reserve official defends central bank’s independence in wake of Trump win

FILE - Adriana Kugler of Maryland, speaks during the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing to examine her nomination to be a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, June 21, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

November 14, 2024, 9:33am Business

A Federal Reserve official gave a lengthy defense of the central bank’s political independence Thursday, just days after former President Donald Trump, an outspoken Fed critic, won re-election. Read story

FILE - A worker boards a locomotive at a BNSF rail yard, Sept. 14, 2022, in Kansas City, Kan.

Flurry of contract deals come as railroads, unions see Trump’s election looming over talks

FILE - A worker boards a locomotive at a BNSF rail yard, Sept. 14, 2022, in Kansas City, Kan.

November 14, 2024, 9:32am Business

The flurry of contract agreements announced early this fall — including two more Wednesday — offer evidence that major railroads and their unions are working to avoid the standoffs that led them to a brink of a national strike two years ago. Read story

SpaceX knocks out another Space Coast launch

November 14, 2024, 9:30am Life

SpaceX kept the launch machine rolling with another Starlink mission from the Space Coast on Thursday morning. Read story

LAPD ‘SWAT Mafia’ trial set to begin; elite unit’s leaders said to ‘glamorize’ killings

November 14, 2024, 9:30am Nation & World

With a sterling record of busting down doors and arresting armed suspects over her decade in SWAT, Los Angeles police Lt. Jennifer Grasso figured she had a strong case to become the tactical unit’s next leader when the position opened up this year. Grasso — the department’s first woman to… Read story