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Jonathan Drake / Reuters The End of North Carolina's HB2?
Charlotte voted Monday morning to repeal an LGBT nondiscrimination ordinance, reportedly the first part of a deal to erase the state’s controversial “bathroom bill.”
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Omar Sanadiki / Reuters Today's News: Dec. 18, 2016
The evacuations in Aleppo, a suicide bombing in Yemen, and more from the United States and around the world.
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Abdalrhman Ismail / Reuters Today's News: Dec. 17, 2016
Trump spars with China, an earthquake strikes Papua New Guinea, and more from the United States and around the world.
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Omar Sanadiki / Reuters Today's News: Dec. 16, 2016
The evacuation of Aleppo, Chinese military aggression, and more from the United States and around the world.
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Gerry Broome / AP North Carolina's 'Legislative Coup' Is Over, and Republicans Won
Legislators passed a slate of bills to sharply reduce the power of the incoming governor, over the heated objections of Democrats and hundreds of protestors.
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Bloomberg / Getty Trump's Pick for Israel Ambassador Is No Diplomat
David Friedman, a bankruptcy lawyer, believes Israel can annex and settle in the West Bank, wants to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, and called a liberal American Jewish group “worse than kapos.”
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Reuters Today's News: Dec. 15, 2016
Dylann Roof convicted, Facebook takes action, and more from the United States and around the world.
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Gerry Broome / AP Republicans Forge Ahead With Their North Carolina Power Grab
As GOP efforts to restrain gubernatorial power rolled forward, Governor-elect Roy Cooper, a Democrat, threatened to sue, and activists were arrested for disrupting the legislature.
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Laura Segall / Reuters The Last of the Birthers
Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona’s Maricopa County reveals the “profound” and quite “disturbing” results of his five-year investigation into the president’s birth certificate.
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Reuters Why Did California Police Shoot a Grandfather Holding a Crucifix?
Kern County, where Francisco Serna died Monday, had the highest per-capita rate of killings by officers in 2015.
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Robert Galbraith / Reuters Today's News: Dec. 14, 2016
Driverless Uber cars in San Francisco, shelling in Aleppo, and more from the United States and around the world.
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Gerry Broome / AP North Carolina Republicans Try to Curtail the New Democratic Governor's Power
After Roy Cooper narrowly won the gubernatorial race, the GOP-led state legislature is using a special session to sharply limit the incoming executive’s authority.
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Robert F. Bukaty / AP The Pathos of El Faro's Final Hours
Across 500 pages of transcript drawn from the sunken freighter’s bridge, crew members question the decision to sail into Hurricane Joaquin and gradually grasp their perilous situation.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Democrats: Trump Must Divest From His Hotel or Breach His Lease
A letter from House members says the General Services Administration believes Trump cannot own the hotel; a statement from the GSA itself is more circumspect.
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Abdalrhman Ismail / Reuters Today's News: Dec. 13, 2016
Assad claims victory in Aleppo, Trump picks Zinke for Interior Department, and more from the United States and around the world.
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Mike Stone / Reuters Trump's Choice of Tillerson Defies Senate Skeptics
The president-elect has nominated Exxon’s CEO as secretary of state, despite the protestations of some senators.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Rex Tillerson's World: In His Own Words
Remarks by the nominee for secretary of state reveal a pragmatic executive whose views often appear to diverge from Donald Trump’s.
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Adrees Latif / Reuters The Electoral College Is John Podesta's Last Hope
The Clinton campaign chairman is backing a demand from 10 electors for an intelligence briefing on Russian interference in the presidential race.
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Mike Segar / Reuters It's a Grand Old False Flag
Even as Senate Republicans opt to investigate alleged Russian interference in the election, members of President-elect Trump’s inner circle continue to insist without evidence that someone else must be to blame.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters Today's News: Dec. 12, 2016
Trump taps Exxon Mobil CEO for secretary of state, arrests in connection to Nice attack, and more from the United States and around the world.
