GEMHerald

Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited Kyiv on Monday. Amid fears that U.S. support could dry up, Ukrainian officials had criticized him for a recent phone call with President Vladimir V. Putin.

It was unclear on Sunday how many people were killed, but at least one estimate neared 100 people.

On Thanksgiving eve, U.S. diplomats reunited family members who had not seen each other in years because of China’s harsh policies on the ethnic group.

The company, facing slumping sales, announced that Carlos Tavares would step down immediately and that a search for a new chief was underway.

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice to run the F.B.I. has a record in and out of government that is likely to raise questions during his Senate confirmation hearings.

Kim Seongmin, who fled to South Korea in the 1990s, broadcasts to his homeland twice a day, delivering the kind of information Pyongyang is trying hard to suppress.

The pardon comes weeks before President Biden leaves office and transfers power to President-elect Donald J. Trump, who spent years attacking Hunter Biden over his legal and personal issues.

President Biden complained about selective prosecution and political pressure in a system he has spent his public life defending.

Mr. Biden’s plea deal did fall apart at the last minute last year. But it did so after the judge overseeing the case raised issues.

The agency long benefited from broad bipartisan support. But Republican criticism has intensified, and new choices for top health posts hope to upend the organization.