CNN Fires Chris Cuomo After New Details on Help He Gave His Brother  —  The cable news network said it had “terminated him, effective immediately,” a move that came four months after Andrew Cuomo resigned as governor of New York.  —  The star anchor Chris Cuomo was fired by CNN on Saturday amid …

Facing Economic Collapse, Afghanistan Is Gripped by Starvation  —  An estimated 22.8 million people — more than half the country's population — are expected to face potentially life-threatening food insecurity this winter.  Many are already on the brink of catastrophe.

Acosta: Hard-right Supreme Court poised to turn back clock  —  CNN's Jim Acosta takes a look at the conservative breakdown of the US Supreme Court amidst debate about the nation's abortion and gun rights.  Source: CNN  —  CNN's Jim Acosta takes a look at the conservative breakdown …

Donald Trump's social media start-up raises $1bn  —  The ex-president's media venture is aimed at challenging the platforms from which he has been banned.  —  Donald Trump's social media start-up has raised $1bn from unidentified investors as the company presses ahead with plans to go public via a Spac merger.

U.S. congressman posts family Christmas picture with guns, days after school shooting … A U.S. congressman on Saturday posted a Christmas picture of himself and what appeared to be his family, smiling and posing with an assortment of guns, just days after four teenagers were killed in a shooting at a Michigan high school.

Assad's tightening grip  —  In an escalating campaign, the Syrian leader and his financially strapped regime have raided and seized dozens of businesses, even targeting those that stuck by him during a decade of war  —  The five Syrians pulled from their homes by secret police on the same night …

Biden and Putin to hold video call on Tuesday, will discuss Ukraine … U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a video call on Tuesday to deal with military tensions over Ukraine other topics.  —  Biden wants to discuss U.S. concerns about Russia's military buildup …

When will the people's House be returned to the people?  Not even Capitol officials know.  —  On Wednesday night, more than 15,000 fans crowded into Capital One Arena to watch the Washington Wizards secure another early-season victory.  On Thursday night, a few thousand concertgoers packed …

White Supremacists Stage Bizarro Rally in Downtown D.C., Find Themselves Stranded  —  Though they intended to “reclaim America,” members of Patriot Front had more than enough trouble reclaiming their own ride.  —  WASHINGTON, D.C.—A group of white supremacists stormed through downtown Washington …

Trump Accidentally Posts Statement Blasting His Own ‘Stupid’ Election Lies  —  WHOOPS  —  Twice-impeached former President Donald Trump blasted out a brief statement on Saturday night that appeared to unintentionally refute his own long-running (and bogus) claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

Tucker Carlson Is Completing the Work That Trump Began  —  Earlier this week, Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson, the host of the top-rated news show on cable, rose in defense of the right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.  —  “Jones is often mocked for his flamboyance,” Carlson said …

Snow may vanish for years at a time in Mountain West with climate warming  —  Study warns of impending water supply problems due to nearly snowless mountains in about 35 to 60 years  —  A new study provides a glimpse into the future of Western U.S. snow and the picture is far from rosy …

Iran walks back prior nuclear concessions -U.S. official … Iran walked back any compromises it made in previous talks on reviving the 2015 nuclear deal, pocketed all compromises made by others and asked for more during indirect U.S.-Iranian talks this week, a senior State Department official said on Saturday.

Why international election observers would give Wisconsin a failing grade  —  Laura Thornton is director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.  —  On Nov. 10, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Republican state lawmakers proposed a hostile takeover of election management in their state.

Former Illinois State University football coach who removed Black Lives Matter poster alleges violation of First Amendment rights in lawsuit  —  Kurt Beathard, a former assistant football coach for Illinois State University, is suing the school's head football coach and its former athletic director …

Justice Sotomayor drops the S-bomb  —  Stench.  —  Justice Sonia Sotomayor said stench, about her own court, during oral argument Wednesday in the Mississippi abortion case.  Specifically, observing that states were passing ever-stricter abortion laws, explicitly inspired by the court's …