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The Jan. 6 committee concluded its first round of public hearings that aimed to make the case that former President Donald Trump was accountable for the Capitol attack. WSJ’s Scott Patterson explains key evidence that was presented and next steps in the investigation. Photo illustration: Laura Kammermann
Authorities in Ukraine advised residents in the capital Kyiv to stay indoors Friday as air pollution, partly caused by fires in the region, blanketed the city. Ukraine’s Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources said the pollution was a result of the burning of peatlands and other wildfires in the region combined with autumn temperature fluctuations. The Ukrainian capital topped a list of the most polluted major cities early Friday in a real-time database by IQAir, a Swiss company that monitors air quality levels.
Soccer-mad Brazilians have fallen hard for online sports betting, yielding a boom of interest from foreign gambling companies that may boost state coffers but also threatens to divert funds from consumer spending in other areas. Latin America's largest economy has seen lower-than-expected growth in consumer spending in the country in recent months, a weakness some banks and think tanks are blaming on gambling. Such a linkage would echo data seen in some U.S. states touched by online gambling fever.
Some voters can cast their ballot in person Friday in Minnesota, Virginia and South Dakota. 45 days out, here is where Trump and Harris stand.
Georgia's Republican-controlled state election board may vote on Friday to require a labor-intensive hand count of potentially millions of ballots in November's election, a move voting rights advocates say could cause delays, introduce errors and lay the groundwork for spurious election challenges. If approved, the hand count rule would make Georgia the only state in the U.S. to implement such a requirement as part of the normal process of tabulating results, according to Gowri Ramachandran, the director of elections and security at New York University's Brennan Center for Justice, a left-leaning public policy institute. Georgia is one of seven battleground states likely to determine the Nov. 5 contest between Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris.
The bitcoin faithful see the election as a win-win for crypto no matter the outcome in November.
Footage of an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank showed a soldier pushing an apparently dead man off a rooftop, in what the army described Friday as a "serious incident".Asked about the footage showing a soldier pushing a body off a rooftop, the military said the action conflicted with its values.
China said Friday that it would "gradually resume" importing seafood from Japan after imposing a blanket ban last year over the release of water from the disabled Fukushima nuclear plant.The release, however, generated a fierce backlash from China, which branded it "selfish" and banned all Japanese seafood imports.
The apparent Israeli attack has killed at least 37 people and injured thousands more, reports Justin Salhani from Beirut.
From his small apartment here, Vilbrun Dorsainvil makes video calls to Haiti to spend time with his fiancée and their daughter, whom he never had a chance to meet.
Auction house Christie's opened its regional headquarters in Hong Kong on Friday as its Asia Pacific chief predicted a sales "pickup" despite a global art market weighed down by wary sellers.President of Christie's Asia Pacific Francis Belin said the current dip in the market was due to "hesitant" consignors and "sellers being a little bit cautious".
Brussels Airlines said on Friday that it would cancel most of its flights on Oct. 1 due to a Belgian national strike of security workers. Brussels Airport, the largest airport in the country, had asked airlines to review their schedules because the strike would lead to a reduction in security screenings. The airport said a large number of security staff would be expected to participate in the strike and predicted a major impact on airport operations that day.
Jay Emmanuel-Thomas, a soccer player who used to play for Premier League giant Arsenal, has been arrested after $795,300 (￡600,000) worth of cannabis was seized at a British airport, the Carlisle Magistrates court confirmed to CNN.
Scientists in South Africa say they have identified an outbreak of rabies in seals that is believed to be the first time the virus has spread in sea mammals. At least 24 Cape fur seals that were found dead or euthanized in various locations on South Africa's west and south coast had rabies, state veterinarian Dr. Lesley van Helden said. Rabies, which affects mammals and can be passed to people, is almost always fatal once symptoms appear.
Kamala Harris’ revelation at the most recent presidential debate that she is a gun owner caught some viewers by surprise – the vice president has said relatively little over the years about her personal experience of owning a firearm.
Russia on Friday dismissed a "victory plan" elaborated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as a gambit to keep the West onside and said it had nothing to do with the search for a diplomatic or political solution to end the war. Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that his plan, full details of which he has yet to disclose, was complete after much consultation. Zelenskiy has said his initiative is designed to create terms acceptable to Ukraine, now locked in conflict with Russia for more than 2-1/2 years.
An outspoken Cambodian opposition politician appeared in court Friday for questioning on new charges, the latest in a series of legal cases brought by the authorities against dissenting voices.Rights groups have long accused Cambodia's government of using legal cases as a tactic to silence opposition voices and legitimate political dissent.?
Election workers used to toil out of the public eye. Now they're increasingly the target of attacks.
The Georgia State Election Board is set to vote on a controversial measure Friday that would require local precincts to conduct hand counts.
Owens is set to be executed by lethal injection in the state's first execution in 13 years. This despite a key witness who testified against Owens now proclaiming his innocence.
In modern America, the lure of the open road is easily overshadowed by the fear of random violence.
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