Gloria Holland can still clearly recall a picture from her early years: a man standing outside his front door in just his underwear, begging that his home in Palm Springs, California's Section 14 neighborhood not be razed. Before a bulldozer leveled the building and the man scrambled to safety, he ranted for a few minutes. Holland, who is now 70, stated from her home outside of Atlanta, "I was 8 or 9 years old." I had never seen a grown guy cry before. It caused trauma. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the man and Holland were part of 195 Black and Latino families whose homes were burned down and demolished with little to no warning. Native American-owned land had long been sought after by city officials, who wanted Palm Springs' downtown to expand with upscale hotels and retail establi...

China disputed rumors that Defense Minister Dong Jun was being investigated for corruption on Thursday, stating that a senior military officer had been suspended and was being investigated for major discipline violations. According to his official biography, the suspended officer, Admiral Miao Hua, was stationed in the coastal province of Fujian when President Xi Jinping was employed there as a local official. He was a member of the ruling Central Military Commission, which is China's highest-level military authority. Miao, the top political officer in the military, started his career in the army. Wu Qian, a spokesman for the military ministry, gave reporters no additional information during a monthly press briefing in Beijing. Since last year, the Chinese military has been undergoing a ma...

Los Angeles As local officials, advocacy organizations, and the country's second-largest school system begin organizing to fight mass deportations, the pushback that blue state governors pledged following Donald Trump's election is starting to take shape. The cities of Philadelphia, Chicago, and Los Angeles have pledged to protect undocumented residents of the United States from the incoming Trump administration's plans to carry out what it claims will be the most extensive deportation campaign in history. The ACLU of Southern California sued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement this month, seeking information on how the next administration intends to conduct the roundups, while the Los Angeles Unified School District declared itself a sanctuary for migrants. Although local authoriti...

Donald Trump, the incoming president, ran on tariffs. He made even more promises this week. Trump stated on Monday that he plans to increase a previously planned tariff of up to 60% on all Chinese imports by an extra 10% and slap a 25% tariff on goods imported by the United States from Mexico and Canada. The duties would represent a substantial rise over Trump's earlier proposal, which was already a big increase over more targeted tariffs that Trump implemented during his first term and that President Joe Biden maintained. According to a Yale Budget Lab assessment that was shared with NBC News on Wednesday, if retaliatory charges on U.S. exports are implemented, the average cost to consumers of the tariffs Trump has proposed could be as high as $1,200 in lost purchasing power based on 2023...

This month, Ron DeSantis received a political gift from President-elect Donald Trump when he was assigned to fill a U.S. Senate seat. Don't expect the governor of Florida to unlock it before Christmas, though. As the president-elect stocked his fledgling administration with state political leaders, one of Trump's first significant cabinet appointments was Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who was appointed secretary of state. Rubio's seat will become available due to the nomination, which will immediately spark conjecture about DeSantis' choice and the extent of Trump's involvement—the most well-known resident in the state—in the process. However, according to five people familiar with the process, the DeSantis team is still considering its choices around two weeks after the Rubio announcement ...

Ukraine's KYIV The Witches of Bucha are preparing to protect their city from a relentless barrage of Russian missiles and drones in a snow-covered woodland west of Kyiv. The main responsibility of the 90% female volunteer civil defense group is to protect the skies by destroying the Iranian-made Shahed drones that arrive almost every night. The majority are from Bucha, a city outside Kyiv that was overrun by Russian forces in the early weeks of the conflict and the scene of some of the worst invasion-related crimes, such as the killing of citizens in the street. According to Tetyana, her brother and husband were both murdered in the conflict, and her soldier nephew was reported missing. Tetyana, 41, who chose not to provide her last name in accordance with Ukrainian military regulations,...

During his previous two campaigns, President-elect Donald Trump used the disco song YMCA as a standard at his rallies. Additionally, recent research indicates that interest in the song is rising, much like Trump's electoral fortunes. Four decades later, the Village People's 1978 hit has had a busy month, with Google search interest soaring, measured listenership on the song-tracking website last.fm tripling, and, finally, the song reaching the top of one Billboard sales chart for the first time. At the conclusion of his 2020 rallies, Trump started dancing to the tune, jumping to the beat while putting his fists in the air. You know what makes them happy? YMCA, Trump stated in a 2022 podcast. The YMCA encourages individuals to get up and move. This year, as athletes started imitating Trump...

Ukraine's KYIV Russia conducted a massive missile and drone attack on Ukraine's energy industry early Thursday, leaving over 700,000 homes and businesses without power throughout the icy country. Late Wednesday night, air raid sirens started to sound and continued to do so for over nine hours. Along with strollers, pets, and whatever small blankets they could carry, people across sought shelter in bomb shelters, subway stations, and even their own restrooms while they waited out the bombardment. Targeting the power grid coincides with the onset of cold weather, a strategy that Ukrainian officials and Western observers claim Russia intentionally uses. With fog in the air and snow already coating Kyiv's roofs, Thursday's temperature is predicted to remain below 35 degrees Fahrenheit. The u...

The Miami Dolphins appeared lifeless in the water a month ago. The squad was 2-6 and appeared to be closer to the No. 1 overall choice than the playoffs, even after quarterback Tua Tagovailoa returned from a concussion in Week 2 that kept him out of four games. Since then, Tagovailoa and the Dolphins have been on fire, winning three in a row and falling just 1 1/2 games short of the AFC's final postseason berth. Additionally, Tagovailoa has played some of his best football in the five weeks since his comeback, recording a 76.5% completion percentage, 11 touchdowns, one interception, and a passer rating of 116.2. Miami now resembles the squad that qualified for the playoffs the previous two seasons despite its flaws. However, none of the Dolphins' five wins this season have come against a c...

Many people have already arrived at their destinations for the Thanksgiving holiday, but for everyone else, a storm that is expected to move from the Rockies to the Midwest and Northeast into Thursday will bring rain and snow, which will probably affect flights and congested roadways. A record 71.7 million people were anticipated to travel by car during Thanksgiving, more than 1 million more than the previous year, and the Transportation Security Administration was slated to screen just under 3 million individuals on Wednesday. The storm is expected to speed eastward throughout Wednesday to the Midwest and Northeast through Thanksgiving after dropping snow over the Rockies Wednesday morning and slowing by the afternoon. Rain is expected to intensify in the evening from St. Louis to Indiana...