Global carbon emissions are falling this year, a drop explained more by the recent oil shock than by countries’ gradual transition to clean energy.

Carbon dioxide pollution from burning fossil fuels will decline by 0.4% in 2026, to 38.2 billion metric tons, this year’s Global Carbon Budget estimates. The main driver is the U.S.-Israeli war...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Democrat Mary Peltola inched further ahead of Republican U.S. Sen. Dan S. Sullivan in the Senate race on Monday after another small batch of preliminary election results was released by the Alaska Division of Elections.

Tens of thousands of early and absentee ballots still have yet to be counted following the Nov. 3 ...Read more

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said it has tested a new high-speed torpedo that it plans to deploy early next year, extending a recent run of weapons tests ahead of President Donald Trump’s planned Asia trip next week.

The test, conducted Monday, verified the combat effectiveness of the new weapon system, the official Korean Central News...Read more

OAKLAND — Two days before his first extended interview with federal investigators, Mario Juarez sent a longtime associate a blunt message: “I need to f— the Duongs.”

Defense attorneys highlighted that text Monday in the federal corruption trial of former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, pressing the government’s star witness about whether ...Read more

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is throwing his support behind the United Nations-authorized Gang Suppression Force, warning Monday that the latest international effort to wrest control of Haiti from the powerful grip of criminal gangs must succeed because Washington has run out of other options.

“If the Gang Suppression Force effort ...Read more

The Center for Disease Control released its yearly Antimicrobial Threats Report in October, detailing illnesses that are becoming resistant to treatment. It listed four drug-resistant illnesses as urgent public health threats.

Candida auris, Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter and Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales are urgent public health ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — On the day after a smuggling boat capsized last year just off the coast of Del Mar, leaving two children from India and two adults from Mexico dead, then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called on the Department of Justice to seek the death penalty for the boat’s pilot and co-pilot.

Federal prosecutors in San Diego ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said further strikes on Iran wouldn’t be necessary but the U.S. remains “locked and loaded,” an indication that he’s winding down the conflict after Republicans’ midterm elections loss underscored its deep unpopularity.

“Iran, militarily, is effectively over,” Trump told reporters at the White...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov.-elect Xavier Becerra plans to pursue a freeze on utility bills and home insurance premiums, according to a spokesperson for the campaign. The actions could pit the Democrat against powerful interests — including some that indirectly boosted his campaign — early in his tenure.

It’s unclear what form Becerra’s ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After a cruise ship employee plunged into the Pacific Ocean to his likely death, the pianist experienced a series of incredible reversals of fortune — and suddenly became one of the luckiest people on the high seas.

The man survived about nine hours treading water before fishermen reeled him in about halfway between Newport ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A week after a Learjet 60 plummeted out of the sky and exploded in flames on a main road in Palm Beach County killing all nine people aboard, federal and local authorities have finished their on-site investigation, which included recovering the aircraft’s cockpit voice recorder and other pieces.

Shortly before 1 p.m....Read more

LOS ANGELES — Police in Santa Barbara launched an investigation this week after more than two dozen half-marathon runners showed up at hospitals with “unusual symptoms” after participating in a race on Sunday.

The roughly 6,000 people who participated in the half-marathon and 5K were running in temperatures that were much warmer than ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A Minneapolis City Council committee new regulations on data centers Monday limiting their size, where they could be built and where their servers would have to be located.

The city is already home to eight data centers, but they’re loosely regulated, so unless the council and mayor can agree to regulations, additional data ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The federal government moved forward on Monday with criminal cases against two Sacramento area residents caught up in the Trump administration’s efforts to investigate and prosecute noncitizens it believes registered and voted illegally.

Juan Antonio Rivas Garcia, of Sacramento, and Giezell Viduya Adawag, of Vacaville, ...Read more

The anonymous satirical art activist group Secret Handshake is at it again — this time erecting a giant golden statue of a seated President Trump rubbing a bare foot. Titled "The Foot Soldier," the statue pokes fun at the president's famous bone spurs — a diagnosis he received in 1968, which led to a medical exemption during the Vietnam War....Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., took to the House floor Monday to unveil a resolution that would impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and a vote on the issue could occur by Wednesday.

A draft resolution that Massie read aloud on the House floor on Monday accused Hegseth of eight violations of law or the Constitution, including that...Read more

Russian and Ukrainian envoys will discuss territorial issues and proposals for ceasefire monitoring in the United Arab Emirates this week, according to a senior U.S. official, as a new round of negotiations to end the war gets underway.

The official, who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity Monday, said there had been daily discussions ...Read more

Abortion advocates are hopeful that Texas’ newly elected Democratic leaders could mean the state could enact more exceptions to the state’s near-total abortion ban.

Here’s where the laws currently stand, and what could change when the new leaders, including Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa, are sworn in.

What do current Texas abortion laws say? ...Read more

NEW YORK — Starting this off season, a portion of New York City’s ferry fleet will be temporarily reinvented as science classrooms on the waterways.

On Monday, NYC Ferry, the Economic Development Corporation, and an educational oyster-reef restoration nonprofit plan to announce the launch of the “Floating Classroom,” a 90-minute, twice ...Read more