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Massacre in Haiti Ordered by Gang Leader Leaves Over 100 Dead, Rights Group Says
The killings in a Port-au-Prince slum, which appeared to target practitioners of Voodoo, were ordered by a gang leader, a Haitian human rights organization said.
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Ukraine’s Aggressive Draft Efforts Are Facing a Backlash
After being left for dead by Russian soldiers, Mykola Kulichenko doesn’t think he should be forced to serve. His experience highlights the vagaries of Ukraine’s aggressive mobilization.
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South Korea Bars President From Traveling Abroad
President Yoon Suk Yeol cannot leave the country as an investigation unfolds into whether he led an insurrection last week when he briefly imposed martial law.
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Sushi Sho, One of Japan’s Greatest Sushi Makers, Lands in Manhattan
To little fanfare, Keiji Nakazawa is sweating the details of the exacting Edomae tradition at Sushi Sho in Midtown.
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Rupert Murdoch Fails in Bid to Change Family Trust
A Nevada commissioner ruled resoundingly against Mr. Murdoch, who was trying to give full control of his empire to his son Lachlan and lock in Fox News’s right-wing editorial slant.
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TikTok Asks Court to Temporarily Pause Ban As It Looks to Supreme Court or Trump to Weigh In
The company is requesting a pause on a law that requires the app to be sold or face a ban in the United States by mid-January, aiming to buy time for the Supreme Court or the incoming Trump administration to rescue it.
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Google Makes New Quantum Computing Breakthrough
Google unveiled an experimental machine capable of tasks that a traditional supercomputer could not master in 10 septillion years. (That’s older than the universe.)
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Nvidia Faces Antitrust Investigation in China
The move by Chinese regulators came a week after the Biden administration expanded curbs on the sale of advanced U.S. technology to China.
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Activists Call on Biden to Clear Death Row Before Trump Takes Office
The series of open letters from human rights activists and former corrections officials aligned with a larger push from Democrats for sweeping clemency action for those in prison.