Newly appointed special counsel Jack Smith hit the ground running in the Justice Department’s investigation into former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, seeking to understand what the former president knew about plans to obstruct the transfer of power.
The Kremlin has announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin's annual blockbuster end-of-year press conference will not take place before the new year for the first time in a decade.
A Los Angeles jury will continue its deliberations in the second sexual assault trial of former movie producer Harvey Weinstein, who is accused of using his prominence in Hollywood to lure women into private meetings to assault them.
Roger Carstens, the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, said he spoke with Paul Whelan, a U.S. Marine who is considered to be wrongfully detained in Russia, and assured him he has not been forgotten.