FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Jamell Demons, the rapper known professionally as YNW Melly, is finally due back in court Dec. 5, but it won’t be to pick up where his murder retrial left off.

For that, the artist who calls himself “Melly the Menace” with a hit track “Murder on My Mind” will have to wait nearly a year, and even that assumes ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has extended its stay of a judge's order to build housing on the VA's West Los Angeles campus, setting an expedited April hearing for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' appeal.

The order issued Monday night ends U.S. District Judge David O. Carter's fervently pursued goal to have as ...Read more

ATLANTA — It’s the most festive time of the year, filled with holiday songs, shopping and traditions.

But for criminals, the holiday season can also offer countless opportunities to prey on innocent people. It’s the season when grinches steal packages, rob shoppers or even break into vehicles, according to law enforcement agencies.

Metro...Read more

Men drink more, are more likely to binge drink and are almost four times more likely to develop alcohol use disorder than women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Yet when it comes to diagnosing babies born with birth defects associated with alcohol consumption, such as fetal alcohol syndrome, historically ...Read more

SEOUL, South Korea — What on earth to do about all the plastic polluting the oceans, the food supply, even our bodies?

That is the question that the delegates from 175 countries are trying to answer this week in Busan, South Korea, where the fifth and final round of negotiations are underway for a United Nations-led treaty that would regulate...Read more

MIAMI — In June, an FBI informant met with a South Florida man who expressed his desire to join an anti-government militia and build a bomb targeting a New York City landmark, authorities say.

His plan: to plant an improvised explosive device outside the New York Stock Exchange the week before Thanksgiving, according to the FBI.

Federal ...Read more

Your heart is racing, your arms are tingling and your breathing is shallow. You're having an anxiety attack. And you're in a public place, to boot. A crowded restaurant, say, or at the office. Not a space where you can comfortably lay on the ground and do some deep breathing exercises to calm yourself.

What if there were a pill that would ...Read more

Mexico’s Senate on Thursday approved contentious legislation that would eliminate autonomous government watchdogs, including two regulating antitrust issues and the nation’s energy industry, with their functions absorbed by existing ministries in the federal government.

Earlier this month, the lower house of Congress passed legislation ...Read more

Mammoth Mountain has experienced its snowiest November since 2010, with a huge storm dumping nearly 50 inches on the Eastern Sierra resort earlier this week, the National Weather Service said Thursday.

The system that passed through the area Nov. 23 to 26 brought nearly 50 inches of snow. In all, the mountain has received 62 inches this month, ...Read more

U.K. Members of Parliament will hold a landmark vote on assisted dying on Friday as they decide whether to allow terminally ill people with less than six months to live to opt to end their own lives.

Under the legislation put forward by Kim Leadbeater, a backbench member of the governing Labour Party, assisted dying would be restricted to ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Thanksgiving Day electrical fire that started in a manhole on a Brooklyn street quickly engulfed a vehicle parked above it — then caused flames to erupt in a fourth-floor apartment in a nearby building, FDNY officials said Thursday.

The two-alarm blaze began in a manhole on Remsen St. near Hicks St. in Brooklyn Heights around ...Read more

Georgia’s government said it won’t enter into talks on joining the European Union for four years, in a move that drew condemnation from the president and deepened questions over the future path of the Black Sea nation.

“We have decided not to place the issue of EU membership on the agenda until the end of 2028,” Prime Minister Irakli ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A man found dead after his Laurel Canyon house was badly damaged in a fire Wednesday afternoon was a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family, neighbors said.

The body discovered at the Lookout Mountain Avenue property was that of William Rothschild, three people told The Times on Thursday. A magazine seen at the ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Ashley Anders, of Center City, can’t remember missing a Thanksgiving Day parade in her entire 49 years. She also can’t remember a Thanksgiving Day when it rained during the entire event. She’s attended when it has been 80 degrees and when it was freezing — but never when it was raining. Until this year.

On Thursday, ...Read more