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

MIAMI — A man was shot to death in Broward on Thanksgiving Day, deputies say. A person was detained in connection to the shooting.

Shortly after 3:30 p.m. Thursday, the man was gunned down on the 2800 block of Somerset Drive in Lauderdale Lakes. He was dead when first responders arrived.

Neither the victim nor the person detained have been ...Read more

Two people were killed and two more wounded in a shooting at a San Antonio, Texas, home on Thanksgiving morning.

The deceased victims were identified only as two men in their 20s, The San Antonio Express-News reported.

At least one of the wounded victims is also a man in his 20s, but no information was released on the fourth victim. Both were ...Read more

Canada’s premiers are urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to step up border security and defense spending to assuage U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s concerns, with the leader of the largest province calling the federal government “slow to react” and “stuck on its back foot.”

Ontario’s Doug Ford said after a meeting of the ...Read more

OAKLAND, Calif. — With a murder trial looming, a defense attorney has accused an Oakland police officer of taking questionable steps during the initial investigation into a shootout, including allegedly searching a vehicle without a warrant or probable cause.

The accusations against Officer Samson Liu add to his already-tumultuous year, which...Read more

Australia’s controversial new law barring under-16s from social media is one of the toughest crackdowns yet on platforms including Facebook and TikTok as governments worldwide grasp for ways to protect children from harmful content.

The blanket ban, passed late Thursday night, establishes some of the most stringent internet usage restrictions...Read more

Millions of Americans flying or getting behind the wheel for the Thanksgiving holiday are bracing for flight delays and dangerous roads as bad weather sweeps the U.S. in what’s forecast to be a record-breaking travel period.

New England was set to get heavy snowfall into Friday morning, according to the National Weather Service. Winter storm ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — For the opening of buck season on Saturday and the rest of firearms deer season, many local hunters won't be leaving Allegheny County.

More than half a million hunters are expected to take to the woods for the post-Thanksgiving tradition of white-tailed deer hunting from Nov. 30 until Dec. 14, excluding only Sunday, Dec. 8.

In ...Read more

Romania’s top court ordered a recount after a little-known ultranationalist candidate scored a surprise victory in Sunday’s presidential election, as a security panel said the contest was affected by a cyber operation aimed at influencing the outcome.

Romania’s Constitutional Court acted Thursday on a complaint by one of the losing ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The owner of the Inglewood Oil Field is suing the state of California in an attempt to invalidate a state law that will require the energy company to cease production and plug all of its wells — or pay costly fines.

In a lawsuit filed this week, Sentinel Peak, the sole owner and operator of the oil field, argues that Assembly ...Read more