Why Nick Reiner Could Face the Death Penalty

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17 décembre 2025 à 03:55

The two first-degree murder counts include a special circumstance, which increases the maximum punishment if he is convicted.

Nathan J. Hochman, the Los Angeles County district attorney, at a news conference on Tuesday.

Johnson Rules Out House Vote to Extend Health Insurance Subsidies

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Par :Michael Gold and Carl Hulse

17 décembre 2025 à 03:43

The speaker had planned to give moderate Republicans seeking an extension of the tax credits a vote on their proposal, but said on Tuesday it was simply “not to be.”

Speaker Mike Johnson had signaled openness to allowing debate on the proposal to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies, but ultimately rejected a bid to do so by politically vulnerable Republicans.

Widow of Officer Slain in Park Ave. Attack Sues Landlord Over Security

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Par :Maia Coleman

17 décembre 2025 à 02:39

Didarul Islam and three others were killed when a gunman came to a Midtown skyscraper. The suit says the building had few physical barriers and lax surveillance.

The suit says the killer walked through the courtyard unimpeded and undetected, then opened fire.

In a Remote Jungle, the Gruesome Poaching of Rare Elephants

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Par :Richard C. Paddock · Zunaira Saieed and Sanjit Das

16 décembre 2025 à 21:51

More than a dozen Bornean elephants have been killed — including five beheaded — in Malaysia in the past 18 months, the authorities say.

Henry Jamis, a ranger, next to the skeleton of a Bornean elephant near the Maliau Basin Conservation Area in Malaysia’s Sabah state last week.

Trump and Top Aides Publicly Defend Susie Wiles After Explosive Interviews

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Par :Tyler Pager

16 décembre 2025 à 20:27

President Trump praised his chief of staff as doing “a fantastic job,” and more than a dozen members of his cabinet have posted defenses of her on social media.

Susie Wiles criticized the article as a “disingenuously framed hit piece” but did not deny the authenticity of the quotes.

Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners Pulls Out of Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery

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Par :Lauren Hirsch

17 décembre 2025 à 01:56

Affinity Partners, Mr. Kushner’s private equity firm, played a small financial role in Paramount’s $108 billion offer, but it had attracted political attention to the deal.

Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, founded his investment firm, Affinity Partners, shortly after the end of Mr. Trump’s first term.

Nick Reiner Formally Charged With Murdering His Parents

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Par :Matt Stevens and Jill Cowan

17 décembre 2025 à 01:50

Prosecutors said that Mr. Reiner killed his parents, Rob and Michelle Reiner, using a knife. He has not yet entered a plea.

If convicted, Nick Reiner could be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole or the death penalty.

Trump Expands Travel Ban and Restrictions to 20 More Countries

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Par :Tyler Pager and Hamed Aleaziz

17 décembre 2025 à 01:49

People from Syria, South Sudan and those with documents issued by the Palestinian Authority are included in the latest restrictions. More than 35 countries are now under U.S. travel restrictions.

Beyond the travel restrictions, the ban could have major ramifications for nationals of those countries already in the United States.

Penguins Become Prey for the Pumas of Patagonia

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Par :Alexa Robles-Gil

17 décembre 2025 à 01:01

In Argentina, the return of pumas brought top predators back to the landscape — much to penguins’ dismay.

What We Know About Nick Reiner, Accused of Killing Rob and Michele Reiner

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Par :Derrick Bryson Taylor

17 décembre 2025 à 01:01

The son of Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, who has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder, has long struggled with drug addiction.

Rob Reiner’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday.

Mayor Adams’s Farewell To-Do List: Praise Himself, Undermine Mamdani

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Par :Jeffery C. Mays

17 décembre 2025 à 00:27

Before jetting off to Mexico, Mayor Eric Adams held an unusual news conference that included a time capsule, a new theme song and a defense of his one-term tenure.

Mayor Eric Adams is leaving for Mexico, his fourth international trip in the last three months.

Reiners’ Son to Be Charged With Murder

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Par :Matthew Cullen

16 décembre 2025 à 23:54

Also, the unemployment rate rose. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.

Remixing Trump’s Economy Speech, Vance Strikes a Different Tone

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Par :Shawn McCreesh

16 décembre 2025 à 23:26

Vice President JD Vance pleaded with everybody to just hang in there a little longer, saying the economy would improve.

Vice President JD Vance, on Tuesday in Allentown, Pa., said of the economy, “I know that there is so much more progress to be made.”

A Second Doctor Is Sentenced in Matthew Perry Ketamine Case

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Par :Matt Stevens

16 décembre 2025 à 23:03

The doctor, Mark Chavez, who had used fraudulent prescriptions to acquire the drug and conspired to sell it to Mr. Perry at inflated prices, was sentenced to three years of supervised release.

Mark Chavez and another doctor, Salvador Plasencia, worked together to supply the actor Matthew Perry with ketamine at a steep price hike, prosecutors have said.

Our Petty, Hollow, Squalid Ogre in Chief

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Par :Bret Stephens

16 décembre 2025 à 23:00

The White House has never had a more loathsome occupant.

India Charges Pakistan-Based Groups in April Terrorist Attack in Kashmir

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Par :Pranav Baskar

16 décembre 2025 à 22:32

India claims that Pakistan sponsored the terrorists responsible for killing 26 people in the disputed region, an accusation Pakistan denies.

People mourn one of the victims killed in an attack in Pahalgam, Indian-administered part of Kashmir, in April.

At Many Top Law Schools, Black Student Enrollment Continues to Drop

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Par :Stephanie Saul

16 décembre 2025 à 22:21

The New York Times examined data from 18 of the nation’s top law schools and found that first-year Black enrollment had increased at only four, including at Harvard.

Sydney Attackers Motivated by “Islamic State Ideology,” Officials Say

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Par :Victoria Kim · Yan Zhuang · Livia Albeck-Ripka and Thomas Fuller

16 décembre 2025 à 22:01

Investigators said they were also looking into a trip to the Philippines that the father-and-son attackers took last month.

The family of Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who was killed in the attack on Sunday, at a memorial service on Tuesday in Bondi Beach.

Hegseth Declines to Show Lawmakers Boat Strike Video

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Par :Robert Jimison and Megan Mineiro

16 décembre 2025 à 21:01

The defense secretary joined the secretary of state on Capitol Hill to deliver the first classified briefings to include all members of the House and Senate on the maritime attacks.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth briefed lawmakers on Tuesday on the military’s strikes on boats in international waters.

Takeaways From Susie Wiles’s Vanity Fair Interviews Describing Trump World

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Par :Peter Baker

16 décembre 2025 à 18:10

During 11 interviews with Vanity Fair over President Trump’s first year back in office, Ms. Wiles, his chief of staff, opened up about the president, the people around him and their internal fights.

Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, typically shuns publicity. She called a recent article in Vanity Fair, based on 11 interviews she gave over the past year, “a disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest President, White House staff, and Cabinet in history.”

What Would Be Lost if We Didn’t Have the HBO Comedy Special

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Par :Jason Zinoman

15 décembre 2025 à 11:02

The potential Warner Bros. Discovery sale might jeopardize a lively outlet for artier stand-up shows like those of Sarah Sherman and Adam Pally.

U.S. Is Seeking Exemption From a European Climate Law, Officials Say

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Par :Lisa Friedman

16 décembre 2025 à 21:09

Diplomats told E.U. officials that the bloc’s law on methane, a potent greenhouse gas, would hurt American oil and gas companies.

A liquified natural gas tanker. This year the Trump administration signed a deal with the European Union in which Europe pledged to buy American gas in exchange for tariff relief.

U.S. Threatens Penalties Against European Tech Firms Amid Regulatory Fight

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Par :Ana Swanson · Adam Satariano and Jeanna Smialek

16 décembre 2025 à 20:58

The Trump administration singled out European tech firms by name and promised economic consequences Tuesday unless the E.U. rolls back tech regulation and lawsuits.

The Office of the United States Trade Representative, led by Jamieson Greer, said that the European Union had “persisted in a continuing course of discriminatory and harassing lawsuits, taxes, fines, and directives” against U.S. companies.

Wrong Turns and Long Nights: Inside the Search for the Brown University Attacker

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Par :Mark Arsenault and Mitch Smith

16 décembre 2025 à 22:13

After determining that a man they had detained was not the killer, Rhode Island officials have searched for more evidence and released photos of a possible gunman.

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