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Venice is "on its knees," says the mayor as the island city suffers its worst flooding in more than 50 years. Water covering the city is more than six feet higher than normal.

Most people appear to have abandoned the protests after riot police moved in with tear gas and rubber bullets to break up demonstrations against a proposed extradition law.

Dozens of women and minorities who said they were harassed while working as engineers at Uber filed a class-action lawsuit. Hundreds of people also sued for discrimination claims.

Two U.S. agencies are ending their push to screen truck drivers and train operators a year after saying the sleep disorder "can cause unintended sleep episodes and resulting deficits in attention."

The dense dessert, found in one of Antarctica's first buildings, is believed to have been brought over in 1910 during the Terra Nova expedition of Robert Falcon Scott. It "looked and smelled edible."

After six days out of the classroom, union members voted yes on a proposed contract. Teachers were back in schools Wednesday.

Ross says he is puzzled by the challenges federal workers are facing after more than a month with no pay. He told CNBC that workers could just borrow money to tide them over.

Retail and food sales were up 5.8 percent in November over the same time last year, the Commerce Department said. Retailers are hoping for their best year since before the economic recession.

Yanghee Lee, the U.N.'s human rights special rapporteur to Myanmar, was told that she will not be allowed to enter the country for the rest of her term. Lee had been scheduled to visit in January.

The IOC's Olympic Athlete from Russia Implementation Group released guidelines for uniforms, accessories and equipment two weeks after the Russian team was effectively banned.

At this time of year, poinsettias are everywhere. So how did this leafy colorful plant become synonymous with Christmas? NPR's Ari Shapiro and Michel Martin investigate.

The lawsuits say schools have had to hire more staff, install special sensors and provide programs to help students cope with nicotine addiction.

"This month, we will reach the deepest deficit of the decade," the Secretary-General warned. If countries don't pay soon, the U.N. will struggle to pay staff and hold meetings, and will limit travel.

Typhoon Hagibus has been downgraded to a tropical storm. Helicopters, boats and thousands of troops were mobilized across the country to rescue people after the storm made landfall on Saturday.

A prominent city councilman had urged voters to re-elect Gary Ernst rather than challenger Nadine Scott — despite Ernst's death in September.

The government's measure of consumer prices showed supermarket food prices dropped in October for the sixth straight month. The Farm Bureau's measure of Thanksgiving meal prices dropped, too.

A new report from the Overseas Development Institute finds that impoverished children are working long hours in violation of the country's labor laws.

The anti-Islam lawmaker is accused of racial discrimination and inciting hatred — charges tied to comments he made about Moroccans at a 2014 rally.

Former North Charleston, S.C., police Officer Michael Slager is charged with murder in the shooting death of Walter Scott, an unarmed black man, in April 2015.

The United Nations has sounded the alarm about a potential genocide in South Sudan, but the Security Council couldn't muster the votes needed to impose an arms embargo.