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WASHINGTON—Prominent attorneys Kenneth Feinberg and Camille Biros will be named to oversee a $500 million victim compensation fund for the relatives of 346 people killed in two fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes, a spokeswoman for Feinberg confirmed on Wednesday. As part of a settlement with the Justice Department, Boeing in January agreed to pay $500

GAZA—Three Palestinian fishermen who died in an offshore blast on Sunday had encountered an explosive-laden Israeli drone that had fallen into the sea and blew up in their nets, the Hamas-run Interior Ministry in Gaza said on Thursday. An Israeli military spokeswoman had no immediate comment. At the time of the blast, the Israeli military

Commentary H.R. 1, the bill that would seize control of federal elections from the states, comes with an unusual twist. It supposedly promotes “access.” But it says anyone challenging its constitutionality is barred from every court in the nation but a single federal trial court in Washington, D.C.! Under H.R. 1, some citizens get more

COPENHAGEN—Health authorities in Denmark, Norway, and Iceland on Thursday suspended the use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine shots following reports of the formation of blood clots in some people who had been vaccinated. Austria earlier stopped using a batch of AstraZeneca shots while investigating a death from coagulation disorders and an illness from a pulmonary embolism.

LONDON—Britain on Thursday delayed the introduction of a range of post-Brexit import checks on goods from the European Union by around six months, saying businesses needed more time to prepare because of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The British Retail Consortium welcomed the move, but said it was needed because the government was not

Joel Kotkin For most people around the world, the Covid-19 pandemic seems a great human tragedy, with deaths, bankruptcies, and fractured mental states. Yet for some, especially among the green Twitterati and in some policy shops, the pandemic presents a grand opportunity to enact permanent lockdowns on economic growth, population growth, and upward mobility. Pointing to reductions

Donald Trump may cease cooperation with the Republican National Committee (RNC) and its chamber affiliates if they attack the candidates the former president endorses against the Republicans who voted to impeach him, according to an adviser. Jason Miller, the spokesman and adviser for the former president, told Steve Bannon’s War Room on March 10 that

LOS ANGELES—A winter storm will continue to affect the Southland March 11—bringing numerous showers and a chance of thunderstorms, as well as periods of moderate to heavy snow and gusty winds in the mountains, the National Weather Service said. The storm system, which landed in the area on March 10, is expected to continue into

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—A man considered a person of interest in the deaths of his ex-wife and three other people in New Mexico was charged Wednesday with a separate killing in New Jersey. Sean Lannon was arrested in St. Louis on Wednesday morning after a manhunt stretching from New Jersey to Missouri. Wednesday afternoon, authorities in Gloucester

A federal judge struck down a nationwide eviction moratorium issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), ruling the 2020 ban was beyond its authority. The ruling in the lawsuit, known as Skyworks Ltd. v. CDC, came late March 10. The legal action was filed Oct. 23 in federal court in Ohio, as