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Delivering rebuke to Trump, US Senate overrides his veto of defense bill

Chamber votes overwhelmingly to bypass president and approve $740.5 billion National Defense Authorization Act to fund military for fiscal 2021

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A Look Back At What Happened After The Killing Of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani

One year after the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, NPR correspondents discuss what happened since and what Iran policy might look like under the Biden administration.

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What The End Of Brexit Means For Trade And Travel Between U.K. And Europe

New Year’s Day marks the start of the new relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union, which will make the borders harder to cross.

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The looming questions the Brexit deal didn’t answer – The Washington Post

The looming questions the Brexit deal didn’t answer  The Washington Post How Brexit will change travel  CNN Post-Brexit Britain arrives  Axios Brexit and Boris Johnson’s broken promises mean less independence for the U.K., not more  NBCNews.com Why Brexit makes Boris Johnson the new Henry

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Congress Poised to Apply Banking Regulations to Antiquities Market

Regulators have long worried that the secrecy of the antiquities trade, where buyers and sellers are seldom identified, made it an easy way to launder money.

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After a ‘Rainbow Wave’ in 2020’s Elections, Here’s What the New Class of LGBTQ Lawmakers Expect From a Biden Presidency

When Sarah McBride is sworn in as a Delaware state senator on Jan. 12, she will become the highest-ranking openly transgender publicly-elected official in U.S. history. On that day, she tells TIME she’ll be thinking of her late husband Andrew

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Hezbollah TV denies new Lebanese reservoir will deplete water flow into Israel

After officials express concern over construction to Kan news, al-Manar says report is ‘propaganda,’ and that Lebanon only wishes to benefit from its water sources

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Some Mexicans struggle to get oxygen amid virus case surge

Some residents of Mexico City are spending the new year in lines waiting to refill oxygen canisters for relatives suffering from COVID-19. The city of nine million has seen a surge in coronavirus infections and the city’s hospitals are 87%

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Some Mexicans struggle to get oxygen amid virus case surge

Some residents of Mexico City are spending the new year in lines waiting to refill oxygen canisters for relatives suffering from COVID-19. The city of nine million has seen a surge in coronavirus infections and the city’s hospitals are 87%

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Netanyahu said planning to campaign hard for Arab vote in new election

Visiting Umm al-Fahm, PM says Arabs should be full part of ‘Israeli success story,’ but some in community say they haven’t forgotten his ‘incitement, racism’ against them

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