Turkish F-16s shoot down Russian fighter jet near Syria border  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Turkey's decision to shoot down a Russian warplane near Turkey's border with Syria is a “stab in the back” and it would have “significant consequences” for its relations with Turkey …

Trump: ‘Many people jumped and I witnessed it’ on 9/11  —  Columbus, Ohio (CNN)Donald Trump said Monday that he witnessed people jumping out of the Twin Towers on 9/11 from the view in his apartment.  —  “Many people jumped and I witnessed it, I watched that.

Police arrest suspect in shooting at 4th Precinct Black Lives Matter protest  —  The shooting happened at 10:45 p.m. Monday, as Black Lives Matter activists tried to move away the men who had been taunting them, according to the protesters.  —  Video (02:18) : Protesters said at least …

Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke charged in shooting death of Laquan McDonald  —  Photos: Follow developments in the 2014 fatal police shooting of Laquan McDonald, 17, by Officer Jason Van Dyke, above.  —  A veteran Chicago police officer has been charged with first-degree murder …

Remarks by President Obama and President Hollande of France in Joint Press Conference  —  PRESIDENT OBAMA: President Hollande, it has been an honor to welcome you to the White House before, in happier times than this.  But as Americans, we stand by our friends — in good times and in bad — no matter what.

Covering Up a Painful Mural  —  Responding to concerns of black students, U of Kentucky will shroud a fresco on the state's history.  —  By  —  In 1934, Ann Rice O'Hanlon painted a fresco — then the largest one ever painted by a woman — in the University of Kentucky's Memorial Hall.

Facebook chat con Hillary Clinton en Noticias Telemundo.  (Este chat ya ha terminado)

Newborn boy left at nativity scene in Queens church, umbilical cord still attached  —  RICHMOND HILL, Queens — A newborn boy was left in the manger of an indoor nativity scene at the Holy Child Jesus Church in Queens Monday afternoon, police say.  —  The baby boy was found around 1:30 p.m. inside the Richmond Hill church.

Missing Vienna girl ‘beaten to death’ by Isis  —  A teenage girl from Vienna who ran away to join Isis fighters in Syria was reportedly beaten to death after trying to escape from the violent Islamic State group in Raqqa.  —  17-year-old Samra and her friend, 15-year-old Sabina …

In Renovation of Golf Club, Donald Trump Also Dressed Up History  —  STERLING, Va. — When Donald J. Trump bought a fixer-upper golf club on Lowes Island here for $13 million in 2009, he poured millions more into reconfiguring its two courses.  He angered conservationists by chopping …

Cruz surges in Iowa  —  Ted Cruz, buoyed by tea party support and the backing of much of the conservative wing of the Republican Party, has surged to a virtual tie with Donald Trump in Iowa, generating the kind of momentum his team thinks will carry him deep into primary season.

From President Shepard: Western is Suspending All Classes Tuesday  —  [ Update: The suspension of classes applies to ALL of Western's campuses. ]  —  A message from President Bruce Shepard:  —  Yesterday, we observed social media being used for hate speech targeted at Western students of color.

Christians Outraged By Google Evolution Doodle Celebrating Scientific Discovery  —  On Nov. 24, Google celebrated the 41st anniversary of the archeological discovery of “Lucy,” a fossil from 3.2 million years ago.  The web giant posted an evolutionary doodle of the March of Progress …

Obituary: Douglass C. North, Nobel Prize-winning economist, 95  —  Douglass C. North, PhD, co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and the Spencer T. Olin Professor Emeritus in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, died Monday, Nov. 23, 2015, at his summer home in Benzonia, Mich. He was 95.