" Hong Kong 47 " were arrested in 2021 after holding an unofficial election primary that aimed to improve pro-democracy parties' chances of winning a majority in the city's legislature.

Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law on the financial hub in 2020 , snuffing out months of massive, sometimes violent protests.

Western countries and international rights groups have condemned the trial as evidence of Hong Kong's increased authoritarianism.

Two of the 47 were acquitted in May , but on Tuesday , the rest will learn their sentences.

The U.S. norms, adopted at the height of the abuse scandal there, say a priest will be permanently removed from church ministry based on even a single act of sexual abuse that is either admitted to or established under church law.

The proposal was hammered out during an unusual meeting in June in Rome between survivors and some of the Catholic hierarchy's top priestly experts on preventing abuse.

It was described by participants at the time as a “historic collaboration’s.

A ballot measure seeking to repeal open primaries and ranked choice voting in Alaska is narrowly on track to lose, after the state Division of Elections counted almost 4,000 absentee ballots on Monday .

Preliminary results posted after Election Day showed supporters of the ballot measure leading by more than one point.

But as election workers counted the ballots of absentee voters — who disproportionately opposed the repeal effort — the gap narrowed.

Groh now has 50.3% of votes cast, compared to Republican challenger David Nelson ’s 49.6% . Results in other legislative races did not change substantially..

Changes to Russia 's nuclear doctrine have been drawn up and will be formalised as necessary, Kremlin says.

Kremlin calls decision by U.S. administration to allow Ukraine to fire missiles deep into Russia reckless.

Russia has repeatedly cautioned that the West is playing with fire by probing limits of what a nuclear power might or might not tolerate.

Allison Riggs had trailed on election night by roughly 10,000 votes to Jefferson Griffin , a state Court of Appeals judge.

Riggs was appointed by Gov. Roy Cooper to the Supreme Court last year and is one of two Democrats on the seven -member court.

Griffin , his campaign committee and the state Republican Party sued the State Board of Elections in state court.

Yekaterina Bezrukova : Diversity training programs strive to foster understanding and appreciation of differences among people.

She says they often fail to educate people about the value of differences in people.

Successful programs were more effective when they formed part of a broader, ongoing company effort against intolerance, she says.

A new analysis of precinct-level data by the NBC News Decision Desk shows the extent to which President-elect Donald Trump ’s wins in Michigan , Wisconsin , and Pennsylvania were driven by weak turnout in heavily Democratic cities.

The largest county in each state — Wayne County , Michigan , home of Detroit ; Philadelphia County , Pennsylvania ; and Milwaukee County , Wisconsin — had either the worst or second -worst shift in votes cast of any county in their state.

These three underperforming counties and their cities fueled the Democratic electoral success in the 2020 and 2022 elections.

Dane County , on the other hand, has a population that is about 84% non-Hispanic white. Furthermore, about a quarter of Milwaukee ’s residents have a college degree, compared to over half of people in Dane County . This difference is notable, given that Wisconsin voters with a college degree in the NBC News Exit Poll were one of the only demographic groups in which Harris improved on Joe Biden’s 2020 vote results..

Rep. Debbie Dingell defeated Rep. Jasmine Crockett 152 to 59 in the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee race.

Dingell is the only Democrat to win a slot in Hakeem Jeffries' leadership team.

The DPCC chairmanship was the only contested election for a spot in Jeffries leadership.

Democratic caucus chair Rep. Pete Aguilar of California was reelected Tuesday morning .

House Minority Leader R. H.J. Jeffries was elected Tuesday to lead Democrats for another two years in the minority.

Jeffries made history in 2023 when he became the first Black lawmaker to lead a party in Congress .

Republicans held their leadership elections last week .

Windsor mayor Drew Dilkens names Christopher Menard as interim chief of staff.

Stubbings had been in the mayor’s office since May .

He has been tasked with reviewing and potentially re-evaluating the city's parks master plan and riverfront implementation plan.

Menard is Dilkens' fifth chief-of-staff, his fourth in 18 months .