National News

Tulsa, Okla., has offered a blueprint, however imperfect, for how to confront a history of racial violence. In neighboring Arkansas, the city of Elaine has found the Tulsa model hard to replicate. [MORE]

Its water level is dropping. Big sinkholes are swallowing up whole tracts of land around it. Here is why a disaster is unfolding at the Middle East’s iconic salt lake. [MORE]

Multigenerational living is on the rise, and the trend is growing fastest among Gen Zers and millennials. [MORE]

International atomic experts have warned of a potential nuclear disaster with Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia plant in the middle of a war zone, bringing back terrifying memories of Chernobyl. [MORE]

Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a pioneering Black feminist, child welfare advocate and lifelong community activist who toured the country speaking with Gloria Steinem in the 1970s, has died. [MORE]

A Tokyo company aimed for the moon with its own private lander Sunday, blasting off atop a SpaceX rocket with the United Arab Emirates’ first lunar rover and a toylike robot from Japan. [MORE]

A winter storm packing powerful winds, heavy rain and potentially several feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada shut down highways, toppled trees and triggered flood watches and avalanche warnings. [MORE]

The CDC is advising people to practice indoor masking in nearly a tenth of U.S. counties, as three highly contagious respiratory viruses sweep the country. [MORE]

What started as a Christmas countdown has increasingly become a retail opportunity. While Advent calendars have evolved over the centuries, they still accomplish some of their original objectives. [MORE]

The annual SantaCon celebration is back in New York City this Saturday. [MORE]