NEW YORK (AP) - President-elect Donald Trump is expected to ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, the ceremonial start of the day’s trading, according to four people with knowledge of his plans.

Palestinian medical officials say an Israeli strike on a home where displaced people were sheltering in the northern Gaza Strip has killed at least 19 people.

WASHINGTON - A series of brain injuries and other serious health ailments that struck hundreds of U.S. diplomats and intelligence officials was almost certainly the work of a U.S. adversary, according to a new report by U.S. lawmakers, who accuse the nation’s intelligence agencies of trying to hide the truth.

BRUSSELS (AP) - European Union envoys have agreed a new raft of sanctions against Russia over its war on Ukraine, targeting in particular a vast shadow fleet of ships that Moscow is exploiting to skirt restrictions on transporting oil and fuel, the EU's Hungarian presidency said on Wednesday.

TORONTO (AP) - Canada's central bank lowered its key interest rate by half a percentage point on Wednesday and called President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to impose sweeping new tariffs on Canada "a major source of new uncertainty."

PARIS (AP) - French president Emmanuel Macron is seeking a political deal that would allow him to both name a new prime minister and "guarantee the stability of the country," following the resignation of ousted Prime Minister Michel Barnier, a spokesperson for the outgoing government said Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (AP) - A U.S. intelligence assessment has concluded that Russia may use its lethal new intermediate-range ballistic missile against Ukraine again in "coming days," a U.S. official said Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Donald Trump doesn’t think much of Joe Biden’s foreign policy record. The Republican president-elect frequently casts the outgoing Democratic president as a feckless leader who shredded American credibility around the world during his four-year term.