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NATIONAL NEWS


Runway's third-annual AI Film Festival kicks off with a screening at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in New York on Thursday, June 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Wyatte Grantham-Philips)
22 minutes ago

Film Festival showcases what artificial intelligence can do on the big screen

Read full article: Film Festival showcases what artificial intelligence can do on the big screen
El presidente Donald Trump, a la derecha, estrecha la mano de Elon Musk durante una conferencia de prensa en el Despacho Oval de la Casa Blanca, el viernes 30 de mayo de 2025, en Washington. (AP Foto/Evan Vucci)
28 minutes ago

Republicans urge Donald Trump and Elon Musk to end their feud

Read full article: Republicans urge Donald Trump and Elon Musk to end their feud
The Warrick Power Plant operates Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Newburgh, Ind. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)
2 hours ago

Planet-warming emissions dropped when companies had to report them. EPA wants to end that

Read full article: Planet-warming emissions dropped when companies had to report them. EPA wants to end that
Vishavjit Singh, who educates youth about Sikhism through his Captain Sikh America character, poses for a portrait in costume at home, in New York's Harlem neighborhood, Friday, May 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
4 hours ago

A Sikh Captain America? Why religious diversity matters in the comics universe

Read full article: A Sikh Captain America? Why religious diversity matters in the comics universe

Representation of many of the world's faiths and spiritual traditions has been minimal to nonexistent in the mainstream comics universe.

The Chahta Immi Cultural Center displays artifacts characters wore in the movie "Sinners" on Thursday, June 5, 2025, in Choctaw, Miss. (Jay Wesley via AP)
11 hours ago

'Sinners' puts 'truth on screen' for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians

Read full article: 'Sinners' puts 'truth on screen' for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians

The blockbuster horror film “Sinners” features the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in a short, but impactful scene.

FILE - In this image taken from police body camera footage provided by Los Angeles Sheriff's office, a Sheriff's deputies arrests a couple in a grocery store parking lot in Lancaster, Calif., on June 24, 2023. (Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)
13 hours ago

Officer who used excessive force allowed to plead guilty to misdemeanor after felony conviction

Read full article: Officer who used excessive force allowed to plead guilty to misdemeanor after felony conviction

A Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy will serve four months in prison on a misdemeanor conviction for using excessive force after the new Trump-appointed U.S. attorney offered an unusual plea deal despite a jury convicting him of a felony.

FILE - Student negotiator Mahmoud Khalil is seen at a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the Columbia University campus in New York, April 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)
1 hour ago

Detained Columbia graduate claims ‘irreparable harm’ to career and family as he pleads for release

Read full article: Detained Columbia graduate claims ‘irreparable harm’ to career and family as he pleads for release

A Columbia graduate facing deportation over his pro-Palestinian activism on campus has outlined the “irreparable harm” caused by his continued detention as a federal judge weighs his release.

A Louisiana state police SWAT member works the scene on Iberville Street as police pursue a fugitive that escaped from a New Orleans jail, Tuesday, May 20, 2025, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
15 hours ago

Authorities investigating a new social media post by a New Orleans jail escapee on the run

Read full article: Authorities investigating a new social media post by a New Orleans jail escapee on the run

Authorities are investigating an Instagram photo showing a man who identifies himself as Antoine Massey, a fugitive still at large after escaping more than two weeks ago from a New Orleans jail.

FILE - Army soldiers look at the border wall next to a surveillance vehicle in Sunland Park, N.M., Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton, File)
17 hours ago

Peruvian migrant acquitted in the first trial over the new militarized zone at US-Mexico border

Read full article: Peruvian migrant acquitted in the first trial over the new militarized zone at US-Mexico border

A Peruvian woman who crossed the U.S. border illegally has been acquitted of unauthorized access to a newly designated militarized zone along the southern border.

FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2012, file photo, students walk through the University of Texas at Austin campus near the school's iconic tower in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
17 hours ago

What to know as Trump administration targets tuition breaks for students without legal status

Read full article: What to know as Trump administration targets tuition breaks for students without legal status

The quick end to a Texas law that granted in-state public university tuition prices to students who lack legal resident status stunned immigrant advocates and state Democrats, who call it a cruel punishment for hardworking students that will ultimately hurt the state’s economy.

Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer arrives before a House Education and Workforce hearing, Thursday, June 5, 2025, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
18 hours ago

Judge and lawmakers question the Trump administration's plan to gut Job Corps centers

Read full article: Judge and lawmakers question the Trump administration's plan to gut Job Corps centers

Members of Congress and a federal judge are questioning the Trump administration’s plan to shut down Job Corps centers nationwide.

FILE - In this image taken from video provided by Justus Rainey, passengers move away from a plane as smoke surrounded the aircraft, in Denver, March 13, 2025. (Justus Rainey via AP, File)
18 hours ago

NTSB finds fuel leak and improperly installed parts in the engine of an airliner that caught fire

Read full article: NTSB finds fuel leak and improperly installed parts in the engine of an airliner that caught fire

The National Transportation Safety Board found a fuel leak and several improperly installed parts inside the engine of an American Airlines plane that caught fire after the plane landed in Denver in March.

In this photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, smoke rises from cargo vessel Morning Midas approximately 300 miles south of Adak, Alaska, June 3, 2025, as the crew of a cargo ship carrying around 3,000 vehicles to Mexico, abandoned ship after they could not control a fire. (U.S. Coast Guard/Courtesy Air Station Kodiak via AP)
2 hours ago

Salvage crew bound for the site of a cargo ship fire off the coast of Alaska

Read full article: Salvage crew bound for the site of a cargo ship fire off the coast of Alaska

A salvage team is expected to arrive early next week at the scene of a cargo ship that was carrying about 3,000 vehicles to Mexico when it caught fire in waters off Alaska’s Aleutian island chain.

An impromptu memorial shared online brings students bearing flowers near the center of the Florida State campus in sight of the Student Union building, Tallahassee, Fla., Thursday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)
13 hours ago

State seeks death penalty for Florida State student accused in a mass shooting on campus

Read full article: State seeks death penalty for Florida State student accused in a mass shooting on campus

A grand jury has indicted a Florida State University student on murder charges for the killings of two people and the wounding of six others in a mass shooting on campus last month.

FILE - Prisoners look out of their cell as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem tours the Terrorist Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
20 hours ago

Immigrant rights groups sue to invalidate Trump administration's El Salvador prison deal

Read full article: Immigrant rights groups sue to invalidate Trump administration's El Salvador prison deal

A coalition of immigrant rights groups is suing to invalidate the Trump administration's deal to house detainees in a notorious prison in El Salvador.

In this image taken from video, Jonathan Joss, an actor best known for his voice work on the animated television series King of the Hill, talks to reporters following a fire at his San Antonio, Texas, home on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. (KSAT via AP)
17 hours ago

Police consider whether 'King of the Hill' actor's sexual orientation played a role in his killing

Read full article: Police consider whether 'King of the Hill' actor's sexual orientation played a role in his killing

Authorities in Texas say investigators are looking into whether the sexual orientation of “King of the Hill” voice actor Jonathan Joss played a role in his shooting death.

This image from video provided by the Department of Health and Human Services shows Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaking alongside Food and Drug Administration administrator Dr. Martin Makary, left, and Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health, as they announce that the government would no longer endorse the COVID-19 vaccine for healthy children or pregnant women. (Health and Human Services via AP)
19 hours ago

Who's in charge? CDC's leadership 'crisis' apparent amid new COVID-19 vaccine guidance

Read full article: Who's in charge? CDC's leadership 'crisis' apparent amid new COVID-19 vaccine guidance

The CDC, a $9.2 billion-a-year agency tasked with reviewing life-saving vaccines, monitoring diseases and watching for budding threats to Americans’ health, is without a clear leader.

FILE - Students sit on the front steps of Low Memorial Library on the Columbia University campus in New York City, Feb. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)
9 hours ago

Top US universities raced to become global campuses. Under Trump, it's becoming a liability

Read full article: Top US universities raced to become global campuses. Under Trump, it's becoming a liability

Three decades ago, foreign students at Harvard University accounted for just 11% of the total student body.

Strawberry the kitten appears on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, at the Associated Press bureau in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Conlon)
17 hours ago

Welcome to kitten season, when animal shelters need all the help they can get

Read full article: Welcome to kitten season, when animal shelters need all the help they can get

It's kitten season in warm-weather areas and animal shelters need all the help they can get.

LOCAL NEWS


People in support of the lawsuit rallied outside the courthouse after the hearing.
5 minutes ago

Federal court hears arguments in case that could settle debate over Confederate monuments in Jacksonville

Read full article: Federal court hears arguments in case that could settle debate over Confederate monuments in Jacksonville
FILE - The old Florida Capitol is seen with the tower of the current Capitol rising behind, during a legislative session in Tallahassee, Fla., March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)
39 minutes ago

Agent Orange argued in bid to halt execution of man who killed a Lake City woman in 1994

Read full article: Agent Orange argued in bid to halt execution of man who killed a Lake City woman in 1994
Buckman Bridge
52 minutes ago

Traffic Alert: Buckman Bridge lane, ramp closures planned for this weekend

Read full article: Traffic Alert: Buckman Bridge lane, ramp closures planned for this weekend
Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a news conference before signing several bills to support Florida veterans.
4 minutes ago

Gov. DeSantis signs 3 bills supporting Florida’s nearly 1.5 million veterans

Read full article: Gov. DeSantis signs 3 bills supporting Florida’s nearly 1.5 million veterans
Jacksonville officials and community leaders broke ground on five new affordable homes in the Durkeeville neighborhood on Friday.
1 hour ago

‘This is just the beginning’: Jacksonville officials break ground on new affordable housing in Durkeeville

Read full article: ‘This is just the beginning’: Jacksonville officials break ground on new affordable housing in Durkeeville
Trenton Stewart
1 hour ago

Gov. DeSantis signs ‘Trenton’s Law’ to increase penalties for repeat offenders convicted of DUI manslaughter

Read full article: Gov. DeSantis signs ‘Trenton’s Law’ to increase penalties for repeat offenders convicted of DUI manslaughter
A customer purchases Nintendo Switch 2 at an electronics retailer in Tokyo, Thursday, June 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)
23 hours ago

What to know about the much-anticipated Nintendo Switch 2 on launch day

Read full article: What to know about the much-anticipated Nintendo Switch 2 on launch day

The Nintendo Switch 2 finally hit store shelves on Thursday, eight years after the initial release of Japanese video-game maker Nintendo’s popular video-game console.

Marcelo Gomes da Silva, 18, center, a Massachusetts high school student who came to the U.S. from Brazil at age 7 and was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents Saturday, May 31, 2025, speaks to journalists after being released from detention on bond as Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., right, listens, Thursday, June 5, in Burlington, Mass. (AP Photo/Rodrique Ngowi)
15 hours ago

A Massachusetts student arrested by ICE on his way to volleyball practice has been released

Read full article: A Massachusetts student arrested by ICE on his way to volleyball practice has been released

A Massachusetts high school student who was arrested by immigration agents on his way to volleyball practice has been released from custody.

An Afghan man passes in front of an air travel agency in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
18 hours ago

Governments denounce Trump's travel ban and vow to push back against US

Read full article: Governments denounce Trump's travel ban and vow to push back against US

Officials in some of the 12 countries whose citizens will be soon banned from visiting the United States denounced President Donald Trump’s move to resurrect a hallmark policy of his first term and vowed to push back against the U.S. The ban was announced Wednesday and takes effect Monday.

The Rockport Power Plant operates near a group of mobile homes Friday, April 11, 2025, in Rockport, Ind. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)
16 hours ago

Trump EPA rollbacks would weaken rules projected to save billions of dollars and thousands of lives

Read full article: Trump EPA rollbacks would weaken rules projected to save billions of dollars and thousands of lives

When the head of the Environmental Protection Agency earlier this year announced a massive rollback of environmental regulations, he said it would spark a “Golden Age” for the American economy.

Art conservator Jessica Keister works on a mural by Maxo Vanka depicting the hand of God handing a tablet to Moses, inside St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church in Millvale, Pa., Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
1 day ago

Inside a historic church painted with murals that reflect searing social commentary

Read full article: Inside a historic church painted with murals that reflect searing social commentary

Workers have completed a phase of conservation work on historic murals by the late artist Maxo Vanka at St. Nicholas Croatian Catholic Church near Pittsburgh.

FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2015 photo, then-U.S. Rep. David Jolly speaks to media after showing up at a news conference for former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist in St. Petersburg, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, file)
21 hours ago

David Jolly, a Trump critic and former GOP congressman, to run for Florida governor as a Democrat

Read full article: David Jolly, a Trump critic and former GOP congressman, to run for Florida governor as a Democrat

A former Republican congressman and vocal critic of Donald Trump says he wants to become governor in the president’s adopted home state of Florida and is running as a Democrat.

Yurok Tribe members Tiana Williams-Claussen, left, and Morgan Clayburn make their way to Blue Creek while traveling on the Klamath River, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024, in Humboldt County, Calif. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vsquez)
22 hours ago

California's Yurok Tribe gets back ancestral lands that were taken over 120 years ago

Read full article: California's Yurok Tribe gets back ancestral lands that were taken over 120 years ago

Roughly 73 square miles of ancestral homelands once belonging to California’s Yurok Tribe have been returned to them.

Lesli Colin Johnsen, right, hugs Beth Blacker before a community vigil at the Boulder Jewish Community Center, Wednesday, June 4, 2025, in Boulder, Colo. (Andy Cross/The Denver Post via AP, Pool)
14 hours ago

Man accused of yelling ‘Free Palestine’ and firebombing demonstrators charged with attempted murder

Read full article: Man accused of yelling ‘Free Palestine’ and firebombing demonstrators charged with attempted murder

A man accused of yelling “Free Palestine” and throwing Molotov cocktails at demonstrators calling for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza has been charged with 118 counts including attempted murder.

FILE - Steve Kramer is seated June 5, 2024, at Superior Court, in Laconia, N.H., during his arraignment in connection with charges of voter suppression and impersonating a candidate. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, Pool)
19 hours ago

Consultant behind AI-generated robocalls mimicking Biden goes on trial in New Hampshire

Read full article: Consultant behind AI-generated robocalls mimicking Biden goes on trial in New Hampshire

A criminal trial is underway for a political consultant who sent voters artificial intelligence-generated robocalls mimicking former President Joe Biden last year.

Lucy Trout, from Olympia, Wash., watches as an abandoned ship is transported to shore on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, in Olympia, Wash. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
1 day ago

Flying boats make for a rare sight as Washington clears an island of derelict vessels by helicopter

Read full article: Flying boats make for a rare sight as Washington clears an island of derelict vessels by helicopter

The Washington Department of Natural Resources has been using one of its firefighting helicopters to haul abandoned boats off an uninhabited island in the southernmost reaches of Puget Sound this week.

FILE - Luigi Mangione, accused of fatally shooting Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, appears in Manhattan state court in New York, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (Curtis Means/Pool Photo via AP, File
1 day ago

Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO killing said he 'had it coming,' according to prosecutors

Read full article: Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO killing said he 'had it coming,' according to prosecutors

Six weeks before UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down outside a Manhattan hotel last December, Luigi Mangione mused about rebelling against “the deadly, greed fueled health insurance cartel” and expressed that killing the executive “conveys a greedy bastard that had it coming."

FILE - A military aircraft waits for migrants to board from a bus at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Tx., Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025, before deporting them to Guatemala. (AP Photo/Christian Chavez, File)
1 day ago

Guatemalan man deported to Mexico returns to US after court orders Trump administration to do so

Read full article: Guatemalan man deported to Mexico returns to US after court orders Trump administration to do so

Attorneys for a Guatemalan man deported to Mexico say he has landed in California.

Harvey Weinstein appears in state court in Manhattan for his retrial on Wednesday, June 4, 2025 in New York. (Curtis Means/Pool Photo via AP)
1 day ago

Jury deliberations near in Weinstein sex crimes retrial

Read full article: Jury deliberations near in Weinstein sex crimes retrial

Jurors in Harvey Weinstein’s sex crimes retrial are due to start deliberating Thursday.

A judge has halted CoreCivic, on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, from housing immigrants facing possible deportation in a shuttered facility that the private prison operator now calls the Midwest Regional Reception Center, in Leavenworth, Kan., pictured Monday, March 3, 2025, unless it can get a permit from frustrated city officials. (AP Photo/Nick Ingram)
1 day ago

Judge blocks private prison operator from housing ICE detainees at shuttered Kansas center

Read full article: Judge blocks private prison operator from housing ICE detainees at shuttered Kansas center

A judge has blocked a private prison operator from housing immigrants facing possible deportation in a shuttered Kansas City area detention center unless it can get a permit from frustrated city officials.

Hazy skies diminish the view of the Boston Harbor Islands, Wednesday, June 4, 2025, in Boston, Mass. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
1 day ago

How to protect yourself from the bad air caused by Canada's wildfires

Read full article: How to protect yourself from the bad air caused by Canada's wildfires

Plumes of smoke are blanketing large swaths of the U.S. and parts of Europe, presenting risks for those breathing it.

FILE - Cain Oulahan, Ramon Morales Reyes' immigration attorney addresses the media, May 30, 2025 in Milwaukee about the detention of his client Ramon Morales Reyes. (AP Photo/Andy Manis, File)
1 day ago

What to know about Ramón Morales Reyes, a Wisconsin man falsely accused of threatening Trump's life

Read full article: What to know about Ramón Morales Reyes, a Wisconsin man falsely accused of threatening Trump's life

A man falsely accused of threatening President Donald Trump’s life faces deportation even as Wisconsin authorities say the Mexican immigrant was framed and is a victim of a violent 2023 attack.

An image taken from Joint Base Lewis-McChord surveillance footage depicts two men identified by the Army Criminal Investigations Division as suspects in an assault and robbery in the 75th Ranger Central Operations Facility on June 1, 2025, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. (Army Criminal Investigations Division via AP)
1 day ago

2 arrested with arsenal and Nazi paraphernalia after base robbery were ex-military, prosecutors say

Read full article: 2 arrested with arsenal and Nazi paraphernalia after base robbery were ex-military, prosecutors say

Investigators say two men arrested in Washington state with an arsenal that included explosives and body armor, along with Nazi paraphernalia, were former military members who attacked a soldier with a hammer while stealing gear from Joint Base Lewis-McChord last weekend.

People look on as an adolescent loggerhead sea turtle named Dilly-Dally, whose front flipper was amputated after she was rescued in January suffering from predator wounds, crawls into the Atlantic Ocean after being released, on the beach in front of Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach, Fla., Wednesday, June 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
1 day ago

Dilly Dally the sea turtle returns to the ocean after flipper amputation

Read full article: Dilly Dally the sea turtle returns to the ocean after flipper amputation

An adolescent loggerhead sea turtle named Dilly Dally is back in the Atlantic Ocean, months after having a front flipper amputated at a Florida turtle hospital.

FILE - Reddit Inc. signage is seen on the New York Stock Exchange trading floor, prior to Reddit IPO, Thursday, March. 21, 2024. v(AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)
1 day ago

Reddit sues AI company Anthropic for allegedly 'scraping' user comments to train chatbot Claude

Read full article: Reddit sues AI company Anthropic for allegedly 'scraping' user comments to train chatbot Claude

Social media platform Reddit sued the artificial intelligence company Anthropic on Wednesday, alleging that it is illegally “scraping” the comments of millions of Reddit users to train its chatbot Claude.

This photo published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service on May 29, 2025, shows the top half of a wheat head, which is infected with Fusarium head blight, a costly fungal disease that can diminish the grain yield and quality of wheat, barley and certain other cereal crops. (Mathew Helm/U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service via AP)
1 day ago

What is Fusarium graminearum, the fungus US authorities say was smuggled in from China?

Read full article: What is Fusarium graminearum, the fungus US authorities say was smuggled in from China?

Federal prosecutors have charged two Chinese researchers with smuggling a crop-killing fungus into the U.S. last summer.

In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the John Lewis-class replenishment oiler USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO-206) conducts a replenishment at sea in the Atlantic Ocean, Dec. 13, 2024. (Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Maxwell Orlosky/U.S. Navy via AP))
1 day ago

San Francisco leaders blast Trump for trying to erase gay rights icon Harvey Milk's name from ship

Read full article: San Francisco leaders blast Trump for trying to erase gay rights icon Harvey Milk's name from ship

Leaders in San Francisco are blasting the Trump administration for stripping the name of gay icon Harvey Milk from a U.S. naval ship.

FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2012, file photo, students walk through the University of Texas at Austin campus near the school's iconic tower in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
23 hours ago

Federal judge blocks Texas law allowing in-state tuition for students without legal residency

Read full article: Federal judge blocks Texas law allowing in-state tuition for students without legal residency

A federal judge has blocked a Texas law that has for decades given college students without legal residency in the U.S. access to reduced in-state tuition, swiftly ruling in favor of the latest effort by the Trump administration to crack down on immigration into the country.

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen is flanked by supporters Wednesday, June 4, 2025 as he signs into law a bill banning transgender athletes from girls' sports. (AP Photo/Margery Beck)
1 day ago

Nebraska is the latest state to ban transgender students from girls' sports

Read full article: Nebraska is the latest state to ban transgender students from girls' sports

Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen has signed into law a measure banning transgender athletes from girls’ sports.

In this photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, smoke rises from cargo vessel Morning Midas approximately 300 miles south of Adak, Alaska, June 3, 2025, as the crew of a cargo ship carrying around 3,000 vehicles to Mexico, abandoned ship after they could not control a fire. (U.S. Coast Guard/Courtesy Air Station Kodiak via AP)
1 day ago

22 crew members rescued from lifeboat in North Pacific after ship carrying 3,000 cars catches fire

Read full article: 22 crew members rescued from lifeboat in North Pacific after ship carrying 3,000 cars catches fire

All crew members are safe after a fire broke out aboard a cargo ship south of Alaska's Adak Island.

Vladyslav Plyaka poses for a photo at Capitol Hill neighborhood in Washington, Monday, June 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
1 day ago

Trump promised to welcome more foreign students. Now, they feel targeted on all fronts

Read full article: Trump promised to welcome more foreign students. Now, they feel targeted on all fronts

Students from around the world say being an international student in American today comes with feelings of fear, anxiety and insecurity that have made them more cautious in their daily lives.

This 2023 photo provided by Colonial Williamsburg Foundation shows staff members from the Colonial Williamsburg museum excavating the remains of Confederate soldiers from the Civil War in Williamsburg, Va. (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation via AP)
2 days ago

A Virginia museum found 4 Confederate soldiers' remains. It's trying to identify them

Read full article: A Virginia museum found 4 Confederate soldiers' remains. It's trying to identify them

Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.

National Weather Service forecaster David Imy gestures to an approaching storm during a Project ICECHIP operation Tuesday, June 3, 2025, near Tipton, Okla. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
1 day ago

Join scientists as they drive into hailstorms to study the costly weather extreme

Read full article: Join scientists as they drive into hailstorms to study the costly weather extreme

A team of scientists is driving into severe storms to study hail.

This photo provided by Colin Fee, a vehicle is surrounded by flood waters as heavy rains caused flash flooding in the Wichita area of south-central Kansas forcing firefighters to rescue dozens of people, including stranded motorists on Tuesday, June 3, 2025. (Colin Fee via AP)
1 day ago

1 dead after severe weather tears through central US, including flooding in Texas and Kansas

Read full article: 1 dead after severe weather tears through central US, including flooding in Texas and Kansas

Dallas authorities say one man has died there after his vehicle became stuck in high water during heavy rain.

FILE - Shoppers look for pleated skirts and other clothing for Hmong New Year for sale at the stall of Elisa Her, left, in the Hmong Village covered market in St. Paul, Minn., on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark Vancleave, file)
1 day ago

From ‘Tudo bem?’ to ‘Gracias,’ a growing share of US residents speak a language other than English

Read full article: From ‘Tudo bem?’ to ‘Gracias,’ a growing share of US residents speak a language other than English

New figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau show that 22% of U.S. residents spoke a language other than English at home.

FILE - Author Edmund White appears at his home in New York, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, file)
2 days ago

Edmund White, a groundbreaking gay author, dies at 85

Read full article: Edmund White, a groundbreaking gay author, dies at 85

Edmund White, the groundbreaking man of letters who documented and imagined the gay revolution through journalism, essays, memoirs and novels, has died.

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