The race is on to try to stop vital information from being rewritten or scrubbed from U.S. government websites, with researchers warning that the loss of key data could create risks for the environment and marginalized communities. Thousands of U.S. government web pages are being altered or deleted following a slew of executive orders from...
BUENOS AIRES — Carlos Kambourian, an Argentine pediatrician who is gay, counted himself as a supporter of President Javier Milei’s libertarian economic reforms. That was until the outspoken right-wing leader appeared to associate homosexuality with sexual abuse in a speech last month. Milei, an economist and former media pundit who won a shock election in...
Former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is running for governor of New Mexico, looking to be the first Native American woman to be elected governor of a state. Haaland launched her campaign Tuesday morning in an online video after hinting at an announcement for the last few days. In it, she leans heavily on her biography, opening...
A dream vacation in the Bahamas for two young American tourists turned into a nightmare when they jumped into the sparkling blue water hand-in-hand and mere minutes later were attacked by a shark. Rileigh Decker, 20, and Summer Layman, 24, were swimming in Bimini Bay, a popular resort area about 50 nautical miles off the...
Military families protesting the Defense Department’s anti-DEI push heckled Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on his arrival at United States European Command headquarters in Germany on Tuesday. On a visit to the U.S. military’s key European military hub in Stuttgart, Hegseth was booed by around two dozen people who live at the base in an...
LONDON — It could have been an explosive discovery. But luckily, more than 170 World War II bombs lying underneath a children’s playground in northeastern England did not go off and workers were able to recover them. Construction workers found the first bomb when they began work on the Scotts Park playground in the small...
Heavy snow, freezing rain and temperatures as much as 35 degrees below seasonal averages are set to hit large parts of the continental United States as a string of storms confirm that winter is far from over. Some 32 million people were under winter weather alerts overnight, with the heavy snow due for northern Kentucky...
Court rulings against parts of Donald Trump’s agenda put White House officials on the defensive. Hamas says it will not release hostages this weekend after accusing Israel of not following the terms of the ceasefire agreement. And a bustling pizza shop in Philadelphia provides stability for formerly incarcerated people. Here’s what to know today. White...
The fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was at risk of faltering Tuesday after President Donald Trump warned “all hell is going to break out” if the Palestinian militant group does not release “all” remaining hostages this week. The war in Gaza is on pause following a complex agreement in which remaining hostages held by...
More than three years before a Louisiana woman was arrested last week in the death of a TV reporter in New Orleans to cover the Super Bowl, a man visiting the city from out of state accused the woman, Danette Colbert, of drugging him, robbing his savings and leaving him for dead. Colbert, 48, was...