The immigrant detention facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz” is shown on July 4, 2025, as construction was finishing at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition airport in the Florida Everglades. A lawsuit, brought by environmental groups and the Miccosukee tribe, has challenged the expansion and operations of the facility. Rebecca Blackwell/AP hide caption toggle caption Rebecca Blackwell/AP MIAMI — A lawsuit …
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A federal appeals court rules the Trump administration can withhold $4 billion approved by Congress for global health programs and more than $6 billion for HIV and AIDS prevention. Ben Curtis/AP hide caption toggle caption Ben Curtis/AP A federal appeals court handed President Trump a victory on Wednesday. The court ruled that the administration can continue to freeze or terminate …
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Federal law enforcement agents from various agencies including Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Park Police, and FBI, question a couple who had been parked outside a legal parking zone while eating McDonald’s takeout, Tuesday, Aug. 12, in northwest Washington near Kennedy St. NW. The couple were released after a search of the car. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption toggle …
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (L) welcomes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) in front of Chancellery on August 13, 2025 in Berlin, Germany. Filip Singer/Getty Images Europe hide caption toggle caption Filip Singer/Getty Images Europe BERLIN — European leaders met virtually with President Trump today, urging him to press Russian President Vladimir Putin for a ceasefire and security guarantees for Ukraine …
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The members of HUNTR/X — the fictional K-pop group made up of nonfictional singers EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI — have just become the first women K-pop artists ever to hit No. 1. KPOP DEMON HUNTERS hide caption toggle caption KPOP DEMON HUNTERS For nine of the last 10 weeks, Alex Warren‘s “Ordinary” has sat at No. 1 on …
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A homeless encampment is seen near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., hours after President Trump declared on Monday that he will deploy the National Guard “to address the epidemic of crime in the nation’s capital.” Maansi Srivastava/NPR hide caption toggle caption Maansi Srivastava/NPR WASHINGTON — As hundreds of National Guard troops deployed on Tuesday in the nation’s capital, White …
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A Smithsonian Institution sign is seen on the National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images The Trump Administration sent a letter to The Smithsonian Institution on Tuesday requesting a “comprehensive internal review” of eight of its museums with the aim of bringing the organization in …
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Potatoes — both the wild species, and the domesticated ones we buy at the grocery store — evolved from a chance hybridization between two plants some nine million years ago. Natural History Museum, London hide caption toggle caption Natural History Museum, London The potato: Mash it, bake it, fry it … No matter how you slice it, the potato is …
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Danielle Spencer, left, and mother Cheryl Pelt rest at home in Malibu, Calif. after Spencer’s release from Santa Monica Hospital on Friday, Sept. 16, 1977. Nick Ut/AP hide caption toggle caption Nick Ut/AP Danielle Spencer, who played the wisecracking and tattling little sister Dee Thomas on the 1970s sitcom What’s Happening!! has died at 60. Spencer, who became a veterinarian …
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Actor Jeff Hiller’s new memoir is Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success. He’s pictured above in Savannah, Ga., in November 2024. Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for SCAD hide caption toggle caption Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for SCAD For much of his career, actor Jeff Hiller felt stuck. He had a string of small parts, often playing rude …
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