Firefighters respond to a brush fire in Suffolk County in New York’s Long Island on Saturday. Steve Pfost/Newsday via AP hide caption toggle caption Steve Pfost/Newsday via AP NEW YORK — Fast-moving brush fires fanned by

An emergency vehicle is parked outside the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wis., following a shooting on Dec. 16. Morry Gash/AP hide caption toggle caption Morry Gash/AP Two recent school shootings are highlighting what extremism

Coffee shop menu in Toronto displaying Canadiano as an option. Avi Cohen hide caption toggle caption Avi Cohen “Canadiano with oat milk for Scooter—eh?” Canadian news organizations report that some Canadian coffee shops have rechristened the

The Maryland State Capitol building is seen in Annapolis. Maryland is among the states suing the Trump administration for the mass firing of federal employees. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jim Watson/AFP

The U.S. Capitol Building on Feb. 10, 2025. Zayrha Rodriguez/NPR hide caption toggle caption Zayrha Rodriguez/NPR With just days to go before a government shutdown deadline, House Republicans have released a 99-page stopgap bill they hope

Nuns pray for Pope Francis on Saturday in front of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, where the pontiff is hospitalized. Andrew Medichini/AP hide caption toggle caption Andrew Medichini/AP ROME — Pope Francis is responding well

Black Lives Matter Plaza on 16th Street Washington, D.C., is repainted following the removal of the lettering for a construction project on May 13, 2021. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Washington,

As part of our StoryCorps’ Military Voices Initiative, we hear from Specialist Henry Smithers who was among the millions of American servicemen and women deployed to Vietnam during the conflict.

Police enter an immigration detention centre in Bangkok on Jan. 22. Chanakarn Laosarakham/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Chanakarn Laosarakham/AFP via Getty Images Jeffrey Wasserstrom is chancellor’s professor of history at University of California,

A 19-year-old mechanic in Nigeria who maintains the water supply, a ground-breaking jazz guitarist from Sudan, deep-sea diving women in their 60s from South Korea, a watermelon vendor in Indonesia who at 82 is her family’s

The booster of SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship is recaptured during a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on Thursday. Eric Gay/AP hide caption toggle caption Eric Gay/AP It’s been a “sub-nominal” few days in

The General Services Administration, which manages federal real estate, is identifying property to divest, and the agency has abruptly fired more than 1,000 workers and is targeting an overall 63% reduction in headcount at its Public

A woman gestures in front of her demolished house in Otodo-Gbame waterfront in Lagos, Nigeria. Saturday, March 18, 2017. Slums and shantytowns are often targeted in rampant demolitions across Africa’s most populous country Sunday Alamba/AP hide

D’Wayne Wiggins of Tony! Toni! Toné! peforms onstage after the Agents Power Panel during Day 3 of the IEBA 2014 Conference on September 29, 2014 in Nashville, Tennessee. Terry Wyatt/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Terry

Protestors demonstrate outside the scheduled execution of South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon, Friday, March 7, 2025, in Columbia, S.C. Chris Carlson/AP hide caption toggle caption Chris Carlson/AP COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina man who killed

The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program has provided relief for hundreds of thousands of borrowers. Brynn Anderson/AP hide caption toggle caption Brynn Anderson/AP President Donald Trump has signed an executive action that directs the U.S. Education

Columbia students organize dueling memorials and rallies both for Israel and Palestinians in Gaza on the one-year anniversary of the October 7th Hamas attack, on Oct. 7, 2024 in New York City. Alex Kent/Getty Images hide

You think they were dancing to Kylie Minogue back in 1978? Central Press/Getty Images/Hulton Archive hide caption toggle caption Central Press/Getty Images/Hulton Archive Monarchs! They’re just like us! King Charles the III has revealed that he

A security guard poses during a media tour of the Port Isabel Detention Center hosted by ICE in Los Fresnos, Texas in 2024. The Trump administration seeks to reopen family detention centers in the state. Veronica

Syrian security reinforcements deploy in Latakia, Syria, on Friday. Omar Albam/AP hide caption toggle caption Omar Albam/AP DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria’s new government sent in security reinforcements and imposed curfews on a key coastal area after

Canadian former Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding, 43, who is a fugitive, is seen top left, with 15 other defendants who have been charged in a 16-count superseding indictment for allegedly running and participating in a transnational

Pfc. Christina Fuentes Montenegro prepares to hike to her platoon’s defensive position during patrol week of Infantry Training Battalion near Camp Geiger, N.C., in 2013. Sgt. Tyler Main/U.S. Marine Corps via AP hide caption toggle caption

Bri McNulty does public health outreach at a conference in Iowa. Liz Orton hide caption toggle caption Liz Orton Cancer outreach worker Bri McNulty, 23, was one of 750 employees at the Centers for Disease Control

U.S. employers continued to add jobs last month, but layoff notices have also increased to their highest level since the early months of the pandemic. Spencer Platt/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Spencer Platt/Getty

Shipping containers sit at the Port of Houston in Texas last month. A raft of new tariffs on imports from China, Canada and Mexico has companies and consumers scrambling. Brandon Bell/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption

President Trump embraced cryptocurrency during his campaign, including during this visit to a cryptocurrency-themed bar called Pubkey in New York City on Sept. 18. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Spencer Platt/Getty Images The White

Harvested corn grain is dumped into a grain wagon on Oct. 10, 2023, at a farm near Allerton, Illinois. Joshua A. Bickel/AP hide caption toggle caption Joshua A. Bickel/AP Travis Zook grows corn, raises cattle and

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks during a press conference on the sideline of the National People’s Congress in Beijing on Friday. Ng Han Guan/AP hide caption toggle caption Ng Han Guan/AP BEIJING — China’s top

A TV screen shows footage of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s address at the final hearing of his trial during a news program at a bus terminal in Seoul, South Korea on Tuesday, Feb.

Were these Legos the victims of kidnapping? Dan Kitwood/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Dan Kitwood/Getty Images You know the old saying: Yellow plastic is worth its weight in gold. OK, so maybe that’s not a

Leaders of the European Union have voted to approve a plan to dramatically increase defense spending. The move is a reaction to the U.S. reducing its support for Ukraine in the war against Russia’s invasion. We

The National Queer Theater’s 2024 Criminal Queerness festival put on a production of The Survival, seen here. The company is among four arts groups suing the NEA for gender-related restrictions imposed by a recent executive order

SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship makes a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on Thursday. Eric Gay/AP hide caption toggle caption Eric Gay/AP Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on

President Trump speaks after signing executive orders in the Oval Office on Thursday. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Alex Wong/Getty Images President Trump told his Cabinet members on Thursday that they are in charge

Members of Congress and Jewish civil rights organizations are criticizing the new deputy press secretary at the Department of Defense, Kingsley Wilson, for a series of online posts and past political commentary she made before joining

President Ronald Reagan during a state visit to London in June 1982. Reagan laid the rhetorical foundations for the National Endowment for Democracy in a speech during that visit. Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption toggle