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
New German leader plans to discuss Ukraine and trade with Trump in Oval Office visit
Germany’s new leader is meeting President Donald Trump in Washington as he works to keep the U.S. on board with Western support for Ukraine, help defuse trade tensions that pose a risk to Europe’s biggest economy and further bolster his country’s long-...
Judge blocks Texas tuition breaks for students without legal status after the state’s GOP attorney general backs lawsuit
Judge blocks Texas tuition breaks for students without legal status after the state's GOP attorney general backs lawsuit
AP PHOTOS: Life in Iran’s capital, Tehran, as high-stakes nuclear negotiations with the US go on
As I prepared to take a photograph of an anti-American mural outside of the former U.S. Embassy in Iran’s capital recently, a passerby called out to me. “Take any picture you like, they’ll remove all of them later,” the man said. It was a telling moment as the murals have...
Teenager fatally pinned between 2 vehicles in California private school parking lot
Police say a 15-year-old was killed when a vehicle struck him in a school parking lot at a California private school, sandwiching him between two vehicles
Vigil held for victims of Boulder firebombing attack as suspect’s family fights deportation
Hundreds of people have gathered at the local Jewish Community Center for a vigil to support the victims of the firebombing attack in Boulder
The sneaky way even meat lovers can lessen their climate impact
It is virtually impossible for the world to achieve the Paris Agreement’s climate targets without producing and consuming dramatically less meat. But demand for plant-based alternatives, like the imitation burgers sold by Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat, has steadily declined in recent years — all while global meat consumption continues...
Funding to protect American cities from extreme heat just evaporated
Straddling the border with Mexico along the Rio Grande, the city of Laredo, Texas, and its 260,000 residents don’t just have to deal with the region’s ferocious heat. Laredo’s roads, sidewalks, and buildings absorb the sun’s energy and slowly release it at night, a phenomenon known as the urban heat...
Cuts to USAID severed longstanding American support for Indigenous peoples around the world
Miguel Guimaraes Vásquez fought for years to protect his homeland in the Peruvian Amazon from deforestation related to the cocaine trade, even laboring under death threats from drug traffickers. A leader in an Indigenous rights group, Vasquez said such efforts were long supported by financial assistance from the U.S. Agency...
A world built on fossil fuels is loud. Here’s how advocates are defending peace and quiet.
Having grown up in the Southeast, I’ve always loved a good summer thunderstorm. Sure, thunder can be loud and sometimes scary, but I associate storms with a feeling of coziness. We would seek shelter in the safety of our home, me and my brother hoping the power would go out...