WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is helping one of Elon Musk's companies fight a civil rights lawsuit that alleges it is illegally r…
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There’s an increasingly narrow strip of New Orleans marshland that hardly anyone lives on, but without it, hundreds of thousands of people wil…
MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — African and Commonwealth nations called Tuesday for a swift implementation of a landmark treaty protecting the high seas…
A cluster of storms along the Gulf Coast of Texas could become the first tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season. The National Hurricane Center in Miami says the storm system is expected to bring intense rain to southern states including Texas and Louisiana this week. An advisory issued Tuesday morning said the center of the storms is about 55 miles south-southwest of Corpus Christi, Texas. Maximum sustained winds were 30 mph, just shy of the 39 mph needed to be named a tropical storm. The storms could cause problems even if the system never gets a name. Heavy downpours could lead to life-threatening flash flooding.
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Dan David Prize will award nine historians and archaeologists with $300,000 to recognize their work and support future re…
BANGKOK (AP) — The Iran war has exposed major risks for Southeast Asia that could cost the region billions of dollars, if it doesn't diversify…
Lawmakers are demanding the National Science Foundation stop dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a $386 million ocean monitoring network being wound down under President Donald Trump's administration. House Democrats on two committees call the action illegal. Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley says he's drafting legislation to freeze the removal of instruments until a full scientific review is completed. The National Science Foundation directed the removal of most of the system’s instruments from waters off Oregon, Washington, Alaska, North Carolina and Greenland by 2027. Monday’s pushback against the Republican administration’s actions comes as scientists are set to remove instruments from the Pacific and as an El Niño event is predicted to arrive this summer.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Ah, the serenity of fishing.
Officials in a California city are urging residents sensitive to smoke to remain indoors while a huge warehouse fire burns for a third day. Monitors show that air quality is in the “unhealthy” range in Tracy, California. That is where the fire in the one-million-square-foot Medline warehouse has been burning since Thursday. Medline is a major provider of medical equipment including surgical equipment and latex gloves. Firefighters expect air quality to remain poor for the next few days while they fight the fire inside the building. Tracy is a city of 100,000 people about 55 miles east of San Francisco.
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore sites changed under an executive order that sought to eliminate “inappropriate content” at national museums, parks and landmarks. U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley's ruling on Friday also ordered the government to pause any additional changes and to submit status reports on restoring the changes. The order comes in response to a lawsuit by conservation and historical organizations over National Park Service policies. Many changes occurred at Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park, including removing exhibits on enslaved people. President Donald Trump signed the executive order “restoring truth and sanity to American history” at the nation’s museums, parks and landmarks last year.