“He tells me that I have to arrive at Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD),” Ruprecht says, “The first thing that was going through my head was denial. I wasn't sure if this was real.” Ruprecht was one of the first passengers to fly under a policy announced just hours before: all Americans who have passed through Uganda, South Sudan or the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the past 21 days must fly into IAD, an airport in a Virginia suburb of Washington, DC.
“We have a lot of fixed and movable counter-UAS capabilities, but not really anything that would follow a patrolling soldier,” Gen. Gregory Guillot, the commander of US Northern Command, said during a panel discussion at the annual SOF Week conference in Tampa, Florida. “The cartels are flying over our soldiers and Marines all the time.”
"Climate scientists think this could be the hottest summer on record or at least close to it," says Mark Wolfe, who heads the National Energy Assistance Directors Association (NEADA). "So families need to use more of an increasingly expensive product to stay cool this summer. And that's going to be tough." NEADA is projecting that electricity bills will be 8.5% higher this summer than last, on average, with residents in some Southern states seeing even bigger increases.
Fishermen Feeding Mainers began in late 2020 and raises money to buy locally caught fish, process it and donate the frozen fillets to schools and food banks in Maine. So far, it has spent more than $4 million on the purchasing and processing of about 1.3 million pounds of locally caught fish.
The chemical crisis that prompted evacuations in Southern California on Friday occurred at an industrial site in Garden Grove, a suburban city with a large Vietnamese American population just a short drive from Knott's Berry Farm and Disneyland. In Orange County, the city is just five miles from the Disney parks in Anaheim, but there are more restaurants with good pho in Garden Grove than mouse ears.
The bird had become trapped in a truck-mounted concrete mixer, leaving hardened concrete caked across the owl's small body, from his face to his tail feathers. Richwalski took the owl to the Utah wildlife sanctuary where he works. He and other caregivers spent days meticulously removing the concrete with forceps, toothbrushes and dish soap.
There's a whole lot of traffic on the road on Friday. It's gonna be a record number of people. That's not something we saw coming. We thought, Hey, with these high gas prices, maybe there'll be fewer people that'll get on the road,' but apparently not so much.
Police in Chula Vista, California, wrote in the January 2025 emergency protective order that Caleb Vazquez "was involved in suspicious behavior idolizing Nazis and mass shooters." They sought to remove weapons from Vazquez's home, but his father, Marco Vazquez, would not allow officers to confirm the firearms were being stored properly, the order states. Instead, the father "respectfully" declined the request and voluntarily removed the weapons himself.
Adri is one of 6,069 people who have been admitted to the United States as refugees since October, according to State Department figures. All but three were from South Africa. Her journey reflects the wholesale transformation of the refugee program under the Trump administration, which early last year froze refugee admissions save for one specific group - people like Adri. Now nearly all those arriving under the program are White South Africans, many of them Afrikaner, an ethnic minority who speak Afrikaans and trace their roots to early Dutch settlers.
During chemotherapy, she lost all her hair, so she began to wear a wig. "But that wig and I only had one wig that wig was itchy, and it was annoying," Gentile said. "So at some point, I decided when I sort of had a crew cut look that it was time to give the wig up." Her first time driving to work without the wig, Gentile felt exposed.
The two leading Democratic candidates running for Los Angeles mayor have for months been trying to link their most prominent opponent to President Trump, an unpopular figure in the overwhelmingly Democratic city. Mr. Trump just made it much easier for them. On Wednesday, the president indicated to reporters that he supported Spencer Pratt, a Republican and former reality TV star like himself. I'd like to see him do well, the president replied. I heard he's a big MAGA person.
Following pressure from the U.S., the Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations is withdrawing his bid for a vice president role at the U.N. General Assembly, and Lebanon's ambassador is taking his place, the U.N. said Thursday. The Palestinian U.N. delegation relayed, through an Arab country, that Ambassador Riyad Mansour would refrain from running for a vice president position for the coming two years, a person familiar with the matter told NPR on Thursday a potential reference to the end of President Trump's term.
Half of these voters said they overall disapprove of the job Trump is doing. And a lot of that frustration has to do with the fact they do not think Trump is attuned to the growing economic pain that many Americans are feeling as the war in Iran continues. Eight of 12 voters said Trump is "out of touch with their economic concerns," and nine said they are more economically anxious now than they were before Trump took office last year.
The outcome of a pivotal Senate race in Maine could hinge on whether voters value Republican Sen. Susan Collins' clout and ability to secure federal dollars over Democratic insurgent Graham Platner's call to upend a political system he says is rigged against working-class Americans. Platner's call for a political revolution has been a centerpiece of a barnstorming campaign that's already pushed his Democratic rival, Gov. Janet Mills, out of the race.
Walmart will likely put its tariff refunds toward lowering store prices, executives said on Thursday, as they described shoppers who are increasingly anxious about the rising cost of fuel. In recent weeks, visitors to Walmart's gas stations have begun to fill up with fewer than ten gallons for the first time since 2022, Chief Financial Officer John David Rainey told investors on an earnings call. "That's an indication of stress," he said.
They cited "the uncertainty of the arbitration process and the significant cost of prolonged litigation," according to Goncalves. Steven Gomes, Thomas Trabulsi, and Noah LeBlanc were all terminated, but reached union-negotiated agreements to be reinstated. Gomes returned to the department Jan. 1, Trabulsi returned March 15, and LeBlanc is expected"
Tennessee officials will pay $835,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who was jailed for more than a month over a Facebook post he made about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. While many people across the U.S. lost their jobs over social media comments about Kirk's death, Larry Bushart's case stood out as a rare instance in which such online speech led to criminal prosecution. The 61-year-old retired police officer spent 37 days behind bars before authorities dropped the felony charge against him in October.
The Republican Senate primary in Georgia will head to a runoff next month, with Representative Mike Collins, an immigration hard-liner and a trucking executive, advancing and no candidate on track to win a majority of the vote Tuesday, according to The Associated Press. Mr. Collins was leading Derek Dooley, a former University of Tennessee football coach, and Representative Buddy Carter, a former pharmacy owner, according to incomplete results. It was unclear who would secure the second spot in the runoff.
One month before the beginning of peak wildfire season in California, firefighters are already battling more than eight blazes in the southern part of the state. The fires have prompted smoke advisories in Los Angeles, led to evacuation orders for thousands of people in surrounding areas and put many people on edge less than 18 months since two devastating infernos in the region. Dry conditions in recent months, a spring heat wave and a spell of fierce winds have all combined to make Southern California more susceptible to rapid spreading and major damage.
