By Greg Allen MIAMI — Fla. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis is on the defensive over questions about how $10 million in state money came to be used to fund a political campaign. In two terms as governor, DeSantis has enjoyed strong support from the Republican-controlled legislature. But now, Republicans in the state House of Representatives […]
By Alana Wise Alongside a crescent moon, Mercury, Venus and Saturn will become visible to stargazers just before dawn on Friday morning. According to NASA, the planetary phenomenon will be clearest about 45 minutes before sunrise, low in the eastern sky and appearing near the moon. Venus and Saturn will be the easiest to spot […]
By Rachel Treisman Each April, tens of thousands of people flock to the heart of the Coachella Valley to camp, dance and let loose at the music festival by that same name. The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival features hundreds of performers on some half a dozen stages, spread out across two consecutive three-day […]
The UniverseFridays What Defines a Star? At the lower end, and to the bitter end, defining a star is tougher than you might expect By Phil Plait edited by Lee Billings A view of our sun, as seen by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. Stay connected to The Universe: Get email alerts for this weekly column […]
Tariffs News analysis Britain’s decision to leave the European Union in 2016 was sold to voters as a magic bullet that would revitalize the country’s economy. Its impact is still reverberating. By Mark Landler Reporting from London Britain has watched President Trump’s tariffs with a mix of shock, fascination and queasy recognition. The country, after […]
Data — the key to understanding and tackling some of the world’s toughest problems — suffers from at least one major challenge. It’s often scattered and disorganized. Whether stored in a university database, a government server or a scientist’s hard drive, data is not useful if no one knows where it is or has access to…
Bachelor Nation’s Katie Thurston shared that her breast cancer has spread to her liver, giving her a stage 4 prognosis. Katie Thurston‘s cancer is progressing. The Bachelorette alum shared that her breast cancer has now spread to her liver. “Unfortunately, in my case, [a PET scan] did detect some spots on my liver that were…
Earthquake in Myanmar The 7.7-magnitude earthquake near Mandalay, in a country already torn by war, was felt across Southeast Asia, and experts warned there could be tens of thousands dead. The 7.7-magnitude earthquake near Mandalay, in a country already torn by war, was felt across Southeast Asia, and experts warned there could be tens of thousands…
US Vice-President JD Vance has accused Denmark of leaving Greenland vulnerable to alleged incursions by China and Russia, as he urged its people to “partner” with the US. Speaking during a visit to the Arctic island, Vance said he hoped Greenlanders would vote for independence from Denmark, which he said had not invested enough to protect the semi-autonomous territory. Vance’s claims that its ally Denmark had “not done…
COVID Research Funding to Be Slashed, NIH Documents Show Studies on COVID, climate change and South Africa are on the latest list of terminated grants by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, according to updated documents obtained by Nature By Max Kozlov & Nature magazine Colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (greenish brown)…
Appeals court had upheld block on flights using Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members The Trump administration on Friday asked the US supreme court to intervene to allow the government to continue to deport immigrants using the obscure Alien Enemies Act. The request came one day after a federal appeals court upheld…
Airline capacity between two countries reduced through October 2025 as high-profile incidents of Ice arrests on rise Airline travel between Canada and the US is “collapsing” amid Donald Trump’s tariff war, with flight bookings between the two countries down by over 70%, newly released data suggests. According to data from the aviation analytics company OAG,…
From By Karen Brown Michele Andrews had been seeing her internist in Northampton, Massachusetts for about 10 years. She was happy with the care, although she did start to notice it was harder to get an appointment. This story was produced in partnership with KFF Health News. “You’d call and you’re talking about weeks to a…
Nasen Saadi, 21, must serve a minimum of 39 years for the murder of Amie Gray and attempted murder of Leanne Miles. The pair, who were aged 34 and 38 and not known to Saadi, were attacked on Durley Chine Beach last May. Saadi was described at Winchester Crown Court as a “social misfit” who…
In a Sky Full of Satellites, Astronomers Find Creative Ways to Observe the Stars Swarms of satellites launched by SpaceX and other companies are disrupting astronomical observations. Here’s how scientists are coping By Alexandra Witze & Nature magazine Satellite streaks appear in a photograph taken above the Pinnacles in Nambung National Park, Western Australia. In…
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For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural phenomenon in winter. They see its disappearance as a bad omen. By Martin Fackler and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Suwa, Japan For at least six centuries, residents along a lake in the mountains of central Japan have marked the depth of winter by celebrating…
Pope Francis In an interview, the leader of Pope Francis’s medical team called it “a miracle” that the 88-year-old pontiff left the hospital, but said he needs to change his vigorous habits, at least for a while, to recover. By Jason Horowitz and Patricia Mazzei Reporting from Rome The pope’s doctors did not think he…
The name WH Smith, a staple of UK town centres since the Victorian era when it became the country’s principal newspaper distributor, is set to disappear from the High Street after the firm agreed to sell its shops to Hobbycraft-owner Modella Capital. The sale does not include the WH Smith brand, its travel shops at…
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Homeland security chief went to infamous prison holding deported Venezuelans as White House targets immigrants Human rights organizations on Thursday denounced the visit by the US homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, to the notorious prison in El Salvador that is holding hundreds of Venezuelans deported from the US earlier this month without a hearing, calling…
By Brittney Melton here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. In an effort to crack down on student activists who support Palestinians, the U.S. has revoked hundreds of visas, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said yesterday at a press…
By The Associated Press HOUSTON — The woman convicted of killing Tejano music legend Selena Quintanilla-Perez has been denied parole after spending decades behind bars for fatally shooting the young singer at a Texas motel in 1995, the state’s parole board announced Thursday. Yolanda Saldívar will continue serving a life sentence at a prison in…
The United Nations warned that the detention of Vice President Riek Machar threatens to push the world’s youngest country back into civil war. By Abdi Latif Dahir South Sudan’s vice president, Riek Machar, has been placed under house arrest, according to his party, escalating tensions that the United Nations has warned are pushing the world’s…
King Charles III spent a short period of time in hospital on Thursday after experiencing temporary side effects during cancer treatment, Buckingham Palace said. The King returned to Clarence House, where he was said to be continuing to work on state papers and make calls from his study. He has cancelled a tour of Birmingham…
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A Near-Miss with a City-Killer Asteroid Highlights Gaps in Earth’s Defenses The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to soar as new observatories come online By Robin George Andrews edited by Lee Billings In mid-February 2025 astronomers announced that 2024 YR4—a recently discovered…
Canadian PM says Donald Trump has permanently altered relations, as countries around the globe insist import taxes are harmful to all, including Washington Canada’s prime minister has said the era of deep ties with the US “is over”, as governments from Tokyo to Berlin to Paris sharply criticised Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on car imports,…
Opinion Fat Doesn’t Deserve Its Bad Rap Fat is one of the most active, dynamic organs we have. Why can’t we learn to love it? By Bethany Brookshire We starve it. Sweat it off. Freeze or carve it out. We claim that two thirds of Americans have too much of it, and then we take…
Another 39 people rescued and brought to shore after incident on vessel at Red Sea resort Six Russian tourists have died and 39 people have been rescued after a submarine sank near the resort of Hurghada, the latest in a series of fatal accidents involving tourists on Egypt’s Red Sea coast. Four survivors, including at…
Russia-Ukraine War After a “coalition of the willing” gathering in Paris, President Emmanuel Macron insisted that a “reassurance force” of European troops after the war ends was still on the table. But details remained scarce. By Aurelien Breeden Reporting from Paris President Emmanuel Macron of France vowed on Thursday that a “coalition of the willing”…
Who Will Build the Next Giant Particle Collider? The European physics laboratory CERN is planning to build a mega collider by 2070. Critics say the plan could lead to ruin By Davide Castelvecchi & Nature magazine The CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. On the Swiss–French border, at the headquarters of the European laboratory…
By Selena Simmons-Duffin , Diane Webber The Trump administration Thursday announced a major restructuring of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that will cut 20,000 full-time jobs. The cuts include employees who have taken the Trump administration’s Fork in the Road offer and early retirement, plus an additional reduction in force of 10,000…
Maxim Naumov, a figure skater whose parents Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov died in the American Airlines plane crash in January, shared they had switched their flight shortly before the tragedy. Maxim Naumov shared a heartbreaking detail about his parents’ deaths. The figure skater, whose parents Evgenia “Zhenya” Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were among the…
Riek Machar’s house arrest and armed clashes signal ‘a severe unravelling’ of 2018 peace deal, his party says South Sudan’s first vice-president and main opposition leader, Riek Machar, has been placed under house arrest, prompting a warning from the UN that the country is at risk of relapsing into widespread conflict. Machar’s party said his…
Russia-Ukraine War For soldiers and commanders on the edge of battle, any talk about a lasting cease-fire still feels like a dangerous fantasy. Ukrainian soldiers marching during an initiation to welcome new members of the 33rd Separate Mechanized Brigade at a training ground in the eastern region of Donetsk on Sunday. By Marc Santora and…
President Volodymyr Zelensky was in a buoyant mood when I met him in Paris with a panel of three other European journalists. He had interrupted a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace and went back there for what he called a “tête à tête dinner” after the interview. Macron had not…
Quil Lawrence The White House continues to largely dismiss a highly sensitive discussion by leading national security officials on the open-source encrypted Signal messaging app that leaked to a reporter. At a White House briefing Wednesday, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the media “continues to be focused on a sensationalized story from the failing Atlantic…
Universities Reeling from Trump Cuts Fear for a ‘Lost Generation’ of Scientists Some conservative lawmakers are quietly urging the president to restore research funding as cuts threaten academic institutions in their states By Corbin Hiar, Chelsea Harvey & E&E News CLIMATEWIRE | Drastic cuts to federal science programs are draining millions of dollars in research…
US president had previously called for the impeachment of James Boasberg after the judge blocked his deportation flights The US judge set to hear a new lawsuit over the Signal fiasco is the same judge whom Donald Trump has argued should be impeached for blocking him from using wartime powers to deport Venezuelan migrants. James…
The world has changed, said the chancellor – and hours later it did, again. It is a phrase that has become a familiar one at Westminster in the last few days and the line used to justify the shift in priorities and spending cuts Rachel Reeves announced in her Spring Statement. When folk in government…
Tariffs News Analysis The new auto tariffs are straining relations with U.S. allies and deepening doubts about America’s reliability as a partner. By Damien Cave and Steven Erlanger Damien Cave often covers global affairs. He is based in Vietnam. Steven Erlanger has been covering European diplomacy and trade for decades, and is based in Berlin.…
By Sarah Ventre NEW YORK — The rooms are small and cramped, but they’re full of the details that would make a house into a home: colorful rugs, neatly made beds, a board game on the table and even pictures of the British royal family on the wall. But this isn’t exactly a home —…
Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, describes the levies as a ‘direct attack’ and vows to defend Canadian workers and companies Donald Trump announced plans to impose sweeping 25% tariffs on cars from overseas on Wednesday, days before the US president is expected to announce wide-ranging levies on other goods from around the world. “What we’re…
US President Donald Trump has announced new import taxes of 25% on cars and car parts coming into the US in a move that threatens to widen the global trade war. Trump said the latest tariffs would come into effect on 2 April, with charges on businesses importing vehicles starting the next day. Charges on…
HHS’s Long COVID Office Is Closing. What Will This Mean for Future Research and Treatments? The Office for Long COVID Research and Practice was instrumental in coordinating the U.S. government’s initiatives to treat, diagnose and prevent the mysterious postviral condition that affects millions of people today By Lauren J. Young edited by Dean Visser Under…
Sudan’s Civil War In dramatic scenes that appear to mark a turning point in nearly two years of civil war, Sudan’s military is driving fighters of its rival, the Rapid Support Forces, out of Khartoum. By Declan Walsh Photographs by Ivor Prickett Reporting from Khartoum Paramilitary fighters with Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces withdrew in large…
Leo Brent Bozell III, founder of a conservative media group, is president’s nomination amid rising diplomatic tensions Donald Trump has nominated a conservative, pro-Israel media activist as US ambassador to South Africa, at a time when the relationship between the two countries is at a nadir. Leo Brent Bozell III founded the Media Research Center…
Why These Tropical Trees Love a Lightning Strike One species of tropical tree seems not only to survive lightning strikes but also to thrive because of them By Gennaro Tomma edited by Andrea Thompson Join Our Community of Science Lovers! Being struck by lightning is something humans generally try to avoid. But for at least…
Russia-Ukraine War news analysis Moscow’s demands are slowing the process and giving it the advantage in talks with a deal-hungry United States, experts said. By Paul Sonne Reporting from Berlin Ukraine thought it had a deal in place to suspend the fighting in the Black Sea immediately. Russia said economic sanctions would need to be…
Bachelor Nation’s Katie Thurston, who was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer in February, shared an update after having her breast, liver and lymph nodes biopsied. Katie Thurston is sharing where she stands on her cancer journey. The Bachelor alum, who was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer in February, shared March 24 that her doctors had…
Rachel Reeves has squeezed the welfare budget further and boosted defence spending in a Spring Statement aimed at kick-starting the faltering economy. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) – the government’s financial watchdog – halved its growth forecast for this year to 1%. The chancellor blamed global instability, arguing that the world was “changing before…
Talk of growth forecasts and self-imposed financial rules may feel very distant from you and your life, but the Spring Statement could affect both your job and your money. Here’s what it could mean for you. If you are on benefits, you could be directly affected. The changes to the benefits system, announced last week,…
Opinion Patience is a Process, Not a Virtue Impatience is an emotion we can all learn to tame By Kate Sweeny Cars came to a standstill in Beijing on October 2, 2010. The snarl was one of several in China that year, making international headlines. You had to be really unlucky to be on the…
Supreme court judges decide former president should face criminal prosecution alongside seven close allies Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro will stand trial for allegedly orchestrating a violent plot to seize power through a military coup, after the country’s supreme court decided he should face criminal prosecution. The ruling leaves the far-right populist, who governed Brazil…
Neda Ulaby Spring means it’s time for gardeners to think about seedlings, those little baby plants all ready to get plunked into the ground. And a hands-on technique for growing them, called “soil blocking,” is capturing the attention of serious gardeners. Among them is Christopher Hallett. He’s a farm manager at Growing Hope Urban Farm,…
Russia-Ukraine War It remains unclear if the commitments to stop attacks and ensure safe shipping in the Black Sea, which came with many caveats, would happen soon. By Ivan Nechepurenko and Constant Méheut Ivan Nechepurenko reported from Tbilisi, Georgia, and Constant Méheut from Kyiv, Ukraine. Russia and Ukraine have said they are committed to cease…
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Russia-Ukraine War News Analysis European leaders are struggling to find the money and the political will to replace the bulk of the U.S. contribution to Ukraine and to their own defense. By Steven Erlanger and Jeanna Smialek Steven Erlanger reported from Berlin, and Jeanna Smialek from Brussels. European leaders have gotten the message from Washington…
The chancellor will set out her plans for the UK economy during the Spring Statement on Wednesday 26 March. Rachel Reeves has ruled out further tax rises, but faces difficult choices because of the weak performance of the UK economy and world events. She is due to make her statement in Parliament at about 12:30.…