David Johansen, singer from the seminal punk band the New York Dolls, dies at 75
David Johansen, the wiry, gravelly-voiced singer and last surviving member of the glam and protopunk band the New York Dolls who later performed as his campy, pompadoured alter ...
Black graves are being moved to make way for an industrial park, drawing a mix of emotions
A decision to move the remains of hundreds African American tenant farmers from a former Virginia tobacco plantation to a ...
Trump cutoff of humanitarian parole for immigrants from Ukraine, 6 other countries challenged
A group of American citizens and immigrants is suing the Trump administration for ending a long-standing legal tool ...
Cold-water swimmers in the Czech Republic set a new world record for the largest polar bear dip
Czech cold-water swimmers on Saturday set a new world record for the largest polar bear dip. A total of 2,461 participants were involved in the successful attempt on the Most lake in ...
Namibian founding president Sam Nujoma is laid to rest and praised as the last African liberator
Sam Nujoma, Namibia’s founding president who steered the country to freedom from apartheid South Africa, was laid to rest in ...
US auto industry could be collateral damage in Trump’s trade wars
President Donald Trump’s trade wars threaten to claim a casualty on the home front: the American auto industry. If the ...
USAID cuts are already hitting countries around the world. Here are 20 projects that have closed
Countries around the world already are feeling the impact of the Trump administration’s decision to eliminate more than 90% of foreign aid contracts and cut some $60 ...
Judge blocks Trump order threatening funding for institutions that offer care for transgender youth
President Donald Trump’s plan to pull federal funding from institutions that provide gender-affirming care for transgender youth will remain blocked on a long-term basis under a ...
$75 million was awarded to plant trees in places that badly need them. In anti-DEI push, that’s over
Arthur Johnson has lived in New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward for nearly three decades, long enough to appreciate the trees that ...
Increased fire danger as winds increase across the state
A series of storm systems will scrape across the state starting today. Winds will pick up this afternoon in western New ...
Democratic activists fueled anti-Trump protests at GOP town halls but also rage at their own party
Furious Democrats filled Republican town halls across America last week to protest President Donald Trump’s power grab in ...
Border czar makes Boston his latest immigration punching bag
As Mayor Michelle Wu prepares to go to Congress to defend Boston’s protections of immigrant communities, the city is in a war ...