A remote island near Antarctica is no longer home to the world’s largest penguin colony as climate-driven changes to ocean food chains likely devastated its once-thriving inhabitants and caused a “population collapse,” researchers said Wednesday. Drone and satellite images showed that the volcanic island of Zavodovski lost more than 680,000 — or nearly two-thirds —…
Hundreds of thousands of people packed Paris’ iconic Champs-Élysées Avenue for Pope Leo XIV’s big outdoor Mass on Saturday, a sign of the Catholic Church’s enduring appeal in the once staunchly Catholic but officially secular country. The Vatican estimated that 700,000 people came out for the Mass — more than the 600,000 who had registered…
Soaring diesel prices are rippling through the U.S. economy, putting a financial squeeze on schools, farmers and small businesses as their fuel costs spike. Average diesel prices hovered around $6.50 a gallon on Friday, just below their record high of $6.53 on Sept. 22 and up from $3.69 a year ago, according to AAA. That…
When Cody Turcotte arrived to fight a wildfire scorching homes in Spokane, Washington, last month, there weren’t enough people at the scene to control it. His team of five engines joined just two others that had been battling the blaze alone for hours, as its flames rapidly spread. “You’re getting embers casting down on the…
Employment fell last year in U.S. cities where Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests surged the most, according to a recent study. In cities where ICE arrests increased fastest in 2025, employment fell 0.4% below its expected trajectory both immediately after those detentions and for up to one year after a metro area was targeted, researchers…
Wyoming ranchers already contending with drought, rising costs and scarce land have faced uncertainty following President Trump’s 90-day waiver of higher tariffs on some ground beef imports. “This announcement came out, we had a 10% drop in the value of cattle overnight,” Mark Eisele, who raises nearly 1,500 head of cattle outside of Cheyenne, Wyoming,…
Revenue from IRS audits plunged 35% in fiscal 2025 as the agency shed thousands of enforcement workers, according to a new report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, an agency watchdog. The IRS collected a total of $6.5 billion from audits in fiscal 2025, which ended Sept. 30, down from $10 billion a year earlier,…
Kiribati, a tiny Pacific neighbor to Hawaii that has grown ties with Beijing, detained a Chinese vessel this month for illegally harvesting shark fins, its maritime police told AFP. The practice of cutting fins off live sharks and throwing the carcasses back into the sea is banned in much of the Pacific Ocean, but persists…
Washington — A federal appeals court on Tuesday continued to block a Department of Homeland Security policy allowing immigration officers to conduct enforcement actions at certain houses of worship for Quakers, Cooperative Baptists and Sikhs. A unanimous panel of three judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit left in place a…
Washington — Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had one request for the internet as she pointed at the camera and injected the first shot of her egg-freezing protocol: “Don’t be weird about this, even though I know all of you will be.” “That wasn’t so bad,” she said after she injected the shot into her lower…
