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Drivers take advantage of the lull between lake-effect snowfalls in Lowville, N.Y., on Saturday. Cara Anna/AP hide caption toggle caption Cara Anna/AP BUFFALO, N.Y. — The first big snowfall of the season blanketed towns along Lake Erie on Saturday in the middle of the hectic holiday travel and shopping weekend. Numbing cold and heavy snow […]
Migrants wait to climb over concertina wire after they crossed the Rio Grande and entered the U.S. from Mexico, Sept. 23, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. Eric Gay/AP hide caption toggle caption Eric Gay/AP NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court Wednesday ruled that Border Patrol agents cannot cut razor wire that Texas installed on […]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection says it processes some 4 million de minimis shipments every day. Here, CBP officers watch as international shipments are lowered from a plane at Los Angeles International Airport. Ya-Huei Laura Lee/CBP hide caption toggle caption Ya-Huei Laura Lee/CBP If you’re tempted to buy kids’ toys at rock-bottom prices online this […]
Firefighters walk through floodwaters while responding to a rescue call in unincorporated Sonoma County, Calif., on Friday, Nov. 22, 2024. Noah Berger/AP hide caption toggle caption Noah Berger/AP HEALDSBURG, Calif. — A major storm dropped more snow and record rain in California, causing small landslides and flooding some streets, while on the opposite side of […]
Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference meeting on Feb. 23 in National Harbor, Md. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump has named Pam Bondi, a former attorney general of Florida, as his next pick for U.S. […]
The baby black-footed ferrets at three weeks old, born to a mother cloned from genetic material collected in 1988. Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute hide caption toggle caption Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute A cloned black-footed ferret successfully gave birth — marking the first time a U.S. clone of an endangered […]
Journalists take cover from the exchange of gunfire between gangs and police in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Monday. Odelyn Joseph/AP hide caption toggle caption Odelyn Joseph/AP PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The Federal Aviation Administration prohibited U.S. airlines from flying to Haiti for 30 days after gangs shot three planes and the United Nations also Tuesday temporarily suspended […]
Participants speak during an event June 26 at Rocky’s Barber Shop in Atlanta, hosted by the Donald Trump campaign and billed as a “Black American Business Leaders Round Table,” in advance of a presidential debate between President Biden and Trump. From left are lobbyist Rufus Montgomery, radio host Shelley Wynter, Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Texas, Marc […]
In this photo released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves to the crowd during a meeting with school and university students, in Tehran on Saturday. Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/AP hide caption toggle caption Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/AP DUBAI, United […]
Members of the class of 2016 are presented with their degrees during the commencement ceremony at Howard University in May, 2016. Alex Wong/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Alex Wong/Getty Images The absolute number of Black men enrolled at Historically Black Colleges and Universities is the lowest it’s been since 1976. That’s according to recent […]