For more than a millennium, Alaska’s Inupiat hunters have known bowhead whales as ageless neighbors, even recognizing individuals at sea. Now scientists estimate some bowheads live up to 268 years, with harpoon points from the mid 1800s found in whales caught in the late 1900s. A Nature study led by...
With the U.S. government shutdown in its 30th day, pressure is mounting to end it as food aid and health costs collide. Alaskans are stockpiling game, Mainers await heating subsidies, and flights slow while workers miss pay. The White House ensured military pay but not SNAP, which faces historic cuts...
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has swung past the sun at about 126 million miles and is now heading out, briefly hidden from Earth behind the sun. Astronomers expect it to reappear in predawn skies for telescope users around November 11, with a safe closest pass to Earth on December 19 at...
A federal judge sentenced Taylor Taranto to time served for a hoax threat near Barack Obama’s D.C. home, after 22 months in jail; no explosives were found, though firearms and a machete were recovered. Judge Carl Nichols cited Taranto’s lack of criminal history after DOJ earlier moved to dismiss several...
Vice President JD Vance and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned of a potential Thanksgiving travel disaster as the government shutdown drags on, after Vance hosted a White House roundtable with airline, union and travel leaders. With FAA controllers working unpaid and missing their first full paycheck, participants described mounting strain...
Sean “Diddy” Combs arrived Thursday at FCI Fort Dix, the New Jersey federal prison where he will serve a four year term for transportation for the purposes of prostitution, after a transfer from MDC Brooklyn. He is in the facility’s special drug program unit his lawyers sought, which could trim...
With power and communications down, Jamaican authorities have yet to fully assess Hurricane Melissa's toll, but new satellite images lay bare widespread destruction. In Black River, a market's white roof has become a gaping hole, a cafe is gone, a warehouse roof vanished, and the fire station lost its top;...
The Justice Department suspended two prosecutors and replaced a sentencing memo that had referenced Donald Trump and January 6 in the case of Taylor Taranto, alarming current and former career attorneys who called the revisions “Orwellian” and a whitewashing. Taranto, a pardoned January 6 rioter, was convicted of gun crimes...
In a coast-to-coast preview, the piece unveils a new high-resolution map projecting the top Division I team in each of 49 states for the next five months, built from the author’s Top 100 And 1 rankings and advanced metrics. Picks span from Arizona, Kansas and Kentucky to Duke, UConn and...
The ongoing government shutdown is wearing down military families as paychecks arrive only at the last minute. Since Oct. 1, President Donald Trump has twice ordered stopgap funding shifts, including $5.3 billion overall with $2.5 billion from his summer tax and spending cuts law. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned troops...
