If you wanted to learn the Cherokee language in the 1990s, there weren’t many written resources: three dissertations from the 1970s and ’80s, one textbook and a handful of college classes in North Carolina and Oklahoma. Even on most Cherokee land, it was unusual to see street or building signs in this endangered Indigenous language.

...Read more

Living by the sea in the tropics means being exposed to some of nature’s most powerful forces. Hurricanes can bring storm surges, flooding and destructive waves that threaten homes, infrastructure and livelihoods.

For many communities, coral reefs are a natural first line of defense against these storms. The reefs’ rugged ...Read more

Passengers from the Hondius cruise ship are being repatriated under a patchwork of measures that reflect uncertainty over how this strain of hantavirus spreads, complicating efforts to contain the deadly outbreak.

Some passengers are being placed in biocontainment units, notably in France, for at least two weeks. Australia plans to quarantine ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he will discuss U.S. arms sales to Taiwan with Chinese leader Xi Jinping at a meeting this week, a move that risks undermining America’s longstanding support for the self-ruled island claimed by Beijing.

Ahead of his visit to China for the highly anticipated leaders’ summit, Trump was asked on Monday if he would ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump is showing signs of frustration at a lack of progress in negotiations to end the 10-week war with Iran, as the Strait of Hormuz remains all but closed to vital energy supplies and oil prices continue to rise.

After rejecting Iran’s latest offer, Trump told reporters the response from Tehran was a “piece of ...Read more

BEIJING — The Trump administration has repeatedly framed the war in Iran as a quick, winnable fight, vowing to defeat the Islamic Republic "totally and decisively" — incomparable to the "dumb" wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But from China's perspective, the parallels are clear.

"You can blow everything up — destroy it all," one Chinese ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s repeated musings about Venezuela becoming the 51st U.S. state drew a sharp response Monday from interim Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez, who said the country would never surrender its independence.

“That is not contemplated. It would never be contemplated because if there is one thing Venezuelan men and women ...Read more

Bahamians head to the polls on Tuesday in general elections in which the current prime minister has called the opposition “weak,” a former NBA star has claimed the party in power targeted him, and a lucrative contract with Trump-connected lobbyists has raised the ire of some voters.

There are 41 seats up for grabs in the parliamentary vote,...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Davie man is facing seven felonies stemming from a $2.8 million scheme to defraud the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the federal program that helps low-income families buy nutritious food, state officials say.

Abbas Rehman, 33, was arrested April 30 by the Department of Financial Services Criminal ...Read more

Embattled U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer appeared to buy himself a reprieve from efforts to oust him, after a high-stakes Cabinet meeting that ended with a public show of support from a handful of key allies.

In a meeting in Downing Street on Tuesday, Starmer sought to hold back the gathering calls for his resignation, according to people ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — At Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital, patients on gurneys line the hallways of the emergency department waiting for care, and overflow mental health patients are consigned to outdoor tents.

The 152-bed hospital, which sits on a sprawling medical campus close to the predominantly Latino and Black neighborhood of Watts, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The deadly fires that devastated homes in Pacific Palisades and Altadena also laid waste to a lush canopy of leaves and pine needles that had cooled and shaded residents here for generations.

Now, more than a year later, trees that had survived the flames are disappearing at a troubling rate.

Since the January 2025 fire siege, ...Read more

Daniel Felix, 10, looks out from atop a gargantuan stump of an old-growth redwood on his tribe’s ancestral land. Once, this forest on California’s North Coast was replete with the ancient behemoths that can live beyond 2,000 years.

Only a fraction are left now, depleted by a logging company before the state acquired the forest in the 1940s....Read more

Meetings between Chinese and American leaders are not exactly routine, but few are historically groundbreaking.

The exceptions include the very first visit by a sitting U.S. president to China, when Richard Nixon met with Chairman Mao Zedong in Beijing in February 1972 – at a time when America did not even formally recognize the ...Read more

Most of the 6,000-plus people ICE arrested in North Carolina since the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term were sent to a pair of detention facilities where guards have used force against detainees 50 times.

The sites are in Georgia: the Stewart Detention Center about 150 miles south of Atlanta and the Folkston ICE Processing ...Read more

President Donald Trump has nominated State Sen. Doug Mastriano, a far-right conservative who unsuccessfully ran for Pennsylvania governor, to be the U.S. ambassador to Slovakia, the White House announced Monday.

The Franklin County Republican’s nomination will need to be approved by the U.S. Senate.

Mastriano said in a statement Monday that ...Read more

A 16-year-old boy from Bemidji, Minnesota, is accused of shooting his parents and a third adult after he lost his cellphone privileges, charges say.

The teen faces four felony charges stemming from the shooting on May 7, including illegal possession of a firearm and three counts of assault with a dangerous weapon. Prosecutors are asking for the...Read more

U.S. Reps. Mike Levin and Sara Jacobs conducted an unannounced oversight visit to the Otay Mesa Detention Center on Monday, days after a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., reiterated their authority — for the time being — to do so. But when the Congress members requested to speak with some of the detainees, they were informed of a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — While an OnlyFans creator was focused on filming a BDSM fetish session for her followers — gluing women's boots onto a man's feet and binding him in Saran Wrap — he was suffocating to death.

Michael Dale lay in his Escondido home with a plastic bag wrapped around his head and sealed with duct tape for at least eight minutes ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration selected Cameron Hamilton to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which is grappling with reduced staffing levels ahead of hurricane season in the Atlantic.

The White House sent Hamilton’s nomination to the Senate on Monday. If confirmed, the former Navy SEAL will return to the agency, where he...Read more