“BK was exactly where he wanted to be at the time death called,” said his lieutenant on Rescue 2, Greg Kelly. “He was being a jake. He was in the building, he was on the fire floor, and he was taking charge.” www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/25/m...

“No one loses their rights when others are treated fairly.” —Joy Abshire Laws www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

The sky doing sky things! 😃

Over the past year, economists and civil rights leaders have observed the unemployment rate between Black and White Americans widening. And an unexpected group is finding itself left behind: college-educated black Americans — especially women www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

“We poisoned our community to make cases,” DEA Special Agent David Howell told AP. www.huffpost.com/entry/dea-un...

Severe storms irreparably damaged what is believed to be the last remaining “witness” tree at a home in Springfield, Ill., dating back to the time that Abraham Lincoln lived there www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/u...

Still blazing after all these years: Mel Brooks at 100

A new study from the World Weather Attribution, a Europe-based collaboration of scientists, reported Friday that the record-breaking heat and humidity in Europe this past week would not have been possible without climate change apple.news/A2z1lH-DpTMS...

This week's issue of The Moonlight Reader Society has been published. Learn about a literary protest, a new book-to-TV adaptation, the latest writerly obituaries and more! moonlightreadersociety.substack.com/p/sweet-sere... 💙📚

This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.

“Nothing prepares you for this,” he said, recalling how he had seen dismembered bodies, dead people and children in the disaster zone – but scant sign of government help. apple.news/ADXOFW6CDTwO...

Language in an FBI report detailing alleged criminal activity by a civil rights group was lifted in part from a letter that far-right groups sent to White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, a new court filing alleges www.huffpost.com/entry/fbi-tu...

Billionaires and newly minted trillionaire Elon Musk make up the top individual donors. www.washingtonpost.com/elections/in...

"The earth laughs in flowers" Ralph Waldo Emerson

Congress created the TPS program in 1990 to provide legal status to people whose countries are unsafe because of violence, natural disasters, etc. Haiti and Syria have been battered by such emergencies, and the people who face deportation could be returned to them www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/w...

Photos taken from the scene show people desperately searching and digging through the rubble for potential survivors after the twin quakes struck Venezuela back-to-back around 6 p.m., with magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.5, respectively www.huffpost.com/entry/photos...

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

Venezuelans searched for survivors beneath collapsed buildings Thursday and rescue teams raced to northern areas rocked by a pair of powerful earthquakes that officials say killed at least 188 people and left more than 200 trapped. More were feared dead apnews.com/article/vene...

The Supreme Court sided with the maker of the Roundup weedkiller Thursday in a ruling expected to block thousands of lawsuits alleging it failed to warn people the product could cause cancer. https://to.pbs.org/43VOkVA

The court, on a 6-3 vote on ideological lines, ruled in favor of the administration, which asked to continue with its plan to strip Temporary Protected Status from about 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians apple.news/A7Vn7VBGSRSK...

Around 34 million Sudanese are currently in need of humanitarian assistance. About 26 million people are facing food insecurity and imminent famine. More than 8 million children are out of school. Up to 90 percent of the health care facilities are shut down. apple.news/AO3uF89VlRKa...

When times are tough, it helps to remember that there is still good in the world. That's why I publish "A Bit of Good News." In the latest issue, learn about how to see the world in a new way, an app that assists people who are blind and more! abitofgoodnews.substack.com/p/find-the-g...

There are around 2,500 crisis pregnancy centers in the U.S. Many are Christian organizations; all try to keep people from having abortions. Staff are often volunteers who may or may not have medical training yet still wear scrubs or white coats www.npr.org/2026/06/24/n...

The postmaster general, David Steiner, said that under a proposed rule, his agency would not deliver mail ballots in states that decline to hand over voter data. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/u...

Today, the fourth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe, a group of 60+ conservative influencers, antiabortion leaders and pastors signed a petition to remove the “legal immunities” that have protected women who get abortions from prosecution. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/u...

Seven current and former National Park Service staffers said the new policy marks a shift from the agency’s long-standing approach to release as much information as possible www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

The back-to-back temblors were among the strongest to strike Venezuela in more than a century. www.huffpost.com/entry/venezu...

NEW: Sen. John Hickenlooper is calling on Trump to personally pay back taxpayers for the millions he spent revamping the Reflecting Pool, now a cesspool of algae + chunks of blue sealant. “This was not a result of vandalism, but your administration’s incompetence." www.huffpost.com/entry/senato...

The outbreak was declared 5 weeks ago, and there have been 1,094 confirmed Ebola cases and 277 deaths as of Wednesday. www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...

Exclu: Nearly a dozen senators are calling on Trump & RFK Jr. to remove a federal website that directs pregnant people to unregulated anti-abortion centers. “Moms.gov is not about promoting women’s health. It is an attempt to use HHS resources to further strip women of their rights and privacy.”

A majority of Texans oppose the construction of data centers in their community, including nearly two-thirds of Texans living in rural areas, according to a new poll from the University of Texas/Texas Politics Project.

Parastoo Ahmadi and her band will also be barred from leaving the country or performing for 2 years, making clear to Iranians that their new leaders may be just as severe as those killed in the war www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/w...

White House adviser Stephen Miller was the driving force behind the Justice Department’s recent memo authorizing states to institutionalize people with disabilities rather than fund community-based care, said people briefed on the situation. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

JUST IN: Aliya Rahman, the Minneapolis woman whose image went viral after ICE agents inexplicably dragged her out of her car on her way to a doctor’s appointment, just hit DHS with a federal complaint alleging its officers violated disability and human rights laws. www.huffpost.com/entry/aliya-...

Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting ​in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank, an independent U.N. inquiry said www.reuters.com/world/middle...

like once a week i starting laughing about the time we were driving by five guys and my husband said real quietly…that’s too many guys

The nonprofit suing the Trump administration over its unlawful changes to the Reflecting Pool filed a motion late Monday urging the court to expedite its case, in light of the algal bloom and chunks of peeled-up paint now bobbling in the pool. www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...

This is Reggie. He wanted to show you how he eats watermelon. 14/10 thank you Reggie (IG: reggiethebully5)

The findings suggest that Covid vaccines reduced the likelihood of severe illness last fall and winter apple.news/AUeEiDv6qTYu...

The Manchester Transit Authority launched a new, free bus route on Monday to take residents from the Center City to parks, supermarkets and a city pool in the North End. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026...

Here’s a gosling. I think I’ll call him Ryan. He’s a Canadian.

‘In 1976, we were full of hope.’ www.huffpost.com/entry/bicent...

In this week's issue of The End Files, read about a man who taught generations of funeral directors, signs from the beyond, famous deaths in history and more theendfiles.substack.com/p/treasure-i...

Ken Paxton told HuffPost he supports IVF, despite the GOP in his state adding an IVF ban to its newly approved party platform.

Manatee on a mission (w a remora for a necktie) #manatee #manateesofcoralcity #speedytee #necktie #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #miamibeach #biscaynebay #coralcity

Even as the world is racing to contain the deadly Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Trump administration is moving ahead with a plan that could decimate support for programs that detect and snuff out exactly such outbreaks www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/h...

Ahmed Wishah is the 12th Al Jazeera journalist killed by Israel in Gaza since October 2023 www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/6/...

The memo argues that states do not have to provide in-home or community-based care to people with disabilities who need support. These services allow many disabled Americans to continue to live, learn and work at home or in their own communities www.npr.org/2026/06/20/n...

The Trump administration plans to file at least 250 denaturalization cases by October, significantly intensifying its effort to revoke citizenship from people naturalized in the United States, according to a senior Justice Department official www.cnn.com/2026/06/18/p...