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Gifts with heart: 15 thoughtful US ideas that support causes in need | Life and style
Last year, when my daughter opened her axolotl stuffed animal from her grandmother, I admit I was slightly peeved. Did we really need yet another stuffy? But this one had a purpose: it came from World Wildlife Foundation, a conservation non-profit that sends 85% of proceeds toward conservation work and has a four-star rating on Charity Navigator. My daughter loved…
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Secretary Bessent Orders Sanctions Against Violent Mexican Cartel
WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the Cartel de Santa Rosa de Lima (CSRL), which derives the vast majority of its illicit revenue from fuel and oil theft in the Mexican state of Guanajuato. The violent conflict between CSRL and the notorious Mexican terrorist Cartel Jalisco Nuevo Generacion (CJNG) for…
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Texas Democrats fill up every state and federal race in 2026
Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy, and give us feedback. A Democrat is running in every state and federal race on the Texas ballot next year, the first time in modern state history that either party has fielded a full slate of candidates, according to the Texas Democratic Party. The…
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What we know so far about the Brown University shooting suspect
Authorities are strongly urging the public to search for and share any potential images of a gunman who opened fire inside a Brown University classroom on Saturday, while facing increased scrutiny for the lack of major breaks in the case. READ MORE: Students, community frustrated with official response after Brown University shooting Providence Police Chief Col. Oscar Perez said in…
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Why the US is trying to tie the drug trade to terrorism
Will GrantBBC Central America correspondent Reuters The world’s largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, is among the ships which have been deployed to the Caribbean The escalating tension between the US and Venezuela has led to the biggest military build-up in the Caribbean since the end of the Cold War. The last time so many US warships and troops…
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GOP sues to block California’s new voting maps
By Maya C. Miller and Mikhail Zinshteyn, CalMatters A “No on Prop 50” sign at the Kern County Republican Party booth at the Kern County Fair in Bakersfield on Sept. 26, 2025. Republicans are seeking to overturn the congressional maps voters approved last month. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for…
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Barbara Rose Johns statue unveiled at U.S. Capitol : NPR
A model of the statue of Barbara Rose Johns pictured in 2023, two years before the real thing was unveiled at the U.S. Capitol. Amy Davis/The Baltimore Sun/ZUMA Press Wire via Reuters hide caption toggle caption Amy Davis/The Baltimore Sun/ZUMA Press Wire via Reuters In 1951, a Black teenager led a walkout of her segregated Virginia high school. On Tuesday,…
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Trump immigration policy upends lives of Texas migrants
Sara had been preparing for a radio interview earlier this month to promote her plans to open an at-home child care center in Central Texas when she learned that a new federal immigration order rendered her ineligible for legal status. Sara, an undocumented Venezuelan who applied for asylum earlier this year, canceled the interview and indefinitely put her plans on…
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Republicans divided on Trump’s policy toward Afghan immigrants : NPR
Afghan refugee girl Laylama is pictured during a September 2025 interview with AFP in Islamabad, where she was living after President Trump suspended refugee admissions to the U.S. Farooq Naeem/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Farooq Naeem/AFP via Getty Images Some Republicans in Congress are splitting from the Trump administration over its crackdown on legal immigration from Afghanistan,…
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Experts say declaring fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction won’t reduce overdoses : NPR
President Donald Trump signs an executive order classifying fentanyl as a “weapon of mass destruction,” during a ceremony for the presentation of the Mexican Border Defense Medal in the Oval Office of the White House on December 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. D Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/Getty Images North America President…
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