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Hundreds of people gathered Saturday at national parks from California to Maine to protest the Trump administration’s firing of at least 1,000 National Park Service employees last month.

The deer look pensive, almost like they know what’s coming.

Leaders from Western Washington tribes and state officials have agreed to enter mediation about removing salmon migration barriers, reviving a decadeslong court case over tribal treaty fishing rights and habitat damage from generations of building state highways.

Israel has accepted a new Gaza ceasefire proposal from the U.S., Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced, hours before a suspension of hostilities with Hamas was due to end. If Hamas also accepts the deal offered by White House envoy Steve Witkoff, designed to span the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan and the Jewish festival of Passover, Israel is ready to enter implementation ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered U.S. Cyber Command to halt offensive cyber and information operations against Russia as President Donald Trump seeks to end President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine on terms that are widely seen as favoring Moscow, according to one current and one former U.S. official familiar with the order.

Elon Musk is trying again on his demand that every federal worker justify their employment weekly. And again, the hastily executed initiative is sowing confusion and resistance throughout the workforce, with many agency heads openly defying it.

NEW ORLEANS – Almost everyone has their perfect spot to take in the full majesty of Mardi Gras parades here, from the brightly lit floats from which riders toss bounties of colorful beads to the precision of the marching bands whose booming bass drums serve as the heartbeat of the city’s cherished Carnival tradition.

Civil rights icon and Harlem legend Hazel Dukes, the NAACP’s New York State Conference president, has died. She was 92.

How did the universe begin? A compact NASA space telescope that uses less power than a refrigerator is poised to chip away at that large question.

On the last Friday of September 2023, Elon Musk dropped in about an hour late to a dinner party at the Silicon Valley mansion of technology investor Chamath Palihapitiya.

LOS ANGELES -- An epic treehouse that has stood in Sherman Oaks for 24 years now teeters on the brink of destruction after the city of L.A. declared the whimsical creation a crime. "The Simpsons" producer Rick Polizzi built the treehouse, dubbed Boney Island, in his front yard as a playhouse for his daughters. He says it's become a quirky local landmark loved by the neighborhood children and ...

Like blue jeans and Colonial-style architecture, white kitchens are timeless – and given their popularity with developers and flippers, odds are high that you have one, whether you wanted it or not. But according to the 2025 Kitchen Trends Report from the National Kitchen and Bath Association, these clean and classic spaces have fallen out of fashion. Many homeowners now crave kitchens with personality, shunning “sterile” white in favor of nature-based colors, like green, blue and brown.

I’ve shared in past columns the wonderful time I’m having helping my son with projects around his house. For several weekends now we have spent hours of quality time together while finishing his basement.

Spokane County is facing a dual outbreak, with more influenza infections in the first two months of 2025 than entire seasons from the past several years and the state’s highest number of whooping cough cases.

Turns out that whale scene in Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams’ hilarious 2020 movie, “Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga,” may not have been so overblown, after all. We chalked up the scene of two massive humpbacks breaching in breathtaking unison to cinematic magic. But the little town of Husavik is considered not only the whale-watching capital of Iceland, Lonely Planet calls it ...

2025 kicked off with a bang, especially when it comes to design trends. While some are holdovers from previous years, many are not, and represent a fresh new approach to what’s in, relating to home décor. Here are five key interior design trends, to keep an eye out for if looking to infuse a sense of modern “wow” into your home. Earth tones. Deep earth and fire colors such as burnt orange, ...

Editor’s note: Because of issues accessing the archives, today’s 1925 entry is a bonus March 2 item.