The contractor said the pool’s new blue liner peeled and tore because of “human oversight” and a flawed plan that involved layering two incompatible chemicals, documents show.Workers sprayed blue coating Thursday as part of ongoing repairs at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington.
The 64-year-old Michigan power plant was set to retire. Then the Trump administration intervened in a way that overstepped its authority, a court ruled.The J.H. Campbell coal plant in West Olive, Mich.
The Iran-backed militia’s ground offensive has reached Bab al-Mandab, a Red Sea strait that is a choke point for global trade.A satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC in 2025 of Perim Island off Yemen.
The price of U.S. diesel fuel hit a new high over mounting fears that fighting in the Middle East could further threaten oil supplies.Governments, businesses and farmers are paying more for diesel fuel to run trucks, farm machinery and other heavy equipment.
The president made clear as his convention wrapped up that he wants to carry his party through a tough midterms. He just won’t go too far out of his way to do it.President Trump told supporters at his convention on Thursday night to “pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United Stat
Our politics reporter Reid Epstein explains how the Trump administration is using the Postal Service to intervene in mail-in voting in state elections.
The long, odd two-night TV production hoped to reach a select audience of die-hard voters (if football didn’t intercept them).President Trump spoke on both nights of a Republican convention that wasn’t technically a convention.
Online media stars eager to promote President Trump and Republicans worked to find a message that would resonate with an audience that is struggling with an affordability crisis.Lydia Shaffer is a social media influencer who goes by “Conservative Barbie.”
A new crop of college students is finding balance at daytime parties with yoga, saunas and cold plunges.
The odds of a quarter-point rate increase at the Federal Reserve’s meeting next week surged to 90 percent after August’s Consumer Price Index report.
If the AARP’s projection holds, the cost-of-living adjustment would be the largest since 2023.“Older adults, especially seniors on Social Security, are experiencing higher costs on everything,” said Bill Sweeney, AARP’s senior vice president for government affairs.
Cardiologists are struggling to figure out why a drug that should have prevented heart attacks didn’t work at all.An illustration of a lipoprotein A particle. Scientists are asking themselves: If Lp(a) is a marker, what is it marking? Is there another cause of heart disease that no one has thought o
For five decades, the artist has made sculptures that are larger-than-life — and also singularly reflective of his own.
The nation’s reaction to the 11-1 deadlock that resulted in a mistrial for Lindsay Clancy was, like the jury itself, fiercely and unbridgeably divided.
The state was the first to pass a law banning Kalshi and Polymarket. A lawsuit filed by a federal agency may set a precedent on who gets to regulate them.State Representative Emma Greenman in the Minnesota State Capitol, where she helped pass a law banning prediction markets in the spring.
Prediction markets have taken off in popularity, drawing billions of dollars in trades. Some states have tried to ban them.An ad for Kalshi in 2024. The huge popularity of Kalshi and Polymarket has raised fears about how susceptible they are to manipulation by those with insider information.
We can no longer pretend that A.I. is safe.
The political scientist Francis Fukuyama looks back on his 1992 book, “The End of History and the Last Man,” and what it has predicted about the state of liberalism today.
The teenager survived in the Bering Sea off Alaska without food or water before a fishing vessel pulled him to safety, the Coast Guard said.A 15-year-old whose mother identified him as Derek Parker Aghnaanga was pulled to safety from the overturned hull of his skiff on Monday by the crew of a fishin
