WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of Supreme Court justices on Tuesday seemed likely to side with a Christian counselor challenging bans on LGBTQ+ “conversion therapy” for kids as a violation of her First Amendment rights. Kaley Chiles, with support from President Donald Trump’s ...
(AP) — Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91. The Jane Goodall Institute announced the primatologist’s death Wednesday in an Instagram post. According to the Washington, ...
(AP) — Lally Weymouth, the daughter of the late Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham who forged her own journalistic career interviewing world leaders including Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, has died. She was 82. Weymouth died Monday at her home in Manhattan. The cause was pancreatic cancer, her daughter Katharine Weymouth told The Washington Post. Born Elizabeth Morris Graham, Lally Weymouth was most recently a senior associate editor at the paper. Her latest piece was an interview with Qatari Emir Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani that ran ...
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Nobel laureate Dr. George Smoot, who conducted groundbreaking research into the origins of the universe during a long career at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has died, the school said. He was 80. Smoot died on ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Ernie “Big Cat” Stevens Jr., a driving force behind the expansion of Native American gaming for more than two decades, has died. He was 66. The Indian Gaming Association, a Washington, D.C.-based group that works to protect tribes and promote tribal gaming, ...
(AP) — Authorization for the largest residential flood insurance program in the U.S. was set to expire Tuesday, leaving homeowners unable to access new coverage and potentially wreaking havoc on home sales in flood-prone areas. Millions of policyholders rely on the National Flood Insurance ...
