Since the end of the Cold War, Washington has generally overlooked the Arctic. However, this region, also known as the High North, has become increasingly contested in recent years. In fact, U.S.

On Sept. 10 2025, the conservative activist Charlie Kirk was fatally shot on the campus of Utah Valley University. Kirk was speaking at the first stop of a campus tour put on by the nonprofit ...

It isn't unusual for a pet owner's camera roll to be packed with photos of their furry friends. But one social-media user recently stumbled across an image she says she didn't take—and it was snapped ...

Alexandra Jahn receives funding from the National Science Foundation. As I walked out onto the frozen Arctic water off Utqiagvik, Alaska, for the first time, I was mesmerized by the icescape. Piles of ...

With the end of summer approaching in the Northern Hemisphere, the extent of sea ice in the Arctic shrank to its annual minimum on Sept. 10, according to NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center ...

WASHINGTON — An FBI investigation launched in the wake of the the 2020 election scrutinized nearly 100 Republican and GOP-aligned groups or people — including Turning Point USA, co-founded by slain ...

After counting over 6,000 votes, Somerville has elected a new Bike Path Mayor Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Somerville, Mass., crowned Minerva the cat as its new “Bike Path Mayor” after ...

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, revealed Tuesday that the FBI's election-related investigation into President Donald Trump, launched in 2022, swept in dozens of Republican ...

Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa turned the Judiciary Committee’s annual FBI oversight hearing into a political battleground, unleashing explosive new allegations against a former director, Christopher ...

Hidden within Arctic ice, diatoms are proving to be anything but dormant. New Stanford research shows these glass-walled algae glide through frozen channels at record-breaking subzero temperatures, ...

U.S. Navy Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS Pasadena (SSN-752) and Virginia-class attack submarine USS Illinois (SSN-786) surface in the Beaufort Sea as part of ICEX 2022, March 2022. The ...