PIERCE COUNTY, Wash. — A Pierce County judge on Friday sentenced a 29-year-old man to nearly 35 years in prison for the 2023 shooting death of a young Washington National Guardsman, bringing an ...

As 2025 inches towards its end, National Geographic is celebrating the year by dropping its annual Pictures of the Year 2025, “highlighting the images that most inspired and defined the past year ...

Each year, National Geographic highlights a collection of the most compelling images captured by Nat Geo photographers over the past 12 months in their "Pictures of the Year." For 2025, Nat Geo ...

A staffer at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) who helped organize a letter critical of the Trump administration’s health leadership said she was put on administrative leave just as the federal ...

The feast of All Souls on Nov. 2 kicks off a month the Catholic Church dedicates to prayer for the faithful departed — and invites us to treat this time as a kind of memento mori for ourselves as well ...

A scuba diver until age 79, Georgette Apol Douwma photographed reefs around the world and then transformed her images into dazzling kaleidoscopic designs. Photographer Georgette Apol Douwma’s ...

Visitors centers: Everglades has four: Ernest F. Coe near Miami, Guy Bradley in Flamingo, Gulf Coast in Everglades City, and Shark Valley off the Tamiami Trail highway. All are open daily; check ...

See why this Alaskan national park offers the world’s top bear-watching experience. A brown bear searches for salmon along a creek in Alaska’s Katmai National Park. The park supports one of the ...

These over-50 champs—and a growing body of research—show what we gain by staying active later in life. Nora Langdon, 82, started powerlifting in her 60s and quickly got hooked. Over the past two ...

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President Trump and several others now high up in his second administration have been talking about using the National Guard to help with mass... President Trump's deployments of National Guard troops ...

President Trump's deployments of National Guard troops to U.S. cities have outraged his political rivals, tested legal precedents and led to nationwide protests. The courts are weighing in on their ...