Dust and groundwater contaminated with heavy metals and radioactive chemicals pose a health threat that the authorities have been trying to address for years.
The artificial lake of sludge is contaminated with lead, cadmium and other heavy metals, including traces of radioactive thorium, according to technical papers by Chinese scholars.
Zohran Mamdani’s responses on a 2009 college application were criticized by his mayoral rivals. The blowback was dismissed by his supporters as a politically motivated attack.
With the president’s domestic policy law signed, states will have to administer many of the cuts and decide how much they can spend to keep their citizens insured and fed.
The Arizona House of Representatives in Phoenix during budget negotiations last month. Gov. Katie Hobbs of Arizona called the federal budget bill “devastating” for her state.
Camp Lemonnier, the U.S. military base in Djibouti, last year. The eight men the government hopes to deport to South Sudan have been held at the base for several weeks.
The flooded Guadalupe River in Kerrville, Texas, on Friday. At least 20 girls were missing from Camp Mystic, a nearly century-old girls camp in nearby Hunt, Texas.
He had built one of the country’s leading trauma centers in Washington, which made it possible for his team to respond quickly after the president was shot.
Dr. Joseph Giordano (seated at the table at far left) appeared with other surgeons at a news conference at George Washington University Hospital on April 3, 1981, four days after President Ronald Reagan had been admitted there for gunshot wounds.
A 15-year-old boy could be the latest victim of subway surfing, a dangerous practice of riding on the roofs of train cars that has lured New York City youth for decades.
In recent years, the number of fatalities linked to subway surfing, which may have led to the death of a 15-year-old boy in Queens on Friday, has risen. The unidentified minor, who was declared dead at Bellevue Hospital, left behind a shoe at the subway station where he was recovered.
It was not immediately clear whether the group was demanding any significant changes to the plan for a 60-day truce, hostage-for-prisoner swaps and talks on a permanent end to the Gaza war.
Mr. Chestnut, who was barred last year over an endorsement deal with a vegan-meat company, and Miki Sudo easily won their respective contests but did not break records.
Joey Chestnut was a 16-time winner of the Mustard Belt at the Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest before being barred from participating last year. He notched his 17th win on Friday.
Despite the unspeakable horror of her youth, she embraced a school of psychotherapy that stresses empathy and the belief that everyone can change for the better.
The band hasn’t played a show since 2009, but the quarreling Gallaghers kept their names in the news by mastering the art of the troll, on social media and beyond.
There are serious questions about the wisdom and durability of President Trump’s policies, but on his terms, he can point to a string of accomplishments.
Firefighting efforts have been hampered by the presence of mines and unexploded ordnance left over from the civil war, as the country grapples with the worst drought in decades.
The withdrawal of international inspectors comes amid heightened concerns that Iran, battered by Israeli and U.S. strikes, may be driven to try to build a nuclear bomb.
Reza Najafi, Iran’s ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, speaks to journalists shortly after an extraordinary I.A.E.A. board of governors meeting at the agency’s headquarters in Vienna last month.
Major Cognac companies made concessions to avoid the worst of the penalties, imposed by Beijing in retaliation for E.U. tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles.
The music mogul, convicted on lesser charges at his federal trial, has been accused of sexually assaulting people in dozens of suits. He has denied the allegations.
The embattled music impresario Sean Combs in 2018. Though his federal trial is over, he still faces more than 50 lawsuits accusing him of sexual misconduct. He has denied the allegations.
The authorities confirmed that 20 girls were still missing as a result of the flooding along the Guadalupe River, but the full scope of the disaster was not clear.
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