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Fri, 09 May 2025 22:59:19 +0000
Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish student, has been held in an ICE detention facility in Louisiana since she was seized by masked federal agents outside her home near Boston.
By:Joanna Slater
Fri, 09 May 2025 22:52:11 +0000
The new pope faces a divided church in his home country, as Catholics have split along political lines.
By:Michelle Boorstein
Fri, 09 May 2025 22:39:21 +0000
The wand developed by Teal Health allows patients to self-collect a vaginal sample and mail it to a lab for testing.
By:Sabrina Malhi
Fri, 09 May 2025 22:03:51 +0000
The arrest took place during a protest at the newly opened immigration detention facility, officials said.
By:María Luisa Paúl
Fri, 09 May 2025 21:57:02 +0000
Radar systems at Newark Liberty International Airport stopped working for about 90 seconds Friday morning, the second major outage for the New Jersey airport.
By:Tim Craig
Fri, 09 May 2025 21:54:15 +0000
The firings are his administration’s latest test to the limits of presidential power over independent agencies.
By:Todd Frankel, Maxine Joselow
Fri, 09 May 2025 21:33:05 +0000
In a place where civic pride is a way of life, Chicagoans need little help believing the election of Pope Leo shows their city is among God’s favorites.
By:Annie Gowen, Kim Bellware
Fri, 09 May 2025 20:30:13 +0000
The Order of St. Augustine is a centuries-old religious order focused on community and charity.
By:Justine McDaniel
Fri, 09 May 2025 20:19:53 +0000
The latest measles outbreak case counts, with data from the CDC and affected states.
By:Dan Keating
Fri, 09 May 2025 20:11:05 +0000
The former Cardinal Robert Prevost, known as “Father Bob” in Chicago, is a White Sox fan, a naturalized citizen of Peru and is fluent in five languages.
By:Angie Orellana Hernandez, Tobi Raji
Fri, 09 May 2025 19:42:48 +0000
In a review of visuals posted online, The Post verified debris consistent with at least two French-made fighter jets flown by the Indian air force.
By:Imogen Piper, Jarrett Ley, Evan Hill, Maham Javaid
Fri, 09 May 2025 19:18:19 +0000
After Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, was elected pope, genealogists got to work. What they found surprised them.
By:Emmanuel Felton, Rachel Hatzipanagos, Vivian Ho
Fri, 09 May 2025 16:40:41 +0000
On the high court from 1990 to 2009, he saw his role as one of quiet resistance against excess and dramatic change.
By:Ann Marimow
Fri, 09 May 2025 10:00:00 +0000
This is Public Service Recognition Week, but the feds President Donald Trump has celebrated are the ones leading his assault on federal employees and agencies.
By:Joe Davidson
Thu, 08 May 2025 23:02:35 +0000
Robert Prevost’s election as pope stunned many Catholics skeptical that an American would ever be elevated to that role.
By:Kim Bellware, Joanna Slater, Dana Munro, Michelle Boorstein
Thu, 08 May 2025 20:38:57 +0000
About two-thirds of the staff that provides free examinations for the deadly disease, which one study says affects 1 in 5 longtime miners, was recently fired.
By:Tobi Raji, Maxine Joselow
Thu, 08 May 2025 12:05:38 +0000
“I wanted to be just like him,” Jacob Bello said of his father figure, Andy McIlveen, a now-retired police officer who took him in.
By:Kyle Melnick
Thu, 08 May 2025 10:00:19 +0000
Doctors fear the potential impact of the Trump budget cuts, with the number of babies dying of SIDS or other unexpected causes already on the rise.
By:Justine McDaniel
Thu, 08 May 2025 10:00:04 +0000
Conservative groups stumbled across Badar Khan Suri by investigating the academic centers where he and his wife studied.
By:Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff
Thu, 08 May 2025 10:00:02 +0000
Stacey Wales played the AI-generated video of her brother as a victim impact statement during the sentencing of his killer in an Arizona court.
By:Daniel Wu
Thu, 08 May 2025 07:00:35 +0000
New York, where 25 children died, saw a record number of pediatric deaths during the 2024-25 season. The state health commissioner blamed vaccine skepticism.
By:Andrew Jeong
Thu, 08 May 2025 01:47:14 +0000
Tyre Nichols’s 2023 killing helped galvanize public support for police reform. He died after running from police and being beaten by several Memphis officers.
By:Emmanuel Felton, Rachel Hatzipanagos
Wed, 07 May 2025 23:56:40 +0000
Casey Means, a key ally to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., replaces Janette Nesheiwat, a physician criticized for promoting coronavirus vaccines.
By:Fenit Nirappil, Rachel Roubein