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Chita Rivera, Broadway's 'first great triple threat,' dies at 91

The three-time Tony Award-winning Broadway legend created indelible roles: Anita in West Side Story, Rose in Bye Bye Birdie and Velma Kelly in Chicago.

Margit Silverman and her husband Yossi Silverman; and Shiri Bibes and her husband Yarden Bibes

He watched his family get taken by Hamas fighters. Now he wants Israel to fight back

Yosi Shnaider's cousin and her children are among six of his relatives kidnapped by Hamas during the attack inside Israel.

An empty lot where a house once stood in Houston. The former residents moved because of flood damage. A new study suggests that people are moving away from the most flood-prone neighborhoods in cities that are otherwise growing in population.

People are leaving some neighborhoods because of floods, a new study finds

There are hundreds of U.S. neighborhoods where the population is declining due to flood risk, a new study suggests. Climate change drives flooding from heavy rain and sea level rise.

Alex Parra is a 22-year-old TikTok influencer who shares his life story of fighting cancer on the platform. He plans to run the San Francisco marathon Sunday using crutches to draw attention to the cost of prosthetics for amputees.

Prosthetics can cost up to $70,000. This influencer is running a marathon on crutches

TikToker Alex Parra (@Alex1leg) plans to compete in this weekend's San Francisco Marathon on crutches to raise awareness for athletes with disabilities.

People walk past the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., earlier this month.

Supreme Court conservatives seem likely to axe SEC enforcement powers

The Supreme Court's conservative justices seemed highly skeptical of how the Securities and Exchange Commission conducts in-house enforcement proceedings to ensure the integrity of securities markets.

The 53rd annual March for Life rally was held in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 23. There were about 1.1 million abortions in the U.S. both in 2024 and 2025, says a new report.

Despite state bans and restrictions, the number of abortions in the U.S. holds steady

The Guttmacher Institute has a new analysis on how many abortions happened in 2025.

Baneen Ahmed Nayyef had no training before appearing in Hasan Hadi's The President's Cake, in the role of nine-year-old Lamia, who is tasked with baking a birthday cake for Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

Iraqi film draws on Saddam-era childhood in tale of life under dictatorship

Hasan Hadi's debut feature film is a neorealist look at how life under Saddam Hussein and sanctions in 1990s Iraq destroyed children's innocence.

Ellaird Bailey and his wife, Charlotte, who lost their home in Altadena, Calif., to a wildfire in early 2025, stand in front of their recreational vehicle in December 2025. The RV is parked on the property where their house once stood. It can take years for disaster survivors to recover, often with the help of local Federal Emergency Management Agency workers.

FEMA is getting rid of thousands of workers in areas recovering from disasters

Thousands of employees whose contracts end this year will lose their jobs, FEMA managers said at personnel meetings this week. The cuts could hobble the nation's disaster agency.

People walk past a mural depicting former Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez alongside Venezuelan independence heroes in Caracas on Dec.17, 2025.

Venezuelans brace for hardship as Trump threatens oil blockade

After years of shortages and economic collapse, Venezuelans face fresh uncertainty as Trump threatens an oil blockade — but many say they're too exhausted to do anything but endure.

Kevin Warsh chaired his first meeting of the Federal Reserve's interest-rate setting committee this week. With inflation at a three-year high, the committee left its benchmark rate unchanged.

Federal Reserve holds interest rates steady and hints at rate hike later this year

The Federal Reserve left its benchmark interest rates unchanged Wednesday, and signaled its next move could be a rate increase. It's the first rate decision under the new Fed chairman, Kevin Warsh.

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