'Hands off my hijab': French Muslims rail against ban on religious garb in soccer
Lorado/ iStock (LONDON) — Hawa Doucouré and her teammates on the Les Hijabeuses soccer team have a simple message to send while playing the game they love: “Hands off my hijab.” It’s a message they hope is
North Cascades Highway reopens, fires continue burning
BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — State officials say the North Cascades Highway has reopened after wildfires forced its closure for nearly a month. The Bellingham Herald reports the Washington State Department of Transportation announced it reopened the road
New federal rule protects southern resident orcas down coast
BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) — A new federal rule expands protected habitat for the endangered southern resident orcas down the West Coast. The Center for Biological Diversity pushed for the protections, which designate 15,910 square miles of habitat
London's top cop on Prince Andrew: 'No one is above the law'
Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images (LONDON) — The head of London’s Metropolitan Police, Dame Cressida Dick, was asked on Thursday about the new civil lawsuit against Prince Andrew filed Monday in a New York court by Virginia
Court: Making homeless man pay truck’s towing cost excessive
SEATTLE (AP) — The Washington Supreme Court says it was unconstitutionally excessive for Seattle to impound a homeless man’s truck and require him to reimburse the city about $550 in towing and storage costs. Steven Long was
Taliban fighters reportedly executing surrendering troops, which could amount to war crimes, US officials say
KeithBinns/iStock (KABUL, Afghanistan) — As Taliban forces advance on more provincial capitals, the U.S. is warning that its fighters are committing atrocities that could amount to war crimes and the State Department will soon announce that it
Census data release sets off nationwide redistricting battles
Bill Oxford/iStock (WASHINGTON) — The Census Bureau on Thursday released the first district-level 2020 census results, setting off redistricting battles that could help determine whether Republicans or Democrats win control of the House of Representatives in the
DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison confident Democrats will deliver party's infrastructure priorities
Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images (ALEXANDRIA, Va.) — The Senate-passed bipartisan infrastructure bill is on hold until the Senate also sends the House a budget bill including other key Democratic priorities, but Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime
Siberian wildfires now bigger than all other fires in world combined
Yelantsevv/iStock (YAKUTSK, Russia) — Gigantic wildfires are burning across Siberia on a record scale that is larger than all the fires raging this summer around the world combined. The massive blazes in Russia are fueled in part
Two new species of dinosaurs found in China, scientists say
ALLVISIONN/iStock (Artist’s 3D rendering of two sauropods near a stream in the nature) (NEW YORK) — Scientists have discovered two new species of dinosaurs in a region where dinosaur fossils had never been unearthed. Fossils from three