Then-President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk view SpaceX’s sixth Starship test flight last November. Credit: Shutterstock / This story was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Before and after the 2024 election, Elon Musk made it…
Khas Kunar, Afghanistan – Stoori was pulled out from under the rubble of his house in Kunar province after it was destroyed by the magnitude 6 earthquake which struck on the night of August 31. But the guilt of not being able to save his wife haunts him. “I barely had enough time to pull…
“WE HAVE THE BODY BAGS READY.” Though it was more than 25 years ago, I still feel the chill that ran through my body in a conference room in the wetlands of Northern California. I was a graduate student on a multi-university, interdisciplinary wetland restoration project team. We, a group of scientists from the south…
President Donald Trump‘s “big beautiful bill” raised the state and local tax deduction, known as SALT, to $40,000 for 2025. The change comes less than a decade after a cap was placed on this tax break for the first time in its history. Taxpayers who itemize tax breaks can claim the SALT deduction, which includes state and…
Source: Halpern, et. al., Science (2025) By Delger Erdenesanaa Graphics by Mira Rojanasakul; Photographs and Video by Madeline Gray This article was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network. Sept. 4, 2025 Working from a dock on St. Helena Island, S.C., on a sweltering day this summer, Ed Atkins pulled in a…
Open this photo in gallery: U.S. President Donald Trump holds a chart as he delivers remarks on reciprocal tariffs in April.BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images America’s trade partners swept into Washington over the summer hoping to cement new pacts that would yield certainty for their exporters and prevent their economies from plunging into recession. Instead, they’re now…
A magnitude 6 earthquake has hit Afghanistan near its border with Pakistan. The death toll from Sunday night’s disaster has risen to more than 800 people, according to the government. Flooding and debris have hampered rescue efforts. Here is more about what happened and why Afghanistan is vulnerable to earthquakes: What happened? At 11:47pm (19:47…
HANOI – Heavy rain fell Tuesday in parts of Southeast Asia after a tropical storm made landfall in Vietnam, flooding streets in the capital, blowing away billboards and knocking down power poles and trees. Vietnam’s state media said the remnants of Typhoon Kajiki were now a tropical depression over Laos. Heavy rain was also forecast…
California resident Shannon Johnson lives a few blocks from Imperial Beach’s turquoise water and waves of “perfect little curls” — but Johnson and her two young children haven’t stepped foot on the sand in a year. “Every time we go by the beach they’re asking, ‘Is it going to be clean? When are they going…
The authorities in Hong Kong have refused to extend the employment visa of a Bloomberg journalist, effectively expelling her from the Chinese territory where she has lived and worked for six years. Rebecca Choong Wilkins, a reporter on the financial newswire’s Asia government and politics team, was applying for a routine visa renewal when she…