Sunday Snippets: 2025

Here. We. Go.

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This Map Lets You Plug in Your Address to See How It’s Changed Over the Past 750 Million Years

Walmart illegally opened delivery drivers' deposit accounts, U.S. says

The man who claimed he built the world’s biggest record collection

Mourners mark 20 years since Indian Ocean tsunami that killed some 230,000 people

Costco shuts down shareholders demand to ditch DEI hiring practices

Brian Schatz to Democrats: Please, Stop With ‘Center’ and ‘Making Space’

With Trump's return, these House Democrats look for influence outside of Washington

Painstaking work to conserve Ireland’s oldest paper documents begins

Sunday Snippets: Bracing

Bracing for the start of the new year, but trying to enjoy the holidays.

Hospitals gave patients meds during childbirth, then reported them for illicit drug use

‘I Don’t Want to Forget Who I Am’

Biden commutes sentences for 1,500 people, the largest act of clemency in a day

Through 'The Loss Mother's Stone,' mothers share their grief from losing a child to stillbirth

People in colder countries understand the magic of winter. What's their secret?

The woman who invents cheeses in her mountain hideaway

I hope Assad pays the price, says mother whose son's death inflamed 2011 Syrian revolution

About 3 dozen high-rise buildings in South Florida are sinking, a study finds

This weightlifting gym helps older people build more than just strength

Some people need abortions later in pregnancy – many come to Maryland

'I knew they were something special': New York homeowner discovers mastodon jaw fossils in backyard

Gisèle Pelicot has rewritten her story – and electrified women all over the world. But what about men?

Sunday Snippets: Nikki Giovanni

We lost a beautiful amazing soul this week. I have been reading her work for many years and even included her poem, Resignation, when I got married. It sucks so much that she's gone.

Women Are Getting Sterilized After Donald Trump's Victory: 'Only Option'

‘Enshittification’ Is Officially the Biggest Word of the Year

I'm 45 And I Look My Age

On Having Expectations – Even When Doing Things for Free

What One Mass Rape Case Shows about the Depth of Rape Culture

      Dominique Pelicot now bemoans the way the trial has destroyed his life and seeks forgiveness from his family. When asked by his defense lawyers about the possibility of winning back his wife, he said: “It is important to have hope,” and again emphasized his own trauma.

America’s Sickness

The year of hetero discontent

Supreme Court term-limits amendment proposed by Sens. Manchin, Welch

Some good climate news, for once: Md. leads in carbon emissions reductions

Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project

Archaeologists Work with Indigenous Peoples, Department of Natural Resources to Uncover History at Chapel Point State Park

Renowned poet and Black arts movement icon Nikki Giovanni dies at 81

Sunday Snippets: Arms Embargo

Palestine still matters. The people still matter.

In an Internment Camp, All They Had Was Baseball. A New Generation Is Back to Play.

Resolve: 8 Reasons That Keep Me Going

A photographer's devastating documentation of El Salvador's civil war in the 1980s

After 15 years, Megan Atherton reunites with her 'Unsung Hero'

The American Nightmare Is A Rerun

School Shooter Drills Are Getting Stricter Guidelines In Maryland

Lawsuit challenges Minnesota abortion access in federal court

PHOTOS: A drone's eye view of 'foodscapes,' from cattle to soybeans to shrimp

The ‘Internet of Animals’ Could Transform What We Know About Wildlife

Photos: See inside the Bidens' last White House Christmas

Sunday Snippets: The Road Ahead

We lean into community, we don't obey in advance, we rebuild the world we want. This will take all of us.

Researchers are learning more about ‘Zosia,’ the 17th century ‘vampire’ buried with a blade over her neck

How France uncovered the mystery of the forbidden photos of Nazi-occupied Paris

Scientists find a 35,000-year-old saber-toothed kitten in the Siberian permafrost

Strata: Layered Watercolor Gradients

"My Project 2025" A New Poem By Me

LaTonya Yvette’s Brooklyn Home Feels Like a Soft Place to Land

Maryland Is Training More Health Workers To Offer Abortion Care

'I want my womb removed but doctors say I'm too young'

Dorothy Allison, Your Florida Is My Florida

As China cracks down on bookstores at home, Chinese-language booksellers are flourishing overseas

The fight for Alex Jones' Infowars company heats up as Jones sues to hold on

Cold, dark... and not remotely miserable: How to live your best winter life

Sunday Snippets: Moving Forward

I won't rehash the endless Twitter feeds/posts I've seen. We roll up our sleeves, we lean on and learn from community and we don't back down.

Israeli settlers in Gaza? Netanyahu’s allies lay out a strategy

How the Press Memory-Holed Trump’s Pandemic Train Wreck

DOJ lawyers slam 'glaring gap' in failure to investigate potential Israeli crimes

Meet America's secret team of nuclear first responders

A Woman Died After Being Told It Would Be a “Crime” to Intervene in Her Miscarriage at a Texas Hospital

Honoring Henrietta Lacks' legacy at Johns Hopkins University

Pregnant women and babies face 'terrifying' threat from xylazine addiction

Overdue book returned to Colorado library 37 years later

Leaving Rafah

A mother and baby from Gaza are reunited 11 months after being separated at birth

A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to Texas Emergency Rooms

What to the Arab American Is Election Day

When Food Doesn’t Taste Like Home

Sunday Snippets: Arms Embargo

Here. We. Go.

The Central Park 5 are suing Trump over Philly debate comments

As Ukraine's birth rate plunges, here's what one doctor is doing to reverse the trend

PHOTOS: How 9 families cope when they can't afford 3 healthy meals a day for the kids

Wildlife numbers fall by 73% in 50 years, global stocktake finds

Unemployed could be given weight-loss jabs to get back to work, says Wes Streeting

Why this country is seeing a 'staggering' increase in the number of rapes

Why the garment workers of Bangladesh are feeling poorer than ever

One Curious Trick For Stumbling Over Your Fun

Freedom Caucus leader endorses radical proposal for North Carolina to hand its electoral votes to Trump

Of Course This Week Feels Terrible

Why the GOP is 'Joking' About Women's Right to Vote

Sundays Snippets: Beyond Ceasefire

There needs to be an arms embargo. Now.

Stunning photos of a vast e-waste dumping ground — and those who make a living off it

Trump White House curtailed FBI's Kavanaugh probe, report finds

Menopause tests and anti-ageing face oils: welcome to midlife consumerism

How Israel has made trauma a weapon of war

Helene, climate disasters, and what we owe to each other

Poem of the Week | October 14, 2024

'My losses started the day I was born': A poet on what it’s like to call Gaza home

Helene’s damage to North Carolina’s Green River affects businesses that depend on it

New set of Megalodon teeth discovered in Maryland

Sunday Snippets: Beyond Ceasefire

How many more lives have to be lost?

Parents Should Ignore Their Children More Often

A downed power line is officially blamed for last year’s Maui wildfire

It's harder to pay and travel for abortion care, but support funds are struggling

Shovel by shovel, N.C. towns dig out from Helene mud and debris

Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates returns to nonfiction with his essay collection 'The Message'

How Do You Forgive the People Who Killed Your Family?

Trump-endorsed Bibles meet requirements laid out for Oklahoma schools

Genuine Connection is Ease

Mount Vernon’s massive new library is a ‘national model’ for rural development

Birders argue over plan to change dozens of bird names

Photos: Hurricane Milton slams Florida

Lynx, tiger and tadpoles, oh my: See the Wildlife Photographer of the Year winners

Sunday Snippets: Beyond Ceasefire

Gaza, West Bank, now Lebanon. When will it fucking stop? We are approaching the anniversary of the horrific Hamas attack and people are still dying.

These women are trying to humanize the climate crisis

Writing the Weather

Maryland seemed poised this year to legalize medical aid in dying. What happened?

California Gov. Newsom vetoes AI safety bill that divided Silicon Valley

'The Power Broker' at 50 — and what author Robert Caro is still uncovering

Hala Alyan: Why must Palestinians audition for your empathy?

Dockworkers go on strike, snarling traffic at East and Gulf Coast ports

'America's Nobel' goes to a power couple who made a startling discovery about HIV