Sunday Snippets: Late May

How is it almost June?

DNA reveals identities of 4 sailors from doomed 1845 Franklin expedition

Blood, Sweat & Tears

America is giving dying mall vibes

A Community Takes a Data Center Colossus to Court

forget the dolls

Gotcha! Odd language mistakes may help identify fake papers

Metal detectorist 'could have found belongings of Iron Age queen'

What Objects Can—and Should—Reveal About Their Owners

You & I Are Earth

‘Super fun’: The tale of how a prehistoric shark became Maryland’s official state shark

Art, sex, nature: why is everything sold to us as a means to an end, rather than an end in itself?

Seabed life triples after bottom trawling ban in Scotland protected area

Metro: It's Not Easy Being Green

Sunday Snippets: FUCK ICE

FUCK ICE forever

Those Who Try to Erase History Will Fail

Painted rocks

Security Guard At ‘Zombie’ Bangor Mall Orders Customer To Stop Filming As City Cuts Power

The model railroad world feels a pinch from global trade uncertainty

Jewish seniors are offering to hide their Haitian caregivers as Trump’s TPS end looms

New study tells us what’s up with what’s going down with the sinking Chesapeake Bay

Anthropic didn’t want us to know that they were destroying millions of books to feed their software.

FDA Targets Gender-Affirming Garments, Warning Companies that Serve Trans Customers

Former IDF soldiers are challenging the normalization of the occupation

Prince George’s Democrat introduces bill allowing utilities to build energy projects

Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal accuses DOJ of 'spying' on her search history from unredacted Epstein files review

My Beauty Uniform: Felicity Aston

County Executive Aisha N. Braveboy Signs Executive Order Placing Moratorium on Detention Centers

Montgomery Co. passes bill to protect immigrants and limit cooperation with ICE

To keep AI out of her classroom, this high school English teacher went analog

Governor Moore Signs Legislation to Prohibit Maryland Jurisdictions from Deputizing Officers for Federal Civil Immigration Enforcement

Vigil at Aurora detention center honors migrants with Valentine's Day cards

Twin Cities tow truck driver returns abandoned vehicles to families after ICE arrests

Antarctic penguin breeding cycles changing rapidly in response to climate change, study shows

"Climate change allows generalist species to outcompete specialists as the latter lose specialist habitat while generalists … cope better with high environmental variance," it said."

Sunday Snippets: Just fuck

That fucking bill passed, ICE gets more fucking money and babies were swept away in Texas. Fuck.

It’s Time to Log Off

A Town’s Single Largest Taxpayer Is Also Its Biggest Headache

The Loyalist

Photos: Why it took courage for these women to pose for the camera

First Time in 100 Years: Young Kayakers on a Ride for the Ages

A charming cabin on Sweden's west coast becomes an inspiring retreat for its creative owners

Texas Man Born to U.S. Soldier on U.S. Army Base Abroad Deported

Photos: Decades in, these women's love was 'Hidden Once, Hidden Twice'

He Made Gay Marriage the Law of the Land. Now He’s Fighting a Larger War.

‘Even if we stop drinking we will be exposed’: Parts of France have banned tap water. Is it a warning for the rest of Europe?

Scientists engineer mosquito STD to combat malaria

Photos: Texas grapples with devastation from deadly flooding

As women have far fewer babies, the U.S. and the world face unprecedented challenges

Sunday Snippets: Finding your people

One of the biggest ways we survive is finding our people. Working in community, finding a good friend to vent to, etc. 

The hidden costs of chronic accommodation

These were the most-borrowed books from public libraries in 2024

Far from the front lines, Ukrainians fight a war to preserve their culture

‘Baby in a dumpster.’ A spate of abandoned newborns unsettles Texas.

Cux-Ajtzalam spoke in Spanish, saying she didn’t know English. There were other things she also said she didn’t know, having never had any sex education. It wasn’t until seven months after she claims a relative entered her room one night and raped her that she realized she was pregnant, she said.

“I never told anyone anything. I was ashamed,” she said, crying. (The man denied wrongdoing during an interview with The Post. He has not been charged.)

Louisiana’s Governor-Elect Wants To Withhold Funds For New Orleans’ Decaying Water Infrastructure Until Women Who Seek Abortions Are Prosecuted

Disability advocate Alice Wong on resistance in the new year: ‘Life is a dumpster fire, but I’m not alone

You Turned a Mall Into Housing?

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post

What Hurricane Helene Relief Taught Me About Preparing for Trump’s Second Term

Photos: Thousands in Los Angeles evacuate as wind-fueled Palisades Fire quickly worsens

The #Resistance Is Dead. Welcome to the #Surrender.

Sunday Snippets: Ceasefire

My continual prayer is one for a ceasefire. I hope we achieve it in 2024, along with peace for the Palestinian people.

A New Orleans neighborhood confronts the racist legacy of a toxic stretch of highway

New Michigan law means people leaving prison will automatically be registered to vote

After 38 years on the job, Santa Luke still has time for everyone. Yes, you too

solstice

Prize-winning photos by Rohingya: Unseen life in the world's largest refugee camp

2023 in photos: NPR station photographers share memorable moments