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FILE - Northern lights fill the sky behind the Saint Joseph the Woodworker Shrine, near Valley Falls, Kan., Nov. 11, 2025.

North America poised for light display of aurora borealis

The splashy nighttime phenomenon will be best observed on Saturday and Sunday nights

The 28th annual Harpin' Help show at Bar Anticipation is coming up and Sandy Mack stopped in to chat about what's going to happen all day long at the big food drive and charity concert.

On April 29, 2026, the humpback whale recovered from a shallow bay off Wismar was being transported towards the North Sea in a flooded cargo ship just before the Danish border in Fehmarn, Germany.

Timmy the humpback whale found dead off Danish coast

A humpback whale found dead this week off a Danish island has been identified as the animal released two weeks ago in a spectacular and controversial rescue effort after repeatedly becoming stranded off Germany's Baltic Sea coast, Danish authorities said Saturday.

Shipwrights from Bristol Marine's Samples Shipyard and Niagara crew members work to secure the vessel against the dock in Boothbay, Maine. The relaunch begins the ship's preparation for its return voyage to Lake Erie ahead of the America's 250th anniversary celebrations.

After a year-long rebuild, historic War of 1812 ship heads home to Lake Erie

After months in dry dock in Maine, the USS Niagara slipped down the ways last week after nearly a year of work. The two-masted, 20-gun brig will soon return to its home port on Lake Erie.

A bull male elephant is seen meticulously dismantling an electric fence inside Yala National Park in Sri Lanka. Elephants are often herded into parks to keep them from eating the crops of farmers, but the pachyderms have figured out how to manipulate the wooden fence poles to lay the wires flat and then step over them.

Elephants eat their crops. Farmers strike back. It's a war that's only getting worse

In Sri Lanka, the islanders revere elephants. But for farmers, there's rising tension that's leading to more fatal encounters — for both humans and hungry pachyderms.

Mayor Thorsten Grädler of Vilseck, Germany, discovered that his town could be the target of President Trump's U.S. troop cuts on his first day in office, when a journalist told him during a press conference. Grädler says the impact on his town would be "dramatic."

The townspeople of Vilseck, Germany, worry that Trump may pull out 5,000 U.S. troops

President Trump's troop withdrawal threat rattles residents of a small Bavarian town reliant on U.S. military personnel and their families for both income and friendships built over decades.

"I feel like, up until this point, I probably was being 88% honest at face with everything," Rashad says. "And then now it's more like a hundred. And it doesn't hurt to. I don't feel the risk factor in talking about stuff."

Isaiah Rashad: 'Time's up for being afraid of yourself'

In the five years since his last album, the Chattanooga rapper retreated from the public eye after a very private betrayal. He emerges with raw new music in pursuit of a warts-and-all self-acceptance.

Admitted students and their families, including some from rural areas, take a tour of the Amherst College campus as they decide whether or not to enroll.

Colleges got more rural students to apply. The challenge is getting them to attend

Some of the nation's most selective institutions are slowly increasing their rural enrollment with the help of millions of dollars from a rural alumnus of the University of Chicago.

Sen. Bill Cassidy poses for a portrait after a campaign event in Baton Rouge, La. on May 4, 2026.

This Republican voted to convict Trump. Now he's up for reelection. Can he survive?

Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy was one of seven Republican senators who voted to convict President Trump. Now he's running for reelection in a race that will test Trump's hold on the GOP.

San Francisco Ballet artistic director Tamara Rojo is known for taking risks. She says that, with the exception of Nutcracker, "every time you bring back the same work, less people will come. You are cannibalizing yourself. So that's not really a long-term strategy that you can rely on."

How Tamara Rojo is remaking ballet

From championing women choreographers to upending classics, the former Royal Ballet star turned artistic director of the San Francisco Ballet doesn't play it safe.

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One, Friday, May 15, 2026, as he returns from a trip to Beijing, China.

Trump says Islamic State group leader was killed in a joint U.S.-Nigerian mission

Trump announced the joint operation in Africa's most populous country in a late-night social media post. He said Abu Bakr al-Mainuki was second in command of the Islamic State group globally.

Zimmy Shelter

Chris and Gordon from Zimmy Shelter stopped by to chat about their upcoming Dylan & The Dead tribute show at the Wonder Bar in Asbury Park and to play a couple of songs live in the studio.

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