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Beach goers take a dip in the Atlantic Ocean at Hollywood Beach, July 10, 2023, in Hollywood, Fla.

In Florida, swimmers brave an ocean that feels like steamy syrup

July 19, 2023 at 8:07 a.m.

The water temperature near Key Biscayne, a barrier island just east of Miami, had already passed 89 degrees Fahrenheit one morning this week. And though the ocean off South Florida...

Demonstrators in favor of cancelling student debt outside the Supreme Court in Washington, June 30, 2023.

$39 billion in student debt canceled for 800,000 borrowers

July 14, 2023 at 11:44 a.m.

More than 800,000 borrowers will have $39 billion in federal student loan debt eliminated under a government effort to remedy years of mistakes by the loan servicers that collect payments...

In an image provided by Deon Tillman, Natalie Robinson (third from right) of Fat Girls Travel, Too!, in Cartagena, Colombia. Five companies dedicated to size-inclusive travel aim to bring community and reassurance to people in bigger bodies.

New tours mean no more FOMO for plus-size travelers

July 10, 2023 at 2:45 p.m.

Vacation is meant to be relaxing, exhilarating and insert all the other positive adjectives you like, but it is often stressful and disappointing. Traveling while fat can be both of...

FILE — Hoodoos, eroded towers of rock that date back tens of millions of years, are seen from the Navajo Loop Trail in Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah, May 9, 2023. The National Park Service isn't just the 63 big-name parks — there are national monuments, a lakeshore and two other less crowded alternatives to explore the country's natural beauty and attractions.

5 National park destinations that aren’t parks

July 10, 2023 at 9:51 a.m.

Many of the 63 national parks across the United States have seen an explosion of visitor numbers both during and after the pandemic, which often has led to booked campsites,...

A Venezuelan migrant sleeps in Chamizal Park in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, just across the border from El Paso, Texas, July 5, 2023. Mexico is taking steps to keep migrants from massing along the border, but as they flow into southern Mexico the calm may be short-lived.

Number of migrants at the border plunges as Mexico helps US to stem flow

March 11, 2024 at 12:50 p.m.

Migrant shelters with plenty of empty beds. Soup kitchens with food to spare. Soldiers patrolling intersections where migrant families once begged for spare change. In Ciudad Juárez and in other...

A building on the University of Chicago campus in Chicago, May 21, 2023. The University of Chicago's 2014 declaration on free speech has become guide for colleges across the country that have struggled to manage campus controversies.

At the University of Chicago, a debate over free speech and cyber bullying

July 3, 2023 at 3:28 p.m.

Rebecca Journey, a lecturer at the University of Chicago, thought little of calling her new undergraduate seminar "The Problem of Whiteness." Though provocatively titled, the anthropology course covered familiar academic...

Rudy Giuliani speaks with reporters as he departs the federal courthouse, May 19, 2023, in Washington.

Rudy Giuliani sat for a voluntary interview in the Jan. 6 investigation

June 28, 2023 at 12:45 p.m.

Rudy Giuliani, who served as former President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, was interviewed last week by federal prosecutors investigating Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election, people familiar with the...

The headquarters of chemical and manufacturing giant 3M in Woodbury, Minnesota, on Aug. 25, 2011.

3M reaches $10.3 billion settlement in ‘forever chemicals’ suits

June 22, 2023 at 8:00 p.m.

The chemical and manufacturing giant 3M reached a $10.3 billion settlement on Thursday with U.S. cities and towns over their claims that the company contaminated drinking water with so-called forever...

Submersible pilot’s spouse is descended from a famous Titanic couple

June 22, 2023 at 10:08 a.m.

Wendy Rush, the wife of Stockton Rush, the OceanGate CEO who was piloting the submersible that disappeared Sunday during a dive to the Titanic wreckage, is a descendant of two...

Former President Donald Trump during a stop at the Versailles restaurant in the Little Havana neighborhood in Miami, on June 13, 2023.

Donald Trump says ‘secret’ document he described on tape referred to news clippings

June 20, 2023 at 7:52 a.m.

Former President Donald Trump told a Fox News anchor in an interview Monday that he did not have a classified document with him in a meeting with a book publisher...

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