Copeland eventually joined the American Ballet Theater in 2001, and after a 15-year climb, she became the first Black woman ever to be named a principal dancer with the company.
The International Court of Justice said Israel must work with U.N. agencies, including UNRWA, the group for Palestinian refugees, which Israel has banned.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents are being sent to a U.S. Coast Guard base in Alameda, Calif., ahead of an immigration operation in the San Francisco region.
It was the eighth known strike, and the first outside the Caribbean, in the Trump administration’s campaign against what it says are boats carrying drugs bound for the United States.
U.S. troops riding an amphibious supply vehicle during a training exercise in Arroyo, Puerto Rico, last week. The military has been expanding its presence in the Caribbean region.
Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, Democrat of Arizona, along with the state’s attorney general, argued that the speaker had no authority to delay swearing her into office.
Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva won a special election in Arizona for a seat left vacant by the death of her father, but has now waited almost exactly a month to be sworn into office.
Vice President JD Vance said recent visits by top American officials were to monitor the cease-fire, but not “in the sense of, you know, you monitor a toddler.”
Under the terms of a cease-fire deal, Israel and Hamas have been exchanging remains, but Gaza’s medical authorities have not been able to identify many of them.
Under the terms of a cease-fire, Israel is required to release the bodies of 15 deceased Palestinians in exchange for every deceased Israeli hostage returned by Hamas.
Six weeks into the federal crackdown in Chicago, the attack on crime that the president promised hasn’t happened, and many in the city’s Black population haven’t been won over.
“This level of attack is unsustainable for Chicagoans,” said Che “Rhymefest” Smith, a rapper and school board member who rejected President Trump’s notion that Black Chicagoans welcomed federal law enforcement.
Lawmakers in both parties worry that the steady erosion of congressional prerogative they are witnessing daily could inflict permanent damage on the institution at the forefront of representative government.
The Trump administration is trying an array of unconventional measures to shore up U.S. rare earths supplies. It remains uncertain whether the strategy will work.
The Trump administration is working with allies, including the Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, left, to obtain access to rare earth minerals.
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