States file new lawsuits against Trump’s payouts stopping offshore wind
Wind turbines generate electricity at the Block Island Wind Farm off Rhode Island. President Donald Trump’s administration has pledged billions…
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Trump administration says developers, loggers can kill endangered species
Grizzly bears in the lower 48 states are federally protected as a threatened species. A new memo from U.S. Fish…
Annie Dillard brought poetry into prose, pioneering a mystical form of creative nonfiction that critics both admired and misunderstood
Annie Dillard is rightly celebrated as a pioneer in creative nonfiction after her death on Sep. 15, 2026, at age…
Violent victimization at school rose among students in 2024, federal data show
School buses parked outside Hammond High School in Columbia, Md., a suburb of Baltimore. Students ages 12 to 18 experienced…
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will use gravity as a magnifying glass to find distant planets
Massive objects bend light, which results in a phenomenon called gravitational lensing. NASA/STScI NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched…
Is science journalism dying? Comparing a ‘science crash’ 40 years ago to today
Newsstands in the 1980s had more magazines of all kinds than they do today. Richard Laird/FPG/Archive Photos via Getty Images…
Physicists zoom into the birth of cosmic rainstorms with new CERN study
Scientists want to learn more about the cosmic rays that create particle showers in Earth's atmosphere. Thomas Bergauer/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND…
Suit challenges Trump administration move to allow some ICE presence at polling places
Voters head into a polling site at Grand Park in Westfield, Indiana, on May 5, 2026. (Photo by Tom Davies/Indiana…
Divorce becomes next battleground as states debate family values
Missouri Republican state Rep. Cecelie Williams, flanked by Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe and Democratic state Rep. Raychel Proudie, speaks in…
People with Tourette syndrome, like Billie Eilish, use everything in their power to suppress tics – this exhausting process is key to treatment
Many people with Tourette's suppress their tics until they can release them in a safe space. Klaus Vedfelt/DigitalVision via Getty…
Tiny backpacks reveal the secret, sometimes circuitous migrations of small songbirds
A tracker must be light enough to not weigh down a bird that weighs only as much as a spoonful…
‘Star Trek’ and NASA have intertwined legacies – the show championed diversity and inspired generations of real space scientists
Gene Roddenberry, second from right, and Star Trek cast members visit the Space Shuttle Enterprise in 1976 with NASA Administrator…
On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, States Newsroom editor remembers the heroes of Flight 93
The crash of United Flight 93 is marked by a boulder at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Stonycreek Township…
As the Trump administration dismantles Temporary Protected Status, Salvadorans may be next
Jose Palma holds the work authorization cards of a Salvadoran member of the National TPS Alliance. The individual has renewed…
Taxpayers don’t want to pay for new NFL stadiums – so why did politicians approve billions in subsidies to fund six new ones?
Beginning in 2027, the Tennessee Titans will play their home games in the new Nissan Stadium in Nashville. Over $1…
What comes next for the 1 million people who have lost – or will soon lose – Temporary Protected Status
People hold Haitian flags and signs during a July 2026 rally in San Diego in support of immigrants living in…