Day: January 30, 2025

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people was recognized as a legal person on Thursday after a new law granted it all the rights and responsibilities of a human being. Mount Taranaki — now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Māori name — is the latest natural feature to be granted personhood in N…

Here is what we know, in maps, about the collision outside of Washington, DC, Wednesday night.

Militants in the Gaza Strip released eight hostages on Thursday, handing them over to the Red Cross amid chaotic crowds as part of a swap that is set to see 110 Palestinians released from Israeli prisons later in the day. Agam Berger, a 20-year-old soldier, was handed over first at a site in the heavily destroyed urban refugee camp of Jabaliya in n…

Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport will be closed until at least 5 a.m. ET Friday after a crash involving a passenger jet and a military helicopter

The president says up to 30,000 criminal migrants deported from the United States could be housed at the facility in Cuba, but it wasn’t immediately clear how the plan would be implemented.

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — With the 2025 Sundance Film Festival underway, Utah leaders, locals and longtime attendees are making a final push — that could include paying millions of dollars — to keep the world-renowned film festival as its directors consider uprooting. Thousands of festivalgoers affixed bright yellow stickers to their winter coats that…