Under its new leader, Ken Martin, the Democratic National Committee has been plagued by infighting and a drop in big donations, raising alarms from Democrats as they try to win back power.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/politics/dnc-ken-martin.html
Researchers found children with highly addictive use of phones, video games or social media were two to three times as likely to have thoughts of suicide or to harm themselves.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/health/youth-suicide-risk-phones.html
About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for our global migration.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/science/ancient-human-adaptation-environments.html
The regal seat continues to be part of Black American social traditions.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/realestate/peacock-chair-black-experience.html
The decision to declare war rests with Congress alone.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/opinion/iran-war-israel-trump.html
As parents, we know better than state officials what our child needs.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/opinion/supreme-court-trans-care.html
Also, Trump’s cryptic Iran comments fueled fears of a wider war. Here’s the latest at the end of Wednesday.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/briefing/scotus-transgender-care-trump-iran.html
The show is happening at a delicate time for Boeing, which is coming off its best month for sales in a year and a half and a deadly plane crash in India involving one of its aircraft.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/business/boeing-airbus-paris-air-show.html
BYD and other companies doubled their share of the car market after the European Union imposed higher tariffs on electric vehicles from China.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/business/china-byd-cars-europe.html
While faulting some towers for inefficient practices, the report recognized significant external factors and called on Congress to help address the problem.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/politics/faa-report-staffing.html
Sarah Stogner had never tried a criminal case before getting elected D.A. in an oil-rich area half the size of New Jersey. So far, it’s been a struggle.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/texas-prosecutor-sarah-stogner.html
The stance has been met with relief by war-weary in Lebanon, but there is still a possibility Hezbollah could change its position if Iran’s regime starts to wobble.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/18/hezbollah-iran-israel-conflict/
See what sites Iran and Israel have hit in their escalating direct conflict.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/18/israel-iran-maps-strikes/
Catherine has slowly returned to public events after cancer treatment and had been expected in the procession of Royal Ascot, but she abruptly canceled.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/18/princess-kate-middleton-ascot-horserace/
The 20-year-old from Hamburg was accused of being part of the predatory group 764 and pressuring a 13-year-old American to hang himself while online in 2022.https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/18/germany-murder-764-online-predators/
The artist's ceramic pieces combined practicality with aesthetics. Now, seven of his hand-painted dishes are heading to the auction blockhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-never-before-seen-ceramics-show-how-picasso-mastered-new-art-forms-180986844/
The 98-foot-long vessel was transporting ceramic jugs, ceramic plates and metal bars when it sank off southeastern France nearly 500 years agohttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-16th-century-shipwreck-discovered-at-record-depth-in-french-waters-180986826/
More than one-third of species that eat some amount of carrion are threatened or declining, a new analysis finds, and that could lead to a rise in zoonotic diseaseshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scavenger-animals-are-in-trouble-and-that-could-spell-bad-news-for-human-health-180986845/
Historians are investigating the haunting handwritten manuscript, which chronicles Thomas White's escape from slavery in Maryland and adventures around the world nearly 200 years agohttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/tattered-pages-discovered-in-storage-reveal-an-enslaved-mans-daring-bid-for-freedom-and-his-second-life-at-sea-180986838/
The state's new law marks one of the largest government investments into psychedelics to date, with advocates citing the drug's potential to help veterans with traumatic brain injury and PTSDhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/texas-will-invest-50-million-in-ibogaine-research-testing-the-psychedelic-drugs-medical-potential-180986829/