As summer fast approaches, there have been several reported incidents regarding close encounters with sharks. ABC News' Eva Pilgrim provides the latest update.https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/video/sharks-shallows-122302498
Dylan McDougal, 28, can be seen attacking TSA officers at Miami International Airport in December and authorities say he also randomly attacked another passenger once through security.https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/video/video-shows-passenger-attacking-tsa-officers-122301825
Almost 20 million people played pickleball in 2024, marking a nearly 46% increase from the prior year, according to a report from the SFIA.https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/pickleball-fever-spans-generations-122300023
President Donald Trump has handed out a flurry of pardons in recent weeks, including some to his political and financial supporters.https://abcnews.go.com/US/trumps-flurry-pardons-include-campaign-contributors/story?id=122313284
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump urged Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to lower interest rates during a meeting at the White House.https://abcnews.go.com/US/live-updates/trump-admin-live-updates-trump-extends-deadline-50/?id=122189223
The Supreme Court put new limits on the scope of federally mandated environmental impact statements, clearing the way for a proposed rail line linking Utah and Colorado.https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-limits-environmental-impact-studies-expediting-infrastructure/story?id=122312471
With a growing focus on the Indo-Pacific region, the defense secretary and DNI's trip to Singapore underscores her evolving role on the global stage.https://abcnews.go.com/US/dni-tulsi-gabbard-leads-us-delegation-major-security/story?id=122291305
South Carolina Democrat Dr. Annie Andrews says she’s running against Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham in 2026https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/sen-lindsey-graham-gets-2026-challenge-democrat-annie-122301425
A Harvard graduate student reveals campus turmoil as the Trump administration moves to ban international enrollment and freeze $3 billion in funding.https://abcnews.go.com/US/harvard-student-fears-visa-loss-trump-administration-targets/story?id=122308499
The hulking rock, called Maka Lahi, is the size of a two-story house and sits on a 120-foot-tall cliff, covered in vegetationhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-164-foot-tsunami-pushed-this-enormous-boulder-atop-a-cliff-in-tonga-7000-years-ago-180986711/
Fragments of the bucket were first found at England's Sutton Hoo burial site in 1986. New research has revealed that the 1,500-year-old artifact was probably used as a cremation vesselhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-bewildering-byzantine-bucket-stumped-archaeologists-for-decades-now-theyve-finally-discovered-its-purpose-180986701/
As it orbits the sun once every 25,000 years, the celestial body 2017 OF201 travels beyond the Kuiper Belt into a region thought to be largely devoid of objectshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/astronomers-discover-a-possible-dwarf-planet-far-beyond-neptune-where-there-should-have-only-been-empty-space-180986703/
The Corcoran Gallery of Art was adorned with the statues, commissioned in the late 1800s. But since then, they've changed hands many times and finally found their way back to each other in a botanical gardenhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/these-eleven-marble-sculptures-of-iconic-artists-once-decorated-one-of-americas-first-art-museums-what-happened-to-them-180986706/
Researchers analyzed fossils and DNA to get a big-picture view of sloth evolution and determine what drove their immense size variationhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/giant-sloths-the-size-of-elephants-once-walked-along-the-ground-heres-how-the-massive-animals-evolved-and-declined-180986691/
From Maine to Florida, the endangered, prehistoric fish is rebounding, but a recent study shows just how vulnerable the U.S. population remainshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/once-in-dire-straits-atlantic-sturgeon-are-staging-a-comeback-on-the-east-coast-180986664/
After three crewmen were swallowed up by the Pacific at the end of World War II, a modern-day rescue effort went to find themhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-stunning-search-for-the-remains-of-fallen-wwii-airmen-180986697/
The US says it will "aggressively revoke" Chinese student visas and has paused interviews for all student visa applicants. Experts warn the moves could weaken American leadership in STEM.https://www.wired.com/story/trump-administration-foreign-student-visa-brain-drain/
New York state lawmakers prepare to take a morally treacherous leap. I pray they back up a step.https://www.wsj.com/opinion/prevent-dont-assist-suicide-new-york-bill-disability-drugs-4a8519ed
Rep. Andy Ogles railed against what he characterized as "judicial overreach" and said Trump should get to serve a third term.https://www.newsweek.com/andy-ogles-trump-third-term-reset-courts-tariffs-2078645
OKC star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander could match a Steph Curry, LeBron James NBA Finals feat.https://www.newsweek.com/sports/nba/shai-gilgeous-alexander-could-match-lebron-james-steph-curry-nba-finals-feat-2078661