President Donald Trump has repeatedly deployed the US military for domestic assignments. In June, he summoned the Guard and the Marines to Los Angeles — over the objections of local leaders — to subdue protests against his administration’s mass arrests of migrants. In August, Trump called up the Guard to combat violent street crime in Washington, DC. On Sept. 15, the president announced plans for a National Guard deployment to Memphis, and on Sept. 27, he ordered troops to Portland, Oregon.

A disturbing trend among bird species in the US could lead to a mass extinction event that rocks human society forever.

Reflect Orbital aims to launch its first of a planned 4,000 satellites into orbit next year. Scientists worry that it would be “ruinous” for research.

Blackburnian Warbler in Colombia by Linda Rudolph / Macaulay Library. From the Autumn 2025 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now. For birders in the U.S. and Canada, fall migration means the…

Happy Friday! We’ve got your weekly debrief of what went on in Washington, DC, amid the government shutdown. But first, sea otters.

The first named storm of the season is forecast to hit the UK and Ireland with heavy rain and gale-force winds on Friday and Saturday, disrupting transport in northern regions.

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Tropical Storm Imelda has formed in the Bahamas and will likely miss striking the US East Coast from Florida to North Carolina thanks to more powerful Hurricane Humberto hundreds of miles to its east.

Years of protections are at risk as the country investigates a landmark moratorium.

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