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National parks remove signs about climate, slavery and Japanese internment

By Jake Spring
Sep 20, 2025 9:49 pm - The National Park Service has removed signs at Acadia National Park in Maine that make reference to climate change amid the Trump administration’s wider effort to remove information that it says undermines “the remarkable achievements of the United States.” A sign has also been removed from at least one additional park that referred to slavery, the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and conflicts with Native Americans.
EPA tells some scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say

By Amudalat Ajasa and Hannah Natanson
Sep 20, 2025 9:43 pm - The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered scientists in at least one of its research offices to immediately pause almost all efforts to publish research, according to two agency employees familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
Marchers gather in worldwide protest of financial institutions ‘profiting off the climate crisis’

By MELINA WALLING
Sep 20, 2025 9:36 pm - Thousands of activists marched down Park Avenue and turned down Billionaires' Row toward Trump Tower in New York Saturday to “Make Billionaires Pay,” calling for climate justice, democracy, free speech, gender equality, a stop to the Trump's immigration crackdown and a ceasefire in Gaza.
White House says $100K H-1B visa fee won’t apply to existing holders as Trump move stirs anxiety

By BARBARA ORTUTAY, SEUNG MIN KIM and AAMER MADHANI
Sep 20, 2025 9:19 pm - WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s latest plan to overhaul the American immigration system has left some immigrant workers confused, forcing the White House on Satu...
Democratic leaders in Congress demand a meeting with Trump as government shutdown looms

By LISA MASCARO
Sep 20, 2025 9:16 pm - As a possible federal shutdown looms, the Democratic leaders of Congress are demanding a meeting with President Donald Trump to negotiate an end to what they call “your decision” to shutter government offices if no action is taken by the end-of-the month deadline.
Day and night get equal billing Monday as fall equinox arrives. Here’s what to know

Sep 20, 2025 8:37 pm - Day and night will get equal time for a brief moment Monday as much of the world heads into fall.The autumnal equinox arrives Monday, marking the start of the fall season for the Northern Hemisphere and the spring in the Southern Hemisphere.
California bans most law enforcement officers from wearing masks during operations

By TRÂN NGUYỄN and MARTHA BELLISLE
Sep 20, 2025 5:52 pm - California became the first state to ban most law enforcement officers, including federal immigration agents, from covering their faces while conducting official business under a bill that was signed Saturday by Gov. Gavin Newsom and swiftly denounced by Trump administration officials.
Russia launches a large-scale attack on Ukraine, killing 3 and wounding dozens

By HANNA ARHIROVA
Sep 20, 2025 5:45 pm - Russia launched a large-scale missile and drone attack targeting regions across Ukraine early Saturday, killing at least three people and wounding dozens more, Ukrainian officials said.
Members of Congress take steps to tighten their own security after Kirk’s killing

By MATT BROWN and STEPHEN GROVES
Sep 20, 2025 5:40 pm - As House Speaker Mike Johnson gathered lawmakers this week to mourn Charlie Kirk, he summed up the grief felt by many on Capitol Hill — and the pervasive fear.
Trump’s media enforcer is relishing his Jimmy Kimmel moment

By Scott Nover, Will Oremus and Jeremy Barr
Sep 20, 2025 3:16 pm - Naming Brendan Carr to chair the Federal Communications Commission in November, President-elect Donald Trump heralded him as a “warrior for free speech.”Now, after spearheading the Trump administration’s successful push for ABC to take comedian Jimmy Kimmel off the air, Carr has become a gleeful avatar of what critics say is a sweeping government crackdown on speech — and his backers see as an overdue reckoning with an instinctively liberal broadcast industry.

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