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To join Return to the Land, applicants complete a questionnaire and then have a 15-minute phone interview. Credit: ZUMA Press Tucked away in the Ozarks of Arkansas is a small community of around 40 residents. Homestead developments like this are not unusual in rural America, but what sets this one apart is who is allowed to live there.

Smoke from wildfires in the Boundary Waters creates haze on Big Sandy Lake in McGregor on July 15, 2026. Credit: Lorie Shaul / KAXE The U.S. Forest Service lost more than 100 Minnesota employees and delayed $10 million in grant funding for wildfire mitigation in the Superior National Forest during the chaotic first year of President Trump’s second term.

Thousands of people have been evacuated on the Greek island of Crete as wildfires fanned by strong winds menace tourist resorts and villages. Two firefighters died on the island on Wednesday when they became trapped while tackling a fire near Krya Vrysi in the Rethymno region. A third firefighter died on the Greek mainland, near the port town of Gytheio in the Peloponnese.

Lighter-colored minerals around the shore of Lake Mead show the pre-climate change water line near Boulder City, Nevada. Credit: John Locher / AP Arizona, California and Nevada will be required to curb their use of the water from the Colorado River by a combined 20 percent over the next two years — and could ultimately face even larger cuts, according to three officials familiar with negotiations over a long-awaited federal plan to rescue the depleted waterway.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the untrained, incompetent head of American healthcare. Photo illustration: Aïda Amer / Axios. Photo: Roy Rochlin / Getty The Department of Health and Human Services keeps saying it’s turning over a new leaf, but it has only been partially successful — and controversial vaccine policymaking appears to be back on the table.

Supporters of Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. president Donald Trump raise MAGA hats, on the day Trump returns for a rally at the site of the July assassination attempt against him, in Butler, Pennsylvania, U.S., October 5, 2024. Note in the picture this is almost entirely a cohort of Nazis White boys.

For the first time in almost two decades of Pew Research Center surveys, both Canadians and Mexicans now view China more favorably than their neighbor, the United States. Our spring 2026 global survey marks the first time that Canadians have expressed a significantly more positive view of China than the U.S. Mexicans, by contrast, have viewed China more favorably than the U.S. in several previous Center surveys – all of them conducted during President Donald Trump’s time in the White House.

Emergency services in the Gironde department of France work to contain wildfires this week. Credit: Mael Dubiez / SDIS33/EPA The extreme heat and drought stoking huge wildfires in Spain and France were made far more likely by the climate crisis, a scientific analysis has found. Global heating made hot, dry and windy weather at least 20 times more likely in Spain and twice as likely in France, experts from the World Weather Attribution (WWA) consortium calculated.

Jennifer Epstein said the naked dressing style ‘feels empowering.’ Credit: Jennifer Epstein When Jennifer Epstein wore a sheer lace skirt that showed off her underwear to dinner with her husband, his response—after he regained his ability to speak—was “Where is the rest of your outfit?” Epstein, a pharmacist in Fort Washington, Pa., said she wasn’t looking for his approval. “It feels empowering,” the 43-year-old said.

Donald Trump has banned Chinese robots from being imported into the US. Credit: Xiao Benxiang / VCG / Getty Unitree, China’s top robotics company, mesmerised the world earlier this year with its concert-hall display of humanoid robots doing martial arts. As they flipped and kicked, a sci-fi future seemed suddenly present, wiping away the familiar old world of stumbling, fumbling mechanoids. But Unitree has already moved on.