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Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav stands onstage while being introduced before delivering a commencement address at Boston University, Sunday, May 21, 2023, in Boston.

Boston University grads booed the Warner Bros. Discovery CEO amid the writers strike

The school began receiving backlash after it announced David Zaslav would be this year's commencement speaker a day after the Writers Guild of America went on strike.

In this photo provided by the National Park Service, a structure at Yosemite Falls in Yosemite National Park, Calif., is covered in snow Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023.

Yosemite National Park will be closed for days due to flooding from melting snow

The Sierra Nevada region where the park is located experienced snowfall at over 300% than usual this past winter. Flooding may happen into May and June, the park said.

A United Airlines flight is de-iced before takeoff during a winter storm at Denver International Airport on Wednesday in Denver.

More than 1,600 flights have been canceled as heavy snow hits the Midwest

Heavy snow and high winds are causing blizzard conditions in the Upper Midwest. It's the latest stage of a three-day storm that's placed over half the country under winter weather warnings.

Sitlali Yovana Poot Dzib, 20 (left), captain of The Amazonas of Yaxunah, high fives her teammates after a home run in a game played on Sept. 10. The indigenous women on the team live in the small Maya community of Yaxunah in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. They wear traditional Maya garb when they play — and eschew shoes.

Women Maya softballers brush off machismo insults to become Mexican superstars

The team is called Las Amazonas de Yaxunah. They've defied gender stereotypes to become sports heroes. And these women and teens play the game wearing traditional Maya dresses — and no shoes.,

Mountaineers make their way to the summit of Mount Everest, as they ascend on the south face from Nepal on May 17, 2018.

Opinion: A lifesaving moment at Mount Everest

Against a backdrop of another deadly climbing season on Mount Everest, NPR's Scott Simon contemplates one story of sacrifice and heroism.

PinkPantheress, IRL

The artist doesn't need TikTok anymore to prove she can make a hit. Her debut album, Heaven Knows, makes it clear she's ready to conquer worlds beyond the web.

A group of Hoover High School students clean a large saltwater tank at the Ocean Discovery Institute, Aug. 18, 2022.

Underserved high school students go to Baja California for science experience

Nearly 30 high school students from City Heights have just returned from a scientific adventure in Baja California.

Delhi — where most people don't have AC — hits 120 degrees in South Asian heat wave

What's it like to try to survive 120-degree heat, without air conditioning? Here's how people are coping in the heart of Delhi.

Ammon Bundy, center, who led a protest at a Boise hospital last year, stands on the Idaho Statehouse steps in Boise, Idaho, on Monday, Aug. 24, 2020.

Ammon Bundy ordered to pay $50 million. But will the hospital ever see the money?

A jury as ordered Ammon Bundy and an associate to pay more than $50 million in damages to Idaho's largest hospital after armed protests last year led to a security lockdown.

A drone shot of rescuers work at the site of passenger trains accident, in Balasore district, in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, on Saturday.

More than 280 people are dead and 900 injured after 2 trains derail in India

Rescuers found no more survivors in the overturned and mangled wreckage of two passenger trains that derailed in eastern India, one of the country's deadliest rail crashes in decades.

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