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Today is the last day for many Education Department workers. Here's what they did

Employees across multiple divisions agree: They can't imagine how the department will fulfill its legal obligations with roughly half its staff gone.

Paul Ninson of Ghana embraced photography as a career -- and was inspired to create a library of photobooks about Africa. Above: Ninson in the Dikan Center in the capital city of Accra, which marked its second anniversary this month. He's holding a copy of the center's oldest book, The Gold Coast Yesterday and Today, published in the early 1940s.

Big dreams: He's the founder of a leading African photobook library

Paul Ninson had an old-school, newfangled dream: a modern library devoted to photobooks showing life on the continent. He maxed out his credit cards, injured his back — and made it happen.

Australians vote in election, with high prices and housing shortage major issues

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's center-left Labor Party is seeking a second term. His opponent, conservative opposition leader Peter Dutton, wants to become the first political leader to oust a first-term government since 1931.

Supreme Court blocks, for now, new deportations under Alien Enemies Act

In a brief order, the court directed the Trump administration not to remove Venezuelans held in the Bluebonnet Detention Center in Texas "until further order of this court."

Georgetown researcher released from immigration detention on federal judge's order

Badar Khan Suri is the latest scholar targeted by the Trump administration to be released from detention.

Clubgoers hit the dance floor at a disco in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in the 1970s.

Amid Soviet Central Asia's boogie nights, the rhythms of a region's future

A Soviet-era Central Asian pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends genres from Korean brass bands to Uyghur garage rock to Crimean jazz.

Kamala Harris slams Trump tariffs in her first major speech since he took office

Kamala Harris had centered her closing argument of her unsuccessful presidential campaign on the dangers posed by Trump. These were her first major remarks since he took office.

A man riding his bike through a homeless encampment in downtown San Diego, May 31, 2022.

San Diego County Supervisors approve updated camping ordinance

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors has unanimously approved a strengthened version of an unsafe camping ordinance covering unincorporated areas in an attempt to prevent wildfires caused by homeless people. The vote was 4-0 on consent.

Mahmoud Khalil told a judge his deportation could be a death sentence. Here's why

Khalil's lawyers are trying to convince an immigration judge that if he's deported, Israel could target him over his advocacy for Palestinian rights.

DOJ charges New Jersey congresswoman with assault over immigration facility tussle

Democrats have denounced the charges as politically motivated and an effort by the Trump administration to intimidate members of Congress and chill oversight.

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