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The family of Chandika Kumari Shrestha had started the ritual of mourning her death, believing she had died in Nepal’s floods. Ten days later, rescuers found her alive inside her collapsed home. https://wapo.st/3UABt9S

Andrew and Tristan Tate, who are fighting extradition to Britain over allegations of rape, assault and sex trafficking, will remain in jail, a judge ruled. The pair failed to prove they are not flight risks or a danger to the community, t…

Gloria Steinem, who died on Wednesday at age 92, became a symbol of second-wave feminism — the expansion of the movement beyond suffrage into a broader campaign for equality in the workplace, in the home and under the law. Read about her …

Two men were rescued from inside a tunnel of a hydropower plant in Nepal, nine days after deadly flash floods ripped through the region. The men were workers at the Trishuli 3 Hydropower Project, Nepal’s disaster management authority said…

Above a crowded highway outside a shopping mall in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, rises one of the most recognizable names in the American commercial lexicon: SEARS. Six miles away, on the other side of the border, is another Sears — one of Ameri…

The widow of one of the five men killed over Labor Day weekend when an Amazon cargo plane overshot the runway at Miami International Airport filed a wrongful-death lawsuit.

President Trump suggested renaming New Mexico as “New America.” While Trump can use executive authority to rename bodies of water and other geographic features, he lacks authority to rename New Mexico or other states.

Sailors from the USS Abraham Lincoln came ashore near the Thai beach town of Pattaya this week, amid reports of poor conditions and low morale. Locals had expected an infusion into the local economy. But on the streets, a sense of anticli…

Beyoncé turns 45 today. Today also marks the 20th anniversary of her sophomore album, “B’Day.” She celebrated by dropping previously unreleased tracks, remastered songs from the original album and new songs, including vocals from the late…

My cheating ex-husband told me his new fiancée wants to talk to me – and asked me not to tell her about his previous infidelity. She keeps reaching out. Do I owe her the truth? Advice columnist Carolyn Hax weighs in. Read more: https://…

Hunter Biden touted the launch of the $LAPTOP meme coin, saying it was a way to reclaim a symbol that had defined news coverage about him when his father was president. It abruptly lost almost all of its value within minutes of its debut.

President Trump’s super PAC has made a $10 million ad buy in the Texas Senate race, its first major spending for the November midterms. Though Trump won Texas by nearly 14 percentage points in 2024, public polls show the Senate race in a …