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U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth speaks during a meeting at the Pentagon on January 15, 2026 in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Boat strike victims' families sue US

Jelinda Montes
WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 15: U.S. President Donald Trump poses with a recently signed executive order classifying fentanyl as a "weapon of mass destruction," during a ceremony for the presentation of the Mexican Border Defense Medal in the Oval Office of the White House on December 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. During the ceremony, Trump recognized the first 13 service members to receive the recently established Mexican Border Defense Medal (MBDM), which recognizes service members supporting Customs and Border Protection on the U.S.-Mexico border. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Trump: Fentanyl is a WMD

Garrett Owen
A cruise highlight, Rhino boats in Sint Maarten. (Jodyann Morgan)

Falling in love with cruises while fat

Chaya Milchtein
(Vittoria Tempo / EyeEm / Getty Images)

What is Caribbean fungi?

Kayla Stewart - Food52
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(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

How climate change hurts Caribbean

Masaō Ashtine - The Conversation
(Getty/Ricardo Arduengo)

The Caribbean and climate change

Elizabeth J. Zechmeister, Claire Q. Evans - The Conversation
(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Puerto Recovery's brutal recovery

Lauren Lluveras - The Conversation
(Climate State/YouTube/Screen Grab)

Disaster strikes Barbuda

Steven Rosenfeld - Alternet
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(NOAA via AP)

"Absolute devastation"

Keith A. Spencer
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-122782p1.html'>Zack Frank</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

slave experimentations

Londa Schiebinger - The Conversation
Guests try to pass the time in the ballrooms of the Atlantis Paradise Island Hotel, as Hurricane Matthew moves away from the resort island in Nassau, Bahamas, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Tim Aylen)

Taylor Link
Ronald Reagan (AP/Doug Mills)

Tom Engelhardt
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Thousands of Jamaicans hold a demonstration against the local LGBT community in Half Way Tree, Kingston, June 29, 2014. (Reuters/Gilbert Bellamy)

"No to Homo Agenda"

Eliot Glenn
(Wikimedia)

Natasha Lennard
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/user_view.php?id=410489'>basslinegfx</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

I went on a freaking cruise

Alex Pareene
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