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Reza Baluchi was taken in by the U.S. Coast Guard last week while trying to cross the Atlantic in a "hydro pod" made of buoys. Authorities in Flagler County, Fla., responded to Baluchi and his vessel in 2021 and posted photos of his vessel on Facebook.

Coast Guard arrests a man trying to run a giant hamster wheel across the Atlantic

It was the fourth time the Coast Guard has intercepted Reza Baluchi on his attempts to self-propel his homemade vessel to destinations including Bermuda, New York and London.

President George H. W. Bush holds a bag of crack cocaine as he poses for photographers in the Oval Office of the White House, Sept. 5, 1989.

Why the crack cocaine epidemic hit Black communities 'first and worst'

"We won't heal until we make sense of the crack epidemic," Donovan X. Ramsey says. His book, When Crack Was King, examines the drug's destructive path through the Black community.

2 U.S. lawmakers managed to get home from Israel. Other Americans have not

Sen. Cory Booker and Rep. Dan Goldman are back in the U.S. after sheltering in place as violence erupted in Israel on Saturday. Flight disruptions have left other U.S. citizens unable to get home.

Ships anchored in the Black Sea wait to enter Romania's Sulina canal on June 8. They are waiting to reach Ukraine to be loaded with food.

Ahead of the G-7, Biden confronts Putin's latest geopolitical weapon — food

President Biden will attend the G-7 summit in Germany this weekend, where leaders are expected to address food insecurity stemming from Russia's blockade of Ukrainian ports on the Black Sea.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif, speaks during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee in July 2022.

Dianne Feinstein, longest serving woman in the Senate, has died at 90

Feinstein suddenly became the mayor of San Francisco when two other officials were assassinated. Later she was elected to the U.S. Senate after male senators grilled Anita Hill in public hearings.

Workers inspect and clear debris on Monday from a section of bridge that collapsed on Interstate 95 in Philadelphia.

A body was found under the collapsed section of I-95 in Philadelphia

The sudden cave-in of part of the busy East Coast highway created an immediate traffic nightmare for drivers. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro issued a disaster declaration.

Turbines from the Roth Rock wind farm spin on the spine of Backbone Mountain near Oakland, Md., on August 23. The International Energy Agency says renewable energy projects are getting a boost of investment from governments around the world.

An influential energy group sees reason for climate optimism

For the first time, the International Energy Agency projects that demand for fossil fuels will soon peak. It's nowhere close to the speed the world needs to stop climate change - but it's a big step.

Small-scale farmers in Africa will be the beneficiaries of huge humanitarian prize

The nonprofit group One Acre Fund wants smallholder farms to grow more, earn more and feed more people. The organization just won a $2.5 million award from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.

Black Civilian Conservation Corps in a group portrait.

Stateside: Whitmer, lawmakers at odds on budget; replanting MI forests; Wayne Co. indigent defense

Today on Stateside, negotiations over the state budget continue between Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the state Legislature. Plus, the 1930s program that…

California's lawsuit says oil giants downplayed climate change. Here's what to know

California accuses oil companies of misleading the public on the dangers of fossil fuels for decades. The state demands they help fund recovery efforts after climate change-fueled disasters.

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