2025’s Current Events
Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, the city has an uneven recovery. Despite its flaws, it’s hard to deny the city is now something quite different from what it was.
The soaring death toll from a fire in California’s wine country highlights the risk of climate change and the need for a national disaster preparedness plan. Meanwhile, a judge blocks Trump’s plans to send National Guard troops to Chicago.
Did Taylor Swift shade Charli Xcx with her latest album? When will the government shutdown end?
A memorial in Newcastle honors Frances Perkins, the woman credited with introducing and pushing through many of FDR’s New Deal reforms, including Social Security, the minimum wage and a 40-hour work week. The Nobel Prize in medicine is shared by Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for discoveries about peripheral immune tolerance. And Guillaume V succeeds his father Henri as Grand Duke of Luxembourg after the latter abdicates.