In February of last year, the Texas Observer reported that James “Jim” Joseph Rodden—an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) assistant chief counsel who acts as a prosecutor for ICE in ...

Under the dim lights of the Lower East Side’s Maison Nur, art world luminaries gathered to celebrate Observer’s Art Power Index—and each other. From the impassioned speeches to the sharp tailoring and ...

Hundreds more U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are headed to the Twin Cities, according to an announcement from U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem. Noem said on Fox ...

A U.S. Border Patrol officer threatened to arrest a legal observer in Key Largo, Florida, today for following the officer, video of the encounter posted on Instagram shows. The video is another ...

An age-old activist group popularized the protest tactic that 37-year-old Renee Good reportedly used before an immigration agent shot and killed her in Minnesota. Good belonged to an “ICE Watch” ...

John Northrop, a onetime co-owner of the Observer-Reporter who deeply cared about and immersed himself in the Washington community, died Monday at UPMC Washington. He was 95. Even though Northrop’s ...

As the word itself suggests, the role of the curator begins with “taking care.” Curators act as intermediaries between artists, institutions or galleries and audiences, but also as mediators within ...

A new form of the flu, which is highly contagious and aggressive, is sweeping the nation this season. A mutation of influenza A H3N2, called subclade K, has been detected as the culprit in rising ...

A review article led by researchers from the B·ARGO group at the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) and from the Medical Oncology Department of the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO) in ...

The Ornamented Mutation is a special holiday-themed Mutation in Grow a Garden. This festive Mutation can only be obtained in very specific ways, and you'll need to harvest Ornamented crops in order to ...

Harry Aikines-Aryeetey has myostatin deficiency Getty Images; design: Kelsea Petersen “A blessing and a curse” is how Harry Aikines-Aryeetey describes the genetic quirk that means his body carries ...

An old farmhouse is isolated against the winter sky as snow begins to fall just south of Yanceyville, N.C., Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. Scott Sharpe ssharpe@newsobserver.com Here’s a curated selection of ...