President Trump spent the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday at his Mar-A-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. Previous presidents have marked the holiday doing volunteer work. Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images President Trump spent the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday at his Mar-A-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. Previous presidents
Tennessee National Guard troopers in jeeps and trucks escort a protest march by striking sanitation workers through downtown Memphis, March 30, 1968. LG/AP hide caption toggle caption LG/AP Tennessee National Guard troopers in jeeps and trucks escort a protest march by striking sanitation workers through downtown Memphis, March 30, 1968. LG/AP In 1968, 1,300 black
Google’s app matching faces to famous paintings went viral prompting, a flurry of selfies over the weekend. Andrew Burton/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Burton/Getty Images Google’s app matching faces to famous paintings went viral prompting, a flurry of selfies over the weekend. Andrew Burton/Getty Images Who can say why some gimmicks take off
Beyond ingredients and recipes, Guinness has used aggressive exporting and clever marketing to become a global brand. Jirka Matousek/Flickr When it comes to tourism, Ireland punches well above its weight. Last year, the tourists who visited the island outnumbered residents by about 3 million. They went to see the Cliffs of Moher, Blarney Castle and
Shalon Irving, a public health researcher who worked for the Centers for Disease Control and and Prevention who was studying the physical toll that discrimination exacts on physical health, died just a few weeks after giving birth to her daughter, Soleil. Black women are 243% more likely than white women to die during or shortly
A Pegasus Airlines Boeing 737 passenger plane is seen stuck in mud on an embankment, a day after skidding off the airstrip, after landing at Trabzon’s airport on the Black Sea coast on Jan. 14. STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images A Pegasus Airlines Boeing 737 passenger plane is seen stuck in mud
Immigrants arrive at Ellis Island in Upper New York Bay around 1900. Two decades later, the U.S. would restrict immigration based on national origin. Forty years after that, it eliminated those restrictions. Buyenlarge/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Buyenlarge/Getty Images Immigrants arrive at Ellis Island in Upper New York Bay around 1900. Two decades later,
Updated 2:16 p.m. ET In this Nov. 29, 2017, file photo, a Hawaii Civil Defense Warning Device, which sounds an alert siren during natural disasters, is seen in Honolulu. Caleb Jones/AP hide caption toggle caption Caleb Jones/AP In this Nov. 29, 2017, file photo, a Hawaii Civil Defense Warning Device, which sounds an alert siren
A medical marijuana patch on a patient’s arm. Medical marijuana is legal in Illinois, but an 11-year-old girl who uses it to combat seizures had to get court approval to use it in school. David Zalubowski/AP hide caption toggle caption David Zalubowski/AP A medical marijuana patch on a patient’s arm. Medical marijuana is legal in
German Chancellor Angela Merkel shakes hands Friday with the leader of the Social Democratic Party, Martin Schulz. Merkel’s conservatives reached a “breakthrough” deal with the Social Democrats toward building a new coalition government, sources close to the negotiations said. John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images German Chancellor Angela Merkel shakes hands
Simon Bramhall leaves Birmingham Crown Court in Birmingham, England on Friday. The British surgeon, who burned his initials into patients’ livers during transplant operations, has been fined 10,000 pounds ($13,600) and ordered to perform community service. Joe Giddens/AP hide caption toggle caption Joe Giddens/AP Simon Bramhall leaves Birmingham Crown Court in Birmingham, England on Friday.
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, R-Ky., has said he thinks that Medicaid recipients should have “skin in the game.” Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Scott Olson/Getty Images Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, R-Ky., has said he thinks that Medicaid recipients should have “skin in the game.” Scott Olson/Getty Images Poor residents in Kentucky will have