NATHAN ELLGREN

Rio Sigala, right, and other parents of students at Mundo Verde Public Charter School keep a close eye on a Suburban that they thought held an agent of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) amid fears of impending arrests at schools, Tuesday, May 6, 2025. The vehicle turned out to belong to a television cameraman. "As a Latina, seeing how many parents are out here in solidarity makes you feel less alone," Sigala said. "You walk around kind of scared and to see everyone come out, it feels hopeful." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Washington’s Hispanic community fighting fear and rallying help as rumors of an ICE crackdown bubble
A flurry of rumors and unconfirmed media reports has fueled fears that agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be descending on schools in Washington, D.C., known to have large Hispanic immigrant populations.
 
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy, accompanied by investigator in charge Brice Banning, left, speaks about the recent mid-air collision of an American Airlines flight and a Black Hawk helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, at a news conference in Washington, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
NTSB urges ban on some helicopter flights at Washington airport where 67 people died in midair crash
Federal investigators looking for the cause of the January collision between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C., that killed 67 people are recommending a ban on some helicopter flights.
 
Herb Ettel attends a rally at Health and Human Services headquarters to protest the polices of President Donald Trump and Elon Musk Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)
Hundreds rally against firing of federal workers, emphasizing threats to public health
About 300 protesters rallied outside the headquarters of the Department of Health and Human Services. Many of them were current or former federal employees.
 
This undated image provided by Jimmy Thyden shows Thyden as a child with cat Rusty. Now 42, Thyden got to embrace his birth mother for the first time during a long-awaited family reunion in Valdivia, Chile in August 2023. His journey to find the birth family he never knew began in April after he read news stories about Chilean-born adoptees who had been reunited with their birth relatives with the help of a Chilean nonprofit Nos Buscamos. While Thyden was successfully reunited with his birth family, he recognizes that reunification might not go as well for other adoptees. (Jimmy Thyden via AP)
Son stolen at birth hugs Chilean mother for first time in 42 years
A 42-year-old Virginia man got to embrace his birth mother for the first time during a long-awaited family reunion in Valdivia, Chile.
 
Tommie Babbs, 72, looks out across the reflecting pond by the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Aug. 11, 2023. Babbs, an Air Force veteran from Buffalo, N.Y., believes progress has been made toward achieving the dream that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. envisioned on the steps of the memorial nearly 60 years ago at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. (AP Photo/Nathan Ellgren)
Visitors to Lincoln Memorial say America has its flaws but see gains made since March on Washington
Fencing and construction workers greet visitors to the Lincoln Memorial, signaling the monument to the nation’s 16th president is a work in progress.
 
Death toll rises to 2 people from Baltimore gas explosion
Authorities in Baltimore say that a second body has been recovered after three row houses were destroyed by a natural gas explosion.
 
Brazil envoy says U.S. travel ban won’t hurt relations
Brazil’s top diplomat in Washington has waved aside suggestions that relations with the U.S. have been hurt by a travel ban on his country that took effect Wednesday.