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Leading the US Defense Department is a massive job, broadly affecting Americans’ security at home and abroad and overseeing huge numbers of people...
Donald Trump is now a convicted felon, and will be the first president of the United States with a felony conviction. On Jan. 10, 2025, Justice...
The practice of medicine has undergone an incredible, albeit incomplete, transformation over the past 50 years, moving steadily from a field...
Many people use the new year to reflect on their relationship with alcohol. Just-released government guidelines are giving Americans another reason...
From the time you get up in the morning until you go to bed at night, and even while you are asleep, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
In states where both medical and recreational marijuana are legal, fewer patients are filling prescriptions for medications used to treat anxiety....
Investors can aim not only to make money but to benefit society while doing so. But few of those impact investors follow up on whether their...
Funding for public K-12 schools in the U.S. is based on enrollment. More students mean more money. In 31 states, public schools use the previous...
Philadelphia sports fans like to think of themselves as “gritty.” In Philadelphia, grittiness can be defined as a working-class ideology that...
The Bible’s lex talionis – “Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot” (Exodus 21:24-27) – has captured the human...
Fires can make drinking water, and the water pipes and tanks themselves, unsafe. A researcher who has worked with communities after several...
Dry conditions across Southern California set the stage for a series of deadly wind-driven wildfires that burned thousands of homes and other...
The oceans are heating up as the planet warms. This past year, 2024, was the warmest ever measured for the global ocean, following a...
“We take nothing by conquest…Thank God,” wrote the National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser, an influential Washington newspaper, in...
Donald Trump has long been interested in Greenland becoming part of the United States. Yesterday, he told reporters he would not rule out using...
Several high-profile celebrities were slapped with human-trafficking charges in late 2024, from music mogul Sean Combs, known as P. Diddy, to...
What does the future hold for forests in a warmer, drier world? Over the past 25 years, trees have been dying due to effects of climate change...
Much has been written about the potential consequences of getting rid of the Department of Education, one of President-elect Donald Trump’s...
Every year, 400 million tons of plastic are produced worldwide, and every year, approximately 57 million tons of plastic pollution is created. And...
Donald Trump is set to become the first president of the United States with a felony conviction. On May 30, 2024, a New York County jury found...
In previous eras of internet culture, mockery of the rich and famous was usually relegated to far-left forums. But as 2025 begins, ridiculing the...
When wildfires spread into neighborhoods, they burn all kinds of materials found in cars and houses and everything around them – electronics,...
The oceans are heating up as the planet warms. This past year, 2024, was the warmest ever measured for the global ocean, following a...
Less than 24 hours after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States in November 2024, the German state-owned news service Deutsche...
In the acknowledgments of her 2024 novel “All Fours,” Miranda July explains that she was inspired by a series of conversations about “physical...
Powerful Santa Ana winds, with gusts reaching hurricane strength, swept down the mountains outside Los Angeles and spread wildfires into several...
Imagine attending a funeral where the person who has died speaks directly to you, answering your questions and sharing memories. This happened at...
Environmental issues were conspicuously absent from the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign, but moves by President-elect Donald Trump’s first...
The death of Jean-Marie Le Pen, former leader of the party once known as the National Front, occurs at a time when the mainstreaming of far-right...
President-elect Donald Trump is again signaling his interest in Greenland through a series of provocative statements in which he’s mused about...
Lots of people who vape want to quit, but there’s very little guidance on how best to do so. In the U.S., recent reports estimate that 5.9% of...
The Department of the Interior was created in 1849 as the United States was rapidly expanding and acquiring territory. It became known as “the...
In the first few days after Donald Trump’s election in November 2024, purchases of emergency contraceptives spiked, with two companies reporting...
The way scientists think about fusion changed forever in 2022, when what some called the experiment of the century demonstrated for the first time...
Imagine going on a road trip and passing several seemingly identical McDonald’s restaurants. Despite their uniform appearance, their ownership...
The share of computer science and engineering degrees going to women has increased at the most selective American universities over the past 20...
Despite all the attention on technologies that reduce the hands-on role of humans at work – such as self-driving vehicles, robot workers,...
Feeling drained and lethargic is common: A 2022 national survey found that 13.5% of U.S. adults said they felt “very tired” or “exhausted”...
When we set out to study pandemic-related changes in schools, we thought we’d find that learning management systems that rely on technology to...
When states give driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants, it affects nondrivers, too — even the littlest ones. Babies born to immigrants...
On a porn set in California’s San Fernando Valley, a performer we’ll call Jake explains why he joined the industry after dabbling in escorting....
In order to reproduce, most flowering plants rely on animals to move their pollen. In turn, pollinators rely on flowers for food, including both...
After weeks of speculation over his future, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his intention to resign on Jan. 6, 2025. His departure...