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If you want to help, an aid expert advises you to donate cash to nonprofits involved in local rescue and recovery efforts.
Two recent Supreme Court rulings suggest the high court is so pro-gun it has decided it must also be pro-drugs.
Israel has long sought to gain a military advantage by degrading its adversaries’ military capabilities outside of times of direct conflict.
Detroit’s repeat tourists help spread understanding of techno’s local roots as the music industry continues to commercialize the subculture.
At a time when Americans disagree deeply over the meaning of citizenship, belonging and education, summer camps remain places where visions of the...
Landor v. Louisiana highlights the religious rights of the nearly 2 million people imprisoned in the US – and how challenging it can be to protect...
From the Civil War to the Cold War, existential fears have fueled claims that America is a Christian nation, a historian of US Christianity explains.
College tuition has not significantly risen since 1990, at least compared to tuition changes over the previous decades.
Both faults are along plate boundaries that move in similar ways and have ruptured in enormously destructive earthquakes in the past.
This is not a one-year blip. The US has been underperforming in terms of health, education and more for the past 25 years.
The uncertainty of Haitian TPS status in the US is a significant source of stress for Haitian migrants, particularly women.
Hosting the FIFA World Cup games can prove a propaganda win for authoritarian nations. But the data suggests the tournament favors democracies.
As the national conversation shifts to political finger-pointing, an important environmental question deserves careful scrutiny: What is the best...
One law generally shields foreign governments and companies they own from lawsuits in US courts. Another lets many Cuban cases proceed, according to a...
AI-powered translation tools are certainly impressive. But there is an important frontier for translation technology, one AI might never be able to...
Young poets wrestled with loneliness, fractured families, violence and other challenges – but also showed an unwillingness to surrender to despair.
Cities benefit from trees, which can cool concrete sprawls and improve air quality.
Wikipedia has grown steadily in size and importance, but a shrinking core of volunteer administrators is straining the organization.
Black holes are a mainstay in sci-fi movies. How do these massive black holes, spread throughout our universe, actually work in real life?
A strong deal would build in real penalties for going back to war: automatic, reversible costs that fall on anyone who restarts the fighting.
An influx of cash would help stabilize rural health systems, but the program’s focus on technology may leave other major issues unaddressed.
Two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made the flu vaccine optional in the military, an outbreak leads several branches of the military to...
Un nuevo estudio rastrea cómo las ranas jóvenes equilibran la energía entre crecer y combatir infecciones.
A partisan judiciary, arbitrary power, officials beyond the reach of the people – these are the grievances that drove a revolution.
European colonial powers linked church and state. But the founders of the United States broke from that idea as surely as they broke from Britain.
Decades of farmers using more fertilizer than they needed have quietly built up large reserves of nutrients in the soil.
More than 2 in 5 social media marketers say they plan to leave their job within two years, and many cite insufficient mental health support from...
Grasping how the nation’s highest court makes policy requires stepping into an exceptionally regulated and sometimes hidden routine.
In many cases, a single, shocking crime allegedly involving a foreign-born suspect was quickly reframed into a broader indictment of minorities.
Unintentional injuries kill 20 US children every day. Building a family culture of safety can help them learn to make wise choices.
What happens when a rapper whose early work explored capitalism’s brutality becomes one of the system’s most successful beneficiaries?
A new study tracks how young frogs are trying to avoid a deadly fungal infection.
When coroners shield their records from public view, they’re not just violating the public trust. Often, they’re also breaking the law.
More than 10,000 attorneys who worked for the US government have left their jobs during the second Trump administration; a former federal judge...
Giving that’s associated with the wealthiest Americans – from bequests and foundations to universities and donor-advised funds – fared better...
The Fed chair who served under 5 US presidents was more practical and less ideological than his detractors claimed.
Parents and educators sometimes avoid having conversations about grief with children because they don’t know what to say. Here are some tips for how...
When huge companies assert their patents, smaller businesses and public plant breeders are dissuaded from conducting research that might not be...
Heat waves can be dangerous, and the conditions indoors can be worse than outdoors. A study of all the single-family homes in Austin, Texas, shows...
In a polarized world, the greeting may be an acknowledgment of our interconnectedness.
Because melatonin is sold as a dietary supplement rather than a drug in the US, there is little to no quality control over the wide array of product...
This year, decisions from the courts, FDA or DOJ could all shut down telehealth for medication abortion, which is how most people in ban states get...
From airliners to supertankers, GPS has long been invaluable for safe navigation, but its signals can easily be jammed and almost as easily faked....
In President Donald Trump’s public language, Congress rarely appears as a coequal branch of government. It appears as an obstacle, an audience, a...
As one piece of more than a century of baseball traditions, eye black is part science experiment, part routine and part uniform.
A newly drafted Pittsburgh Steelers player asked whether the city’s rivers are safe for swimming. A water researcher explains what ‘swimmable’...
At the heart of combating misinformation is critical thinking and recognizing when you’re being spun for corporate profit.
Federal policy changes are likely to make life harder for many Americans of modest means as they age.
Guilt and shame from being rejected, discriminated against or bullied as a child can carry into adulthood. But making meaning from these experiences...
Bones are living tissues that constantly rebuild, repair and help the body stay in balance.