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In federal courtrooms across America, a pattern has emerged in cases in which immigrants are being rounded up and jailed without a hearing. That’s...


In 2026, the biggest battles over abortion will not be at the polls. There will be a few contested measures on state ballots. Next year, Nevada’s...


If you go to a pro sports event today, there’s a good chance the stadium or arena will be powered at least in part by renewable energy. The team...


Electronic gifts are very popular, and in recent years, retailers have been offering significant discounts on smartphones, e-readers and other...


For 14 years while Syria’s brutal civil war raged, Germany provided a safe haven for those fleeing the violence. Now, a year after that conflict...


Generative artificial intelligence has become widely accepted as a tool that increases productivity. Yet the technology is far from mature. Large...


A growing share of Americans, especially in rural areas, are losing access to reproductive health care. At the same time, American women are dying...


High levels of neighborhood violence increase the risk of Latino and African American teens in Denver starting to use alcohol and tobacco,...


The Trump administration’s aggressive deportation policies have heightened stress among the country’s approximately 14 million immigrants who are...


Roughly 1 in 5 Americans live in rural areas – places the federal government defines based on small populations and low housing density. Yet many...


As the Trump administration makes announcement after announcement about its efforts to promote the U.S. fossil fuel industry, the industry isn’t...


A newly discovered biological signal in the blood could help health care teams and researchers better understand how children respond to brain...


Most people care about fairness at work and want to support colleagues who face marginalization – for example, people of color, women and people...


When Sabrina Carpenter’s provocative 2024 pop single “Bed Chem” plays on the radio, and I hear the lyrics “But I bet we’d have really good...


On his visit to Turkey and Lebanon between Nov. 27 and Dec. 2, 2025, Pope Leo XIV met with political and religious leaders, celebrated Mass and...


The notion of the divine feminine is a recurring motif in American pop culture, playing with the assumptions people make when referring to God –...


After a yearslong series of setbacks, NASA’s Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers, or ESCAPADE, mission has finally begun its...


When Sabrina Carpenter’s provocative 2024 pop single “Bed Chem” plays on the radio, and I hear the lyrics “But I bet we’d have really good...


When pregnant women drink water that comes from wells downstream of sites contaminated with PFAS, known as “forever chemicals,” the risks to their...


In early 2025, in an effort to facilitate its deportation goals, the Trump administration entered into hundreds of agreements with local police...


Ocmulgee Mounds, a site in central Georgia with 12,000 years of Indigenous history, may be on the verge of becoming the newest U.S. national park....


What’s the point of monetary policy? For most of us, the main impact tends to be how much we have to pay to borrow to buy a house or car. But for...


The film “Nuremberg” depicts events surrounding the post-World War II International Military Tribunal – the first and best-known of the Nuremberg...


In a Maryland operating room one day in November 2025, doctors made medical history by transplanting a genetically modified pig kidney into a...


Most Americans imagine human trafficking as a violent kidnapping or a “stranger danger” crime – someone abducted from a parking lot or trapped in a...


Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to...


The plural of “axis” is “axes,” apparently. And foreign policy types with axes to grind have been making good use of this other meaning, too....


Health insurance premiums in the U.S. significantly increased between 1999 and 2024, outpacing the rate of worker earnings by three times,...


There is a meme that circulates every holiday season, an image of a sign in a restaurant window. “The Chinese Restaurant Association of the United...


Obituaries preserve what families most want remembered about the people they cherish most. Across time, they also reveal the values each era chose...


When it comes to major U.S. industries, three tends to be the magic number. Historically, auto manufacturing was long dominated by Chrysler, Ford...


The Supreme Court on Dec. 5, 2025, agreed to review the long-simmering controversy over birthright citizenship. It will likely hand down a ruling...


The Supreme Court on Dec. 5, 2025, agreed to review the long-simmering controversy over birthright citizenship. It will likely hand down a ruling...
