Winning on Election Day is the best path for any political party to remake the Supreme Court.
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When it comes to the Supreme Court, progressives are now in the position where conservatives found themselves for many years. They’re on the outside looking in.
Collecting water and caring for kids are daily necessities.
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Some anthropologists question how much rare activities like big-game hunting could have affected how our species evolved. Instead they’re looking at daily activities like carrying water or firewood.
WASP-69b closely orbits its sun.
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Research on one exoplanet that’s rapidly losing its atmosphere is hinting to scientists why exoplanets tend to look a certain way.
A U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone flies in the skies above Nevada.
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The use of drone strikes raises a host of ethical issues. US military chaplains − the armed forces’ moral conscience − have questions.
A majority of Americans believe that hell exists.
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Spiritualists believed that after shedding the body in death, the spirit would continue on a celestial journey and help those on Earth create a more just world.
‘The Travellers’ Tour Through the United States’ is the earliest known board game to depict a map of North America.
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Few copies remain of the earliest known board game produced in the US.
Schools have reported increases in student misbehavior in recent years.
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Florida’s school safety data dashboard is one of the most comprehensive in the US. A school safety researcher explains how schools and parents can use it.
Palestinians crowd a street as smoke billows from Israeli strikes in Rafah on May 7, 2024.
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The US put a pause on an arms shipment to Israel as it launched a Rafah offensive. This is not the first time the US and Israel have publicly disagreed, despite their strong diplomatic relationship.
Philippine troops watch as a missile hits a target during a live-fire joint U.S.-Philippines exercise.
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US Marines and Philippine forces are taking part in joint military exercises just 100 miles off the southern tip of Taiwan.
Water runs into a storm drain in a Los Angeles alley on Aug. 19, 2023, during Tropical Storm Hilary.
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US cities are doing green infrastructure, but in bits and pieces. Today’s climate-driven floods require a much broader approach to create true sponge cities that are built to soak up water.
Lung cancer screening can save lives, but it isn’t accessible to everyone at risk of developing the disease.
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Stigma, fear and cost prevent many patients from getting screened for lung cancer. This can prove deadly for the most vulnerable.
The changes that came with the transition from foraging to farming paved the way for disease.
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Human factors − such as how people produce food and how they organize themselves and live together − influence disease outbreaks.
Conspiracy theories can muddle people’s thinking.
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Conspiracy theories abound. What should you believe − and how can you tell?
Overturning decades of tradition, the Supreme Court in 2022 let Alabama use voting districts that violated the law and diluted the voting power of Black citizens.
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Historically, federal courts prioritized voting rights and legal congressional districts for upcoming elections above all other concerns. But the Supreme Court changed that in 2022.
A Volkswagen autoworker waits for the results of a union vote on April 19, 2024, in Chattanooga, Tenn.
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The Mercedes auto workers will vote on union membership in mid-May.
‘Christ of the New Jerusalem’ − created in 1915 for the Uranienborg Church, Oslo, by Emanuel Vigeland.
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Images of Christ often represented prevailing cultural beliefs, allowing onlookers to connect in a deep and meaningful way.
Homeschooled children don’t always get a well-rounded curriculum.
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More than 3 million children in the US are homeschooled. Are they getting a good education?
A Palestinian boy from Gaza at a temporary housing compound in Doha, Qatar, in April 2024.
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In a number of stories and novels, lost limbs represent both physical and metaphorical loss.
An artist’s illustration of hydrogen disappearing from Venus.
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Studying Venus’ water loss can help scientists better understand how planets go from potentially habitable to incapable of supporting life.
A U.S. Border Patrol officer shows how he found an undocumented Mexican immigrant under the hood of a car along the U.S.-Mexican border in March 1954.
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Donald Trump says he will authorize a roundup of all 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country. A 1950s program with similar goals, called Operation Wetback, offers lessons.
Policymakers can find themselves caught between two conflicting economic goals: growth and equity.
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Tax dollars don’t always go to the communities that need them most.
English language learners are among the most likely to be assigned to unqualified teachers in Texas.
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When students get unqualified teachers, it’s like missing one-third of the school year – and that’s what’s been happening with rural students in Texas.
There’s a shortage of workers willing to take jobs as paid caregivers.
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Paying the caregivers of people with disabilities more would improve care while increasing economic growth, a research team found.
Fewer people are affiliated with religion in the United States, but that hardly means that they’re all atheists.
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Social factors, from wealth to politics, may shape whether people who do not believe in God identify as an atheist.
Thinking builds neural networks, which is why practice improves performance.
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Eating right, exercising, playing sports, reading and journaling are just a few of the ways you can keep your brain in top shape.