Last month, Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon won the state’s Democratic Senate nomination in a major upset over her better-funded...

The national debt hasn’t been a major issue in the 2026 midterms. But perhaps it should be. As of last...

After 12 years of dominating American politics — either as president, as a candidate, or from the sidelines — Donald...

Associate professor Kate Adamala has been busy. Her lab at the University of Minnesota takes chemicals and dead, isolated biological...

A horror story of sorts is unfolding in the United States. It goes like this: AI has made it so...

More than 90,000 wild horses and burros make their homes on public lands in the Western US, and each year,...

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During a tense vote on a data center being built in her drought-stricken Arizona district last summer, Tucson City Councilmember...

Republicans have been turning transgender athletes into a wedge issue since Idaho passed the first state ban in 2020. This...

Every day it seems scientists are making breakthroughs in Alzheimer’s disease. New treatments that actually slow the disease’s progression — lecanemab...

For years, parents across the country have been calling on Congress to do something about social media’s harmful effects on...

On Tuesday, Sen. Richard Blumenthal’s office published an alarming report from an anonymous whistleblower about the USPS’s role in the...

Olympic weightlifting is defined by only two moves: the snatch and the clean and jerk. But behind what seems like...

I haven’t been on a three-way call this emotionally taxing since junior high school. James is explaining the situation —...

Sometimes the best way to make friends is to lie. Around the world, people are gathering together to try to...