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Firefly fans who’d like to see lightning bugs year-round are out of luck.  The insect, which is a type of beetle, is usually seen only between spring and summer, with...

Shahar Mor has spent much of the last eight months worrying about his uncle Avraham Munder, who is being held hostage in Gaza. Almost every day, the data analyst attends...

Amid intense criticism for his Israel-Gaza approach, President Joe Biden announced earlier this year the construction of a pier to deliver desperately-needed aid to the Strip amid Israel’s ongoing bombardment....

Donald Trump has been a convicted felon for a little over a week and he has already lost a small but significant chunk of support, according to the polls.  In...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier attended a minute-long silence in memory of murdered police officer Rouven Laur in the southwestern city of Mannheim on Friday. The 29-year-old policeman after he was...

Some of the rhetoric around meditation can get pretty extreme: awaken us from the illusion of selfhood, dissolve the mental habits that generate suffering, and maybe merge with the primordial...

Senator Jon Tester had been calling for stricter border security measures for years. So when President Joe Biden issued an executive order preventing migrants from seeking asylum if they illegally...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of Britain apologized on Friday for leaving early from a D-Day commemoration in France, admitting to a major public relations misstep in the heat of a...

Lately, the biggest news in Alzheimer’s has been around a new drug treatment that can slow cognitive decline by nearly 30% among people in the early stages of the disease....

Monika Magashazi is a fighter. The 52-year old trans woman lives in Hungary — a country that has been ruled by nationalist Fidesz party since 2010.  For transgender communities, the situation “has...