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Wednesday, August 26, 2026 1:47 PM ET

UPI - Opinion

Japan celebrates Zama Sunflower Festival

2 days ago

Voices - Trump's plan to ax the nat'l forest Roadless Rule will struggle in court - Over 368,000 miles of roads wind through U.S. national forests, eight times more than the entire interstate highway system.

2 hours ago

Latin America's democracy will also be built by its engineers

2 hours ago

The Strait of Malacca, a key strategic concern for Asia-Pacific

8 hours ago

In Korea, the checkup becomes the destination

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Cancer vaccines could transform treatment and prevention -- False claims that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines cause cancer could, ironically, lead to worse cancer outcomes by undermining a promising tool.

2 hours ago

South America has forgotten its northern coast -- South American politics, commerce and even sport often treat the Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana as if they belonged to another region.

8 hours ago

Why millions of people around the world will contract measles in 2026 -- The World Health Organization estimates that in 2026 nearly 11 million people will contract the virus that causes measles.

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Why social media algorithms send you posts you don't like -- New research suggests that social media algorithms supplying your feeds may be prioritizing content that clashes with your values.

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Bankruptcy filings are soaring in 2026, signaling economic distress -- Declaring bankruptcy when you're drowning in debt should be a last resort. State laws vary, so where you live may determine whether you keep your home.

2 days ago

Severe flooding raises deadly overdose risk in rural Appalachia -- Disasters weaken support systems that take years to rebuild, at the same time people caught in them are under extraordinary psychological stress.

2 days ago

Takaichi's grand strategy is taking shape -- Sanae Takaichi's recent initiatives reveal a leader firmly operating within the strategic tradition established by former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

5 days ago

The Gradient Principle: When inequality becomes movement -- The recent Ruptures and Opportunities report from the U.N. portrays Latin America and the Caribbean as caught in three mutually reinforcing traps.

6 days ago

The reason many Americans are cutting ties with parents and siblings -- Estrangement is rarely caused by childhood abuse or a pushy therapist. Instead, it reveals a collision between two ideas of what family should be.

7 days ago

Quitting alcohol can increase the risk of compulsive drinking -- Alcohol abstinence alters brain activity in ways that may drive someone with alcohol use disorder to relapse, new research in mice suggests.

8 days ago

Latin America's religious revolution is reshaping its politics -- For centuries, Catholicism was so deeply woven into Latin American identity that the two sometimes seemed inseparable.

8 days ago

The false and the furious: We aren't just bothered by different beliefs -- Differences in beliefs may not be what drives people apart. A belief that someone else is wrong may be the stronger force.

8 days ago

After the commodity boom, Latin America confronts its growth trap -- Renewed volatility in energy and commodity markets is again exposing a divide within Latin America.

9 days ago

As oil profits skyrocket, calls for windfall taxes rise -- Oil companies are making massive profits and stockpiling cash, and holding off on changing their investment plans.

12 days ago

The real question isn't why North Koreans don't resist -- People believe the first world they encounter is the normal one. For North Koreans, dictatorship is that kind of presence -- they way things are.

12 days ago

America is debating socialism -- Latin America has been here before -- For most Latin Americans, the Democratic Socialists of America probably seems like a distant feature of domestic U.S. politics. That may be a mistake.

13 days ago