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Palestinians continue to seek food relief

4 months ago

Voices - Baseball returns to a former Japanese American detention camp - Eighty years later, descendants of prisoners from the Japanese American detention camp are playing baseball again in a rebuilt Manzanar field in California..

3 hours ago

Warmer temps lead to vanishing winters in North America's Great Lakes

3 hours ago

Gaza may no longer be burning, but many other places are

1 day ago

Student loan limits may alter who becomes a professor, doctor or lawyer

2 days ago

Natural World Heritage sites under threat, but bright spots remain -- Many World Heritage sites are increasingly at risk due to escalating climate change, invasive species, and a lack of consistent funding to protect them.

3 hours ago

Winning a bidding war on a home isn't always a win, research shows -- Homebuyers who win bidding wars tend to experience a "winner's curse," systematically overpaying for their new homes, research by a real estate professor shows.

1 day ago

Wings, booze and heartbreak -- the hidden costs of being a sports fan -- Fandom builds belonging, helps adults make friends, boosts happiness and provides a buffer against traumatic life events. It also promotes poor eating habits.

2 days ago

Will Russia implode after Ukraine? -- Here is question that few people have posed or even considered. What will be the fate of Russia after the war in Ukraine ends, as it must sometime?

3 days ago

The contested South China Sea shoal where nature, sovereignty collide -- China's surprise declaration of a new nature reserve at Scarborough Shoal is a calculated maneuver that fuses ecological language with geopolitical ambition.

4 days ago

Conflict at the drugstore as pharmacists' and patients' values collide -- Lawmakers and courts have wrestled with this question for many years: Do pharmacists have the right and power to make moral decisions for their patients?

7 days ago

Prolonged shutdown could send U.S. economy over the edge -- The consequences of the current federal government shutdown hinge on how long it lasts. If it lasts long time, it could send the U.S. economy into a tailspin.

8 days ago

Chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall redefined what it meant to be human -- Anyone proposing to offer a master class on changing the world for the better, without becoming negative, cynical, angry or narrow-minded in the process, could model their advice on the life and work of pioneering animal behavior scholar Jane Goodall.

9 days ago

Some straight talk advice for Pete Hegseth -- While Pete Hegseth prefers the title of secretary of war, he needs to be the secretary of defense in protecting and defending the nation against all enemies.

10 days ago

Trump administration slashes EPA's ability to protect air, water -- As Congress faces a midnight deadline to fund the government, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has put the EPA on the chopping block.

11 days ago

Asian-Pacific economic summit high-stakes barometer of global politics -- The U.N. General Assembly has concluded, and now the world turns its gaze to Gyeongju, where the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit will convene.

14 days ago

Even a brief government shutdown could have lasting effect -- An increasingly familiar prospect is drawing near in Washington is a possible government shutdown. And for federal workers, it couldn't come at a worse time.

15 days ago

How First Amendment protects Americans' speech -- and how it doesn't -- The First Amendment, which has been key element in recent news, protects speech across the political spectrum, even speech that Americans do not like.

16 days ago

Why now is the time for a One Korea policy -- It is time to adopt a One Korea Policy rooted in moral truth, strategic necessity and the shared values of the Republic of Korea and the United States.

17 days ago

Three disasters loom for the United States -- Whether or not the government shuts down in a week, the United States is confronted with a series of potentially explosive and very dangerous crises.

18 days ago

Trump's use of FBI to target enemies echoes J. Edgar Hoover era -- President Donald Trump's recent fury showed how much he expects top officials in federal law enforcement, including the FBI, to carry out his retribution.

21 days ago