Undocumented students at U.S. public schools targeted by efforts to overturn Supreme Court case
The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, is launching a strategy to overturn a landmark Supreme Court decision that protects the right of undocumented students to attend public school.
Shipbuilders harness the wind to clean up global shipping
Container ships use heavy fuel oil called bunker fuel. They’re more efficient than trains, trucks and planes. But bunker fuel is highly polluting, and container ships produce about 3% of...
UN official 'horrified' by mass grave discovery: The latest updates from Gaza
Palestinian officials say they exhumed 283 bodies.
Lachlan Cartwright recounts 'catch and kill' at the National Enquirer
Trump is accused of falsifying business records to unlawfully influence the 2016 presidential election. At the center of the trial are payments that the National Enquirer made to keep damaging...
Pennsylvania primary: Takeaways and surprises
The results could provide important insight into how November’s general election might unfold in the swing state.
California cracks down on groundwater usage
California's state board that regulates water recently voted to impose fees for farmers using groundwater in one of the state's largest farming areas.
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NHL playoffs underway
The playoffs have already had several close games and plenty of upset victories as teams battle to reach the Stanley Cup final.
FTC bans noncompete clauses between employees and workers
The Federal Trade Commission voted Tuesday to ban employers from using noncompete clauses to prevent employees from going to work for rival companies.
Review finds Israel failed to provide evidence linking UN aid agency to terrorist groups
A new independent review has found Israel provided no evidence for its claim that staff in a United Nations aid agency called UNRWA have ties to terrorist groups.
Dennis Lehane taps his Boston roots for novel 'Small Mercies'
Author Dennis Lehane's vivid recollections of growing up in Boston during the busing desegregation crisis in the mid-1970s inspired his 2023 novel "Small Mercies."
'Black AF History' retells the story of America from the Black perspective
Author and political commentator Michael Harriot casts well-known historical narratives in an entirely new light.
NASA makes sense of Voyager 1's garbled signals from the edge of the solar system
A computer glitch scrambled Voyager 1's communications with Earth, leaving NASA in the dark. Now, scientists have restored Voyager 1 and are making sense of its signals from interstellar space.
Supreme Court weighs Idaho case about abortion restrictions in medical emergencies
The Biden administration argues that federal emergency care law overrides the state of Idaho's law that only allows abortions in a medical emergency if the mother faces death.
How the FDA tracks foodborne illness, and what could be done better
A bipartisan group of lawmakers in Congress introduced a bill that would allow the FDA to quickly respond when there’s a problem.
Palestinian protester at Columbia says it's 'inspiring' to feel like students have agency
Police in New York made arrests last week at an encampment at Columbia University.
How did Amazon come to be worth more than $1 trillion?
Was Amazon's success from innovating retail or cornering the market on e-commerce when the internet was still a fringe part of society? Was it by creeping into every part of...
Undocumented students at U.S. public schools targeted by efforts to overturn Supreme Court case
The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, is launching a strategy to overturn a landmark Supreme Court decision that protects the right of undocumented students to attend public school.
One year since Tennessee drag law was struck down
The law would have forbidden any public performance where actors impersonate someone of another gender.
Planes pollute the planet, but new technology could clean up the aviation industry
A nonstop flight from Los Angeles to New York spews about 1,300 pounds of planet-warming carbon into the air — per passenger.
Arts program supports displaced children in Lebanon
Hundreds of thousands of civilians on both sides of the Israel–Lebanon border have been displaced.
'Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts' tells Black Appalachian stories through food
Former Kentucky Poet-Laureate Crystal Wilkinson's "Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks" is both a family memoir and a cookbook.