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The DOJ settlement goes to 139 victims of Larry Nassar, the disgraced team doctor of USA Gymnastics who sexually assaulted elite and Olympic gymnasts, after the FBI failed to promptly investigate.
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United Methodists will again debate LGBTQ clergy and same-sex weddings
The United Methodist Church is holding its first General Conference since the pandemic and will consider whether to change policies on several LGBTQ issues.
Concerns over antisemitism rise as Jews begin observing Passover
Protests on college campuses related to the Israel-Hamas War have many Jews nervous heading into the holiday.
What the Starbucks case at the Supreme Court is all about. Hint: It's not coffee
Starbucks and some of its baristas have been in a contentious fight over unionizing since 2021. Now, the Supreme Court considers a case that could have implications for unions far beyond Starbucks.
New federal grants aimed to support elections. Many voting officials didn't see a dime
Voting officials cheered when it was announced that a portion of a multibillion-dollar federal grant program would go to election security. But in many cases, the allocations didn't go as planned.
Well, hello, Voyager 1! The venerable spacecraft is once again making sense
After a nasty computer glitch five months ago, Voyager 1 is once again able to communicate with Earth in a way that mission operators can understand.
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers in Congress introduced a bill that would allow the FDA to quickly respond when there’s a problem.
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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 our daily lives, from shopping to entertainment to health care? -
The law would have forbidden any public performance where actors impersonate someone of another gender.
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A nonstop flight from Los Angeles to New York spews about 1,300 pounds of planet-warming carbon into the air — per passenger. -
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.
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Police in New York made arrests last week at an encampment at Columbia University. -
Hundreds of thousands of civilians on both sides of the Israel–Lebanon border have been displaced.
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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.
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It's the first time the union has successfully organized workers at an automaker outside Detroit's big three.
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Several down ballot races could predict how November’s general election might play out in the Keystone State.
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A gag order prohibiting the former president from attacking witnesses and jurors was the first order of business as his criminal trial resumed Tuesday morning.
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Police arrested dozens of demonstrators Monday at New York University and at Yale University. And last week, more than 100 protesters were arrested at Columbia University.
