Despite producing nearly $11 billion worth of goods and services each year, incarcerated workers in the U.S. earn an average of just between 13 cents and 52 cents per hour across the country, accor… | Continue reading
Despite producing nearly $11 billion worth of goods and services each year, incarcerated workers in the U.S. earn an average of just between 13 cents and 52 cents per hour across the country, accor… | Continue reading
A combination of everyday chemicals found in people’s bodies may be associated with a worldwide plunge in male fertility, a new study has found. Sperm counts have dropped by more than half in the p… | Continue reading
Federal investigators are expanding their investigation into potential safety risks of Tesla’s autopilot feature. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said Thursday that it is… | Continue reading
The House on Wednesday passed a resolution that condemns the “great replacement theory” less than a month after a gunman who reportedly espoused the racist conspiracy theory fatally shot 10 Black p… | Continue reading
The FBI searches through databases of foreign communications in a program that Congress created specifically to catch foreign terrorists and spies. But the FBI uses this same program to glean priva… | Continue reading
Michael Lowe said he found himself sitting in jail for an airport burglary he didn’t commit. He says the airline gave his name to police, and he has no idea why. | Continue reading
A World Health Organization (WHO) adviser said on Monday that people should not change their plans to attend pride parades next month amid the increased circulation of monkeypox. “It’s important th… | Continue reading
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders agreed Monday to embargo most Russian oil imports into the bloc by year-end as part of new sanctions on Moscow worked out at a summit focused on helping Ukrai… | Continue reading
When I was 11 years old and living in the small town of New Boston, N.H., a friend and I saw something that was not only never explained, but actually denied. It was the middle of summer and we wer… | Continue reading
It won’t be long before some older people who had decided they could comfortably retire as their portfolios soared in value reassess their financial situation. | Continue reading
The Interior Department will not move forward with planned oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Cook Inlet, it announced Wednesday night. A spokesperson for the departme… | Continue reading
Story at a glance The mRNA coronavirus vaccines are effective in lowering risk of severe disease and death. Some people, like many who are immunocompromised, may not have as strong of an immune res… | Continue reading
Big Tech monopolies have amassed far too much control over society — over our daily lives, our economy and especially over the news, content and information we gather and read. | Continue reading
Stocks took steep losses Friday, closing a brutal month with a deep selloff driven largely by falling shares of technology companies. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed with a loss of more tha… | Continue reading
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey alleged in an exchange on the social media platform on Monday that CNN created conflict during racial justice protests in Ferguson, Mo. In a thread about CNN and fals… | Continue reading
If one does not account adequately for inflation, visions of retirement with Mai Tai cocktails on the beach will encounter a sad reality of saltine crackers and endless Netflix reruns. | Continue reading
New York University-Shanghai professor Rodrigo Zeidan on Monday said his family is scavenging for food in the Chinese city amid a surge of coronavirus cases and a citywide lockdown. Zeidan told Hil… | Continue reading
The hegemony of the U.S. dollar was reliant on America’s hegemonic status in the world. With the world moving toward multipolarity and with the U.S. no longer the world’s largest trading nation (it… | Continue reading
More than 70 percent of non-organic fresh fruits and vegetables sold in the U.S. contain traces of potentially harmful pesticides, according to a new report from an advocacy group. The Environ… | Continue reading
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles judge has ruled that California’s landmark law mandating that corporate boards have ethnic or LGBT members violates the state Constitution. Friday’s brief ruling gr… | Continue reading
A massive ice shelf in eastern Antartica collapsed, scientists said on Friday, marking the first time an ice shelf has done so in the region. | Continue reading
Ukraine is utilizing facial recognition software to identify the bodies of Russian soldiers who have been killed amid Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. | Continue reading
A close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday accused the U.S. of seeking "the end of our motherland" and said escalating tensions could result in a nuclear disaster. | Continue reading
A Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulator urged a federal judge to not let Tesla CEO and founder Elon Musk leave an agreement that requires his Twitter use be monitored, | Continue reading
“Exercise can help. Exercise takes care of the inflammation that leads to elevated blood glucose and the development and progression of diabetes and clinical depression,” said Candida Rebello, a research scientist at Pennington Biomedical Research Center. | Continue reading
The justices gave the U.S. government more latitude to invoke “state secrets” in surveillance cases. | Continue reading
Multiple covert government surveillance operations hoovering up Americans' information without oversight have been exposed in the last year. Those not following closely may not have noticed. | Continue reading
A proposal to make daylight saving time permanent is finding bipartisan support in the House after its passage in the Senate. | Continue reading
“Through the 2020s, an important part of USDOT’s safety mission will be to ensure safety standards keep pace with the development of automated driving and driver assistance systems,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said. | Continue reading
Deutsche Bank released a statement Friday saying that it is “winding down” operations in Russia following criticism of its previous stance to stay in the country. | Continue reading
The Ensuring Accountability in Agency Rulemaking Act would assure that those who write the rules are accountable to the public. | Continue reading
Russian citizens have been at the center of their government’s propaganda campaign to twist the events of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in a way that makes Russia look like the hero and Ukraine look like the aggressor. | Continue reading
Facebook and Instagram will temporarily allow users in some countries to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers within the context of the war in Ukraine, a company spokesperson confirmed Thursd | Continue reading
Conservatives won back power in South Korea’s presidential election on Thursday after a tight race. | Continue reading
A bipartisan group of senators offered legislation on Tuesday to freeze Russia's gold reserves, arguing this would make it more difficult for Moscow to avoid the pain from international sanctions imposed over the country's invasion of Ukraine. | Continue reading
The Senate on Monday night passed legislation to make lynching a federal hate crime, sending the bill to President Biden’s desk. | Continue reading
"We're getting ready for #Artemis I — and we want to take you with us," NASA said on social media. | Continue reading
The Biden administration is weighing whether to impose sanctions against India over its stockpile of and reliance on Russian military equipment as part of the wide-ranging consequences the West is seeking to impose on Moscow o | Continue reading
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Could we facilitate private ownership of land on the moon? It's complicated. | Continue reading
Airbnb announced Tuesday that it plans to temporarily house a total | Continue reading
“Students count on their colleges to be truthful. Unfortunately, today’s findings show too many instances in which students were misled into loans at institutions or programs that could not deliver what they’d promised.” | Continue reading
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) voiced her support on Thursday for lowering the federal voting age to 16, telling reporters during a press conference that doing so would be a boon to voter engagement in the U.S. | Continue reading
Retired Russian Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov, the head of the All-Russian Officers Assembly, has gone public with a statement that | Continue reading
A proposed decision that would upend California’s rooftop solar industry is pitting economic justice advocates against solar buildout supporters and fracturing its environmental movement. | Continue reading
The FBI tested the NSO Group's Pegasus spyware for potential use in criminal investigations. | Continue reading
A group of Senate Democrats on Tuesday unveiled legislation that would reform an 1887 election law that has been in the spotlight in the wake of the 2020 election. | Continue reading