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Two explosions in Damascus, Syria, killed at least 40 Shiite pilgrims traveling to holy shrines, the United Nations says that with 20 million people at risk of starvation the world faces the greatest humanitarian crisis since World War II, and more news from around the globe.
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How does a citizen respond when a democracy that prides itself on being exceptional betrays its highest principles? Plato despaired, but he also pointed the way to renewal.
Facing increasing hostility from the administration, the religious community also has to cope with its own internal tensions.
The policy could pose challenges to economic prosperity and potentially lead to greater restriction.
Department of Justice adds 50 more immigration judges to speed up deportations, Boston parade organizers reverse ban on LGBT veterans group, and more from the United States and around the world.
American jobs, driverless cars, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and more.
After six weeks of brutally bad PR, the ridesharing giant is ratcheting up its defense.
Living a long life seems the obvious goal for most people, and many of them, like Dylan Thomas…
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Representative Justin Amash cried after missing his first vote since arriving to Congress in 2011.
“It’s very real.”
The pontiff said he’s open to studying the question—but that doesn’t mean he’ll do away with celibacy.
On Wednesday, a Northern Virginia school district shut down for the day after a number of staff members asked for…
By a one-vote margin, the Senate overturned many Obama-era education regulations on Thursday.
Flynn’s acknowledgment this week that he lobbied for Turkey, and the revelation that the White House knew that, raise new questions about Trump’s vetting process.
A Time story got pilloried for focusing not on the speech the human rights lawyer delivered to the U.N., but on her “baby bump.” It deserved the mockery … and, in another way, it didn’t.
The short film What a Ride is an ode to one man’s passion for speed and California roads.
A pharaoh statue discovered in Egypt, a close look at Saturn’s tiny ‘ravioli’ moon, marches on International Women’s Day, colorful Holi images from India, and much more.
The tracks on the Magnetic Fields’ new album take on Stephin Merritt’s biography year by year, but the underlying story is about art itself.
With the president giving Trump golf courses free publicity, and Kellyanne Conway telling citizens to buy Ivanka Trump products, business is good and ethics are dubious.
Emergency call lines in the United States rarely fail, yet they're more vulnerable than ever.
Creator Joss Whedon’s narrative risk-taking—seamlessly blending episodes-of-the-week with heavy serialization—set the tone for the Golden Age of television.
Schools near Detroit have reworked curriculum to include both technical and soft skills.
Critics had plenty of reasons for wanting to disqualify women from spaceflight in its early stages—but none of them stuck.
The U.S. economy added 235,000 jobs last month, while the unemployment rate is 4.7 percent.
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Military officers have checked some of the president’s uglier populist impulses. But what does that mean for liberal values?