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Hints of a more skeptical approach to immunizations have already surfaced.

The administration has gutted agencies like U.S.A.I.D., and President Trump has denigrated their work as wasteful and rife with fraud. His views on humanitarian assistance have seesawed since he entered political life.

The fourth mission by the company Axiom Space will help the three countries get to the International Space Station for the first time.

The Vermont Green Football Club champions environmental work and draws sold-out crowds, with the help of free ice cream.

The European wood pigeon helped me appreciate its omnipresent city cousins.

Scenes of nebulas in the Milky Way, a cluster of galaxies and thousands of new asteroids are a teaser of how the U.S.-funded observatory on a mountain in Chile will transform astronomy.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a mysterious Planet Nine.

Scenes from nebulas in the Milky Way and a cluster of galaxies are a teaser of how the observatory will transform astronomy, with more imagery expected later on Monday.

A powerful new telescope will usher in a new era of cosmic discovery, but in a political climate vastly different from when it was named for a once overlooked female astronomer.

The firms say their First Amendment rights are being violated when cities and states sue and accuse them of spreading misinformation about climate change.