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It's no longer uncommon for scheduled university commencement speakers to have their invitations rescinded following backlash over their politics.

Donald Trump's suit against the IRS and the settlement creating a $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund to compensate his allies raise important moral and constitutional issues.

About 2 in 3 Americans who are employed can get paid time off work while getting and recovering from chemotherapy or surgeries doctors have told them they need.

The move reshapes how future assessments of chemical dangers will be carried out, and if they'll be ignored, delayed or understated to benefit industry.

There was once a bipartisan consensus that media power had to be regulated if democracy were to survive.

Quantum computers are still a work in progress but quantum sensors are already in use at hospitals, laboratories and by defense contractors.

Misinformation and a shifting legal landscape have left many families with trans children uncertain about what care doctors can still provide.

The federal task force that defends US elections has been largely absent this election cycle, and the threat-sharing hub it relied on has been defunded.

The Sun is a complex physical body. It generates incredible amounts of heat and a strong, often tangled, magnetic field.

On your mental number line, are the numbers smaller on the left or on the right? Two comparative cognition researchers explain how culture may influence the orientation - but also may not.