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As more countries ban waste imports, plastic waste generators like the US will need to find better solutions. A few states are putting more responsibility on producers.

Many employees say they prefer flexibility when it comes to working in the office, but they find it creates uncertainty and unpredictability.

Around 97% of patients with advanced pancreatic cancer die within five years. Researchers have figured out a way to target the mechanism that makes these tumors so deadly.

Class-war rhetoric from Democratic candidates jams working-class voters into a prefabricated progressive agenda, an expert on rural and working-class communities argues.

Mary, as the Immaculate Conception, became patroness of the United States before the Vatican officially defined that belief as dogma.

White Americans who watch Fox News are more likely to agree that shadowy political elites are embracing permissive immigration policies to replace native-born white Americans.

Hospitals rely on ethics consultants to help navigate difficult decisions about life support, consent and a patient's wishes when the path forward is unclear.

White Americans who watch Fox News are more likely to agree that shadowy political elites are embracing permissive immigration policies to replace native-born white Americans.

New AI-based facial recognition techniques are reducing false positive and false negative matches.

A British ban stripped thousands of skilled mariners of their livelihoods overnight - and gave Washington a chance to turn the tide.