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Abortion and contraception were quite common among premodern Christians, who also celebrated women's celibacy as superior…
The doctrine of inerrancy likely took shape during the 19th and 20th centuries in the United States, in response to the…
Workers who filed complaints faced retaliation and rarely got a favorable result from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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These giant predators are helping solve the mystery of Earth's cooling shift some 50-30 million years ago.
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In Latin America, common citizens have often donned outlandish outfits and comic book-inspired personas to lead demonstrations…
Newer measures of poverty may do a better job of counting America's poor, which is necessary to helping them.
There are five basic things to address while starting your own company: Need, idea, product, setup and market.
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A scholar of spelling bees explains why Zaila Avant-garde's victory at the National Scripps Spelling Bee is significant…
Left untreated, heat stroke can be fatal, and the elderly are the most at risk.
Both Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin are sending spacecrafts – and their billionaire founders – into suborbital flight.…
New data shows how high prices and low incomes prevent 4 in 10 people worldwide from buying enough nutritious foods for…
As part of the nation's massive wartime mobilization effort, millions of Americans, for the first time, traveled abroad…