Study uses satellite data to add to growing evidence that nighttime light exposure raises risk of breast cancer, with the…
More and more states are passing legislation requiring that students and faculty be permitted to carry concealed weapons…
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Ryan Kelly's iconic photograph from Charlottesville evokes a 'Unite the Right' moment from 1937 – and the…
Trump is a master of using anger to motivate his base. An anti-terrorism researcher explains how to stem the tide.
With Obamacare in peril and no health care plan in sight, it's logical to ask whether states could design their own…
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A multibillion-dollar effort is just beginning to build an all-new nationwide wireless broadband network for emergency responders.…
The Trump administration's decision to dismiss or accept a government-prepared climate report will have life-or-death…
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Over the past 100 years, discarded and secondhand goods have been used by artists to reject mainstream aesthetics.
Perhaps no one entertainer from the 20th century influenced pop culture as much as Elvis. And yet, by his own admission,…
The partition of India led to a genocide that was unprecedented in scale. How far was one man, Lord Mountbatten, who hurriedly…
A former Department of Defense and State Department official explains why a hardline approach on North Korea will likely…
The Russian cyberthreat goes back over three decades, extends into the country's educational systems and criminal worlds,…