Voter anger over rising electricity costs is shaping next year's midterm elections
Some states are requiring gun safety lessons in schools that teach kids ‘stop, don’t touch’
Along with stop, drop and roll, some states are teaching students to 'Stop and don't touch that gun.'
People in some states get SNAP food aid while others still wait for their November benefits
People in some U.S. states have started receiving their November SNAP benefits after delays caused by a legal battle over the government shutdown
Canada pushes on with ‘complete depopulation’ plan to cull 400 ostriches
Country’s top court declines to block controversial cull of hundreds of birds amid fears of an avian flu outbreak Canada’s food inspection agency says it plans to begin a “complete depopulation” of hundreds of ostriches at a farm after the country’s top court declined to block the controversial cull. On...
‘Heroic actions are a natural tendency’: why bystander apathy is a myth
Modern research shows the public work together selflessly in an emergency, motivated by a strong impulse to help It was early morning on 1 January last year when Colin McGarva dived into a flooding river in Worcester to rescue an unconscious woman. McGarva said he didn’t think twice about the...
James D Watson, who co-discovered DNA’s twisted-ladder structure, dies aged 97
Nobel prize winner shaped medicine, crimefighting and genealogy, but later years marred by racist remarks James Dewey Watson, whose co-discovery of the twisted-ladder structure of DNA in 1953 helped light the long fuse on a revolution in medicine, crimefighting, genealogy and ethics, has died, according to his former research lab....
Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis
History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us As world leaders gather in Brazil this year for Cop30 – the first Amazonian Cop – it’s worth doing a quick reality check on how we are collectively tracking to...
Lawyers for Stephen Bryant make final appeal over brain damage to stop South Carolina execution
Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate are trying to stop his execution later this month
Immigrant sentenced to time served after Wisconsin judge allegedly helped him evade federal agents
An immigrant who was arrested after a Milwaukee judge allegedly helped him dodge federal agents has been sentenced to time served for illegally reentering the United States
Abraham Lincoln letter seeking job for Black friend and valet now on display at presidential museum
An 1861 job-reference letter from Abraham Lincoln on behalf of a young Black friend and valet provides a glimpse of an extraordinary relationship the two had despite the demands the new president had undertaken