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A small medical transport plane crashed and caught fire on the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona, killing four people

Museums across the U.S. have artifacts on display that represent and reflect landmark events of the Civil Rights era

The Justice Department has identified some three dozen states, cities and counties as so-called sanctuary jurisdictions

U.S. stock indexes slipped following the latest discouraging signal on the U.S. economy

A Purdue University student from South Korea has been freed from federal detention following days of protests by faith leaders in New York and abroad

Recently, a group of world-leading scientists called for a halt on research to create ‘mirror life’ microbes amid concerns that the synthetic organisms would present an ‘unprecedented risk’ to life on Earth. Ian Sample tells Madeleine Finlay about why this work initially seemed exciting for scientists and what the risks...

Solutions for todays puzzles plus a gallery of readers’ designs Earlier today I wrote about ambigrams, a type of writing that is designed to be read in more than one way. Typically, an ambigram is a word or phrase that has left-right mirror symmetry, or reads the same upside down....

More than 100 million ‘novel entity’ chemicals are in circulation, with health impact not widely recognised Chemical pollution is “a threat to the thriving of humans and nature of a similar order as climate change” but decades behind global heating in terms of public awareness and action, a report has...

Risks of a wave are compounded by new vaccine restrictions from the Trump administration Covid is on the rise again in the US, as children begin returning to school and as officials plan to restrict booster shots. While cases are increasing less quickly than at the start of other surges,...

Tennessee is gearing up for an execution that experts say would likely mark the first time a man has been put to death with a working defibrillator in his chest