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Television characters who experience cardiac arrest outside a hospital are more likely to receive CPR than people in real life. But the CPR on...
In December 2025, President Donald Trump filed a US$10 billion lawsuit against the BBC in a federal court in Florida. It was only the latest in a...
U.S. President Donald Trump has ignited a contentious debate over who has the right to control Venezuela’s vast oil reserves. Speaking on Jan. 3,...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to...
Christian Reconstructionism is a theological and political movement within conservative Protestantism that argues society should be governed by...
Asked in December 2025 what the biggest sticking point was in negotiating peace in Ukraine, U.S. President Donald Trump got straight to the point:...
Older adults can dramatically reduce the amount of ultraprocessed foods they eat while keeping a familiar, balanced diet – and this shift leads to...
Years of simmering tensions between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates exploded into the open on Dec. 30, 2025. That’s when Saudi officials...
A college degree was once seen as the golden ticket to landing a well-paying job. But many people are increasingly questioning the value of a four-...
The investigation follows Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s refusal to toe the White House’s line over interest rate cuts.
Information is still getting out despite an almost total internet blackout, especially with the help of diaspora groups. That poses a big problem...
On Jan. 11, 2026, I watched anxiously at the tightly controlled Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as an awe-inspiring SpaceX Falcon 9...
On Jan. 7, 2026, President Donald Trump declared that he would officially pull the United States out of the world’s most important global treaty...
Many adults are breathing a sigh of relief as the 6-7 meme fades away as one of the biggest kid-led global fads of 2025. In case you managed to...
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announced on Jan. 7, 2026, that it will cease all operations effective May 3. The daily newspaper, founded in 1786, has...
The U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall Collection contains 100 sculptures: two luminaries from each state. They include many familiar figures, such as...
What is an election and when is it completed? That’s the legal question at the heart of Watson v. Republican National Committee, the mail-in ballot...
Foreign policy is usually discussed as a matter of national interests – oil flows, borders, treaties, fleets. But there is a problem: “national...
After a string of dramatic failures, the huge Starship rocket from SpaceX had a fully successful test on Oct. 13, 2025. A couple more test flights,...
Methamphetamine doesn’t just spike levels of the pleasure-inducing hormone dopamine in the reward pathways of the brain – it also provokes damaging...
When federal health officials announced on Jan. 5, 2026, that they were taking six out of 17 vaccines off the childhood immunization schedule, they...
I have a health goal for the new year that doesn’t require me to get out of bed earlier or eat fewer cookies. I am an atmospheric chemist and will...
Minneapolis is once again the focus of debates about violence involving law enforcement after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot...
Every five years, the U.S. government releases an updated set of recommendations on healthy eating. This document, called the Dietary Guidelines...
Every five years, the U.S. government releases an updated set of recommendations on healthy eating. This document, called the Dietary Guidelines...