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Rural neglect has produced a continual security crisis.

Strikes on ports and ships could portend another global food shortage.

Neuroscientist Ishmail Abdus-Saboor discusses efforts to understand how skin contact can be painful or pleasurable, and what touch-obsessed naked mole rats might teach us about human social behavior.

Work has never been able to provide people with the kind of value that a vocation, spiritual belief system or community once did. But AI might change that.

Experts say political uncertainty makes the Trump-backed plan untenable, for now.

Defense Department accounts posted the biblical quote “SEND ME. ” The Pentagon won’t say if its proselytizing is a message about the Iran war.

In Senatobia, Mississippi, where police killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley, community members had urged leaders to rein in the police. Are they listening now?

Elvis Brooks’ case was an egregious example of a wrongful conviction, civil rights attorneys said. But Louisiana’s attorney general maintains that Brooks and other exonerees are guilty — and therefore don’t qualify for any money from the state.

BP has locked out about 800 refinery workers in Whiting without pay for months. The hardline tactic is raising fears about the future of union power.

The state used to run on coal, relying on it for as much as 78 percent of its power a decade ago. But now renewables are surging.

For 50 years, the Endangered Species Act has defined "harm" as not just injury to individuals but to the habitat on which they depend. By narrowing that definition, the Trump administration is leaving hundreds of species at risk of extinction.

We warned the media liberals about climate collapse. Their cowardice is the greatest threat to life on earth.

The city of Brussels spends around €100,000 a year on new murals through its “Call to Walls” programme and sponsors graffiti walking tours.

Intercept reporters break down Abdul El-Sayed, Donavan McKinney, and William Lawrence’s primary wins in Michigan and Cori Bush’s loss in Missouri.

El-Sayed won the Democratic Senate primary in Michigan by a slim margin. Overcoming AIPAC and the establishment to win is still a huge victory.

Kyiv has run out of Patriot interceptors, but allies remain reluctant to supply more.

Pretoria’s influence across Africa may be waning following widespread xenophobic attacks.

The region has become ground zero for protests against poor governance.

Missed opportunities and strategic blunders have plagued Riyadh.

Harkening back to colonial massacres, Trump abandons the premise of proportionality for butchery in Iran and beyond.