Two African countries say they need to kill elephants for food. Critics say it’s cruel and won’t work
October 12, 2024
TikTok has been aware that its design features are detrimental to its young users and that publicly touted tools aimed at limiting kids’ time on the site were largely ineffective
October 11, 2024
Approval of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government slightly rose to 36% in October from 35% in July, pollster Datafolha said on Friday.
October 11, 2024
The advertisement on “The View" this week, preceded by a warning from ABC, was shocking: condemning celebrities for supposedly promoting abortion rights and showing images of dead fetuses
October 11, 2024
A Texas man who sued his ex-wife’s friends for helping her obtain an abortion informed the court that the two sides reached a settlement, forgoing the need for a trial that would have tested his argument that their actions amounted to assisting in a wrongful death
October 11, 2024
The WNBA has been praised in the past as a leader for its diversity hiring practices
October 11, 2024
The concern has been there all along, but now it's being talked about openly: Are some men reluctant to vote for Kamala Harris because she’s a woman
October 11, 2024
Aaron Rodgers and the New York Jets’ offense appeared on their way toward the efficient, high-scoring and productive force they fully expected they’d be this season
October 11, 2024
Fact check: During speech in which he used teleprompters, Trump falsely claims he doesn’t use teleprompters
October 11, 2024
The Marshall Project covers Ohio's plan to close youth detention facilities in an effort to combat adult-style incarceration, an issue other states are facing as well.
October 11, 2024
One of the most liberal US cities is offering the Supreme Court a chance to further restrict federal regulatory power.
October 11, 2024
Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki who are also known as Hibakusha, won the Nobel Peace Prize on
October 11, 2024
Putin hails ‘very close’ links with Iran at landmark first meeting with president, as Middle East tensions soar
October 11, 2024
A solid majority of Hispanic women have a positive opinion of Vice President Kamala Harris and a negative view of former President Donald Trump, but Hispanic men are divided on both candidates, according to a recent AP-NORC poll
October 11, 2024
Obama tells Black men it’s ‘not acceptable’ to sit out election
October 11, 2024
CNN political analyst Maggie Haberman discusses why Former President Donald Trump may have criticized Detroit while he was giving remarks in Detroit.
October 10, 2024
Fact check: Trump, on a lying spree, made at least 40 separate false claims in two Pennsylvania speeches
October 10, 2024
Amid hurricanes, the chemtrail conspiracy theory has its moment in the sun
October 10, 2024
Biden tells Trump to ‘get a life’ over storm misinformation, promises Milton survivors they’ll get the help they need
October 10, 2024
Federal appeals court is skeptical of DACA but could narrow the ruling striking it down
October 10, 2024
President Joe Biden says his predecessor Donald Trump should “get a life” and try to help people impacted by a pair of devastating hurricanes, rather than spread misinformation about the federal response
October 10, 2024
Democrat Angela Alsobrooks is highlighting former Gov. Larry Hogan’s actions in office as evidence he isn’t as supportive of abortion rights as he now claims to be
October 10, 2024
Ethel Kennedy, human rights activist and widow of Robert F. Kennedy, dies at 96
October 10, 2024
When USA Today columnist Christine Brennan questioned a Black player over her striking Caitlin Clark during a game, it was anything but benign.
October 10, 2024
Candidates use psychological strategies to win support and to cast their rivals in a negative light. In projection, people seek to lessen their own faults by calling out these faults in others.
October 10, 2024
Han Kang wins Nobel Prize in literature for ‘intense poetic prose’ confronting human fragility
October 10, 2024
Jason Mott’s first novel since “Hell of a Book” is a kind of meta-sequel to his award-winning meta-narrative about a Black author’s haunting promotional tour
October 10, 2024
South Korean author Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature for "her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes
October 10, 2024
More than 370 million girls and women alive today, or one in every eight worldwide, experienced rape or sexual assault before the age of 18, the United Nations children's
October 10, 2024
‘Zionists don’t deserve to live,’ suspended Columbia activist said. Now his group rescinds its apology and calls for violence
October 10, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris is facing new urgency to define how her potential presidency would be different from President Joe Biden's
October 09, 2024
Online hate against Americans of South Asian ancestry has risen steadily in 2023 and 2024 with the rise of politicians from that community to prominence,
October 09, 2024
Yankees slugger Juan Soto says he is focused solely on helping New York win the World Series, and not thinking at all about a potentially lucrative offseason
October 09, 2024
Flour Bluff's accidental time capsule includes photos, old notes and more between late 70s to early 2000s
October 09, 2024
Is the media “sanewashing” Donald Trump
October 09, 2024
Americans are being targeted with an unprecedented number of political attack ads this election season, and research shows that these ads can leave voters feeling exhausted, angry and stressed.
October 09, 2024
Politicians have long used the phrase ‘I misspoke’ when backpedaling for verbal inaccuracies or blunders. Now it’s used as a euphemistic recasting of lying as an inadvertent mistake.
October 09, 2024
If you’re an unhappy voter and want other unhappy voters to hold their noses and vote for the major candidate they least dislike, think about the Golden Rule.
October 09, 2024
Elections are a foundation of democracy, but they're also human exercises
October 08, 2024
One question that will be asked over and over again on election night is “Who won?”
October 08, 2024
Internal emails dispute Trump’s claims that FBI had ‘free rein’ to probe Kavanaugh allegations, new report says
October 08, 2024
Harris says there’s not much she’d have done differently than Biden over the last 4 years
October 08, 2024
Harris says Trump’s putting politics over people with his hurricane response: ‘He really lacks empathy on a very basic level’
October 08, 2024
Supreme Court signals it may uphold Biden’s regulations on ‘ghost gun’ kits
October 08, 2024
The Menendez brothers get their say in a new Netflix documentary.
October 08, 2024
Two courts this week have allowed U.S. state abortion restrictions, and bigger changes could result from next month's elections
October 08, 2024
Fact check: Trump makes at least 11 false claims in foreign policy interview
October 08, 2024
‘That son of a bitch’: New Woodward book reveals candid behind-the-scenes conversations of Biden, Trump, Harris and Putin
October 08, 2024
Social media platforms, the modern public squares, are being manipulated by foreign influence campaigns. AI makes those campaigns more effective.
October 08, 2024
The New York Times, dismayed by wayward polls in the 1952 presidential race, sent teams of reporters across the country to assess public opinion in the 1956 campaign. Its effort was no rousing success.
October 08, 2024
In order to effectively appeal to voters with a shared identity, Kamala Harris and other politicians would need to show that they care about the particular issues they are concerned about.
October 08, 2024
What this high school senior wants adults to know about classroom phone bans
October 08, 2024
Trump vows to ‘remove the Jew haters’ if reelected during event commemorating October 7 attacks
October 08, 2024
Former President Donald Trump on Monday suggested undocumented immigrants who commit murder have “bad genes,” in the latest example of the former president using dehumanizing rhetoric as he tries to stoke fears about those in the country illegally. Republican strategist and CNN political commentator Ana Navarro joins Anderson Cooper to discuss the impact of Trump's rhetoric.
October 08, 2024
Sally Field shares harrowing story about abortion in Mexico as a teenager: ‘We can’t go back’
October 07, 2024
New Harris digital ad attacks Trump’s handling of natural disaster relief
October 07, 2024
A New Mexico man has pleaded no contest to reduced charges of aggravated battery and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in the shooting of a Native American activist during demonstrations about abandoned plans to reinstall a statue of a Spanish conquistador
October 07, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris is calling former President Donald Trump “incredibly irresponsible” for spreading falsehoods about the federal response to Hurricane Helene’s destruction
October 07, 2024
The White House on Monday criticized the U.S.
October 07, 2024
Fact check: Walz makes false claims about Trump on abortion and the economy
October 07, 2024
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Monday suggested that migrants who are in the U_S_ and have committed murder did so because “it’s in their genes.”
October 07, 2024
Supreme Court declines to hear First Amendment challenges in gun display and Confederate statue protest cases
October 07, 2024
CNN's Brian Stelter says the rhetoric Elon Musk used during his appearance at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, would lead to "dangerous consequences" for America.
October 07, 2024
Belonging to a group can make you feel safe and supported. But there can be downsides, too.
October 07, 2024
Harris’ support for abortion rights and political unity – as well as the fact that she offers an antidote to Donald Trump – helps explain her appeal.
October 07, 2024
As colleges and universities grapple with antisemitism on campus, research reveals that views on Jews and Israel are more complex than current debates would make them seem.
October 07, 2024
A 70-year-old South Korean woman on Monday sued her government, an adoption agency, and an orphanage over the adoption of her daughter, who was sent to the United States in 1976, months after she was kidnapped at age four
October 07, 2024
The Supreme Court took the bench again on Monday, ready to hear cases on ghost guns, a death sentence and transgender rights
October 07, 2024
The Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans is reviewing a civil rights lawsuit alleging a south Louisiana parish engaged in racist land-use policies that placed polluting industries in majority-Black communities
October 07, 2024
Harris says it’s ‘not the 1950s anymore’ in dismissing criticism over not having biological children
October 07, 2024
The U.S. government’s top disaster relief official says false claims and conspiracy theories about the federal response to Hurricane Helene, which are being spread most prominently by Donald Trump, are “demoralizing” aid workers and creating fear in people who need recovery assistance
October 06, 2024
What the 1960 election can teach us about the peaceful transfer of power
October 06, 2024
Fact check: Six days of Trump lies about the Hurricane Helene response
October 06, 2024
CEO and National Director of the Anti-Defamation League Jonathan Greenblatt reacts to new data showing over 10,000 antisemitic incidents in the US since Hamas' October 7 attack in Israel.
October 06, 2024
The vice presidential candidates debate the issues.
October 06, 2024
For generations, many people in Lebanon have wrestled with whether to leave to seek better opportunities or escape various times of tumult
October 06, 2024
A top leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is urging members to “avoid what is harsh and hateful” in the heat of election season
October 05, 2024
The tough decisions parents are making as never-ending threats to schools become the norm
October 05, 2024
‘It’s so cool!’: Barcelona star Caroline Graham Hansen on her career, the Ballon d’Or and the growth of women’s soccer
October 05, 2024
Fact check: New Trump attack ad deceptively edits out key words from Harris and The New York Times
October 04, 2024
The New York Times won’t endorse in local races. A group of prominent journalists aims to fill the gap
October 04, 2024
These people share conspiracy theories to promote conflict, cause chaos, recruit and radicalize potential followers, make money, harass, or even just to get attention.
October 04, 2024
Outgoing Indonesia President Joko Widodo's approval rating has fallen to its lowest level this year after a move by his allies to change election rules, a poll
October 04, 2024
President Joe Biden said on Thursday he did not believe there is going to be an "all-out war" in the Middle East, a region that has been on edge amid Israel's
October 04, 2024
Fluoride in water prevents some cavities but concern about health risks raises questions about the tradeoffs
October 04, 2024
A federal jury in Tennessee on Thursday convicted three former Memphis police officers of witness tampering stemming from the beating death of Black motorist
October 03, 2024
Fact check: Amid bipartisan praise for Biden hurricane response, Trump falsely claims reviews are ‘universally’ negative
October 03, 2024
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Thursday that if he is elected in November, no state will be able to ban gasoline-powered cars
October 03, 2024
Four prominent previously pro-Trump GOP women to make the case against him in battleground Pennsylvania
October 03, 2024
Melania Trump has revealed her support for abortion rights ahead of the release of her upcoming memoir
October 03, 2024
In a landmark 2024 case, the Supreme Court ruled that presidents are immune from prosecution when they exercise their core constitutional powers. So who decides what actions are not immune?
October 03, 2024
French Union of Auschwitz Deportees president and Holocaust survivor Victor Perahia has died
October 03, 2024
DoNut Miss Class campaign encourages Denver Public Schools students to show up
October 03, 2024
Melania Trump confirms support for abortion rights in new video, putting her at odds with husband’s position
October 03, 2024
Nice Jewish men wanting to date non-Jewish women has been a trope of US stage and screen for 100 years.
October 03, 2024
Students, professors and accrediting agencies are more interested in social impact than ever.
October 03, 2024
While the Republican Party platform has typically included anti-abortion language, this year’s platform is curiously silent on the issue.
October 03, 2024
A leading expert in the selection of federal judges analyzes the Trump and Harris records regarding judicial nominations. There’s a big difference in their approaches.
October 03, 2024
Among the nation’s charismatic Christians, there’s one highly politicized faction in particular that believes the reelection of former President Donald Trump would be a win in a literal spiritual war of angels in demons
October 03, 2024
Giuliani’s daughter details how she came to decision to break with father and endorse Harris
October 03, 2024
The Guardian: Melania Trump says women must have abortion rights free from government pressure in memoir
October 03, 2024
Melania Trump writes in her upcoming memoir that a woman has the right to an abortion, The Guardian newspaper reported on Wednesday, while her husband, Donald
October 02, 2024
Anti-abortion leaders say they're undeterred by Donald Trump's comments that he would veto a federal abortion ban
October 02, 2024
‘It’s just such a beautiful community here’: Bend nonprofit HÚE helps at-risk youth during mental health crises
October 02, 2024
Javier Bardem was no longer comfortable being silent on Gaza
October 02, 2024
Are the Commanders Super Bowl contenders with star rookie QB? Will injuries catch up with the Chiefs? NFL Week 4 takeaways
October 02, 2024
The US Supreme Court’s high-profile Grants Pass ruling allows cities to clear homeless encampments, even if they can’t offer shelter. A scholar explains why a Housing First approach is more effective.
October 02, 2024
Approval of Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in September went down when compared to a survey conducted two months earlier, pollster Quaest said on Wednesday, as his
October 02, 2024
Polls help set the public’s expectations in a presidential race. In 2020, presidential polls overall were the worst in 40 years. No misfire was more striking than CNN’s. Will CNN do better in 2024?
October 02, 2024
LGBTQ+ Jews have struggled to be accepted within their Orthodox communities
October 02, 2024
Dockworkers are waging a battle against automation. The rest of us may want to take notes
October 02, 2024
Pope Francis' big Catholic reform project has opened with widespread calls for women to take up more positions of responsibility in the church topping the agenda
October 02, 2024
CBS cut mics and fact-checked JD Vance in a more civil VP debate, drawing the ire of Trump and his allies
October 02, 2024
The types of smiles that politicians display can give us insights into their personalities and how they’ll lead.
October 02, 2024
Trump says he would veto a federal abortion ban if elected again
October 02, 2024
The vice presidential candidates, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Ohio Sen. JD Vance, on Tuesday engaged in a fast-moving, largely civil debate on a wide range of issues
October 02, 2024
A new Pearson Institute/AP-NORC survey finds Republicans are more likely to see Israel as an ally that shares the U.S.'s interests and values, while Democrats are more likely to see Israel as a partner that doesn’t share U.S. interests and values
October 02, 2024
Masculinity has become a dominant theme in the race for the White House. In their debate, VP candidates JD Vance and Tim Walz showed just how much they differ on what that means.
October 02, 2024
Takeaways from the vice presidential debate between Vance and Walz
October 02, 2024
Georgia judge signals a need to clarify ‘vague’ new election certification rule
October 01, 2024
The impact of a political backlash against environmental, social and governance-related (ESG) issues in the United States is overstated and having little bearing
October 01, 2024
The ideal couple configuration, according to an expert
October 01, 2024
California’s attorney general is suing a Catholic hospital, saying that Providence St. Joseph Hospital illegally denied emergency abortion care to a woman
October 01, 2024
The Voto Latino Foundation has launched a $5 million initiative to encourage Latinos to vote
October 01, 2024
Hyundai India's shares fall 2% in debut trade after record $3.3 billion IPO
Bonds and gold begin countdown to US Election Day
Gold hovers near record high on safe-haven demand
A Samoan village prepares to welcome King Charles but fears an uncertain future for its reef
Harvey Weinstein has chronic myeloid leukemia, NBC reports
In annual religious pilgrimage, Panamanians crawl to reach the Black Christ of Portobelo