One of the few remaining chestnut groves in the US may soon be bulldozed to make room for a massive hyperscale data center.

The report conflicts with the authorities’ initial account, which said Tyrin Johnson had been shot in the chest.

Your morning catch-up: The Black Death bacterium reappears in California, a mysterious "ghost ship" lurks, and more big stories.

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

Insiders, including at centrist think tank Third Way, are cautioning Democratic candidates against echoing Republican talking points on trans rights.

Saddle Lake Cree Nation says it aims to defy Premier Danielle Smith’s government by establishing a safe haven for gender-affirming medical care — contrary to provincial law.

How supremacists convert responsibility into blame to avoid paying natural costs and to make everyone else pay unnatural ones.

Redistributing money from single working parents to married ones is not a pro-family policy.

Children in Scotland are being subjected to police use of force without proper recording and monitoring, according to a new report.

The children's commissioner has also called for police to stop using incapacitating Pava spray on children in custody.