Conservation groups sued the US government this week over plans to blast the cliff walls of an eastern Utah canyon and build an oil truck highway through an area covered in ​historic inscriptions and ...

Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.

It’s not clear who is pushing for the measure, which is financially backed by out-of-state groups that have spent millions of dollars on advertising and collecting signatures to get it on the ballot

Attorney General Todd Blanche has moved slowly in abortion pill litigation and department officials have told advocates to wait until after the election.

Environmental Protection Agency asked firm to choose rules it wanted for dicamba, then put the choices in a proposed federal rule

While some U.S. refiners are scaling back, Saudi Arabia’s Motiva Enterprises just made a power move

Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

404 Media is filing public records requests around the country to find out how cops are using Axon's ALPRs. Here is how you can do that too.

The true cost of “vertical integration”: patients directed to a higher-priced location for procedures. Or forced to buy from their insurer’s wholly owned pharmacy, which may not stock the drug prescri...

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A conservative dark money group based in Ohio has dropped $2.2 million on a Colorado measure that, if passed by voters, would significantly tighten requirements for mail ballots.

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The slick voter registration website, currently being promoted to millions of people, is a digital surveillance machine.

From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...

An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.

Environmental groups are lining up against an influx of new PFAS designed to cool AI infrastructure.

Olivia Rodrigo is fundraising for women's well-being with a benefit show geared toward her young audience.

The National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.

An ice avalanche that started high in the Himalayas tumbled thousands of feet, releasing vast amounts of energy that pulverized the ice into a significant volume of flood water.

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The Katy Freeway's 26 lanes and $3 billion price tag offer a cautionary tale: induced demand means more road capacity simply generates more traffic to fill it.

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Salt water from the Atlantic Ocean used to stop 150 kilometers from the mouth of The Gambia River. But now, with sea level rise, it intrudes 300 kilometers or more, triggering an agricultural crisis.