The history of voting and elections in America doesn’t follow a steady path toward progress or retreat. It is marked by intense struggles, monumental victories and devastating losses.

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In tests, some AI systems resisted being shut down. But an instinct to stay “alive” isn’t the reason they behaved that way.

Pope Leo XIV spent his birthday yesterday with a visit to the Vatican Library for the first time as Pope and announced plans for the construction of a modern building to house the holdings of the libr...

Having a vivid, detailed memory of a remarkable event like 9/11 can seem like a demonstration of patriotism and a connection with other Americans.

There is a strange nostalgia in realizing that something once so immediate now belongs increasingly to people who know it only as the past.

After 9/11, suspicion of Islam hardened into an assumption in Texas that Muslim identity itself signals danger, writes a scholar of constitutional law.

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

Jake Scott writes that President Donald Trump’s executive order calling for a split MMR vaccine will create confusion.

US sewage treatment plants likely don’t get rid of all the disease-causing protozoa, and monitoring discharged wastewater for it is difficult.

Researchers and public health officials are pointing to sewage contamination in the food supply as one of the most plausible theories for the current outbreak.

Joan Rose writes about the possible cause of the cyclospora outbreak being due to sewage contamination in the food supply.

Most people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was."

"We found this heartening, in a time when many experts are writing eulogies for clickthrough from search engine results pages."

Terrorist groups may use artificial intelligence for similar purposes, but their organizational cultures shape how they understand it.

Yerba mate is a wildly popular South American tea with a growing global market. Can this ‘superfood’ save Paraguay’s tropical forests, too?

An analysis of billions of visits to a metro newspaper's website finds that entertainment and sports stories might generate lots of pageviews, but it's topics like government, transportation, and heal...

The modern rhetorical and political resistance to racial equality finds its roots in the conspiratorial segregationists of the civil rights era.

Patience is a virtue that researchers have linked to many parts of well-being. But it’s also something that needs a bit of practice and training – and can be undermined by instant, easy gratification.

Play Align, an original word and logic puzzle from the Boston Globe. Challenge yourself to solve the daily word grid in the fastest time, the fewest swaps, or both!

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Ahmed Shihab-Eldin was arrested after reporting on friendly fire incident during US conflict with Iran

Learn about how the IMLS hopes to aid libraries and museums in impacting the lives of individuals.

Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...

Genetic testing is now required to participate in women’s events in the Olympics. But the new policy oversimplifies biological sex and risks discrimination against some female athletes.

In markets large and small, these nonprofit news organizations are achieving traffic numbers that many commercial outlets would envy. Here's our first monthly ranking of the top 25 nonprofit news site...