Media witnesses say Tennessee officials were unable to carry out the execution of Christa Gail Pike for a 1995 murder on Wednesday.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...

Air pollution from gas-fired power plants to run data centers is expected to add at least $20 billion in annual health care costs by 2028, the group warns.

We all need a safe place to sleep. Yet, facing a surging housing crisis, our government is arresting and forcibly institutionalizing homeless people rather than investing in affordable housing and other known solutions. Congress must intervene to protect unhoused people's rights.

President Donald Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act will shift billions in costs for SNAP and Medicaid to states. But with 26 having cut or eliminated state income taxes just since 2021, the...

In 1858, William Parker Foulke, a member of the Academy of Natural Sciences—a group of naturalists committed to public education and outreach—was on vacation in the quiet Quaker community of Haddonfie...

We all need a safe place to sleep. Yet, facing a surging housing crisis, our government is arresting and forcibly institutionalizing homeless people rather than investing in affordable housing and other known solutions. Congress must intervene to protect unhoused people's rights.

The court will hear oral arguments as part of a dispute over whether fossil fuel companies can be held liable for their role in exacerbating climate change.

If California’s capital punishment law is found to violate the state constitution, it may provide a template for death penalty opponents in other states.

23-hour solitary confinement. 115-degree heat. Jimmie Duncan is haunted by the decades he spent in Louisiana’s Angola prison — and how, even after being released, he still isn’t truly free.

A new group is targeting tech companies and the government with the climate movement’s playbook.

Encounters with the beautiful and the sublime in the science of “the single most dangerous object known to humanity.”

As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them

“I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being. I am aware that we do not save each other very often. But I am also aware that we save each other some of th…

In the spring of 2004, researchers monitoring a population of wild bearded capuchins in a Brazilian woodland saw an infant clinging to Chiquinha, one of the adult female monkeys. The baby was not a ca...

More people who lost coverage after congressional Republicans ended enhanced federal subsidies are now seeking care in emergency rooms and unable to pay bills.

“All writing, for me, is a relationship. I don’t feel like I can do whatever I want with whomever I want. It’s call-and-response.”

The executions, which include a man who maintains his innocence and an 80-year-old, cement Florida's place as top death penalty state.

“If you write what you yourself sincerely think and feel and are interested in… you will interest other people.”

This one-day creative writing class led by Cassandra Lewis is for adult writers of all levels. For inspiration, we will take a literary tour through sample passages and encounter ghosts in Shakespeare...

From my desk at the bookstore where I work, I can see most of fiction and all of our new releases, the poetry section by the front door, the edge of world history. I watch people bend down to exami…

An invitation to engage with some of today’s most respected science journalists as they take readers beneath the surface to reveal the making of eleven of the best science stories.With eleven deeply r...