RaDonda Vaught, whose criminal prosecution for a fatal medical error made her case a flashpoint in national conversations about nursing shortages and patient safety, was sentenced on Friday to three y ...

Deep in the Sahara, far from any towns, roads, or other signs of life, is a row of markings in the sand. There are dozens of them stretching for miles in a straight line in central Algeria, each consi ...

In 2009, USAID, the US government agency responsible for international development, initiated Predict, a groundbreaking project for its time. The $200 million program was tasked with building other co ...

For decades, abortion has been treated as a fringe issue in American politics. Sure, it made headlines when a new law passed or a new decision was handed down, and it was always deeply important to ac ...

The Biden administration is proceeding with its plans to end Title 42, a policy implemented under then-President Donald Trump that has allowed the US to expel hundreds of thousands of migrants at the ...

Over the past decade, the basic facts of how we produce meat and its harms to society — its acceleration of the climate crisis, the torture of tens of billions of animals, hazardous workplace conditio ...