Observers say a brutal drug war has empowered the police to act without accountability. A Philippine police officer gunned down an unarmed mother and son in a horrific shooting caught…
It will be replaced by a statue of Barbara Rose Johns, a civil rights leader. A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that represented the state of Virginia in…
AT THE END of August, activists in Detroit, like those in dozens of U.S. cities, sued their local government for its police department’s reaction to this year’s Black Lives Matter mobilization.…
The culture sector, which employs more than 30 million people globally, has been hit much harder than expected by the coronavirus pandemic and its fallout, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Star's top editor has apologized for past decades of racially biased coverage and the newspaper has posted a series of stories examining how it…
This tweet seems to be getting a fair amount of attention this morning: The CDC recommendation in question is about who to prioritize first for the COVID-19 vaccine after frontline…
The odds are we never should have been born.Not one of us. Not one in 400 trillion to beexact. Only one among the 250 millionreleased in a flood of semen…
China is committed to taking action – as are several dozen other countries – but without the participation of all nations, a ‘catastrophic’ rise in global warming is inevitable Sunday,…
Hungarian biologist Tibor Gánti is an obscure figure. Now, more than a decade after his death, his ideas about how life began are finally coming to fruition. When biologist Tibor…
DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My grandmother died of breast cancer at 70. My first cousin was recently diagnosed at 35. And another cousin also had breast cancer a few years ago. A…