By Katherine E. McKinney, Scott D. Sagan, Allen S. Weiner | July 1, 2020 In his first radio address after the bombing of Hiroshima, President Harry S. Truman claimed that…

By Richard Rhodes | August 6, 2020 Since the first use of nuclear weapons in war, 75 years ago this August, people concerned with the danger of large-scale nuclear war…

Among patients receiving electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for major depression, those who experienced longer therapeutic seizures had higher odds of depression remission, according to a study in JAMA Network Open. Compared with patients whose…

Beneath the blazing summer sun on a former slave plantation, Lamont Gross and fellow prisoners stooped in long rows, picking vegetables by hand under the watchful eyes of armed guards…

The global average surface temperature soared to 17.15 degrees Celsius on Monday, or 62.87 degrees Fahrenheit, breaking a short-lived record set on Sunday Shi En Kim July 25, 2024 1:36…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — After 80 years, a World War II sergeant killed in Germany has returned home to California.  On Thursday, community members lined the roads to honor U.S.…

Following the murder of George Floyd, evangelical Christians were more likely to avoid the issue of racial injustice, while mainline Protestants and Black clergy addressed the topic in their congregations…

Ottawa, ON—July 25, 2024 With hate crimes consistently on the rise, the Office of the Federal Ombudsperson for Victims of Crime (OFOVC) is announcing the signing of a Memorandum of…

Gen X attended the most racially integrated school system in U.S. history before the Supreme Court dropped decrees and schools resegregated, an Axios review of federal data shows. The big picture: On…

Sao Paulo (AP) — The Brazilian government on Thursday apologized for human rights violations in the persecution and incarceration of Japanese immigrants in the years after World War II. “I…