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Congo’s Ebola outbreak reaches 5,000 cases as it outpaces response efforts
BUNIA, Congo — The Ebola outbreak in Congo has reached 5,000 cases, government data showed Wednesday, as responders…
Striking hospital employees sound alarm over workplace violence
Across at least five states — Louisiana, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Michigan — hospital employees have…
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How India’s blocking of a film exposing real-life police abuses backfired
AMRITSAR, India — On a muggy monsoon evening, farmers in the northern Indian village of Bandala finished tending…
U.S. delays 50% tariff on Canadian imports. And, takeaways from Florida’s primaries
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Greetings from Trouville-sur-Mer, a beach town little changed since Monet painted it
Step off the train at Trouville-sur-Mer and the urban machinery of Paris dissolves almost instantly. The platform gives…
A real-world study of Oregon’s nonmedical psilocybin program shows promise
For decades, the question of whether psilocybin could be safely administered to ordinary adults outside a hospital ward…
This high-speed star is whipping around the black hole in the middle of our galaxy
A stellar object designated S301 is completing a full circuit around the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole…
Why does the U.S. military seem stymied in the war with Iran?
The question of why does the U S military seem unable to translate its conventional advantages into decisive…