(The Center Square) – Some of the highest-paid state executives across the country in 2025 were unelected education officials, according to a new report.

(The Center Square) – Louisiana has restored active status to all voters mistakenly classified as inactive during a database maintenance error Monday that affected about 67,000 people.

Pope Leo XIV said he would undergo surgery after doctors found a "localized nodule" in his lung.

The move escalates Trump's fight with the press amid court battle over barring CNN, Politico and MS NOW from the White House.

When researchers mapped almost 100,000 square kilometers of South Africa, or nearly 40,000 square miles, they only found 83 mature adults. They called their project the Free-Roaming Cheetah Census…

When speaking freely can have a cost, young people turn to music to challenge political silence

Queen conch larvae drift for two to three weeks before settling into seagrass, where their first food grows on the thin green blades. This is where they spend most of their first year, buried in the…

10/11/1972: Roe v. Wade argued.

Three decades before he was first elected president, Donald Trump had big plans for a 26-acre building site near the South Street Seaport in Manhattan. "New York City deserves to have the tallest and…

It can be easy to be pessimistic about the potential for zoning reform to solve America's housing crisis. Time and again, headlines herald a major zoning reform that ultimately proves unproductive.

The term hate crime may evoke an image of an antisemite punching a Jewish person or a racist pushing an Asian woman onto the subway tracks. But in New York, hate crimes can include more than illegal…

TorrentClaw is a relatively new torrent search engine that launched in February.

A group of international researchers is pushing to rigorously study the potential health benefits of sauna and other heat therapies. They hope to bring scientific legitimacy to the age-old practices.

This investigation was reported in a collaboration between Inside Climate News and Columbia Journalism Investigations.

As the Belo Monte hydroelectric plant in the Brazilian Amazon marks 10 years of operation, it faces a contentious environmental license renewal. At the heart of the debate are urgent calls to revise…

Forecasters say the storm, which brought heavy rain and coastal flooding, is a preview of what may be in store as California braces for a possibly record-setting El Niño.

It’s an early May afternoon, and Charlie Barrett has parked his pickup in a pullout along a county road a few hundred feet from the Black River in southern New Mexico, just a mile from where it…

The eye of Hurricane Simon was just off the Pacific coast of Mexico early Sunday and was expected to move inland later in the day as an extremely powerful storm.

(The Center Square) – Companies are turning to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act to fight alleged litigation fraud.

(The Center Square) – Higher interest rates divide households. Savers holding cash or buying new bonds can earn more interest. Borrowers taking out new loans or carrying variable-rate debt pay more…

(The Center Square) – The buildings that house thousands of computer servers powering cloud computing and artificial intelligence have increasingly caught heat over environmental and energy concerns.

People who lose their jobs in this economy are taking longer to find new work. Nearly four in ten people exhaust their unemployment benefits before they land a new job.

Stephanie Slade's new book, Fusionism: Liberty, Virtue, and the Future of the American Right, makes the case that the political philosophy that defined much of the post-War American Right should…

Last month, in Welty v. Dunaway, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed a universal injunction against the "recruiting" provisions of Tennessee's Underage…