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Party leaders thought they had set a trap for Republicans. It hasn’t worked out that way at all.

The findings from a World Meteorological Organization report released Monday are another example of how those who did the least to cause the climate crisis are most vulnerable to its impacts.

In the aftermath of the two mass killings in and around Belgrade, Serbian citizens have handed over a huge number of illegal weapons. That is surely a positive step, but much more must be done.

For decades, union-busting bosses and Republican politicians have had a powerful ally in their war on organized labor: the United States Supreme Court.

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Physicists believe most of the matter in the universe is made up of an invisible substance that we only know about by its indirect effects on the stars and galaxies we can see. But the nature of dark matter is a longstanding puzzle.

This year marked the 75th anniversary of the WHO. As the UN agency approaches its yearly assembly in Geneva, it is struggling to secure adequate resources for functioning independently of the private sector and pressures from high income countries.

For the President to pay the national debt, regardless of the debt ceiling, would not be disobeying the Constitution—it would be obeying it and insisting that doing so supersedes the intervention of any other branch.

Particularly before the Second Vatican Council (a.k.a. Vatican II), fasting was part of the Catholic calendar. No one took it more seriously than the Irish.

Inflation has been slowing but mainstream news reports that it is still high, and the Fed continues to talk about "high wages," and is raising interest rates to slow the economy and stop wage growth.