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Historic auto workers contract. 1st Amendment protects mail. U.S. army crosses ocean for the first time. Ford Company thugs assault union organizers. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan released. Major union victory in Rochester. Court throws out FBI frame-up

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.

The secret memo in which he plotted the murder of Chilean democracy.

Data on what's new — and why unions should turn to new organizing

Technically, drone technology has been around for quite a long time, going back to the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. It is only in the last two decades when drones have been weaponized with guns, bombs, and missiles.

Matching programs give small donors bigger voices.

If life emerged once, why not more times?

El Jefe, one of at least seven jaguars documented north of the border since 1996, became a powerful symbol for environmentalists, Native tribes, and others who vehemently oppose both mining and border wall construction in remote areas.