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Gut dwellers signal immune cells to stay calm and dial down inflammation.

Irish immigrants and their descendants (our “exiled children in America,” in the words of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic) played a leading part in the Easter Rising. But the influences and inspiration worked in the other direction as well, especially in the tumultuous years following the Easter Rising.

“Saturday Night Live” veteran Dana Carvey resurrected his “Church Lady” character in a surprise appearance last night following Donald Trump becoming the presumptive Republican nominee this week.

The leaders of two of the nation’s biggest, most powerful labor unions — the Service Employees International Union and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees — are completing a plan that calls for unusually close cooperation in political campaigning, organizing and bargaining in states and cities across the United States.

As the state budget impasse enters its eleventh month, Progress Illinois examines how mental health services and providers have been impacted.

After the Cold War ended, many of the safeguards preventing war between Russia and the West have been allowed to lapse.

Under continuous Israeli shelling, Palestinians in south Gaza face a shortage of space and supplies to bury loved ones.

From London to Liverpool to Glasgow our cities are taking inspiration from Manhattan. Yet an ugly vision lies behind its new developments.

The anniversary of the United States dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki compels us to think more deeply about the continued existence of nuclear weapons.