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OSHA rolled back its previous announcement that it would functionally leave federal safety regulations unenforced by refraining from government investigation of corona-related health and safety complaints.

The Justice Department's own actions show just how little power the president has to force the outcome he wants.

The death drive at the heart of the now discredited herd immunity strategy has morphed into a straightforwardly “eliminationist” scheme, presenting the slaughter of those most at risk from the coronavirus as a form of heroic, wartime sacrifice.

Coups in Brazil in 1964 and Indonesia in 1965 were US Cold War victories. In Indonesia between 500,000 and 1,000,000 were killed. This led to the creation of a monstrous international network of extermination and our current global economic system.

Faced with the looming threat of Israeli annexation, on Tuesday Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared an end to all Palestinian agreements with Israel and the US. Analysts, however, are skeptical Abbas will follow through on his pledge.

The Poor People's Campaign urges elected officials to follow the recommendations of public health experts and not risk a resurgence of the virus, which is disproportionately affecting poor, uninsured, low-wage laborers, many of them "essential."

The Knick joins HBO's Boardwalk Empire as a show that seems juiced by the wider range of plotlines and stories allowed by diversifying the cast.

Coprocessors and a neural network supercomputer may follow.

There is no reason for the Fed should be acting to slow the economy at the slightest hint of more rapid wage growth.

American sports—structured and codified over a century ago as a leisure pastime created by men for male consumption—just got marginally better, and that is cause for celebration.