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Front-line workers are staging job action after job action in their quest for protection from the coronavirus

Trump will reportedly invoke the Defense Production Act to declare the meat-packing plants “critical infrastructure.”

Amid this crisis, a small army of right-wing think tanks and conservative organizations is cynically invoking the plight of the downtrodden to make the case for swiftly reopening the economy and sending workers into deadly conditions.

The president’s judicial appointments have been a quieter project than most of his flamboyant presidency, but will have longer-lasting impacts on healthcare, voting rights, criminal justice and the climate

The still-raging pandemic is forcing dramatic shifts in the way we consume energy -- and many changes may persist.

A new documentary series uses individual cases of false convictions to reveal a terrifyingly unreliable criminal justice system.

New meanings for "going viral", including the lockdown showdown, a national rent strike, and a rant you have to experience!

Different palaeolithic populations around the world might have developed a crucial toolmaking skill independently. No mysterious migration required to explain how chipping technique appeared in different continents.

Drug possession is the No. 1 reason people were in Cook County Jail last year. That’s been the case for the better part of the past decade. Since 2006, people have been booked and released more than 100,000 times for possession, according to jail records. And during that same time period, taxpayers have spent $778 million jailing people on the lowest-level possession charges.

So far, 121 countries have signed the treaty, and 154 voted in favor of its adoption in April 2013 in the General Assembly. The successful entry into force of the ATT will be a big win for arms control campaigners and NGOs, who have been fighting for the regulation of the arms trade for more than a decade.