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Halloween has a centuries’-long tradition of costumes and scary stuff, but the door-to-door visitations for collecting candy started after the end of WWII sugar rationing, in the late 1940s.

Plants and animals came back much faster than thought, with plants spurring mammals to diversify, the team reports today in Science.

Methane is an especially potent greenhouse gas. A modest feed additive could provide a big leverage effect.

Conyers fought for gun control, anti-poverty programs and universal health care. He held hearings to spotlight police misconduct and also supported legislation urging a study of the possibility of offering reparations to the descendants of slaves.

Not only would universal healthcare reduce taxes for most people, it would also lead to the biggest take-home pay raise in a generation for most workers

Americans are aging, and millions will be unable to afford long-term care. The only way to avert social catastrophe is to implement a Medicare-for-All system with comprehensive long-term care benefits.

The organizers of Time’s Up have called upon NBC to state that people are allowed to talk about their experiences freely, regardless of any past NDAs.

United Academics of the University of New Mexico won the right to establish a union, overcoming the entrenched opposition of the administration.

Worley worried about the union's future: “They say 'we'll get 'em next time,'” he said, “but there may not be a next time. We lost 30,000 jobs in the last 10 years.”

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