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Small errors incorporated into the genome when a pathogen copies itself offer clues to reconstruct chains of transmission and learn about epidemic dynamics along the way.

The rise in the index of aggregate hours would be equivalent to more than 630,000 jobs with no changes in workweeks. Drop in unemployment in Novembers were largest for the groups that face labor market discrimination.

Kshama Sawant brought an uncommon passion to a successful stint on the City Council. It may now be her undoing.

Members of the special House committee investigating the Capitol riot are among those arguing for an overhaul of a more than century-old statute enacted to address disputed elections.

Game 8, defending champion a commanding lead in the match, thrashing Nepomniachtchi in 46 relentless moves over four hours. Game 6, longest game in Chess Championship history, queen and bishop verses rooks and knight.

The 10-episode comedy "Harlem" from Tracy Oliver, which follows four thirtysomething black friends in New York, invites comparisons to Issa Rae’s superior Insecure

Rather than materially address the underlying issues of the nursing shortage crisis, health care providers are exploiting it in order to further consolidate power at the top of industry hierarchies — and break the power of organized labor below.

Rojava: Millions of civilians in northern Syria threatened as US green-lights Turkey’s invasion

Last month, Puerto Rico’s federally imposed Fiscal Oversight and Management Board announced its debt-restructuring plan that predictably will expand draconian austerity measures while ignoring policies that would promote economic sustainability.

The US territorial march has stopped, but its energies live on at the militarized, brutal US-Mexico border. As US capital finds new frontiers, its government puts clamps on the border, just the latest twist on a hundreds years old American motif.