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Textbook homunculus diagram depicts how the brain controls individual body parts — the revamp could improve treatments for brain injury.

The Pentagon Girds for Mid-Century Wars

Why we need to learn that when we defend abortion rights, we’re defending democracy.

The party needs to take its cue from America’s most celebrated leaders, who had no fear of talking directly to the public about the Constitution.

In Israel, the United States and other democracies, bitter battles are being waged over the same question.

Dead Ringers, which premieres on Friday, is subversive, sometimes shockingly gory, and a needful skewering of the U.S. medical system, the unethically wealthy, and perhaps most of all, the women society lauds as the arbiters of feminism.

Anti-Union consultants hired by – and staying at – Fairmont Sonoma Mission Inn & Spa to suppress workers’ union organizing drive

The variant contains a mutation thought to help the virus dodge the immune system, scientists said.

On Feb. 26, 1963, Ben Lewis, the first Black elected official from Chicago’s West Side, won what was set to be his second full term on the City Council -- perhaps next stop Congress. Two days later, Lewis was found shot to death in his ward office.

Even as slavery was being abolished in the North, it continued to flourish, since the slave system was not confined simply to below the Mason-Dixon Line. The financing of the slave trade’s illegitimate commerce was sited heavily in Manhattan.