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The highest-ranking countries in the World Happiness Report are those that have “strong social welfare systems and an emphasis on equality.”

Net Neutrality; Phone spying; Digital divides; Local news is dying; Screens that kidnap; Tech platforms and terrorism

French director Agnès Varda, who died Friday at her home in Paris, was the only woman associated with the new wave during that film movement’s peak. She made films for more than 60 years, and in the latter part of her career focused on documentaries.

Biden used his leadership to get a Democratic-controlled Senate to give then-President Bush in 2002 the unprecedented authority to invade a country on the far side of the world that was no threat to the United States.

No other advanced industrialized country links health care to employment like the U.S. does.

City residents, said the judge, "could have taken protective measures, if only they had known what the Governor knew. Instead, the Governor misled them into assuming that nothing was wrong."

On a bus in the West Bank, fearing for our lives, this 13-year-old boy taught me the true power of empathy

At stake in Lordstown, Ohio, are the livelihoods of more than 1,400 plant workers and thousands more indirect jobs in the surrounding area of northeast Ohio, a key swing state in presidential elections.

Pro-Israel politicians don’t speak for young Jews like me. They shouldn’t pretend to.

Any serious social transformation will elicit a brutal response by the rulers. Again, the rulers will seek to derail the transformation.