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Legal and labor experts say Trump v Slaughter decision upends settled constitutional law in favor of ‘loyalty test’

In Atlanta, nearly 1,000 labor union members and community allies gathered at the Jobs With Justice national conference, where one of the themes was linking immigrant, worker, and tenant struggles to build community power.

Abdul El-Sayed, a contender in the Democratic senatorial primary, says he’s not afraid of AI companies retaliating against him.

There is a growing body of research being dedicated to understanding the role of bitter and astringent compounds on cognition. The high sugars and processed food in the American diet today have a lot to do with how our palate has evolved.

The straights, as people like to say, are not OK.

A new documentary connects the life and music of the Depression-era singer-songwriter to today’s struggles for social justice, equality and immigrant rights.

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The oldest known cases, discovered among hunter-gatherers in Siberian graves, contradict the theory that the disease once was mild.