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Concocting an emergency to advance economic and foreign policy goals is an abuse of power.

The creation of three "dire wolf" pups has raised hopes that it may be possible to resurrect extinct animals. But some scientists have grave concerns.

This year offers an opportunity to enact tax policy changes that would ease the strain on household budgets that people in low-paid jobs and their families face while ensuring that the nation’s wealthiest pay their fair share.

The president has gone nuclear against federal union jobs — historically African Americans’ ladder to economic equality.

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Dr. King was arrested 29 times and assaulted by the police on many occasions.

MMA used to be home to oddballs unified by a love of beating each other up inside cages. But since Donald Trump’s first presidency, the UFC has rebranded the sport as a refuge for the “anti-woke sports fan,” while breaking unions and censoring the me

In 1970, US postal workers won collective bargaining rights with an illegal strike. If lawsuits to stop Trump’s attacks on the federal workforce fail, that kind of militancy may be the only way for federal workers to retain their own union rights.

“They’re all part of the same industry. It’s not necessarily who is taking jobs from whom, it's the same industry. No one is stealing from anybody. There’s shrinkage on both sides of the border.”

Astronomer Carl Sagan asserted that ‘Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.’ What precisely does that mean? And does the evidence of life on a distant planet recently detected by the James Webb Space Telescope meet that challenge?