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A broader appeal by Question 1 in Massachusetts could have resulted in a win for nurses and patients.

Thanks to YouTube, an idea discredited thousands of years ago attracts die-hards, grifters, and trolls. They even have their own convention.

California’s two wildfires have left more than 66 people dead and 600 missing. Thousands of homes and 260,000 acres have burned. Climate Scientist Daniel Swain talks about the influences on California’s wildfires and what the future could bring.

The rule, proposed by Pelosi and Massachusetts representative Richard Neal, would “require a three-fifths supermajority to raise individual income taxes on the lowest-earning 80 percent of taxpayers.” "Medicare for All" would be doomed.

Americans express broad concerns over the fairness and effectiveness of computer programs making important decisions in people’s lives

A sweep of elected Republican judges in the Nov. 6, 2018 election has left only Democrats on the bench at the Harris County Texas Criminal Courthouse.

The union, Unite Here Local 26, declined to release details of the agreement until the remaining 5,000 Marriott workers who are on strike in San Francisco and two locations in Hawaii settle their contracts.

It’s the opposite of attention deficit disorder, observes poet Charlotte Muse; we inhabit “a cloud of mosquitoes,” while the other guy gets richer, stronger.