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When defeated at the polls, both Donald Trump and Bolsonaro tried to overturn the official results. Both attempted to alter vote totals after they had lost and block an election winner from being inaugurated. Bolsonaro faces 27 years in prison.

“They’re leaving the circuit courts, the district courts out in limbo,” one judge said during appeals court oral arguments that turned into a venting session about the high court’s terse emergency rulings.

Researchers are exploring why some individuals are naturally super-lean and may struggle to gain weight. The causes of such constitutional thinness offer clues to the physiology of weight control.

While others were praying for a sane conversation around how to end the rapidly escalating problem of violence, for the President and Stephen MIller it was about the American right under siege—and what Trump was going to do about it

Poet Alison Luterman offers us lessons in neighborliness.

The attack on the conservative activist Wednesday garnered an outpouring of rage online. Is this our Reichstag moment, similar to what took place in Germany in 1933?

Many details surrounding the IDF's airstrike on a Hamas leadership meeting in Qatar remain unclear – including the level of U.S. involvement, the fate of the 20 living Israeli hostages and if Qatar will return to its mediator role.

What socialism really means is public services for the public good. Using government to socialize the things that can help everyone, rather than allowing the private market to run everything in a way that preys on the public for private gain.

Math teaches us that D.E.I. initiatives should be about carefully defining metrics we use to measure how far people have come, thus how far they have the potential to go. They should be about uncovering when some people are constantly running uphill

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