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A governor-appointed state board weighs whether to ban the use of engineered stone to protect workers from a deadly lung disease.

In 1942, demand from the US military was so great that the government classified it as 'vital to the war effort.’ Today, contract processors brew roaster's beans to precise standards, freeze dry, and package it under the roaster’s own brand.

In Texas state prisons, survivors are force-fed a steady diet of Fox News and content from white Christian nationalist organizations, shaping how they understand power and the violence they have experienced.

Kimberlé Crenshaw gave us the terms “intersectionality” and “critical race theory.” Her new memoir shows that she isn’t done fighting over what they mean.

The US’s withdrawal from the WHO – and cuts to the country’s health system – stymie officials’ response -- What is hantavirus? -- Where did the cruise ship hantavirus come from and what happens next?

Often forgotten today, the US saw a tidal wave of rank-and-file worker militancy in the late 1960s and early ’70s. Many socialists of the era took jobs on the shop floor to help foment the upsurge and build a revolutionary movement to replace capital

Some young billionaires and wannabes, with minds full of fungible narratives about new riches in data centers and small modular (nuclear) reactors, have begun to speculate on resuming uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau

A new book by Jordan Himelfarb follows the game’s rising young players, including the reigning world champion Gukesh Dommaraju, as they compete in an era defined by computers.

If you google the history of Mother’s Day . . .

The third season of the over-the-top competition series is primarily shooting in the Greenville, North Carolina area.