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Democracy was on the ballot this past Election Day — and it won

Neal E. Boudette, who covers the auto industry for The Times, discusses the historic deal and why it was such a big win for workers.

The global Covid-19 pandemic receded to endemic, but left a deadly legacy. We revisit hotspots in Italy and Brazil.

Voter initiatives to put abortion on state ballots looks like a winning formula for 2024

The Wisconsin Supreme Court is expected to weigh in not only on abortion, but on gerrymandering and voting access, with the huge potential to national impact

An example of a “tipping point” is a chair falling backwards. Or it can be a major earth system collapsing.

There's no getting away from the fact that we are at a crisis point when it comes to the earths biodiversity.

One of the UK's most secretive centres of scientific research - Porton Down - is aiming to stop the next pandemic "in its tracks".

The apocalyptic scenes depicted in "The Day After Tomorrow" are not going to happen. But ocean currents are headed for a crisis.