If you’ve never heard of “safe injection sites” — public facilities for drug users to consume heroin, fentanyl and methamphetamine under the supervision of medical staff...
In nominating Amy Coney Barrett to succeed Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court, President Donald Trump has exercised a constitutional prerogative that he wi...
Some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the past week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The As...
The message sent by the decision in the Breonna Taylor case: Property, an inanimate object, is more important than a Black life.
A Jefferson County, Ky., grand jury indi...
Is COVID-19 airborne? The CDC can't say yet
On Monday, the CDC posted and then retracted a statement about COVID-19 being an “airborne” disease. While the switch generate...
With multiple vaccine candidates in the late stages of clinical trials, it may seem that an end to the COVID-19 pandemic is just around the corner. But a safe and effect...
A pandemic that has killed more than 200,000 Americans and the toxic politics of a presidential election year have disrupted the taking of the 2020 Census. That’s worris...
The wildfires in the West have burned up millions of acres, taken dozens of lives, destroyed thousands of homes, cost enormous amounts of money to combat and, yes, they ...
Sixty years ago this Saturday, John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon made political history with the first nationally televised presidential debate, a clash most analysts...
This National Small Business Week (Sept. 20-26) has a somber tone thanks to the 400,000 such businesses we've lost since the COVID-19 pandemic began. A survey five years...