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Some of the same people who played significant roles in a key pro-Trump subreddit are sharing their experience with their French counterparts backing Marine Le Pen.
Lisa Schwetschenau, who has multiple sclerosis, shown in a photo in Omaha, Nebraska on March 16. She worries that she could lose some of her essential health benefits under the new proposed health care law.
Nati Harnik/AP
Essential health benefits under Obamacare are suddenly the center of controversy in the proposed replacement bill. If certain health benefits are so essential, why are they so loathed? Here’s a look.
Pourquoi apprendre des langues étrangères ?
Timothy Vollmer
L’apprentissage des langues étrangères favorise l’ouverture d’esprit. Il permet de se familiariser avec d’autres modes de vie et d’accepter de vivre des situations sociales parfois inconfortables.
Différentes sortes de cannabis à usage médical dans un dispensaire de Denver, aux États-Unis, en 2011.
Rick Wilking/Reuters
Aux États-Unis, de plus en plus d’états autorisent l’usage médical du cannabis. Pourtant, la recherche sur les effets de cette plante est encore balbutiante.
Automated systems that watch online chats and flag racist, sexist and bullying behavior could help curtail internet abuse.
Vice President-elect Mike Pence, second from left, with House Speaker Paul Ryan, center, and other key Republicans discuss the repeal of Obamacare.
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
An analysis of more than 30 years of congressional voting reveals that a few key members of Congress determine whether a president will achieve their agenda. Who are they, and can Trump win them over?
When will computers and humans interact fully?
Illustration via shutterstock.com
Just like apes, humans fear the unknown, and that’s why there’s so much uncertainty this week as markets brace for an interest-rate decision by the Federal Reserve.
A rally outside Baltimore City Hall, July 27, 2016.
REUTERS/Bryan Woolston
Does including torture or other human rights violations in video games trivialize the actions? Or might it force us to think more critically about them?
Once the pageantry is over, many Olympic athletes have to return to normal life – which means figuring out how to make a living.
Tony Gentile/Reuters
A former Olympic gold medalist reflects on his own financial struggles as he trained and competed for the 1984 Games. Decades later, not much has changed for many Olympians.
Acid drainage from surface coal mining site, North Lima, Ohio.
Jack Pearce/Flickr
As coal energy loses market share, major U.S. coal companies are filing for bankruptcy. One multi-billion-dollar question: will taxpayers be forced to pay for cleaning up abandoned mines?
Easy to remember how to do, hard to figure out how it’s working.
Rob Bertholf
After unifying the Mongols, Genghis Khan led his army from Northern Mongolia in 1211 to the Caspian Sea in 1224, forging the largest contiguous land empire in history. For centuries, common wisdom held…