If a proposed law passes, this group of immigrants apprehended at the U.S. border near Mission, Texas, would be called ‘noncitizens,’ not ‘aliens.’
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An early 20th-century NAACP map showing lynchings between 1909 and 1918. The maps were sent to politicians and newspapers in an effort to spur legislation protecting Black Americans.
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The Jewish Museum’s Purim Ball at the Park Avenue Armory in 2015 in New York City.
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Parents and caregivers can shop all the aisles of toy and clothing stores to show children that gendered norms are arbitrary and can be crossed.
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Peggy Liu, University of Pittsburgh and Kate Min, Cornell University
New research suggests there's often a mismatch between how you respond and what the other person wants to hear.
Joe Biden has more top advisers who are women than any other U.S. president. They include Vice President Kamala Harris and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.
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The 40-day Lenten season, when many Christians observe fasting, began in mid-February. A scholar explains how the practice may have emerged around the fifth century.
A vase from ancient Greek civilization depicts Apollo consulting the oracle of Delphi.
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The pandemic has made many of us acutely aware of the daily risks we need to take. The ancient Greeks often did not leave risky choices up to individuals alone.
One study found that 95% of baby foods tested contained at least one heavy metal.
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Permanently protecting large, mature forests is a faster and cheaper way to stabilize Earth's climate than complex carbon capture and storage schemes, and more effective than planting new trees.
The Perseverance Rover’s first image sent back to NASA from Mars shows the surface of the Jezero crater.
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NASA's Mars 2020 mission has arrived and landed the Perseverance Rover on the red planet. The rover's goal is to collect rock and soil samples to be brought back to Earth in the future.
Waiting in line in freezing rain to fill propane tanks in Houston, Texas, Feb. 17, 2021.
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The Texas electric power market is designed to give energy companies incentive to sell electricity at the lowest possible cost. That focus helps explain why it collapsed during a historic cold wave.
The gravestone of John Keats in Rome’s ‘non-Catholic’ cemetery.
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The US is formally back in the Paris climate agreement as of today. As one of the world's largest greenhouse gas emitters, it has a lot of work to do, with food security, health and safety at stake.
The New York Times Facebook site on Feb. 18, 2021 as seen in Melbourne, Australia: Empty.
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The battle between media companies and foreign governments over who controls the news dates back some 150 years, to when European and US wire services dictated the world's headlines.
The National Guard joined forces with FEMA to launch a mass vaccination site in Los Angeles.
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The success of Brazil’s vaccine program will have a ripple effect on countries to which it exports commodities such as steel.
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The world's most advanced economies will incur half the total costs associated with a failure to vaccinate poorer nations, which could exceed $4 trillion if only half their citizens are inoculated.
Signs of a fraying relationship can appear in subtle ways.
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Sarah Seraj, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts; James W. Pennebaker, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts, and Kate G. Blackburn, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts
Psycholinguistic researchers analyzed more than 1 million Reddit posts a year before and a year after users posted about their breakup.
The pandemic blew up some carefully constructed ‘polycules.’
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For single people, finding at least one partner has been hard enough. But for those used to juggling multiple relationships, the pandemic has forced them to rethink dating altogether.
State Farm’s ‘Drake’ ad was one of the Twitter winners of the Super Bowl.
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Advertisers forked over $5.5 million for a mere 30 seconds of air time during the Super Bowl. Here's Twitter's verdict on which brands got social media bang for their bucks.
The Weeknd performs at the 2020 American Music Awards on Nov. 22 in Los Angeles.
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Over the past year, the singer has carefully constructed a visage that has made him nearly unrecognizable.
Armed demonstrators attend a rally in front of the Michigan Capitol in Lansing to protest the governor’s stay-at-home order on May 14, 2020.
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You need a new shot every year because current flu vaccines provide limited and temporary protection. But researchers' new strategy could mean a one-and-done influenza vaccine is on the way.
Rioters clash with police as they try to enter the Capitol building.
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Wendy Wall, Binghamton University, State University of New York; Christian K. Anderson, University of South Carolina, and Daisy Martin, University of California, Santa Cruz
The whole world saw the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol. How will the textbooks read by America's students describe what took place?