House Votes to Avert Deep Medicare Cuts to Pay for $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Plan
WASHINGTON — The House voted on Friday to avert an estimated $36 billion in cuts to Medicare next year and tens of billions more from...
Migrant Families at U.S.-Mexico Border Deported by Surprise
When 149 migrants were escorted onto a bridge by U.S. Border Patrol agents, they had no idea where they were being taken. Many collapsed, crying,...
How Anti-Asian Activity Online Set the Stage for Real-World Violence
Negative Asian-American tropes have long existed online but began increasing last March as parts of the United States went into lockdown over the coronavirus. That...
The U.S. Parts With Some of a Vaccine Stockpile It Currently Can’t Use
To many Canadians, it seemed decidedly unneighborly. Canada’s initial coronavirus vaccination program moved at a stately pace over the winter, while inoculations in the United...
George Bass, Archaeologist of the Ocean Floor, Dies at 88
George F. Bass, who was often called the father of underwater archaeology, scouring shipwrecks for revelatory artifacts and developing new techniques for exploring the ocean,...
Four Proud Boys leaders charged in relation to Capitol riot
Four men described as leaders of the far-right Proud Boys have been charged in the US Capitol riot, as an indictment ordered unsealed on Friday...
Qatar’s landmark minimum wage comes into force
According to the new law, employees of all nationalities and across all sectors will now be entitled to a minimum monthly wage of $275.Doha, Qatar...
The Water on Mars Vanished. This Might Be Where It Went.
“This means that Mars has been dry for quite a long time,” said Eva Scheller, a Caltech graduate student who was the lead author of...
The David Dobrik Story, Explained
David Dobrik, 24, is one of the best-known YouTubers in Hollywood. He made a name for himself on Vine, the short-form video app that created...
How Volkswagen’s Sins Fueled Its Redemption
Christian Strenger, a vocal Volkswagen critic and a former member of the commission that wrote Germany’s corporate governance code, sees little chance the company’s overseers...