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As certain terms are scrubbed from US health agency websites decades of vital data is vanishing, advocates warn After Donald Trump signed executive orders ordering for mentions of race, gender, sexual orientation, disabilities and other terms to be scrubbed from US health agency websites, experts say the implications for health and scientific research are vast. … Read more

Egypt announced on Sunday it will host a summit of Arab leaders on Feb. 27 to discuss the future of the Gaza Strip after President Donald Trump signaled he wants the U.S. to own it.  Trump’s stunning declaration, made last week after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and reiterated over the weekend, rankled … Read more

President Donald Trump said Sunday that he has revoked the security clearances of people he does not respect, which includes his political enemies. “There are people that we don’t respect. If there are people that we thought that were breaking the law, that came very close to it in previous years, we do it. And … Read more

The Trump administration has filed a motion to vacate or modify a court’s temporary restraining order blocking the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, and political appointees from accessing sensitive Treasury Department payment records. In the motion, Cloud Software Group, Inc. CEO Tom Krause argued that “it is important that high-level political appointees, … Read more

Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The story of a powerful spiritual alliance.

Can a company town that’s been called “the most miserable city in America” remake itself?

Our devastation of nature is so extreme that reversing even a small part of it requires painstaking, quixotic efforts.

Harold Ross founded The New Yorker as a comic weekly. A hundred years later, we’re doubling down on our commitment to the much richer publication it became.

In the coming years, an unprecedented number of people will leave planet Earth—but it’s becoming increasingly clear that deep space will make us sick.

How to make sense of the Trump administration’s attacks on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion On his first day in office, President Trump signed an Executive Order targeting “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” programs in the federal government. A day later, the President signed an executive order entitled “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit Based Opportunity.” Together, … Read more