A power grab by Republicans in North Carolina becomes a referendum on democracy in the states
Since winning control of North Carolina’s legislature in the 2010 elections, Republican lawmakers have repeatedly drawn ...
In Florida, a race is on to save the Everglades and protect a key source of drinking water
When the $3.9 billion Everglades Agricultural Area Reservoir Project is complete, a reservoir and wetland will store and ...
Frozen French fry maker Lamb Weston names new CEO, moves to loss in Q2 and cuts outlook
Lamb Weston is naming a new CEO as the frozen french fry maker moved to a loss in its second quarter and trimmed its fiscal 2025 forecast. Shares tumbled more than 18% before the market open on ...
Economía de EEUU creció a un ritmo del 3,1% en el tercer trimestre
El gasto del consumidor, que representa aproximadamente dos tercios de la actividad económica de Estados Unidos, se expandió a un ritmo del 3,7%, el más rápido desde el primer trimestre de 2023 y un ...
Harmful gas billowing from Texas and New Mexico comes mostly from smaller leaks, researchers say
In the 75,000-square-mile (194-square-kilometer) Permian Basin straddling Texas and New Mexico, the most productive oil and gas region in the world, huge amounts of the powerful greenhouse gas escape ...
Colorado now has one of the nation’s most liberal abortion access laws, but ballot measures to restrict abortion have a long history in the state
(THE CONVERSATION) With the passage of Amendment 79 in November 2024, Colorado voters enshrined the right to abortion in the state constitution. The amendment solidifies the state’s status as one of ...
How a small Brazilian town became an unlikely battleground over Confederate memory
The event, organized by the Fraternity of American Descendants – a nonprofit Confederate descendants organization founded in 1954 to maintain “the historical and cultural heritage of North American ...
Federal protection for monarch butterflies could help or harm this iconic species, depending on how it’s carried out
Usefully, the listing would legally protect the groves of trees near the California coast where western monarchs overwinter. The eastern monarch population’s overwintering grounds in Mexico are ...
How to avoid the latest generation of scams this holiday season
Generative AI – which refers to artificial intelligence that generates text, images and other things – has improved dramatically over the past few years. That’s been great for scammers trying to make ...
What are pharmacy benefit managers? A health economist explains how lack of competition drives up drug prices for everyone
The current regulatory environment in the U.S. tolerates overly large PBMs that engage in anticompetitive practices to accumulate excessive profits. Without strong competitors, dominant PBMs are free ...
How should we look to history to make sense of Luigi Mangione’s alleged murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson?
But much of the coverage of the murder of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, and Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing him, has given me pause. As many journalists and pundits would ...
A nation exhausted: The neuroscience of why Americans are tuning out politics
In 1967, American psychologist Martin Seligman exposed two groups of dogs to painful shocks. Dogs in group 1 could stop the shock by pressing a lever, which they quickly learned to do. But the dogs in ...