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The challenge of creating brains in a lab

A screen showing human brain cells is photographed at the Swiss start-up FinalSpark in Vevey, on October 3, 2025. Inside a lab in the picturesqu...

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The job market is getting worse. So why are stocks booming?

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on October 24, 2025, in New York City. | Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images It’...

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The myth of the carnivore caveman

Across the far right, a paranoid prophecy has been taking hold: the belief that globalist elites want to take meat off the menu and replace i...

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Are Latino voters really Republicans now?

Supporters cheer as New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate, Jack Ciattarelli, speaks at a restaurant popular with the Latino community on...

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Why does Trump want the National Guard doing crowd control?

Members of the Ohio National Guard stand outside the Jefferson Memorial on September 20, 2025, in Washington, DC. | Craig Hudson for the Washing...

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Are you old, or do you know who Sombr is?

This is Sombr, a real-life musician who functions as a litmus test between youths and olds. | Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for MTV An inevitable p...

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Trump isn’t interested in war with China. But it might be interested in him.

President Donald Trump takes part in a welcoming ceremony with China’s leader, Xi Jinping, on November 9, 2017, in Beijing during Trump’s first...

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The messy truth about free speech

On September 15, Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show opening monologue included comments about the shooting of right-wing media figure Charlie Kir...

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We may never get bird flu — or egg prices — under control

Bird flu is surging again on US poultry operations this fall, leading to the culling of 7.3 million birds since early September. | Leon Neal/Get...

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A trade truce, a nuclear threat: What to make of the Trump-Xi meeting

President Donald Trump takes part in a welcoming ceremony with China’s leader, Xi Jinping, on November 9, 2017 in Beijing during Trump’s first t...

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Why are my health insurance premiums going up so much?

US health care costs are still steadily rising 15 years after the Affordable Care Act became law. Many Americans are going to have sticker sho...

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Elon Musk created a Wikipedia competitor. What could go wrong?

A man holds up a cardboard cutout of Elon Musk during a protest against a visit by President Donald Trump to the UK on September 17, 2025. Gro...