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A data center that doesn’t even exist can raise your electricity bill

An Amazon Web Services data center in Manassas, Virginia. Virginia is home to the largest concentration of data centers in PJM, a power grid tha...

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Most animals on this island nation are found nowhere else on Earth. And now they’re vanishing.

A juvenile globe-horned chameleon in a nature reserve north of Antananarivo, Madagascar. Throughout the Western world, Madagascar is perhaps b...

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Scientists are testing a surprising approach to fighting hunger in one of the poorest places on Earth

On a sunny morning in September, fishermen sail to shore in Ambolimailaky, a village along the coast of southwestern Madagascar. | Garth Cripps...

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The leaked Young Republican group chat points toward a bigger problem

Vice President JD Vance said he refused to “join the pearl clutching” over a “college group chat.” | Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Image...

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Sorry, it’s true: The US really does have crappy bread

A staff member puts a French baguette into a bag at a bakery shop in Paris, France. | Gao Jing/Xinhua via Getty Images Have you ever gone on a...

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How the Supreme Court placed ICE above the law

Residents and protesters clash with federal agents in the East Side neighborhood on October 14, 2025, in Chicago. | Joshua Lott/The Washington P...

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Our understanding of memory is all wrong

An MRI and a CT scan of a patient who suffered strokes. | Kendrick Brinson/Washington Post via Getty Images Memory defines us in so many ways,...

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The traffic revolution that’s making cities cleaner — and happier

People ride a Citi Bike along Hudson Street past a Tesla Cybertruck on April 30, 2025, in New York City. | Gary Hershorn/Getty Images While wa...

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Is the US about to attack Venezuela?

Front side of the US Marines Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion in Roosevelt Roads Naval Station on September 12, 2025, in Ceiba, Puerto Rico. | Anad...

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Trump manages to disappoint nearly everyone with his new IVF plan

US President Donald Trump prepares to deliver remarks from the Oval Office on plans to expand vitro fertilization (IVF) access. | Kevin Dietsch/...

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Why is this government shutdown so weird?

A covered podium outside of the House of Representatives at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on October 15, 2025. | Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Gett...

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Why Marjorie Taylor Greene is suddenly trashing her party

The Republican from Georgia at the US Capitol in Washington, July 22, 2025. | Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene...