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Bird flu in cows — and now in milk. How worried should we be?

The highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI, has affected tens of millions of farmed and wild birds in recent years.…

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Challengers forces us to ask: Is tennis sexy?

Mike Faist, Zendaya, and Josh O’Connor in Challengers. | Challengers/Amazon MGM Studios An investigation into a sport of short shorts…

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A new Supreme Court case seeks to make it much easier for criminals to buy guns

Confiscated guns on display at Attorney General Letitia James’s announcement that the Attorney General’s Office, Drug Enforcement Administration, New York…

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Students protested for Palestine before Israel was even founded

Pro-Palestine student demonstrators march from the University of Colorado campus in Boulder to show solidarity and to protest the sale…

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The Supreme Court’s likely to make it more dangerous to be pregnant in a red state

An activist with the Center for Popular Democracy Action holds a large photo of US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s…

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Congress’s $95 billion Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan aid package, explained

House Speaker Mike Johnson talks with members of the media following passage of a series of foreign aid bills at…

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Is the new TikTok ban for real?

Due to security concerns, the Chinese-owned video app TikTok has already been banned from US government devices. | Matt Cardy/Getty…

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What the backlash to student protests over Gaza is really about

Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images The Columbia protests and the debate over pro-Palestinian college students, explained. Protests over the war…

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The meat industry’s war on wildlife

A coyote in the El Capitan meadow area at sunrise in Yosemite National Park. | Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times via…

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A unionized Volkswagen plant in Tennessee could mean big things for workers nationwide

On April 18, the United Auto Workers won the union vote at a Volkswagen assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. |…

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