Birdsong is a welcome sign of spring, but robins and cardinals aren’t the only birds showing off for breeding season. In many parts of North America, you’re likely to encounter male wild turkeys, puffed up like beach balls and with their tails fanned out, aggressively strutting through woods and parks or stopping traffic on your street....Read more

Most of us are all too familiar with the consequences of a poor night’s sleep – be it interrupted sleep or simply too little of it. If you’re a parent with kids at home, it often leaves you and your children on edge.

Children with neurodiverse conditions, such as autism and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, are ...Read more

C. Everett Koop, the avuncular doctor with a fluffy white beard who served as the U.S. surgeon general during the Reagan administration, was famous for his work as an innovative pediatric surgeon and the attention he paid to the HIV-AIDS crisis.

As dentistry scholars, we believe Koop also deserves credit for something else. To help ...Read more

South Korea’s parliamentary election of April 10, 2024, was widely seen as a referendum on President Yoon Suk Yeol’s first two years in office.

That being the case, the nation collectively expressed its strong disapproval.

With a relatively high turnout of 67%, voters handed Yoon’s conservative People’s Power Party ...Read more

The second week is wrapping up in former President Donald Trump’s first criminal trial on charges from the state of New York related to paying hush money to an adult film star. So far, the jury has been selected, but no other proceedings have begun.

The Conversation U.S. interviewed Tim Bakken, a former New York prosecutor and now a...Read more

A chatbot turns hostile. A test version of a Roomba vacuum collects images of users in private situations. A Black woman is falsely identified as a suspect on the basis of facial recognition software, which tends to be less accurate at identifying women and people of color.

These incidents are not just glitches, but examples of more ...Read more

The Jewish festival of Passover recalls the biblical story of the Israelites enslaved by Egypt and their miraculous escape. During a ritual feast known as a Seder, families celebrate this ancient story of deliverance, with each new generation reminded to never take freedom for granted.

Every year, a written guide known as a “...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sean Tran, a first-year UC Davis student, began to blossom as he threw himself into campus culture. He experienced college life with a core group of friends and loved his environmental sciences degree program.

To further his career opportunities, Tran pledged Alpha Kappa Psi, a co-ed professional business fraternity, one ...Read more

BALTIMORE — After delivering a load of sugar to the Domino refinery in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor two winters ago, a 567-foot bulk carrier departed for Georgia but didn’t get very far before experiencing engine trouble.

Not long after the Nazenin sailed underneath the Francis Scott Key Bridge, a mechanical malfunction cut the flow of ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. – Esther JeanBart leaned over her son’s wheelchair, caressing his face and trying to make him giggle. Gianni JeanBart was under the weather, but still his eyes rolled toward her and his mouth widened, cracking a smile.

Esther JeanBart said she has missed the sound of Gianni’s voice the most. In 2017, the U.S. Marine was in a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is poised to hear its most important case ever on the homelessness crisis, and to decide whether cities in California and the West may enforce laws against camping on sidewalks or other public property.

Homelessness has often been cited as the most intractable problem for cities in the West, and it has grown ...Read more

Israel launched a retaliatory strike on Iran less than a week after Tehran’s rocket and drone barrage, according to two U.S. officials, but Iranian media appeared to downplay the incident in the hours that followed the initial reports.

An explosion was heard early Friday in Iran’s central city of Isfahan, the country’s semi-official Fars ...Read more

Israel launched a retaliatory strike on Iran less than a week after Tehran’s rocket and drone barrage, according to two U.S. officials, raising fears of a widening conflict across the Middle East.

An explosion was heard early Friday in Iran’s central city of Isfahan, the country’s semi-official Fars news agency reported. Nuclear ...Read more

Israel launched a missile strike on Iran less than a week after Tehran’s rocket and drone barrage, according to two U.S. officials.

An explosion was heard Friday in Iran’s central city of Isfahan, the country’s semi-official Fars news agency reported, as concerns mounted about Israeli retaliation.

Flights were suspended in Isfahan and ...Read more

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A top House Democratic leader took a first step Thursday toward expelling State Rep. Kevin Boyle from the state House, as the lawmaker faces criminal charges and his family says he’s suffering from a serious mental health condition.

Democratic House Majority Leader Matt Bradford, in response to Boyle’s situation, ...Read more

Airborne viruses will be called “pathogens that transmit through the air” under new terminology the World Health Organization hopes will end a scientific rift that hampered the early response to COVID-19.

After two years of consultations involving over 100 scientists, a WHO-led working group agreed to the term to describe diseases caused ...Read more

An explosion was heard early Friday in Iran’s central city of Isfahan, the semi-official Fars news agency reported, citing local sources.

The cause of the blast is unknown, according to the report. An Iranian army air base and Isfahan’s airport are reportedly close to the explosion site, Fars said. Global oil and gold prices rose.

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NEW YORK — The 12 New Yorkers who will decide whether or not Donald Trump is a felon before this year’s presidential election were seated during a dramatic day of proceedings Thursday, leaving the court to find five alternates before his historic hush money trial begins in earnest.

“We have our jury,” Manhattan Supreme Court Justice ...Read more