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      Black Kids Are 2x More Likely To Drown. This Organization is Offering Free Swim Lessons. 

      Across the country, Black children and youth are twice as likely as the general population to die by drowning, according to the Centers for...

      Americans Want a Feminist Future—But in Order to Make it Happen, We Have to Rethink Our Entire Political System  

      In the first episode of Looking Back, Moving Forward, experts in gender and politics examine the promise of a truly representative democracy—and what...

      A Red Sprite Gives Astronauts an Incredible Light Show

      Earlier this week, the NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured an amazing image of a sprite, a rarely photographed weather phenomenon, as the International Space...

      EPA says Trump’s big bill should help in its fight to take back billions in green bank funds

      WASHINGTON – The sprawling tax and policy bill that passed Congress repeals a multibillion-dollar green bank for financing climate-friendly projects, and the Trump administration...

      LL Cool J says he won’t perform at Philadelphia’s July Fourth festival in support of workers strike

      PHILADELPHIA – Rapper LL Cool J says he will not perform at a Fourth of July festival in Philadelphia in support of a strike...

      Soldiers Are Taking a Stand Against Trump’s Abuses

      Kim, an aircraft mechanic, joined the military in 2019, at age 18. She and her mother had struggled to survive, even living in their...

      America Is Killing Its Chance to Find Alien Life

      In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien life in the glow...

      A Philosophy That Sees ‘Women as Doers’

      This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here.When a woman’s...

      The Nation the Army Built

      In July 1775, General George Washington rode into Cambridge, Massachusetts, to lead an army of 16,000. These men, Washington announced, were “all the Troops...

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