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FILE - In this Jan. 28, 2016 file photo, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. McCaskill is warning her party it could be politically dangerous to block President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) (AP)

How to save a choking senator

Carmen Heredia Rodriguez - KFF Health News
FILE - In this March 10, 2006 file photo, Ohio coal miners head into the mine for a shift inside the Hopedale Mine near Cadiz, Ohio. An election-year bill that would protect health-care and pension benefits for more than 100,000 retired coal miners is dividing coal-state Republicans. Thousands of miners are expected to gather at the Capitol to push for the measure, which they describe as life-saving and fulfilling a promise the government made in 1946. (AP Photo/Joe Maiorana, File) (AP)

The return of black lung

Sarah Lahm - In These Times
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When a hospital is sold to a corporation

Steven Findlay - KFF Health News
(AP/Rich Pedroncelli)

Climate change is here

Eric Holthaus - Grist
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Facial recognition needs regulations

William Michael Carter - The Conversation
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The global rise in stimulant usage

Nicole Stock
((AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File))

It's time everyone had Medicare

Nancy Altman - Independent Media Institute
In this June 15, 2014 photo, a polar bear dries off after taking a swim in the Chukchi Sea in Alaska. (AP Photo/U.S. Geological Survey, Brian Battaile)

Climate change has a new symbol

Shannon Osaka - Grist
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Struggling for medical equipment

Jocelyn Wiener - KFF Health News
(AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

What’s the value of a clean beach?

Timothy Haab - The Conversation
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What is a hallucinogen?

Benjamin Bell
Elizabeth Warren (AP/Elise Amendola)

Why a DNA test won't prove anything

Andrew Lawler
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Star swings around black hole

Camille M. Carlisle - Sky & Telescope
"Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart" by Mimi Swartz (Penguin Random House/Getty)

Is the heart "more than a pump"?

Nicole Karlis
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How plant pathogens are like hackers

John Herlihy - The Conversation
Jim Carrey; Jenny McCarthy; Rob Schneider (AP/Charles Sykes/Jordan Strauss/Richard Shotwell)

The worst celebrity pseudoscience

Paul Offit
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Identifying gray wolves by their howls

Angela Dassow - The Conversation
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New post-incarceration punishments

Willie Dwayne Francois - Civil Eats
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Science behind your kid's tech obsession

Caroline Knorr - Common Sense Media
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Worker's rights and climate change

Michael Arria - In These Times
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Brain stimulation for violent criminals?

Nicole Stock
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Salon talks to "Bleeding Edge" makers

Gary M. Kramer
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Trump: Enemy of breastfeeding mothers

Vijay Prashad - Independent Media Institute
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FL dismal swamp for cigarette makers

Noreen Marcus - FairWarning
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