Despite military, commercial, and scientific incentives to clean up space junk, there are no clear solutions

"The Quiet American" director Phillip Noyce compares George W. to the dunderhead hero of Graham Greene's Vietnam novel -- and finds scary parallels between U.S. foreign policy then and now.

A UN panel's report finds a 'brief and narrowing window' remains to avoid the worst of climate change

It’s important to recognize that criminal law provides no clear answer how to settle that question

Primaries are getting more crowded with candidates, and that’s good news for extremists and bad news for voters

Voter suppression blocks calls by Texans of color for regulation and climate action

Conspirators in bungled plot sold presidential daughter's diary for $40,000, face up to five years in prison

There’s still a lot the committee doesn’t know – or hasn’t revealed – about Trump’s direct involvement in the riot

Research has found Christian nationalism to be one of the strongest predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy

"Our investigation will continue undeterred because no one is above the law," said New York Attorney General Letitia James.

Elsewhere, natural psychedelic drugs were on the ballot

More than 122,000 lives would have been saved if all states had the same vaccination rates as the most vaccinated

It's what we do with statistics that matters: Just ask the math geeks whose fancy models tanked the global economy

"The price of food at the checkout counter includes the production, processing, distribution and retailing of food"

Jan. 6 committee will make history by recommending Trump's prosecution — but Jack Smith will need hard evidence