Laws that have driven smoking out of offices, restaurants, public transport and other public spaces have reduced exposure to second-hand smoke, but a global study suggests the problem remains far from resolved.
Our offshore concentration camps, for now, are in El Salvador and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. But don’t expect them to remain there. Once they are normalized, not only for U.S.-deported immigrants and residents, but U.S. citizens, they
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In the last days of March, I was in China’s new city of Xiong’an, less than a two-hour drive from Beijing. The city is being built to relieve congestion in the capital,
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As the U.S. intensifies its fight against Mexican drug cartels, the CIA has been thrust into the center of the Trump administration’s strategy to dismantle one of the deadliest criminal networks in
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According to reporting by The Times UK, St Clair has accused the Tesla and SpaceX CEO of not only pushing for large-scale surrogacy arrangements, but also allegedly pressuring women to sign non-disclosure
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In a major development for neurological medicine, two groundbreaking studies published in Nature have shown that stem-cell therapies for Parkinson’s disease are safe and show early signs of effectiveness. The research, carried
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In a historic move, the World Health Organization (WHO) has finalized the world’s first global pandemic treaty—without the participation of the United States. As reported by Nature, the treaty establishes a framework
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This essay is produced by CIAGate, a volunteer group of investigative journalists, and is shared in collaboration and with permission. – Editors We’re diving deeper into our investigation of CIA actions that
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Sri Lanka’s remittances from its overseas expatriate workers rose to a near-record high, increasing by 21.1 percent to $693.3 million in March 2025 compared to the same month last year, helped by
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With an eye toward reshaping Italy’s labor laws and citizenship criteria, the Italian trade union CGIL officially launched the “Futura 2025” campaign over the weekend, setting the stage for five referendum votes
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Cambodia has deported a group of Taiwanese fraud suspects to China, sparking concerns from Taiwan’s foreign ministry. The deportation, which took place over the weekend, involved nearly 190 individuals who were detained
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