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A new study led by researchers at the University of Washington and Northwestern University found about 80% of parents spoke to their children about the Black Lives Matter movement within a year of the murder of George Floyd.

The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryos are “children,” with potentially far-reaching implications for fertility clinics and in-vitro fertilization.

The crew of the USS Jacob Jones spotted the German torpedo coming at them from 1,000 yards away.

Astronomers are still discovering strange things in space, and the latest is something they’ve named the Radcliffe Wave. This wave-shaped chain of star-forming clouds is the largest coherent structure ever seen in our galaxy - 9,000 light-years from end to end, stretching across the night sky from Canis Major to Cygnus, with Orion in between.

A divided US Supreme Court refused to question an admissions policy at a competitive public high school in northern Virginia, turning away contentions that the program was designed to reduce the percentage of Asian-American students.

President Joe Biden raised $42 million for his reelection campaign and the Democratic Party in January and now heads to the West Coast for events with deep-pocketed donors, including billionaire Haim Saban and entertainment mogul Casey Wasserman. 

Lawyers for Julian Assange will make one last attempt to block his extradition to the U.S., where he faces decades in prison over spying charges in the long-running battle that’s spanned more than a decade. The WikiLeaks founder asked a London judge for permission to appeal the U.K.’s 2022 decision to extradite him to the U.S. where he’s charged with criminal espionage for leaking classified ...

The man suspected of fatally shooting two police officers and a Fire Department medic before taking his own life early Sunday at a home in Burnsville was identified Monday as a 38-year-old who has one serious criminal conviction on his record along with accusations of violent outbursts against two women with whom he shared children.

RIGA, Latvia - Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Alexei Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s most formidable opponent, vowed on Monday to carry on her husband’s crusade against the Russian regime, striving to build “a free, peaceful, happy Russia, a beautiful Russia of the future, which my husband dreamed of so much.”

President Joe Biden said he would be willing to meet House Speaker Mike Johnson to discuss an emergency funding package for Ukraine and Israel, after White House officials previously dismissed the utility of direct talks.

A mass shooting at an Indianapolis Waffle House left one woman dead and at least five people injured Monday morning.  

More than two years after Taliban fighters streamed into the Afghan capital, seizing power here and vowing to cleanse the country of Western decadence, many of them have come to embrace the benefits of urban life.

Oscar nominee Lily Gladstone is taking aim at the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs, criticizing the team’s name and its fans’ use of the tomahawk chop in a series of comments made public since the big game.