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Election officials are fighting wavering voter trust by making mundane processes visible and recruiting citizens to help

· Sep 23

US News

2 midterm elections that brought on new eras in US politics

Sep 23, 2026

US News

Lula’s UN address points to two starkly different visions of Brazilian nationalism ahead of crucial election

Sep 22, 2026

US News

No cheery time for election pollsters in run-up to US midterms

Sep 22, 2026

World News

World News

Bangladesh: Protests can change governments, but can they strengthen democracy?

Sep 24·

World News

Thai student movement forms ‘Hope Theatre,’ making the stage its new battleground

Sep 23·

Asia Pacific

Women face sexual violence and medical neglect in Myanmar prisons

Sep 23·By US News Hour

World News

Pskov’s medieval religious art is being appropriated by the Russian state to support the invasion of Ukraine

Sep 23·

Latin America

Exiled opposition leader tries to enter Venezuela as Rodriguez meets Trump in US

Sep 23·By US News Hour

World News

Family First pushes for Muslim Brotherhood ban in Australia

Sep 23·By US News Hour

World News

From north to south, protests sweep across Tunisia: Is change at hand?

Sep 22·By US News Hour

World News

Technology-facilitated trafficking: How Bangladeshi migrants become victims of recruitment in Cambodia

Sep 22·

Business

Business

AI tools can help Americans meet their civil legal needs

Sep 24·

Trump speculates on diesel fuel export ban as high prices ripple across US economy

Sep 23, 2026

Iran war pushes diesel – the economy’s lifeblood – to record high prices, with no relief on the horizon

Sep 17, 2026

US consumers and businesses are now facing a future of more expensive borrowing

Sep 16, 2026

How ‘portfolio reasoning’ explains Trump’s constant reevaluation of America’s value

Sep 15, 2026

Health

Health

Fiber is both diet fad and fixture for good health – a doctor explains why there is no one-size-fits-all way to increase your intake

Sep 23·

EPA says repealing power plant emissions rules will save billions – but its estimate leaves out health and climate costs

Sep 22, 2026

How the pro-nicotine ‘wellness’ movement rebranded an addictive drug

Sep 22, 2026

Noise pollution is a serious but often forgotten public health problem

Sep 21, 2026

The higher your body fat percentage, the less accurate your smartwatch is at measuring calories you burn when exercising – new study

Sep 21, 2026

Analysis & Editorials

Opinions

Gen Z communicates differently in the workplace, but older colleagues can still decode them

3 hrs ago·

Opinions

What civil rights enforcement cuts mean for students with disabilities – fewer staff, closed offices, longer waits

3 hrs ago·

Opinions

Mold and heat closed Pittsburgh-area schools – an expert explains the risks to kids

3 hrs ago·

Opinions

Data centers’ neighbors weigh in on how to manage them

3 hrs ago·

Opinions

What does it mean to ‘control’ for variables in a scientific study? A statistician explains

3 hrs ago·

Opinions

Push for Creole courses in schools stokes historic anti-Haitian feeling in Dominican Republic

3 hrs ago·

Opinions

How due process, not the First Amendment, got the White House ban on reporters blocked in court

24 hrs ago·

Opinions

21 years after disaster helped bring peace to Aceh – has botched Indonesian response to floods reignited calls for independence?

Sep 24·

Sports

Sports

Cholesterol control gets personalized – a cardiologist explains how new guidelines tailor treatment to your unique risk profile

Sep 24·

Game delays for lightning may be annoying, but they save lives – a sports meteorologist explains the risk

Sep 22, 2026

Raheem Sterling pleads guilty to dangerous driving charges

Sep 15, 2026

Arsenal comeback, Manchester United draw and emerging stars shape Premier League weekend

Sep 7, 2026

Nigeria’s Seun Ogunsakin wins first Grand Slam match at US Open Juniors

Sep 7, 2026

Climate

Climate

Lessons for the 21st century from a 200-year-old book by ‘Frankenstein’ author Mary Shelley

Sep 23·

Flood-damaged Nepal wants help from the global climate Loss and Damage Fund – but it’s waiting, along with 118 other countries

Sep 18, 2026

France’s record heatwave fuels climate campaign ahead of 2027 election

Sep 15, 2026

The race for a new UN chief comes at a historically fraught time – the choice will be vital and significant, just don’t expect a savior

Sep 9, 2026

In Panama’s Darién, Indigenous communities test a new way to fund conservation

Sep 7, 2026

Art & Style

Arts & Style

Why does your brain mix up memories? A new study examines how memories are misplaced in your brain’s filing cabinets

Sep 14·

What is Zionism? The different meanings of a contested term

Sep 14, 2026

Why do I talk in my sleep? A sleep psychologist explains

Sep 14, 2026

How soybeans took over the American diet – without anyone noticing

Sep 11, 2026

A journalist coined ‘the Bible Belt’ 100 years ago – it’s been oversimplifying the South ever since

Sep 9, 2026

Tech

Tech

China launches its first commercial radio-tracking satellites

Sep 23·By US News Hour

Three Ts will dominate Trump-Xi summit – but expect little movement on trade, less on Taiwan and who knows on tech

Sep 21, 2026

How Togolese people are reinventing political protest amid civil society crackdown

Sep 18, 2026

At an old steel site in Pittsburgh, bacteria evolved to survive – and eat – industrial pollution

Sep 17, 2026

DeepSeek engineer slams Anthropic, OpenAI Over AI ‘pacing’ calls