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“Do you smoke cigarettes?” I asked my patient succinctly in a recent clinic appointment.

He matter-of-factly responded, “Not anymore, I use Zyn pouches now.”

As with any patient, I gauged his ...Read more

Media critic Ben Bagdikian warned in 2004 that five corporations had accumulated “more communications power than was exercised by any despot or dictatorship in history.” More than 20 years later, a major media ...Read more

Regardless of their views on politics or climate change, most Americans oppose the development of data centers in their communities.

These large buildings filled with computers that store and process digital ...Read more

A common complaint today laments the “shamelessness” of politicians. Until recently, the argument goes, more elected officials had a sense of shame to hold them back from ugly words and deeds, at least in public. ...Read more

Public comments quietly closed Oct. 6 in response to the proposed rescission of the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, an undercelebrated piece of federal legislation that has protected about 58.5 million acres of ...Read more

CHATHAM COUNTY, N.C. — Despite being in one of the nation’s fastest-growing states, this rural county of roughly 85,000 people is still brimming with red foxes, coyotes, white-tailed deer, and wild turkeys.

But in ...Read more

As Americans grow increasingly frustrated with their healthcare system, a proposal that has long been kicked around on the Democratic periphery is showing up in debates and on political platforms: “Medicare for All.”

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Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington, D.C., home on Monday.

Homeland Security Investigations agents conducted the search. The Department of Justice said in a statement that the raid was “part of an ...Read more

RJ Mitte, the actor who played the son of drug lord Walter White in "Breaking Bad," has died at 34.

Mitte, who, like his character Walter "Flynn" White Jr., had cerebral palsy, died Monday in Brownsville, Texas.

The ...Read more

A new California law will bar hospitals and doctors’ offices from using artificial intelligence to independently perform medical tasks that require a professional license, such as prescribing medications or ordering ...Read more

The state of Michigan is pumping $3.4 million into 18 agencies across the state in an effort to give more Michiganians a safe place to live as they recover from substance use disorders.

The money comes from the massive ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — With just a few weeks to go before Election Day, opponents of expanding Idahoans’ access to abortion are turning up the heat.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints on Thursday donated $1 ...Read more

A Kansas City Star analysis found that as a rural Kansas doctor before voters sent him to Washington, U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall charged an unusually high interest rate on patients’ unpaid bills, compared to other Kansas ...Read more

France is calling for a credible electoral process in Haiti after the country’s transitional authorities eliminated requirements that made it more difficult for individuals under sanctions from the European Union, Canada...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A record-breaking season of tropical storms and hurricanes in the Pacific Ocean is battering the Southern California coastline.

Researchers at Colorado State University confirmed Monday that storms this ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said his administration was scrutinizing U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle following allegations of unethical conduct and reports that he was considering removing her from ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho has a state flower. A state amphibian. Even a state fossil.

But — perhaps surprisingly for a state where so many people own guns — it doesn’t yet have a state gun.

That could soon change. In ...Read more