As surveys old and new show, support for it falters when it comes to speech that goes against people’s values or beliefs. But ...

Despite free speech challenges, state legislators have continued passing laws that age gate websites or override platforms' ...

A study found that earthquakes before 2017 in Texas’ Delaware Basin originated at shallow depths that correspond to where wastewater from fracking was disposed. Nearly 2,000 earthquakes hit West Texas ...

The state’s largest current fire has encompassed nearly all 41,000 acres of the Ishi Wilderness, which hadn’t seen significant fire since 1990. No one from Cal Fire has been able to set foot in the ...

Nine schools on the city’s Upper West Side are installing laundry machines for students in need; in 2022, 119 schools across the city had washer-dryers. A lack of clean clothes often hurts students’ ...

The Houston Independent School District board voted last week to pass a $4.4 billion bond proposal. This total excludes the interest on the principal. When included, it brings the total debt ...

They personify the misinformation inundating the political system, targeting Democrats and Republicans alike and reaching ...

Minneapolis just unveiled a $60 million water tunnel to help the city manage runoff. But what about the state’s small rural ...

Getting a driver’s license used to be a huge teenage milestone. But just under 40 percent of teenagers aged 16 to 19 had their license in 2021, a 24 percent decline since 1995.

After the state took over management of the district in June 2023, some parents became concerned about stringent reforms, plummeting morale and cookie-cutter lessons that didn’t account for individual ...

Lindsey Miller, director of strategic research at Informing Democracy, a nonprofit that focuses on vote counting and certification, on a plan by five Pennsylvania Republicans who joined an alternate ...

The Los Angeles Superior Court system has more than 125 court reporter vacancies, which raises due process concerns for people in child custody disputes, divorces, conservatorships and other ...