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The world creates 57 million tons of plastic pollution every year and spreads it from the deepest oceans to the highest mountaintop to the inside of people’s bodies, according to a new study that also said more than two-thirds of it comes from the Global South....

Reyna Montoya was 10 when she and her family fled violence in Tijuana and illegally immigrated to the U.S. Growing up in Arizona, she worried even a minor traffic violation could lead to her deportation. She did not feel relief until 11 years later in 2012, when she...

Wisconsin police did not plan any public updates on December 18 into the extremely rare religious school shooting that killed a teacher and a student and wounded six others, a day after the city’s mayor chastised reporters and urged them to leave victims alone....

Since Elon Musk acquired Twitter, renamed it X, fired much of its staff, and made other big changes, a steady stream of celebrities, public figures, organizations, and ordinary people have quit the social media platform as it transformed into a toxic swamp of...

A 15-year-old student opened fire inside a study hall at a small Christian school in Wisconsin, killing a teacher and teenager and prompting a swarm of police officers responding to a second grader’s 911 call. The female student wounded six others during the...