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The conservative group behind the Project 2025 governing playbook for President Donald Trump’s second term is set to propose sweeping revisions to U.S. economic policy meant to encourage married heterosexual couples to have more children.

The Heritage Foundation, a right-wing...

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On Monday, President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held a press conference on their attempts to divine the causes of autism—much...

A Chinese scientist horrified the world in 2018 when he revealed he had secretly engineered the birth of the world's...

Imagine this: a future where parents could choose their baby’s eye colour, height or even intelligence.

Sounds like science fiction...

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By Audrey Clare Farley, Religion & Politics | 05.12.2021

Beth Moore is still making waves. On April 7, soon after announcing her departure from the Southern Baptist Convention, she ...

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By Cathy Sakimura and Emily Galpern, Men Having Babies | 05.12.2021

The COVID pandemic has placed new hurdles to having a child through surrogacy, complicating international surrogacy in particular by restricting...

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By Lindsey Tanner, AP News | 05.11.2021

The nation’s largest doctors group Tuesday released a comprehensive plan aimed at dismantling structural racism inside its own ranks and...

By Editors, Hastings Center Report | 05.10.2021

Genetic tests claiming to predict people’s intellectual aptitudes or how much education they are likely to get are readily available...

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By Douglas Perry, The Oregonian | 05.10.2021

Bethenia Owens-Adair overcame a wave of hardships early in her life to earn a medical degree and become one of...

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By Lester Golden, Medium | 05.10.2021

When people repeatedly announce who they are in their own words, listen. The core of Nazi ideology is racial darwinism...

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By Wynne Parry, Philadelphia | 05.08.2021

Think back to last spring. (You probably don’t want to, but humor me.) Those early months of the coronavirus pandemic...

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By Amy Dockser Marcus, The Wall Street Journal | 05.07.2021

At the age of 38, Katherine Wilemon suffered a heart attack as she carried a ceramic pot into her backyard...