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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...

Torii Gate, Japan
By Staff, Japan Times | 11.30.2020

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OSAKA – Osaka District Court ruled Monday that the now-defunct eugenics protection law, under which...

Great Seal of the Navajo Nation
By Oscar Schwartz, The Washington Post | 11.23.2020

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CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

On a clear and icy morning in...

Violent protest
By Justin Jouvenal, Spencer Hsu, The Washington Post | 11.22.2020

A line of U.S. Park Police officers pushed protesters back from Lafayette Square on June 1, firing pepper balls and...

By Karen Duffin and Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi, NPR | 11.20.2020

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For four decades, Chris Hansen worked as...

Group hugging
By Jessica Bennett, New York Times | 11.19.2020

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Nyla Conaway, 19, remembers being “called out” for changing...

By Katie Mettler, Washington Post | 11.19.2020

Prince George’s County is one of 10 jurisdictions across the country that will receive a $470,000 grant from the Justice...

By Lena Dunham, Harper's Magazine | 11.18.2020

The moment I lost my fertility I started searching for a baby. At age thirty-one, after almost two decades of...

By Molly O’Toole, Los Angeles Times | 11.18.2020

Four months ago, a Honduran immigrant named Jackelin was taken from the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia to see...