August 24, 2024, 6:01am Nation & World
Instructor Raghu Arghal presented the trolley dilemma — a thought experiment in which a bystander must choose between saving five people or one person — to a room of teens in an artificial intelligence summer course. Read story
August 24, 2024, 6:00am Nation & World
Wildfires and the pain they cause to people, property and the planet are here to stay. And if Western management practices don’t change to anticipate more and more record fire years, that pain may spread and worsen. Read story
August 24, 2024, 6:00am Health
A federal lawsuit in Texas against Planned Parenthood has a web of ties to conservative activist Leonard Leo, whose decades-long effort to steer the U.S. court system to the right overturned Roe v. Wade, yielding the biggest rollback of reproductive health access in half a century. Read story
August 24, 2024, 5:59am Life
A ghost of sorts appeared on the northern end of North Carolina’s Outer Banks — a wild stallion that goes by the name Dash. Read story
August 24, 2024, 5:58am Life
An expert has confirmed what backyard gardeners and amateur naturalists have been saying for weeks: There are fewer monarch butterflies in Illinois this summer. Read story
August 24, 2024, 5:40am Health
In the 18 months after Francine Milano was diagnosed with a recurrence of the ovarian cancer she thought she’d beaten 20 years ago, she traveled twice from her home in Pennsylvania to Vermont. She went not to ski, hike, or leaf-peep, but to arrange to die. Read story
August 24, 2024, 5:36am Nation & World
A bipartisan group of senators is demanding immediate action from USDA Secretary Thomas Vilsack after several tribal nations reported that a federal food distribution program they rely on has not fulfilled orders for months, and in some cases has delivered expired food. Read story
August 24, 2024, 5:35am Business
The Biden administration is moving to blunt the loss of an expired broadband subsidy program that helped more than 23 million families afford internet access by using money from an existing program that helps libraries and schools provide WiFi hotspots to students and patrons. Read story
August 24, 2024, 5:24am Churches & Religion
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has disheartened LGBTQ+ activists after issuing a slew of new policies this week that would significantly restrict the role of its transgender members. Read story
August 23, 2024, 3:40pm Nation & World
Three people were killed and four were seriously wounded in an attack on Friday at a festival in the western German city of Solingen, police said. Read story
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