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Matter Neuroscience installed phone booths in liberal San Francisco and conservative Abilene, Texas, encouraging strangers to engage in conversations across party lines.

The U.S. Department of Justice has agreed to stop seeking medical records that personally identify young patients who received gender-affirming care from Children's Hospital Los Angeles, according to court records.

The White House altered a photo of Nekima Levy Armstrong, a civil rights lawyer arrested in Minneapolis for protesting inside a church.

Texas hopes to elect five more Republicans to Congress, while California would like five more Democrats.

Many far-right groups across Europe, which aligned with Trump's MAGA movement in their fervent opposition to immigration, are suddenly in rebellion against an administration they once thought of as an ideological ally.

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo says immigration officers may enter homes to make arrests, even forcibly, without a judicial warrant.

Former special counsel Jack Smith testified publicly on the investigations into President Trump before the House Judiciary Committee.

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday morning said he was not surprised the Trump administration blocked his appearance at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland the day before, saying it was another example of an unhinged president trying to stifle dissent.

Karman Industries says it has developed a cooling system that uses SpaceX rocket engine technology to rein in the environmental impact of data centers.

Under Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Trump administration's health agencies have muddled vaccine messaging. The result is that vaccine-preventable diseases like measles are surging in the U.S.

The Trump administration has dropped its appeal of a federal court ruling that blocked a campaign against diversity, equity, and inclusion threatening federal funding to the nation's schools and colleges. An education scholar says the "damage is done."

With many rivers and aquifers tapped beyond their limits, UN scientists say the world is entering an era of 'water bankruptcy.'

Banned from speaking, lauded for his condemnation of Trump and compared to a 1990s Ken doll. Newsom is killing it at Davos.

The developments followed weeks of escalating threats from Trump to control Greenland by any means necessary — including by force, if left with no other choice.