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Earlier this season, on Oct. 30, the Oklahoma City Thunder announced that rookie guard Nikola Topic has been diagnosed with testicular cancer. The OKC Thunder selected Topic with the No. 12 pick in ...

The president gave misleading accounts of the U.S. role in Greenland’s history and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, among other claims. By Linda Qiu President Trump’s verbal broadsides drew ...

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Human Rights Watch’s Refugee and Migrant Rights Division defends the rights of refugees, asylum seekers, displaced people, and migrants worldwide. We investigate rights violations arising from ...

Freedom of speech is a bellwether: how any society tolerates those with minority, disfavored, or even obnoxious views will often speak to its performance on human rights more generally. In ...

Only about 6.9% of the total U.S. population buys health insurance through the Affordable Care Act exchanges. Republicans and Democrats agree that it’s important the U.S. is a world leader in science, ...

The microbiome comprises all of the genetic material within a microbiota (the entire collection of microorganisms in a specific niche, such as the human gut). This can also be referred to as the ...

Jan. 22, 2026 Researchers have identified a promising new weapon against triple-negative breast cancer, one of the most aggressive forms of the disease. An experimental antibody targets a protein that ...

Dec. 27, 2025 Stanford scientists have uncovered how mRNA COVID-19 vaccines can very rarely trigger heart inflammation in young men — and how that risk might be reduced. They found that the vaccines ...

The Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy leads the fight against alarmist environmental, energy, and climate policies, while promoting sound solutions grounded in individual ...

January 21, 2026 • In the first year of his second term, President Trump has repeatedly said and done things that were previously assumed to be unacceptable to voters.Whether on Greenland or Gaza, ...