Congress' long-simmering debate over the age of its members has resurfaced over revelations that Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas) has been living in an independent living facility in Texas. The retiring former House Appropriations Committee chair's absence from votes since July has led some of her colleagues to raise concerns. Granger's son Brandon told the Dallas Morning News that she has been "having some dementia issues late in the year."

Arcane brought awards and visibility to Riot Games, but the wildly expensive series contributed towards their tanked Hollywood dreams.

As data centers drain America’s power grids, a fierce battle is being waged for electricity. On Navajo Nation land, many are on the losing end.

Amazon workers at seven warehouses walked off the job starting yesterday, in a major escalation of the Teamsters’ efforts to organize the company. In New York, the strikers faced repression from the police.

Former D.C. Metropolitan Police Lieutenant Shane Lamond was once entrusted to run the agency’s intelligence division.

People are being urged to avoid raw milk and sick birds, and that includes your pets.

A report by the House Ethics Committee found former Rep. Matt Gaetz paid multiple women, including a 17-year-old girl, for sex.

French soldiers have been asked to leave Chad by 31 January, sources close to the government in Paris say– a deadline that RFI was able to confirm with Chadian authorities.

No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama.

State’s energy and carbon management commission said fraudulent pollution data was reported for at least 344 wells

A CEO’s killing brought frustration with American health insurance back into the mainstream. Here’s how we break free from it.

Federal regulators are taking aim at a popular category of psychoactive edibles that contain an iconic red-capped mushroom in the wake of a rash of illnesses and even a few suspected deaths. This week, the Food and Drug Administration warned food manufacturers that Amanita muscaria and the compounds in that mushroom are not authorized for use in food, citing a review of the scientific evidence that found these ingredients do not meet "safety standards."

Rickey Henderson, the greatest base stealer in history, has died. He was 65.

... Social media was never entirely utilitarian, even in its earliest forms. It was invented and popularized and refined by social misfits and weirdos—people who would never thrive on the basis of interpersonal skill—for the purposes of devaluing qualities like social capital, grace, and emotional intelligence.

New discoveries from several archaeological sites in North and South America suggest that ancient people first arrived in the New World much earlier than scientists once thought.

The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team says there's no evidence an offence was committed when Mounties used force to arrest Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Chief Allan Adam outside a Fort McMurray, Alta., casino in 2020.

In a horrifying display of white descent into outright white supremacist, fascist totalitarianism, Governor Parson unleashes a convicted killer cop back onto our streets – proving once again that in America, a badge is a license to kill Black people with impunity.

Authorities in the German city of Magdeburg say at least two people were killed and dozens were injured after a car plowed into a busy Christmas market what officials called a deliberate attack.

The tea bags used for the research were made from the polymers nylon-6, polypropylene and cellulose. The study shows that, when brewing tea, polypropylene releases approximately 1.2 billion particles per milliliter, with an average size of 136.7 nanometers; cellulose releases about 135 million particles per milliliter, with an average size of 244 nanometers; while nylon-6 releases 8.18 million particles per milliliter, with an average size of 138.4 nanometers.

Former Black Panthers fear the FBI is still keeping tabs on them decades after COINTELPRO. In at least one case, they were right.