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Department of Justice Requests Citizenship Questions Be Added to Census

The DOJ is pushing for questions that experts say may depress participation by immigrants and harm the quality of the census.

After a Cabify driver was accused of murdering a college student near Puebla, Mexico, appetite for an "Uber for women" continues to grow.

As water shortages increase across the country, beer companies are adapting to this new reality in innovative ways.

The initiatives of the Green Revolution served a purpose, but it's past time to update them for a new era.

A small church in Minneapolis is working to stave off the effects of rising neighborhood housing costs by unifying communities through religion.

Small communities across America don't cope well with water shortages, but one group from UCLA has created something to fix that.

It sounds like the plot of science-fiction movie, but academics have long debated the possibility of conscious artificial intelligence.

The stigma attached to "insane asylums" can be hard to shake, but destroying the structures can mean erasing important parts of our history.

Numerous writers over the years have written at-length about the worst parts of the entertainment industry. So why have so many people missed it?

The future of clothing material could come from lab-grown leather and spider silk.