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How La Niña will shape heat and hurricanes this year

Climate change and the outgoing El Niño will likely ignite more weather extremes.

Why Florida banned a kind of meat that doesn’t really exist

Gov. Ron DeSantis’s ban on cell-cultivated, "lab-grown" meat is about protecting Big Ag.

Philosophers are studying Reddit’s “Am I the Asshole?”

In which philosophy tries to understand how normal people think about morality.

Want to know how to reduce gun crime? Look at Detroit.

Last year, Detroit saw its fewest homicides since 1966. Here’s how it did it — and how other cities can do the same.

The Kristi Noem puppy-killing scandal, explained

Noem wanted to look decisive. That’s not what happened.

High interest rates probably aren’t going away anytime soon

The Federal Reserve will give an announcement on interest rates during its May meeting Wednesday.

Why we keep seeing egg prices spike

How corporate greed plays a role in making bird flu outbreaks — and egg prices — worse.

How today’s antiwar protests stack up against major student movements in history

Campus protests for Gaza may be the biggest of the 21st century.