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SEPT. 15, 2025
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SEPT. 15, 2025
Fanuse Adete, 38 years-old, holds up a candle she uses to light her home at night in the Menabichu district on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
Africa, a continent known for its massive number of young people, is seeing a boom in longevity thanks to advances in nutrition, sanitation and clean water, as well as reductions in disease and infant mortality. National writer Matt Sedensky and photographer David Goldman traveled to cities and rural areas of Uganda to explore the experience […]
SEPT. 12, 2025
Education reporters Annie Ma and Sharon Lurye noticed a study indicating girls’ math scores fell behind boys’ during the pandemic and continued to decline, reversing years of progress in addressing math’s gender gap. Collaborating with Stanford researchers, they accessed test scores from 5,000 districts across 33 states, creating an unmatched district-by-district dataset to illustrate the […]
SEPT. 12, 2025
After closely reporting on the Trump administration’s late-night efforts to remove Guatemalan children from U.S. government custody, Rebecca Santana, Valerie Gonzalez and Sonia Pérez D. still had questions. What was Guatemala’s role? How were the children, woken up in the middle of the night and almost removed from the country, doing? To recreate what happened, […]
SEPT. 12, 2025
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Sumo is more than a sport in Japan. It’s a sacred tradition, a 1,500-year-old spectacle steeped in Shinto ritual and ceremony. But at its heart lies a long-standing taboo: women are still barred from the traditional ring, the dohyō in Japanese. That legacy is facing quiet resistance. While professional sumo — the sumo that the world […]
SEPT. 11, 2025
Humans may be right-handed or left-handed. It turns out octopuses don’t have a dominant arm, but they do tend to perform some tasks more often with their front arms, new research shows. Scientists studied a series of short videos of wild octopuses crawling, swimming, standing, fetching, and groping — among other common activities — to analyze how each of […]
SEPT. 11, 2025
The body camera hung from the top of the IV drip, recording the slightest twitch made by Yang Guoliang as he lay bloody and paralyzed in a hospital bed after a police beating with bricks. By then, surveillance was nothing new for the Yang family in rural China, snared in an intricate network based on […]
SEPT. 9, 2025
Apple on Tuesday rolled out its next generation iPhones, which include a new ultra-thin model and a slight price hike for one of its high-end models, while the company feels the squeeze of a global trade war. The iPhone 17 line-up includes a new slimmed-down model that will adopt the “Air” name that Apple already […]
SEPT. 9, 2025
Most U.S. adults think personal choices are a major driver of poverty and homelessness, according to a new poll, while fewer blame a lack of government support. However, just over half also think the government spends too little on those in need, the new poll from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy […]
SEPT. 9, 2025