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Joe Biden's first day in office will keep him mighty busy. The president-elect has a whole stack of executive orders to sign after his inauguration, including a couple that will seek to undo some of the damages of the Trump administration and right…

The mystery into just what degree of planning and coordination took place in the days leading up to the Jan. 6 attempted coup at the United States Capitol deepened this week, with law enforcement officials reportedly looking into whether a recent…

For decades following the end of World War II, the greatest perceived threat that the world faced was the use of nuclear weapons. Today, the threat is something more innocuous in daily use but no less deadly in the long run: the constant pumping of…

The Trump administration will be remembered for many disastrous moments, but one of the most consequential might be its systematic degradation of environmental protection efforts. Even without a Twitter account, Trump does not appear content to…

Parler, the far-right Twitter alternative, is struggling. The app was banned by Google and Apple over the weekend, but the worst blow came when Amazon announced on Sunday that it was kicking Parler off its servers. As a result, the site has been…

Donald Trump once seemed omnipresent on social media, an unavoidable source of eye rolls, dread, and norm-breaking lunacy that left us all wondering if he was immune to accountability. That came to an end after last week’s attempted coup, instigated…

Last weekend, a manatee with the word "TRUMP" carved into its back was spotted swimming near the Homosassa River in Florida. The poor animal doesn’t seem to be injured, but federal authorities have launched an investigation into the incident and are…

Getting paid to contribute to a cause you believe in is the dream, as evidenced by the ever growing number of young people who say they'd take a pay cut to work at a sustainable company or one that cares about the environment. But that widespread…

It took the incitement of an insurrection against the federal government, culminating in a multi-hour siege on the Capitol led by white supremacists and conspiracy theorists that resulted in five deaths, but last weekend tech companies finally…

On January 20, Joe Biden will be sworn in as president of the United States. Once he takes the oath of office, he will head to the executive branch with at least two years of Democratic control in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.…

2020 seemed like the year that disasters just kept coming, and it came with a price tag that reflects that feeling. According to an analysis performed by insurance company Munich Re, the United States incurred $95 billion in damages caused by…

The weird cigar-shaped object that flew past Earth in 2017 could've been alien technology, claims the head of Harvard's astronomy department, but humans didn't realize it because we're not the "smartest kid on the block." The somewhat harsh…

For those who were wondering how far Donald Trump would have to go before Facebook banned him, it appears "inciting an insurrection" is the answer. After initially slapping the president with a temporary 24 hour suspension on Facebook and Instagram,…

Update: Twitter has announced it is requiring Trump to remove three posts that it says are in violation of its Civic Integrity Policy. The president's account will be "locked for 12 hours following the removal of these Tweets," the company said. "If…

Democrats hoping for the much talked about blue wave in the 2020 election finally seemed to get what they were looking for last night, as at least one and likely two Senate seats in Georgia were flipped by the party. That will create a 50-50 split…

When Joe Biden takes office on January 20, 2021, he is expected to launch the most aggressive agenda to address climate change the country has ever seen. While some of that plan can be carried out via executive order, to truly push the types of…

No part of our planet will be unaffected by climate change, but some areas will feel the effects of the extreme weather events that accompany that change sooner than others. The Federal Emergency Management Agency recently published its first…

This article was originally published by The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom covering the ways technology is changing society. Follow them on Twitter and Facebook, and subscribe to their newsletter here. As Georgians head to the polls to vote on their…

Humans have spent centuries wondering if there is other intelligent life among us in the galaxy and decades actively searching for it. It turns out the Milky Way may have once been full of bustling alien civilizations, but they are all dead now.…