Niger’s junta frees dozens of former officials and military officers detained after 2023 coup
NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Niger's military junta has freed dozens of former government officials and military officers detained after a coup in 2023 as part of what military authorities have described as ...
Albany airport board report faults operations under ex-CEO
An examination of the airport authority identifies several financial and management issues the board said justifies its decision to terminate Phil Calderone ...
Opinion
With its executive order targeting the Smithsonian, the Trump administration opens up a new front in the history wars
In the end, a group led by congressman and former president John Quincy Adams ensured Smithson’s vision was realized. Adams felt that the country was failing to live up to its early promise. He ...
Research shows that a majority of Christian religious leaders accept the reality of climate change but have never mentioned it to their congregations
According to that data, while the overwhelming majority of Christian religious leaders accept the human-driven reality of climate change, nearly half have never mentioned climate change or humans’ ...
Opinion
The never-ending sentence: How parole and probation fuel mass incarceration
(THE CONVERSATION) The U.S. operates one of the largest and most punitive criminal justice systems in the world. On any given day, 1.9 million people are incarcerated in more than 6,000 federal, state ...
Christian Zionism hasn’t always been a conservative evangelical creed – churches’ views of Israel have evolved over decades
In the U.S., the idea elicited enthusiasm among conservative Christians who hoped that the Jews’ return to Israel would help hasten the end times, when they believed Christ would return. Within a few ...
New York's population grew slightly as pandemic exodus subsided
The Capital Region, Hudson Valley and Long Island showed recent growth in population, according to the Census Bureau.
23andMe is potentially selling more than just genetic data – the personal survey info it collected is just as much a privacy problem
This means that not only does 23andMe possess the genetic data of 15 million people, but it also possesses almost a billion additional data points associated with this genetic information. This makes ...
Feeling FOMO for something that’s not even fun? It’s not the event you’re missing, it’s the bonding
We find that people anticipate FOMO even for unenjoyable missed events. As long as there is some form of missed social bonding, feelings of FOMO emerge. One of our studies found that people ...
In Israel, calls for genocide have migrated from the margins to the mainstream
In Israel, there’s also a history of biblical justifications for violence and genocide. This sort of rhetoric has waxed and waned over time; it’ll often exist on the margins in times of relative peace ...
Schools and communities can help children bounce back after distressing disasters like the LA wildfires
Our study found that despite experiencing profound loss, many of the children expressed gratitude for their communities and an eagerness to rebuild. Their perspectives revealed both resilience and ...
After layoffs and funding problems, Head Start leaders fear what comes next
Already, the staff layoffs have caused concerns. Head Start preschools in Washington state had been awaiting approval to ...