In a move his team calls historic, President Donald J. Trump has signed an executive order that classifies illicit fentanyl and its key precursor chemicals as a Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD). The ...

Historian Heather Cox Richardson told KPBS earlier this year that the people who insist Americans are polarized are those who benefit from the division. She said the vast majority of Americans can ...

Conduent Services, a third-party “back-office support” service provider, has notified Blue Cross Blue Shield patients of a major data leak containing their highly sensitive information — including ...

An engineer for New York Times Games has been trying to teach artificial intelligence to understand wordplay more like a human. By Shafik Quoraishee Shafik Quoraishee is a machine-learning engineer ...

An inherent principle of publication is that others should be able to replicate and build upon the authors' published claims. A condition of publication in a Nature Portfolio journal is that authors ...

This database originally covered cases from 1982 to 2012 and has since been updated and expanded numerous times. For analysis and context on this data—including how we built the database, and a change ...