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Florida plan to deputize National Guard officers as immigration judges at Alligator Alcatraz would likely violate constitutional rights

  • Written by Raquel Aldana, Professor of Law, University of California, Davis
imagePresident Donald Trump visits Alligator Alcatraz in Ochopee, Florida on July 1, 2025.Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

Seeking to expand Florida’s role in federal immigration enforcement, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in May 2025 submitted the state’s Immigration Enforcement Operations Plan to the Trump administration.

The...

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About a third of pregnant women in the US lack sufficient vitamin D to support healthy pregnancies − new research

  • Written by Melissa Melough, Assistant Professor of Nutrition Science, University of Delaware
imageHigher vitamin D levels in a mother's blood during pregnancy have been linked to higher IQ scores in early childhood and reduced behavioral problems. gpointstudio/iStock via Getty Images

Children whose mothers had higher vitamin D levels during pregnancy scored better on tests of memory, attention and problem-solving skills at ages 7 to 12 compared...

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Can AI think – and should it? What it means to think, from Plato to ChatGPT

  • Written by Ryan Leack, Assistant Professor of Writing, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imageAncient Greek concepts about intelligence can shed light on 21st-century tech they never knew.agsandrew/iStock via Getty Images Plus

In my writing and rhetoric courses, students have plenty of opinions on whether AI is intelligent: how well it can assess, analyze, evaluate and communicate information.

When I ask whether artificial intelligence can...

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Idi Amin made himself out to be the ‘liberator’ of an oppressed majority – a demagogic trick that endures today

  • Written by Derek R. Peterson, Ali Mazrui Professor of History & African Studies, University of Michigan
imageIdi Amin addresses the United Nations General Assembly in 1975.Bettmann/Getty Images

Fifty years ago, Ugandan President Idi Amin wrote to the governments of the British Commonwealth with a bold suggestion: Allow him to take over as head of the organization, replacing Queen Elizabeth II.

After all, Amin reasoned, a collapsing economy had made the...

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Clawback of $1.1B for PBS and NPR puts rural stations at risk – and threatens a vital source of journalism

  • Written by Allison Perlman, Associate Professor of Film & Media Studies, University of California, Irvine
imageNathan Heffel and Grace Hood rehearse their Colorado Public Radio public affairs program in Centennial, Colo., in 2017. Andy Cross/The Denver Post via Getty Images

The U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives approved by narrow margins on July 17 and 18, 2025, a law that claws back federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting....

Read more: Clawback of $1.1B for PBS and NPR puts rural stations at risk – and threatens a vital source of...

Why male corporate leaders and billionaires may need financial therapy more than anyone

  • Written by Prince Sarpong, Associate professor, University of the Free State

Corporate leaders and billionaires are often viewed as visionaries and wealth creators. But beneath the surface, many are trapped in an invisible financial “crisis” – one rooted not in market volatility or poor investments but in their psychological relationship with money.

As a finance professor and editor of the forthcoming book...

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Poll finds bipartisan agreement on a key issue: Regulating AI

  • Written by Adam Eichen, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, UMass Amherst
imageAre concerns about AI a bridge across the polarization divide?ZargonDesign/iStock via Getty Images

In the run-up to the vote in the U.S. Senate on President Donald Trump’s spending and tax bill, Republicans scrambled to revise the bill to win support of wavering GOP senators. A provision included in the original bill was a 10-year moratorium...

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When grief involves trauma − a social worker explains how to support survivors of the recent floods and other devastating losses

  • Written by Liza Barros-Lane, Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of Houston-Downtown
imageRain falls over a makeshift memorial for flood victims along the Guadalupe River on July 13, 2025, in Kerrville, Texas.AP Photo/Eric Gay

The July 4, 2025, floods in Kerr County, Texas, swept away children and entire families, leaving horror in their wake. Days later, flash floods struck Ruidoso, New Mexico, killing three people, including two young...

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Supreme Court news coverage has talked a lot more about politics ever since the 2016 death of Scalia and GOP blocking of Obama’s proposed nominee

  • Written by Joshua Boston, Associate Professor of Political Science, Bowling Green State University
imageReporters used to treat the Supreme Court as a nonpolitical institution, but not anymore.Tetra Images/Getty

The U.S. Supreme Court has always ruled on politically controversial issues. From elections to civil rights, from abortion to free speech, the justices frequently weigh in on the country’s most debated problems.

And because of the...

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Children living near oil and gas wells face higher risk of rare leukemia, studies show

  • Written by Lisa McKenzie, Associate Professor of Health, Department of Environmental & Occupational Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
imageThe U.S. has nearly 1 million oil and natural gas wells. Some, like the one here in Commerce City, Colo., are within a few thousand feet of schools and neighborhoods. RJ Sangosti/Getty Images

Acute lymphocytic leukemia is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers in children, although it is rare. It begins in the bone marrow and rapidly...

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  2. Philly’s City Council turned down a new rental inspection program − studies show that might harm tenants’ health
  3. Data can show if government programs work or not, but the Trump administration is suppressing the necessary information
  4. College ‘general education’ requirements help prepare students for citizenship − but critics say it’s learning time taken away from useful studies
  5. Catholic clergy are speaking out on immigration − more than any other political issue except abortion
  6. Why drones and AI can’t quickly find missing flood victims, yet
  7. The golden oyster mushroom craze unleashed an invasive species – and a worrying new study shows it’s harming native fungi
  8. What is peer review? The role anonymous experts play in scrutinizing research before it gets published
  9. University students feel ‘anxious, confused and distrustful’ about AI in the classroom and among their peers
  10. Examining mushrooms under microscopes can help engineers design stronger materials
  11. What makes ‘great powers’ great? And how will they adapt to a multipolar world?
  12. California farmers identify a hot new cash crop: Solar power
  13. Angels, witches, crystals and black cats: How supernatural beliefs vary across different groups in the US
  14. China’s insertion into India-Pakistan waters dispute adds a further ripple in South Asia
  15. Trump free to begin gutting Department of Education after Supreme Court ‘shadow’ ruling − 5 essential reads
  16. Florida is fronting the $450M cost of Alligator Alcatraz – a legal scholar explains what we still don’t know about the detainees
  17. Rethinking the MBA: Character as the educational foundation for future business leaders
  18. Weird space weather seems to have influenced human behavior on Earth 41,000 years ago – our unusual scientific collaboration explores how
  19. Sculptor galaxy image provides brilliant details that will help astronomers study how stars form
  20. Many Texas communities are dangerously unprepared for floods − lack of funding plays a big role
  21. How universities can keep protests from turning violent: 3 lessons from the 2024 pro-Palestinian encampments
  22. Europe is stuck in a bystander role over Iran’s nuclear program after US, Israeli bombs establish facts on the ground
  23. How 17M Americans enrolled in Medicaid and ACA plans could lose their health insurance by 2034
  24. A law from the era of Red Scares is supercharging Trump administration’s power over immigrants and noncitizens
  25. News quiz text reminders
  26. ABC’s and CBS’s settlements with Trump are a dangerous step toward the commander in chief becoming the editor-in-chief
  27. Is there any hope for the internet?
  28. 2026 FIFA World Cup expansion will have a big climate footprint, with matches from Mexico to Canada – here’s what fans can do
  29. When big sports events like FIFA World Cup expand, their climate footprint expands too
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  31. Listening to nonhumans: What music can teach about humanity’s relationships with nature and the divine
  32. Zohran Mamdani’s last name reflects centuries of intercontinental trade, migration and cultural exchange
  33. Trump’s Brazil tariffs point more to his enduring bond with far-right Bolsonaro than economic concerns
  34. Most Pennsylvania voters ignore judicial elections − a political scientist explains why they matter, especially in a battleground state
  35. Who was the first pirate?
  36. When disasters fall out of the public eye, survivors continue to suffer – a rehabilitation professional explains how sustained mental health support is critical to recovery
  37. FEMA’s flood maps often miss dangerous flash flood risks, leaving homeowners unprepared
  38. How citizenship chaos was averted, for now, by a class action injunction against Trump’s birthright citizenship order
  39. Why it can be hard to warn people about dangers like floods – communication researchers explain the role of human behavior
  40. IRS says churches may endorse political candidates despite a decades-old federal statute barring them from doing that
  41. Why do so many American workers feel guilty about taking the vacation they’ve earned?
  42. Inequality has risen from 1970 to Trump − that has 3 hidden costs that undermine democracy
  43. Spacecraft equipped with a solar sail could deliver earlier warnings of space weather threats to Earth’s technologies
  44. AI in health care could save lives and money − but change won’t happen overnight
  45. Muscle weakness in cancer survivors may be caused by treatable weakness in blood vessels – new research
  46. Spotted lanternflies love grapevines, and that’s bad for Pennsylvania’s wine industry
  47. School smartphone bans reflect growing concern over youth mental health and academic performance
  48. This tropical plant builds isolated ‘apartments’ to prevent battles among the aggressive ant tenants it relies on for survival
  49. Justice Department efforts to strip citizenship from naturalized Americans likely violate constitutional rights
  50. Trump’s ‘big’ bill gives millions of taxpayers a new charitable tax break, but whether it will help nonprofits is unclear