When Indiana adopted new U.S. House districts four years ago, Republican legislative leaders lauded them as “fair maps” that ...

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A nuclear production facility in Washington state, dubbed the Hanford site, once forged the plutonium that reshaped the world. Now it’s forging glass; a quiet act of undoing at one of Earth’s most ...

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When a soul crosses the river, a granddaughter’s journey through the Vedic art of saying goodbye.To everyone who loves ...

The deepest man-made hole on Earth is no longer a gaping wound in the Arctic rock but a quiet, sealed scar. Once hyped as a literal “entrance to hell” in feverish urban legends, the Kola Superdeep ...

It’s home to the country’s only floating tee, and so secretive that it has no official website, no public contact details and certainly no membership forms. Here, entry is by invitation only — and ...