Academic achievement among adolescents may be affected by early childhood lead exposure at much lower levels than previously assumed, according to a new study. Just a small climb in blood concentrations of this toxic metal — still within the range currently deemed acceptable by public health agencies — was associated with worse performance on standardized...

Stefany Shaheen, daughter of Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, announces her candidacy for New Hampshire's 1st Congressional District, focusing on healthcare advocacy.

GOP lawmakers push for sanctions on Iraq, citing its subjugation by Iran and the need to halt U.S. aid, highlighting past policy failures and security concerns.

The Trump State Department took aim at foreign authorities "complicit" in censoring Americans' free speech by imposing new visa restrictions.

A pro-energy group is sounding the alarm and calling for an investigation into who signed key Biden executive orders, given rising concerns about his mental acuity in office.

Summer, to me, always meant hours at the movies. We didn’t have a lake house or a summer home; my summer home was the Avco Wilshire in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, plus a hundred other theaters within a 10-minute drive of my house. When I read stories about how the hits are back […]

“How did you not see it?” That was the question a high school student asked journalist Ryan Lizza several years ago in a class I was teaching at Georgetown University. Lizza had been a writer in the 1990s at The New Republic at the same time as Stephen Glass. Glass had written several fraudulent and […]

If implemented as written, these orders could undermine the very objective they intend to promote. 

Mexico needs reliable energy imports to power its economy, and the United States benefits enormously from growing Mexican demand.