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Mexican authorities are rushing to evacuate low-lying areas and set up shelters as an "extremely dangerous" Hurricane Willa heads toward landfall along a stretch of Pacific coast dotted with high-rise resorts, surfing beaches and fishing villages

Apple's new iPhone XR is a budget choice over the top-of-the-line XS. You're trading off a high-resolution screen and a better zoom camera for a savings of at least $250

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Meghan Henning, University of Dayton(THE CONVERSATION) It’s that time of the year when hell is used as a common theme for entertainment and hell-themed haunted houses and horror moviespop up all over the country. Although many of us now associate hell with Christianity, the idea of an afterlife existed much earlier. Greeks and Romans, for example, used the concept of Hades, an

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Patricia L. Foster, Indiana University(THE CONVERSATION) The 2017-2018 flu season was historically severe. Public health officials estimate that 900,000 Americans were hospitalized and 80,000 died from the flu and its complications. For comparison, the previous worst season from the past decade, 2010-2011, saw 56,000 deaths. In a typical season, 30,000 Americans die.So why was the

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mary Wood, University of Oregon and Michael C. Blumm, Lewis & Clark (THE CONVERSATION) Humanity must rapidly decrease greenhouse gas emissions to avoid catastrophic levels of global warming, climate scientists have warned for decades. But America’s president has both feet on the fossil fuel accelerator.One way to force President Donald Trump to put the brakes on his dangerous

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Yogi H. Hendlin, University of California, San Francisco(THE CONVERSATION) The two largest global brands of capsule coffee, Nespresso and Keurig, are regarded by many as environmental nightmares. Billions of the throwaway nonrecyclable plastic products currently clutter waste dumps, waterways and city streets. Both inventor of the “K-cups” John Sylvan and former Nespresso CEO

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Tamar Carroll, Rochester Institute of Technology and Joshua Meltzer, Rochester Institute of Technology(THE CONVERSATION) When The Village Voice, the nation’s first alternative weekly, closed in late August, social justice movements lost one of their biggest cheerleaders.Founded in 1955, the Voice aggressively covered civil rights, race relations, police brutality, gentrification,

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Shanna K. Kattari, University of Michigan(THE CONVERSATION) Many people may experience anxiety when seeking medical treatment. They might worry about wait times, insurance coverage or how far they must travel to access care. Transgender and non-binary individuals have an added fear: gender-related discrimination. This can involve being outed due to a name or gender mismatch on an

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jeffrey Lazarus, Georgia State University(THE CONVERSATION) Democrats haven’t won a major statewide office in Georgia since 2000, but this year’s gubernatorial race in the state is a tossup.As a political scientist who studies elections and lives in Georgia, I’ve been watching this race closely. Polls have the Republican candidate, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, and the

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Lara Perez-Felkner, Florida State University(THE CONVERSATION) Four decades ago, the U.S. Supreme Court cited the admissions program at Harvard College as an “illuminating example” of how race could be used as one of several factors in college admissions.“This kind of program treats each applicant as an individual in the admissions process,” the court noted of Harvard’s holistic

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Terrence Sejnowski, University of California San Diego(THE CONVERSATION) The future won’t be made by either humans or machines alone – but by both, working together. Technologies modeled on how human brains work are already augmenting people’s abilities, and will only get more influential as society gets used to these increasingly capable machines.Technology optimists have

Top scientists from around Europe are warning that Brexit could leave Britain and the European Union "more insular," harming research across the continent

A few hundred people gathered on a blustery high school football field to support the extended family of a missing 13-year-old girl whose parents were killed at their northwestern Wisconsin home

A judge has referred a contempt-of-court case involving far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon to Britain's attorney general for consideration

Iraqi official: Bomb kills 6 people, including 2 soldiers, at market south of city of Mosul

Several dozen migrants, including children, have spent the night out in the open near Bosnia's border with Croatia after walking for hours from a migrant center

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Japanese director Naomi Kawase has been named to make the documentary film about the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

President Donald Trump's drastic cuts in refugees to the U.S. is starting to have an impact in struggling, shrinking cities like Buffalo, which have come to depend on the new arrivals

The government of South Korean President Moon Jae-in has formally approved the rapprochement deals he made with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un last month