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Saudi Arabia's King Salman has given his first major speech since the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents, expressing support for his son, the crown prince, and making no mention of the accusations that the prince ordered the killing

Pamela Anderson is criticizing Australia's prime minister for making "smutty, unnecessary comments about a woman voicing her political opinion."

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are in Istanbul to mark the completion of a key phase in a natural gas pipeline

British Prime Minister Theresa May is aiming to win business support for her Brexit deal with the European Union, but remains on a collision course with a group of lawmakers who are seeking to unseat her

Campaigners urge governments and businesses to invest more in sanitation in poor countries facing a dangerous shortage of toilets

Syrian troops, their allies capture southern district from Islamic State group after weeks of heavy fighting

The U.N. culture and education agency is teaming up with the World Jewish Congress to launch a website to counter Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Zachary Loeb, University of Pennsylvania(THE CONVERSATION) Amazon may have been expecting lots of public attention when it announced where it would establish its new headquarters – but like many technology companies recently, it probably didn’t anticipate how negative the response would be. In Amazon’s chosen territories of New York and Virginia, local politicians balked at

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Joel Michael Reynolds, University of Massachusetts Lowell(THE CONVERSATION) Across the country, billboards are popping up suggesting that vaccines can kill children, when the science behind vaccination is crystal clear – vaccinations are extremely safe. Researchers who study the beliefs of anti-vaxxers have found many different reasons, not just religious or political, as to why

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jeffrey W. Holmes, University of Virginia(THE CONVERSATION) Artificial heart valves, prosthetic hips, bedside monitors, MRI machines – these and so many other innovations that we now take for granted emerged at the interface of engineering and medicine. In an era of big data, personalized medicine and artificial intelligence, the importance of engineering, especially in medicine, is

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Michael Carolan, Colorado State University(THE CONVERSATION) Thanksgiving may be uniquely American, but its core spirit was exported from harvest festivals stretching back for millennia. Its essence is being grateful for what one has, while noting a duty to share one’s good fortune. In my new book, “The Food Sharing Revolution: How Start-Ups, Pop-Ups, and Co-Ops are Changing the Way

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Rex LaMore, Michigan State University; George H. Berghorn, Michigan State University, and M.G. Matt Syal, Michigan State University(THE CONVERSATION) Detroit has been demolishing about 200 vacanthouses per week since December 2014, with a goal to take down6,000 houses in one year. Much of the demolition work is concentrated in about 20 neighborhoods where the blight removal is

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Christine Calder, Mississippi State University(THE CONVERSATION) The Department of Transportation has been considering new guidelines for flying with emotional support animals since spring 2018, but it doesn’t look like those guidelines will be ready in time for the holiday travel season.No one knows whether the new guidelines could have helped recent Delta Air Lines passenger

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Lee McIntyre, Boston University(THE CONVERSATION) Most politicians lie.Or do they? Even if we could find some isolated example of a politician who was scrupulously honest – former President Jimmy Carter, perhaps – the question is how to think about the rest of them. And if most politicians lie, then why are some Americans so hard on President Donald Trump? According to The

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Joshua T. Beck, University of Oregon(THE CONVERSATION) At the age of 14, a young Donald Watson watched as a terrified pig was slaughtered on his family farm. In the British boy’s eyes, the screaming pig was being murdered. Watson stopped eating meat and eventually gave up dairy as well. Later, as an adult in 1944, Watson realized that other people shared his interest in a plant-only

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Peter C. Mancall, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences(THE CONVERSATION) Sometime in the autumn of 1621, a group of English Pilgrims who had crossed the Atlantic Ocean and created a colony called New Plymouth celebrated their first harvest.They hosted a group of about 90 Wampanoags, their Algonquian-speaking neighbors. Together, migrants

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Evangeline Rose, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Kevin E. Omland, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Thomas Mathew, University of Maryland, Baltimore County(THE CONVERSATION) A paleontologist returns to her lab from a summer dig and sets up a study comparing tooth length in two dinosaur species. She and her team work meticulously to avoid biasing their results.