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This online game lets Italians predict the next pope like fantasy football

As the papal conclave nears, people in Italy turn to an online game for some possible outcomes. The goal is to exchange glory, not cash.

Feeling burned out? There's a word for that in Mandarin Chinese

How an obscure term used in anthropology leaped from the pages of academia into the Chinese meme world and then became part of Chinese government policymaking.

Senate Committee To Consider Fischer For Fed's No. 2 Spot

Stanley Fischer, President Obama's choice to be the Federal Reserve's vice chairman, is on Capitol Hill Thursday for a confirmation hearing .

Dede Murphy and other local election workers say members of an election denier group camped out in the hallways of their county building and yelled in their faces. Some say they were followed home or put in physical danger. Election workers across 22 states tell NPR they've received threats or felt unsafe doing their jobs.

For election workers, Trump's lies have meant threats, harassment and a poisoned dog

Election workers across 22 different states told NPR they've received threats or felt unsafe doing their jobs, and many are worried for what the 2024 presidential election will bring.

When law enforcement officials failed to anticipate that pro-Trump supporters would devolve into a violent mob, they fell victim to what one expert calls "the invisible obvious." He said it was hard for authorities to see that people who looked like them could want to commit this kind of violence.

Why Didn't The FBI And DHS Produce A Threat Report Ahead of The Capitol Insurrection?

The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security wrote detailed threat assessments before Black Lives Matter demonstrations last summer, but offered only general warnings before the events on Jan. 6.

MIT, Yale, and other elite colleges are finally reaching out to rural students

Top colleges aim to create a diverse campus with students from all walks of life; so they're traveling to places they've neglected before: rural communities.

The polling place at Town Hall in Deerfield, Massachusetts, for the state primary on September 6, 2022.

Massachusetts primary results: Diehl, Driscoll, Campbell, Galvin, DiZoglio prevail

Massachusetts voters made their picks in Democratic and Republican primaries. Here are the results from the contested races in the four western counties.

Robbie Parker speaks with the media outside Connecticut Superior Court in Waterbury after a jury awarded families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting $965 million in a defamation suit against Alex Jones. Robbie Parker’s 6-year old daughter Emilie was among those killed at the school. Robbie Parker’s 6-year old daughter Emilie was among those killed at the school and during the trial he testified how the harassment he faced was so intense that he had to move thousands of miles away from Connecticut.

In 'A Father's Fight,' Sandy Hook parent Robbie Parker recalls anguish caused by Alex Jones' lies

The day after Robbie Parker’s 6-year-old daughter Emilie was shot and killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Alex Jones told his followers that her murder never happened.

Sen. Mitch McConnell says he will not seek reelection in 2026

The Kentucky Republican has served more than 40 years in the chamber, and became one of the most consequential and divisive legislators in recent history.

President Trump gives a thumbs-up as he leaves the White House to go to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday after he tested positive for the coronavirus.

Timeline: What We Know Of President Trump's COVID-19 Diagnosis, Treatment

President Trump first tweeted that he had tested positive for the coronavirus early Friday morning. But questions remain about what exactly happened before and after.

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