PEN America's report found 6,870 instances of book bans in 2024 and 2025. Books bans in public schools have become a "new normal" in the U.S., escalating since 2021, according to one advocacy group.

In August 2023, Israel’s then-Energy Minister Israel Katz visited the synagogue at the Abrahamic Family House in the United Arab Emirates, a sign of warming ties between the two countries under the ...

Bob Odenkirk has spent the last decade surprising audiences who thought they knew him best. From his days on Mr. Show to redefining antiheroes with Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, the ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics downplayed a lockdown of its online databases after warning of technical difficulties in the moments before the release of the closely watched August employment report. ...

Seven years in the making, a database of police records on misconduct, shootings and use of force causing serious injury or death is now public on the websites of LAist and KQED in San Francisco. The ...

The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database contains selected macroeconomic data series from the statistical appendix of the World Economic Outlook report, which presents the IMF staff's analysis and ...

Legend has it that physicist Ernest Rutherford once dismissed all sciences other than physics as mere “stamp collecting.” (Whether he actually said it is a matter of some debate.) But we now live in ...

Databricks Inc. today introduced a new serverless database called Lakebase that can process more than 10,000 queries per second. The service is based on PostgreSQL, a popular open-source relational ...

A Homeland Security spokesperson has denounced as "thugs" an "independent media group" which is creating a database of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, and asking people to report ...

The Oregonian/OregonLive has updated its searchable database of beneficiaries of the Oregon Public Employees Retirement System, adding 5,947 beneficiaries who retired last year and another 118 who ...

Wired reports the database could combine IRS, SSA, and voting records for surveillance targeting undocumented migrants. Wired reports the database could combine IRS, SSA, and voting records for ...