‘The Simpsons’ resurrects Apu after nearly a decade of silence
Apu’s unheralded return to "The Simpsons" is a remarkable twist to a yearslong discourse about how the character has represented a painful stereotype for some South Asian Americans.
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America already tried permanent daylight saving time. It lasted less than a year. Could it work now?
The House of Representatives on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to pass a bill that makes the shift to daylight saving time, when clocks are moved forward one hour, become permanent.
The world’s reaction to hantavirus is tinged by echoes of something else: COVID
The lingering impact of COVID-19, a few years out from the declaration that the pandemic was over, is scattered across how we live today — the work-from-home jobs, the way...
You can end a shutdown overnight — but you can’t reopen a government that fast
The longest government shutdown in U.S. history is over — on paper, at least. But the American public isn’t done with it yet: Getting everything back up and running doesn’t...
Former US Rep. Charles Rangel of New York has died at age 94
Former Democratic U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel of New York, an outspoken, gravel-voiced Harlem Democrat who spent nearly five decades on Capitol Hill and was a founding member of the Congressional...
To overcome travel ban, some Americans taking cases to court
The third version of the administration's ban took effect in December 2017, keeping citizens of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen and North Korea, and government representatives from Venezuela, from traveling...
Edith Windsor, who helped end gay marriage ban, dies at 88
Edith Windsor, a gay rights pioneer whose landmark Supreme Court case struck down parts of a federal anti-gay-marriage law and paved a path toward legalizing same-sex nuptials nationwide, died Tuesday....