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Vaccines are crucial to preventing major childhood illnesses. This is a fact that is not in dispute within the established medical community, and one that should be universally acknowledged. And yet, according to a recent Gallup survey, support for vaccination is decreasing, particularly among parents with younger children. According to …

In Guillermo del Toro’s 2013 blockbuster, Pacific Rim, the visionary director foresaw the year 2020 as a high-stakes battle between technology and mankind, with soldiers piloting flying mechas in an attempt to defeat skyscraper-sized robots threatening to destroy humanity. Now that the decade has turned, del Toro’s vision of flying …

It’s 2003 all over again. In a throwback to the lies of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, Donald Trump and Mike Pence are spreading misinformation to justify military aggression in the Middle East. Trump ordered the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iran‘s Revolutionary Guard, carried out late …

Thanks to a new law, Wade Robson and James Safechuck — two men who have accused Michael Jackson of sexually abusing them when they were children — will get the chance to sue two corporate entities tied to the Jackson estate. On January 1st a new California law went into …

As of January 1st, 2020, two states in the Midwest permit the sale legalized recreational marijuana. A new law in Illinois, which kicked in on the first of the year, makes weed use legal in the country’s sixth-largest state. Meanwhile, a similar law in Michigan took effect on December 1st, …

Huey Lewis discusses the creation and legacy of his hit song with the News, “The Power of Love,” in the latest episode of Rolling Stone’s “The Breakdown.” “‘The Power of Love’ is very powerful,” Lewis says, “more powerful than we realized. And as we get older, it’s really the most …

President Donald Trump excoriated his pending impeachment in the House of Representatives in a six-page letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi that reads in part: “More due process was afforded to those accused in the Salem Witch Trials.” Trump’s letter breaks little new substantive ground. It stands, instead, as bilious presidential …

When you think October, you think Halloween — which means you think horror and, hopefully, a black-and-white thriller involving drunk sea captains, mermaid genitals and Robert Pattinson. But not all of the good stuff this month doesn’t involve blood spatter or jump scares: Spanish and Korean award-winners from high-prestige European …

A settlement has been reached in the Tom Petty estate battle between the rock legend’s widow and his two daughters from a previous marriage. This past spring — Petty’s daughters Adria Petty and Annakim Violette — sued Dana York Petty for $5 million after claiming that the widow superseded the …

A few years ago, when I told strangers that I wrote about the climate crisis, they often looked at me as if I’d just told them I wrote about the mating habits of porcupines. Interesting in a freakish sorta way, maybe, but far from urgent. That’s changed. Now, even in …