Years of tension between Saudi Arabia and the UAE over Yemen finally boiled over in December when the Saudis accused their ally of arming separatists. The two Gulf powers have clashing visions for regional stability – and that could fracture the entire region.
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Saudi-UAE bust-up over Yemen was only a matter of time − and reflects wider rift over vision for the region
Initially, the two gulf states were in alignment over Yemen’s civil war. But the Arab coalition’s unity has long since gone.
If Ukraine gives up land to get a peace deal, eventually reclaiming that land may require Russia's internal collapse. History shows voluntary returns of occupied territory are extremely rare.
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Ukraine is under pressure to trade land for peace − if it does, history shows it might not ever get it back
Ukraine may need a major, system-level change or crisis in Russia to regain any lost territories.
In 1944, an active-duty US army soldier used this envelope to mail in his ballot. Congress has passed laws to make it easier for overseas citizens to vote. The Supreme Court is considering a GOP challenge to laws allowing for votes that don’t arrive by election day to be counted.
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Americans have had their mail-in ballots counted after Election Day for generations − a Supreme Court ruling could end the practice
29 states allow mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted days after an election. A case before the Supreme Court could take that de...
Don’t do CPR like you see on TV! It’s easier than that. TV characters who experience cardiac arrest outside a hospital are more likely to receive CPR than people in real life, and the CPR on these shows often uses outdated practices and inaccurate techniques
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CPR on TV is often inaccurate – but watching characters jump to the rescue can still save real lives
TV shows can be misleading when it comes to educating viewers on hands-only CPR, along with who experiences cardiac arrest and where.
Why an astronomer is really excited about today's telescope launch: "We built Pandora to shatter a barrier – to understand and remove a source of noise in the data – that limits our ability to study small exoplanets in detail and search for life on them."
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NASA’s Pandora telescope will study stars in detail to learn about the exoplanets orbiting them
The findings from Pandora will complement data from the James Webb Space Telescope to give astronomers more insight into stars and planets outside ...
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Damn the torpedoes! Trump ditches a crucial climate treaty as he moves to dismantle America’s climate protections
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Damn the torpedoes! Trump ditches a crucial climate treaty in latest move to dismantle America’s climate protections
At the same time, Americans have been facing worsening storms, wildfires and deadly heat waves.
Cruelty has been normalized in capitalism. But leaders can still center care and fairness and build profitable, resilient companies
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Taming the moral menace at capitalism’s core
Centuries of management practice were built on cruelty and exploitation. But history also offers a countercurrent – leaders who chose care, fairn...
“National interest” is ambiguous. Although it is often presented as an expression of sheer force, its effectiveness ultimately rests on something softer – the manner in which a government projects credibility to the world, explains the author of a biography of George Washington.
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George Washington’s foreign policy was built on respect for other nations and patient consideration of future burdens
For the nation’s first president, friendliness was strategy, not concession: the republic would treat other nations with civility in order to rem...
Chasing honor in battle can bring out our best, or our worst. From Aristotle to samurai Japan, philosophers have long warned that the pursuit of honor can inspire virtue or tip into brutality.
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Seeking honor is a double-edged sword – from ancient Greece to samurai Japan, thinkers have wrestled with whether it’s the way to virtue
Though they lived centuries apart, Aristotle and Tsunetomo both explored what it means to live virtuously, and the risks of wanting praise or recog...
A nutrition scientist who advised the government on dietary guidelines between 2022 and 2024 explains how her scientific committee’s recommendations were ignored in developing the guidelines released this week.
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New US dietary guidelines recommend more protein and whole milk, less ultraprocessed foods
Irregularities in how the government developed the updated guidelines raise questions about its conclusions.