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Border Patrol leadership reportedly knew about derogatory Facebook group for years

Agents reportedly flagged posts from the group to leadership as early as 2016.

Elizabeth Warren has a plan to narrow the wage gap for women of color

She joins Sen. Kamala Harris in making the problem a campaign issue.

Trump is considering issuing an executive order to keep citizenship question in the census

An executive order from Trump could argue that there’s a constitutional need for the citizenship question.

If aliens call, what should we do? Scientists want your opinion.

In the age of fake news, researchers worry conspiracy theories would abound before we could figure out how — or if — to reply to an alien message.

How stock photographers take a perfectly anonymous picture

The husband-and-wife team behind these stock images play both photographer and subject.

1998’s From the Earth to the Moon is the best fictional retelling of the Apollo program

The HBO miniseries doesn’t just tell you the story of the astronauts. It tells you the story of everything else, too.

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The Alabama woman indicted after a miscarriage will not be prosecuted

Pixar has removed a Hollywood “casting couch” joke from Toy Story 2

Mississippi is forbidding grocery stores from calling veggie burgers “veggie burgers”

The racial roots of Trump’s anti-trade agenda

California is about to ban discrimination against black workers with natural hairstyles

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