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For over two years, negotiators from around the world have been trying to reach an agreement on a pandemic treaty. The deadline is approaching, and there remain many sticking points.

During its first year, New York's 250th Commemoration Commission plans to help heritage organizations across the state plan programming to promote events highlighting the state’s participation in the American Revolution and the formation of the United States.

You can’t immediately tell whether this film is trying to be an old-fashioned Western or a revisionist one. It was written and directed by Viggo Mortensen, who stars alongside Vicky Krieps.

Graduate worker Sriram Parasurama was temporarily suspended, banned from campus for three years, and arrested by Cornell police after he participated in a pro-Palestinian protest that shut down a career fair.

The suspension comes after a demonstration disrupted a career fair on campus last week that featured weapons manufacturers Boeing and L3Harris.

Pastors, imams, rabbis and clergy known were present at polling sites as “poll chaplains” and “peacekeepers."

“We ended up with 126 tornado warnings” in Florida, Matthew Elliott, the warning coordination meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center, told NPR.

A criminal complaint alleges that guards pepper-sprayed Othel Moore Jr., placed a mask over his face and left him in a position that caused him to suffocate.

The far reaches of Antarctica are no longer visited only by scientists and their support staff. Adventure tourists and curiosity seekers from Europe, North America and beyond now come by the boatful — and they're bringing some souvenirs from home. Ecologist Steven Chown tells Robert Siegel that visitors unknowingly carry seeds on their clothes and bags. He says they've helped spread dozens of invasive plant species on the continent and risk permanently changing Antarctica's ecology.

A new analysis suggests saber teeth were highly specialized for puncturing prey, ultimately at the cost of durability.