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Some states permanently ban people from voting after they’re convicted of certain crimes. You can guess who’s disenfranchised the most.

An unprecedented number of people wrote it to protect the internet from overreaching ISPs, but the government will almost certainly ignore them.

Under Francis, the Catholic Church has adopted a change of tone on LGBT issues — but different institutions are responding to that in their own way.

Early Ebola symptoms can look like a lot of other things.

There are four hospitals in the United States with special isolation wings to treat highly infectious patients. George Risi runs one of them.

They’re way less harmful for the environment than what we put inside them

Stop freaking out about Ebola and go get your seasonal flu shot.

An anthropologist on fear in the Ebola hot zone and how it’s destroying the social fabric of communities.

President Obama gave some free advice to a newly married woman recently, which he shared during a Friday visit to an Indiana steel plant.

ISIS threatened to murder Kassig at the end of a video showing the beheading of British aid worker Alan Henning.

If Democrats could have gotten these numbers in 2012, they’d have been thrilled.

Employment grew by more than expected and the unemployment rate dropped to 5.9 percent.