Reuters

Hong Kong mourns victims of blaze that killed 128 and counting

HONG KONG, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Hong Kong on Saturday mourned the 128 people known to have died in a huge fire at a high-rise apartment complex, a toll that is likely to rise with 150 still missing days ...
Reuters

US Supreme Court to hear Republican bid to limit counting of mail-in ballots

Lower court ruled mail-in ballot deadline law illegal Trump has vowed to end use of mail-in ballots Nov 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear Mississippi's defense of a state ...
The Hill

Map: See the number of SNAP participants by county as benefit lapse looms

(NEXSTAR) – Over 40 million Americans could lose access to federal food assistance Saturday if the government shutdown continues into November. Barring a deal in Congress that would end the stalemate, ...
PBS

There’s a growing number of Americans who think violence might be necessary to get the country back on track

Nearly a third of Americans – 30% – say people may have to resort to violence in order to get the country back on track, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll. It’s a sharp rise from 18 ...
FactCheck.org

Trump Again Overstates Number of Drug Overdose Deaths in U.S.

Reviving an unfounded claim he has made for several years, President Donald Trump on Sept. 5 overstated the number of Americans who died in 2024 of drug overdoses, saying that he believed 300,000 or ...
Variety

‘Unknown Number: The High School Catfish’ Director on Doc’s Bizarre Plot Twist That the Internet Can’t Stop Talking About

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for the documentary “Unknown Number: The High School Catfish,” now streaming on Netflix. Netflix’s documentary “Unknown Number: The High School Catfish” — ...
Scientific American

This Number System Beats Binary, But Most Computers Can’t Use It

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...
New Scientist

Mathematicians are chasing a number that may reveal the edge of maths

Amateur mathematicians are closing in on an unimaginably huge number – one so large that it brushes up on the edge of what is even knowable within the framework of modern mathematics. It all stems ...
Pew Research Center

Rising Number of U.S. Households Are Headed by Married Same-Sex Couples

Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand the demographic characteristics and experiences of adults who are married to or living with a same-sex spouse or partner. This analysis is part ...
CNN

India’s caste system is controversial and discriminatory. So why is it being included in the next census?

For millions across India, a rigid caste system thousands of years old still dictates much of daily life – from social circles to dating pools to job opportunities and schooling. The Indian government ...
The Spokesman-Review

Counting on the Cosmic Crisp: Washington’s premier apple at the center of turmoil

And the number of new varieties today is unprecedented. Cosmic Crisp creator Kate Evans is a horticulture professor and apple breeder at Washington State University’s Pome Fruit Research and Extension ...
NBC News

Polling shows growing number of Republicans identify with the MAGA movement

As President Donald Trump nears the 100-day mark of his second term, recent polling from NBC News shows how he has consolidated the Republican Party not just around himself, but also around his ...