The Senate presents a far tougher lift for Democrats than the House. Assuming that the party can hold all its seats—which is ...

The Trump administration approved the sale of dozens of F-35 warplanes to Saudi Arabia, valuing the proposed deal at $24.3bn.

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We ran a specific initiative called “Waking Hours”, in which volunteers experimented with pre-industrial sleep patterns.

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