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Les drapeaux canadien et américain flottent au sommet du monument Peace Arch, au poste frontalier Douglas-Peace Arch, à Surrey, en Colombie-Britannique, en 2021. Depuis des décennies, les relations entre le Canada et les États-Unis se caractérisent par l’un des partenariats transfrontaliers les plus étroits au monde. Les récentes tensions politiques et économiques ont mis cette relation à rude épreuve.
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La psychologie de la haine permet d’expliquer comment la rhétorique politique et les récits historiques peuvent transformer un différend diplomatique en hostilité.
For decades, the Canada-U.S. relationship has been defined by one of the world’s closest cross-border partnerships. Recent political and economic tensions have challenged that relationship. Canadian and U.S. flags fly atop the Peace Arch monument at the Douglas-Peace Arch border crossing in Surrey, B.C., in 2021.
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The psychology of hate helps explain how threats, political rhetoric and historical narratives can transform a diplomatic dispute into lasting hostility.
Hospitals are tasked with making patients better, but when the hospital that provides care also owns the insurance company that pays for that care, the incentives get more complicated.
Louisiana’s first-of-its-kind law classifying mifepristone and misoprostol as controlled substances led to delays in treating pregnancy complications.
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Medications used to perform abortions are also widely used to treat severe pregnancy complications, as well as several conditions unrelated to childbirth.
The U.S. eliminated measles in 2000, but the disease is once again circulating around the country.
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The pilot, launched in January 2026 in 6 states, could reduce wasteful spending, but increases provider paperwork and risks patient access to necessary care.
A Burundian official holds up a sack of rice from the final batches delivered by USAID before the agency’s closure.
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An immigration historian says removal orders targeting student activists echo America’s long past of jailing and expelling immigrants because of their race, what they say or believe – or all three.
Wealth can buy health – but only to a point.
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New research shows that Americans’ personal wealth is not enough to compensate for factors that affect how long people live, such as health behaviors, education or social support.
The private tutoring market has grown since the COVID-19 pandemic.
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L’étude du cycle de l’eau sur Mars est indispensable pour évaluer une potentielle habitabilité de la planète rouge. Une toute nouvelle étude rebat les cartes.
Frost has been detected on Olympus Mons, the highest volcano not only on Mars but in the entire solar system.
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Studying the water cycle on Mars is essential for assessing its potential habitability, and a new study reveals that significant quantities are present as transient frost on mountain peaks.
The April 1994 international mediation team in South Africa, with Washington Okumu sitting between the US’s Henry Kissinger and the UK’s Peter Carrington.
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Improved understanding of the molecular mechanisms of addiction can change how researchers and clinicians approach treatments.
Tanto as crianças palestinas em Gaza, como mostrado à esquerda, quanto as crianças israelenses, como visto à direita, foram feridas, mortas e sequestradas na guerra entre Israel e Hamas.
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Para os judeus, a violência do Hamas contra as crianças lembra o Holocausto. Para os palestinos, a morte de seus filhos pela Força de Defesa de Israel também os faz lembrar de um passado doloroso.
Both Palestinian children in Gaza, as shown on left, and Israeli children, as seen on the right, have been hurt, killed and kidnapped in the Israel-Hamas war.
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For Jewish people, Hamas’ violence against children was reminiscent of the Holocaust. For Palestinians, The Israel Defense Force’s killing their children reminds them of a painful past, too.