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15 teams play in states with medicinal marijuana. But the league still won’t allow players to use it.


How fast sunlight disappears in the United States.


In 2014, 13.1 percent of Americas reported lacking health coverage. That’s a new low.


Here’s what you need to know about the legendary monster before the movie’s DVD release Tuesday.


This is only the second adult ever found — 11 feet long and 770 pounds.


Helping Middle Eastern Christians avoid genocide sounds like an incredibly uncontroversial subject for a conference. Here’s how Ted Cruz and pro-Israel conservative writers turned it into one.


This chart tells you how most Americans feel about 25 important countries around the world.


Yelp appears to be a remarkably accurate repository of restaurant food-poisoning incidences.


Use this chart to help plan your reading schedule.


The poverty rate fell from 15 percent in 2012 to 14.5 percent in 2013. Here’s what that misses.


New research shows that kids do better with two parents, and it’s not just because of dual incomes.


Musicians don’t have to check with a patent lawyer before they write a new song. Maybe computer programmers shouldn’t have to either.


The short answer: we don’t really know.


Karen Lewis fought Rahm Emanuel in a teachers’ strike. Now she might fight him in a mayoral election.


Active personnel are taking their own lives at an alarming rate and the government has done little to stop it.