Today's antipersonnel land mines are small and often have plastic casings that standard metal detectors cannot register.

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Texas Senator John Cornyn has never had the hearts of many of his party's most energized voters. He heard the boos in the earliest days of the Tea Party movement at a 2009 Austin rally outside the ...

June 4 (UPI) --A study published last November in Science confirmed what many observers of digital politics have long suspected: feed algorithms do not merely reflect human hostility. They can amplify ...

California voters can choose any primary candidate, regardless of party, and two candidates from the same party can potentially face off in the general election. By Livia Albeck-Ripka For more than a ...

Residents of Yolo County will have a rare opportunity in the June 2 primary to decide who will serve as judge on the Superior Court. Superior Court judges in California oversee the trial courts that ...

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...

Had President Trump, we wondered, possibly been reading or at least thumbing through—just maybe—the works of … Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel? Impossible. And yet. Hegel’s theory of “world-historical ...

If you suffer from information overload, or are unsure what to trust online, you’re not alone. Australians are increasingly disengaging from traditional news, turning instead to social media, ...

Social media platforms use complex algorithms to decide what content appears on each user's feed. These systems are designed to filter massive amounts of posts and prioritize the ones most likely to ...

Meta and Google were held liable in a landmark US legal case this week that found the algorithms behind the most popular social media platforms are designed to be addictive to children and teenagers.