The highly contagious norovirus – popularly known as “stomach flu” or the “winter vomiting bug” – is now surging through the U.S.. The number of outbreaks is up significantly over previous years, possibly due in part to a new strain of the virus. Outbreaks can occur after direct contact with someone who is infected. Food and ...Read more

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“Investigating the Paranormal”

My training and professional work have been in Mesoamerican archaeology, but I’ve had a lifelong fascination with paranormal concepts. In fact, I considered studying the ...Read more

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.

“How come you feel pain when you fall and get a scrape?” – Tillman, age 9, Asheville, North Carolina

Nobody likes to feel pain, but it’s something every person will ...Read more

For more than a decade, Syrians have been the world’s largest refugee population.

More than 6 million Syrians have fled the country since 2011, when an uprising against the regime of Bashar Assad transformed into a 13-year civil war. Most ended up in neighboring countries such as Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt, while a ...Read more

While concerns about the future of American democracy dominate headlines worldwide, millions of Texans are already seeing a rapid decline in democratic standards.

In December 2024, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued a New York doctor for prescribing abortion-inducing medications to a woman in Collin County, Texas, alleging that ...Read more

Thousands of Palestinians are traveling back to the devastated neighborhoods of northern Gaza after being displaced during the Israel-Hamas war, as a fragile 42-day ceasefire moves into a second week.

Israeli troops stepped away from large parts of the Netzarim Corridor that divides the north of Gaza from the south to enable them to pass, at ...Read more

After a week of nasty weather across Florida, the business of launching rockets could get back on track Monday afternoon.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 looks to lift off at 3:22 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 carrying 21 of the company’s Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit during a launch window that runs ...Read more

As deadly wildfires raged in Los Angeles this month, local officials were forced to address a slew of lies and falsehoods spreading quickly online.

From artificial intelligence-generated images of the famous Hollywood sign surrounded by fire to baseless rumors that firefighters were using women’s handbags full of water to douse the flames, ...Read more

President Trump's plans to overhaul immigration could reduce the ranks of workers who care for elderly and disabled people at home and in long-term care facilities as California and the country grapple with the needs of an aging population, health care experts and immigrant advocates say.

Trump has pledged to carry out the biggest deportation ...Read more

Kurt Kaufman, a ministerial associate, clasped the hands of his neighbors before leading a prayer circle on Wednesday afternoon at the First Baptist Church of Denver in Capitol Hill. On the dry-erase board behind him, a list of current prayers included calling upon divine guidance for the country’s “immigration situation.”

That topic has ...Read more

A sense of despair has engulfed the migrant camp of La Soledad, named after the colonial-era church that towers over the shantytown in downtown Mexico City.

It was supposed to be a temporary stop, a place to regroup and wait for the right moment to continue on toward the United States.

Then President Trump issued decrees that effectively shut ...Read more

In one of his first acts in office, President Trump issued an executive order promising to end government censorship and restore free speech.

The order accused the outgoing Biden administration of harassing social media companies and violating the rights of average Americans "under the guise" of combating disinformation online, and said federal...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump will hold off on imposing threatened tariffs and sanctions on Colombia after reaching a deal on the return of deported migrants, the White House said.

The South American nation “agreed to all of President Trump’s terms, including the unrestricted acceptance of all illegal aliens from Colombia returned from the ...Read more

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has pledged to review penalties the Biden administration imposed on Hungary, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said after holding talks with his U.S. counterpart.

“My new foreign minister colleague assured me that we will rebuild Hungarian-American political relations and for him this includes a review by ...Read more

More people watched President Donald Trump’s second inauguration than watched any other inaugural event in history, according to the president.

According to the new commander-in-chief, while his Oath of Office was administered inside the U.S. Capitol Rotunda where only a crowd of several hundred could be seated, almost twice as many Americans...Read more

It was around 8 a.m. Sunday when a family friend called Maria to ask why her husband of nearly 10 years hadn’t shown up for work.

Minutes later, with federal immigration agents banging on the front door of her apartment in Chicago’s Hermosa neighborhood, she had an answer.

Maria’s husband was one of an as-yet-unknown number of people ...Read more