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Poll: Confidence in science fell in 2022 while political divides persisted

NEW YORK (AP) — Confidence in the scientific community declined among U.S. adults in 2022, a major survey shows, driven by a partisan divide in views of both science and medicine that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall, 39% of U.S. adults said they had “a great deal of ...

Almanac

By The Associated Press Today in History Today is Wednesday, June 21, the 172nd day of 2023. There are 193 days left in the year. Summer begins today. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 21, 1788, the United States Constitution went into effect as New Hampshire became the ninth state ...

The case against Donald Trump

WASHINGTON — It gives me no joy to write about prosecuting former President Donald J. Trump. He and I have been friends for nearly 40 years. We spoke many times during his presidency on a wide array of matters. Knowing him as I do and knowledgeable of the law and federal criminal procedure, ...

Chris Licht and the decline of journalism

WASHINGTON — Before the recently fired CNN President Chris Licht fades into a Google search, it is important to reflect on what he tried to do and why it was equivalent to offering mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a corpse. In the lengthy Atlantic magazine interview that was used as the ...

Almanac

By The Associated Press Today in History Today is Tuesday, June 20, the 171st day of 2023. There are 194 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 20, 1837, Queen Victoria acceded to the British throne following the death of her uncle, King William IV. On this ...

Will we go to civil war over Trump? No. Here’s why

WASHINGTON — The former president of the United States, now running for reelection, assails “the ‘Thugs’ from the Department of Injustice,” calls Special Counsel Jack Smith a “deranged lunatic,” and casts his prosecutions and his bid for the White House as parts of a “final ...