California bill increases penalties for fake liens used to harass politicians, businesses

A California lawmaker introduced a bill Monday to crack down on fake liens filed against politicians, court employees and ...

House sparrows can help us save endangered species: A mathematical framework for genomic prediction

Researchers are trying to understand why some wild species do better than others over time, as the environment changes.
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Maine sets up housing database amid need for 84,000 homes by 2030

The legislation is in response to the push to meet Maine’s need for 84,000 more homes by 2030, as laid out in a 2023 study. The law applies to all housing — from single-family homes, including those ...

The new history of fighting slavery

It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery in the Americas, “filled with Biblical and historical images, with many ...