From Jenna Orkin Some parents are prosecuted or fined when children miss school A judge in Missouri sentenced a single mother to jail when her kindergartner missed school. Student truancy can still go to court. 2023 was Earth’s warmest on record. Will this year be even hotter? Look for these 9 red flags to identify food that is ultra-processed Pufferfish 2023’s Mind-Bending Revelations in Brain Sciences The human body is really just a large system of bags in bags, "with the added bonus of thumbs and anxiety," writes Bethany Brookshire, science journalist and author of the book Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains. Inside the skin, which is a bag, are bags containing the heart, the brain, cells (which are themselves bags). "It’s just bags all the way down," she says. Israel to appear before ICJ to counter South Africa's Gaza case US national debt hits record $34 trillion as Congress gears up for funding fight The Chief Prosecutor’s Office in Istanbul issued arrest warrants for 46 suspects in an investigation into Israeli intelligence service Mossad's alleged plot targeting foreigners in Türkiye. Texas doctors do not need to perform emergency abortions, court rules