From Jenna Orkin Exclusive: Iran alerted Russia to security threat before Moscow attack, sources say DR Congo names first female prime minister amid escalating violence A person in Texas has tested positive for the highly pathogenic avian influenza A virus (H5N1). Last month, West Virginia governor Jim Justice signed a bill that purports to protect the ability of the state’s public school educators to teach "alternative" scientific theories like creationism. People of all faiths and none should unite in fighting for the separation of church and state, writes Amanda L. Townley, executive director of the National Center for Science Education. Otherwise we may be opening a door we wished were closed. "Why not [teach] geocentrism or flat-Earthery? Why not crystal healing? Why not racist views claiming that white people and Black people have separate ancestry? All of these notions, which stem from religious beliefs, not science, have been held up by their proponents as scientific theories, and West Virginia’s legislature and governor just opened the public classroom door to them," she says. After terror attack, Russia sees U.S. role and claims it is at war with NATO Largest U.S. egg producer detects bird flu at Texas plant The world is scarred from China shock 1.0. They're not about to let 2.0 happen so easily. The Fraud of Plastic Recycling How Big Oil and the plastics industry deceived the public for decades and caused the plastic waste crisis Despite evidence that financial conflicts of interest may influence physician prescribing and may damage patients’ trust in medical professionals,1-3 such relationships remain pervasive.4 Record numbers of migrants cross Channel in 2024