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An estimated 300,000 people were held in solitary confinement in the U.S. at the height of the pandemic. Advocates are pushing to limit the practice, citing lasting harm to prisoners' health.

Leaked documents reported by The Wall Street Journal show the social media giant prioritized engagement and profits over stopping harmful content and misinformation.

The 2020 elections saw a record voter turnout and an enormous amount of mail-in ballots, all amidst a pandemic.

Facebook said late Monday that "the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change" and that there is "no evidence that user data was compromised as a result" of the outage.

Last month, a large group of Haitian migrants camped out under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas. How did the U.S. fail to detect their movement to the southern border?

Corey Schieler has granted 31 wishes to Illinois kids through the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Local beaches could be closed for weeks or months to protect public health. Environmentalists are concerned about long-term impacts on wildlife.

Up to 15% of pregnant people who catch the Delta variant end up hospitalized, a new study in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology finds.

The second-largest racial group in the U.S. is a group that identified with "some other race" for the census.

Democrats delayed a vote on government spending plans until next month.