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In heatwaves where heat and drought combine, effects can destabilize interlinked sectors, including health, energy and food production systems.

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Irvine, Calif., Aug. 8, 2022 – UCI Chancellor Howard Gillman and other university leaders met with Vice President Kamala Harris in the White House today to discuss the disruptive effect that the recent Supreme Court decision to end the federally protected right to abortion will have on American higher education. To date, Harris has held more than half a dozen meetings on reproductive rights with key groups.

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We rate this claim as mostly true. Among the ways monkeypox can spread is by "Touching objects, fabrics (clothing, bedding, or towels), and surfaces that have been used by someone with monkeypox," according to the Centers for Disease Control and Protection.

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Utah’s consumer sentiment fell in July, according to the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute’s Survey of Utah Consumers.

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University of Illinois Chicago researchers explore voters' decisions when they learn their favored candidates have committed moral transgressions

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The American Society of Nephrology (ASN) supports efforts by Congress to improve the US transplant system. Today, the Senate Finance Committee will conduct an oversight hearing, A System in Need of Repair: Addressing Organizational Failures of the U.S.’s Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN).

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University of Miami Chinese scholar and defense expert June Teufel Dreyer assessed the motivations and implications of the visit by the Speaker of the House to Taiwan, one of the stops on her congressional delegation tour.

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California’s McKinney Fire grew to become the state’s largest fire so far this year. The risk of wildfire is rising globally due to climate change. Below are some of the latest articles that have been added to the Wildfires channel on Newswise.

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Election Administration In America – Partisan by Design, a recently released report from the Center for an Independent and Sustainable Democracy at Arizona State University and Open Primaries, a national election reform organization, indicates electoral codes in the United States are rife with rules for how the two major parties – Republican and Democratic – prioritize their power at the exclusion of everyone else.

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Recent high-profile court decisions have renewed claims that federal judges are “politicians in robes” rather than disinterested courtroom umpires. Researchers long ago turned to the “politicized departure hypothesis” (PDH) to test political behavior by judges. The authors of this new research observe that previously unnoticed data patterns permit new statistical tests to help determine if federal judges are influenced by politics while in office.

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A new website and podcast series are launching today (28 July) to tackle the myths and misunderstandings around missing persons issues.

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The House Ways and Means Committee today voted unanimously to advance the Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 2022 (H.R. 8487), positioning the bill for passage in Congress possibly this fall.

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A solution is proposed for evaluating tax efficiency, a formula expressing the marginal cost of public funds as a ratio of a net loss in social surplus to a net increase in tax revenue. This formula is derived from only a few indices, common across specific market demand conditions and cost factors. The indices clearly tell us how the degree of tax-driven social burden relates to imperfect competition.

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In a pair of related studies, UC San Diego researchers show that the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic was at a Chinese market and resulted from at least two instances of the SARS-CoV-2 virus jumping from live animal hosts to humans working or shopping there.

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The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) applauds Congressional passage of the amendment by U.S. Rep. David Scott (D-GA-13) that ensures the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) continues to provide safe, high-quality anesthesia care for our nation’s Veterans.

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In speaking about the Green New Deal, Herschel Walker, the former professional football player vying for a Senate seat in Georgia, incorrectly suggested that U.S. climate efforts were pointless because “China’s bad air” would simply move over into American “air space.”

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Luis Quintero, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, recently conducted a study examining the socioeconomic impacts of rent regulation with colleagues from the University of North Texas and George Washington University.

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A new report released today by Geiger Gibson Program in Community Health at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health examines the implications of Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization for the nation’s community health centers.

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On Aug. 2, voters in Arizona, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri and Washington will vote in their states’ primary elections. Thirteen more states will hold primary elections through August and September.In many districts where the general election isn’t competitive, the outcomes of these primary elections likely will decide who wins in November.

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Following numerous atrocities in Ukraine, a team of international law experts is offering a proposal for a special court in Ukraine to investigate and prosecute those responsible.

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Maryland Smith risk expert Clifford Rossi explains the extent to which banks are hampered by not getting to see the Federal Reserve’s stress test model and how this can affect the economy.

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The latest research news in Climate Science on Newswise.