As of September 1, 2024, there are 17 states with clear deflection pathways articulated in state law, steering people with substance use and/or mental health disorders away from incarceration, ...

Even as Multnomah County’s deflection program comes under scrutiny, one year after it launched, county leaders said they’re taking steps to ensure more people can get the help they need.

After NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid, its orbit slowly but surely changed over the next month, and astronomers can’t explain why. In 2022, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) flew ...

Five people were arrested and charged in connection with the Yellow Jacket Fire, according to the Rio Blanco County Sheriff's Office. The Yellow Jacket Fire burned 35 acres in the area northeast of ...

The first night that Una LaMarche and her husband spent together in their Park Slope brownstone, they had to sneak past her parents, sleeping downstairs. Two decades later, LaMarche doesn’t have to ...

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LOS ANGELES — Victor Wembanyama is doing something wrong. The 7-foot-4 unicorn, still in the early stages of rewriting how basketball is played, just made a move few in the world can. But it’s the ...

The duo posed little threat to Earth, but because they skim relatively close to our planet, they presented a good test bed for the kinetic impactor method. Over the next ... the unintended ...

Insurance companies continue to innovate. On Oct. 1, Cigna will roll out a policy that tracks how physicians bill. It will flag those who submit a higher proportion of level four or level five visits ...

Australia essentially did it during COVID. The world's richest man thinks it's inevitable. And a growing body of research suggests it could be the answer to AI shattering long-held high rates of ...