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President Trump's executive order issued earlier this month would make it easier for the federal government to fire career civil servants.

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The executive order strips protections for thousands of federal workers. The administration says it's needed to get rid of "poor performers," but critics call it an attack on nonpolitical employees.

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Duke anthropologist Brian Hare argues that humans evolved in a way that left us more cooperative and friendlier than our now extinct human cousins, like Neanderthals and Denisovans.

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Here's a primer from our Life Kit parenting team.

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The New York Philharmonic principal clarinetist blows apart the labels he once applied to himself to discover a stream of activism.

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Colorado's Proposition 115 could shut down one of the few clinics nationwide that specializes in later abortion.

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Lawyers for Rickia Young, 28, and her son said she was battered, separated from the child for hours, and kept in handcuffs while being treated at a hospital. No charges have been filed against her.

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Lake County Judge Paul Novak denied the 17-year-old's request to stay in Illinois. The teen is charged with fatally shooting two men and wounding a third during a protest in Kenosha, Wis., in August.

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The country voted to allow assisted dying for the terminally ill but no to legalizing marijuana. Two separate referendums were held along with the general election won Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.

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