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Kevin Hart will receive the Mark Twain Prize — humor's highest honor

The 25th Mark Twain Prize for American Humor will go to comedian, actor, writer and entrepreneur Kevin Hart. Past recipients include George Carlin, Eddie Murphy, Carol Burnett and Adam Sandler.

Amanda Zurawski is the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights against Texas. Here, she arrives at the Austin courthouse where a hearing was held on July 20.

20 women are now suing Texas, saying state abortion laws endangered them

7 women who were denied reproductive health care in Texas have joined an ongoing lawsuit.

An artistic depiction of the planet WASP-107b. Observations by the James Webb Space Telescope suggest this hot gas giant has clouds made of sand.

Clouds made of sand make for a strange kind of rain on this hot planet

On Earth, clouds and rain are made of water. But the James Webb Space Telescope has found that on a planet called WASP-107b, the rain and clouds are made of sand.

These workers were promised green cards following Hurricane Katrina. Instead they were issued temporary visas that bound them to a single employer.

Sold an American Dream, these workers from India wound up living a nightmare

After Hurricane Katrina in 2006, hundreds of workers from India were promised jobs in what labor organizer Saket Soni calls "one of the largest cases of forced labor in modern U.S. history."

Team up with unlikely allies Mallow, Geno and even Bowser in Super Mario RPG.

'Super Mario RPG' updates a cult classic from the creators of 'Final Fantasy'

Nintendo puts a new coat of paint on an old classic, tweaking its Final Fantasy-style combat just enough to succeed for a modern audience.

General Motors' Wentzville Assembly Plant photographed on September 15, 2023 in Wentzville, Missouri.

GM autoworkers' contract appears likely to pass over many workers' objections

Even with pay raises of 25% and other improvements on the table, a large share of General Motors autoworkers are voting to reject the contract reached after a nearly seven-week strike.

Israeli troops operate on the grounds of the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City in this photo released by the Israeli military. The Israelis say they found weapons belonging to Hamas, but did not provide details. Hamas denied the claim that it has been operating in or underneath the hospital.

Israeli troops enter Gaza's largest hospital and report finding Hamas weapons there

Hamas denounced the actions by the Israeli military. The group denied the assertion by Israel and U.S. officials that militants were embedded in Gaza City's Al-Shifa Hospital.

Author George M. Johnson wrote <em>All Boys Aren't Blue,</em> which is on the American Library Association's list of most banned books.

Author George M. Johnson: We must ensure access to those who need these stories most

All Boys Aren't Blue, a memoir for teens and young adults about growing up Black and queer, appeared on many "best books" lists when published in 2020. It's being challenged in some U.S. counties.

Batkid Miles Scott, center, received a key to the city from San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, left, on Nov. 15, 2013.

10 years ago, Batkid was battling bad guys and cancer — now he's 15 and healthy

On Nov. 15, 2013, Miles Scott, a 5-year-old with leukemia, won hearts around the world when he became a superhero for a day with help from the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

More than a dozen prisoners at Thomson prison in Illinois claimed in a letter that guards were bribing them to attack the warden. The Marshall Project redacted some names in these documents to protect their identity.

A warden tried to fix an abusive federal prison. He faced death threats

He was tasked with ending abuse at a federal penitentiary in Illinois but says his own staff and Bureau of Prisons officials blocked his efforts.

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