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The Supreme Court handed down several key rulings this past week that dismayed liberals. Chief among them was the court's decision to disallow colleges and universities from using race or ethnicity as a specific factor in admissions. The court also found that President Joe Biden's student debt forgiveness plan was unconstitutional.

Karen Tierney, a California-based textiles expert, restores historical wedding dresses. Earlier this year, she put out a call to her clients who gathered for a special fundraiser, to show off more than 150 years of history, craftsmanship and love.

An enormous medical bill can trigger a wave of panic, but experts say patients should attack the problem with a plan

By Juliette Jabkhiro, Layli Foroudi and Elizabeth Pineau PARIS The killing of a teenager by a police officer

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The five best moments of Cesc Fabregas' Chelsea career.

Ange Postecoglou has revealed his top priority for his first few weeks at Tottenham.

Tensions abated slightly in France during a fifth night of unrest as authorities sought to contain the fallout

At least seven people were wounded in a shooting at a Wichita, Kansas, nightclub overnight, Wichita Police said early Sunday morning.

The US Army's air defense units are among the most overworked in the US military, manning missile systems across the globe to provide around-the-clock deterrence against adversaries including North Korea, China, Iran and Russia.

Ever wondered how optical illusions actually work? Wonder no more. A new study by University of Exeter visual ecologist Jolyon Troscianko, and neuroscientist Daniel Osorio from the University of Sussex in the UK has weighed in on the debate over whether we perceive things weirdly because of certain errors in the ways our brain processes colour, shade, and shape or because of our eye's function or the brain's neurological wiring. They reckon it is all in the eyes. The pair found ways our visual neurons – cells that process information coming in from the eyes – work, showing how they can affect our perception of patterns on different scales. "Our eyes send messages to the brain by making neurons fire faster or slower," said Troscianko. "However, there's a limit to how quickly they can fire, and previous research hasn't considered how the limit might affect the ways we see colour." Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter The new model suggests limits in processing and metabolic energy force neurons to compress visual data coming in through our eyes when looking at simple patterns. "Our model shows how neurons with such limited contrast bandwidth can combine their signals to allow us to see these enormous contrasts, but the information is compressed – resulting in visual illusions," said Troscianko. "The model shows how our neurons are precisely evolved to use every bit of capacity." Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.

PARIS The home of a Paris suburb mayor was ram-raided and set alight while his wife and children