The Illinois Democrat has announced he will retire at the end of his term next year after nearly three decades in the Senate.

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The National Institutes of Health plans to pool information from private sources like pharmacies and smartwatches.

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European Union watchdogs fined Apple and Facebook's parent company hundreds of millions of euros as they stepped up ...

Laila Lalami's dystopian novel centers on a woman who's been incarcerated because an algorithm flagged her as a crime risk.