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If you've spent any time around cats, you've seen them curl up in cozy spaces. A new study on feline cognition shows that they also like to sit in snug squares created by a kind of optical illusion.

The announcement, which effectively reverses a Trump-era rule, springs from last summer's landmark Supreme Court decision banning employment discrimination against LGBTQ people.

The violent exchange followed intense clashes between Israeli police and Palestinians in Jerusalem, prompting Jewish organizers to cancel the annual Jerusalem Day march.

Dry, windy weather raises the potential for wildfire in the North State.

This year, climate legislation remains a tense topic of debate in Pacific Northwest politics. Why has a carbon pricing program worked in British Columbia but not in Oregon?

A year before the United States entered World War I, cars were already making an impact on the country. It was 1916 and the three-day Fourth of July…

The insects' appearances stretch back 4,000 years, to a time when ancient settlers carved cicadas from jade and put them on tongues of the dead before burial, evoking transcendence and eternal life.

When even Eugene hits a daytime high of 100°F, it's just plain hot out there. It's possible you have to work out there when it's hot. By the accounting of…

The people who killed Native Americans and marched the survivors off to reservations had few qualms about taking their cultural artifacts as well. Pieces…

You see an orchestra assemble, and you expect to hear a piece like Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, or a prelude, partita, or concerto. But Friday night, July…