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Supreme Court justices should get term limits and an enforceable standard of ethics requiring recusal in conflicts of interest.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says a state lawmaker accused of sexual harassment by several women should give “serious thought” to resigning

Donald Trump is under fire for sharing a social media post featuring a misogynist and offensive slur against Vice President Kamala Harris.

As debate rages around the ethics and legalities of artificial intelligence, some artists are exploring the technology’s possibilities – and its precarities

After World War II, Nuremberg, Germany, was the site of trials of Nazi officials charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Nuremberg trials were landmarks in the development of international law. But one of them has also been applied in peacetime: the “Medical Trial,” which has helped to…

Interview | Azzarello and Phillips on the ethics of immortality and more

Laura Trott urges the prime minister’s ethics adviser to open an investigation

A Justice Department watchdog found one of the nation’s most prolific federal narcotics prosecutors flouted ethics rules last year when he drunkenly handed his business card to Florida police investigating a hit-and-run crash

A review of former New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez's alleged ethics violations has been closed after his resignation took effect on Tuesday.

The societal implications of this technology are still vast. And researchers can already start exploring the ethics by engaging communities well ahead of time.

With their primary goal to advance scientific knowledge, most scientists are not trained or incentivized to think through the societal implications of the technologies they are developing. Even in genomic medicine, which is geared toward benefiting future patients, time and funding pressures make real-time ethics oversight difficult.