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President Donald Trump called on Christine Blasey Ford to testify in the Senate about her claim on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
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Mexico, Sep. 19 (Notimex) .- Astronauts on a mission to Mars would be exposed to at least 60 percent of the total recommended dose of radiation during the trip to and from the "red planet," according to data from the TGO satellite. Satellite data from the European Space Agency (ESA) and th...
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Rising North Carolina rivers swamped dozens of farm buildings where the animals were being raised for market
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A sheriff's department van was swept away in rising South Carolina flood waters
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Jose Antonio Vargas recalls a tense, pained conversation
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Flying over eastern Greenland, the NASA scientists stared down from a Gulfstream jet as it followed the precise course they had flown in previous years - using radar to map the loss of ice. “In the tube,” flight engineer David Elliott said as the team locked into their route over the ice sheet...
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You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 5.3 million square feet in Manhattan WeWork, the ubiquitous co-working outfit, now occupies more office space in Manhattan than any other company — 5.3 million square feet, or about 0.2 square miles. (Manhattan...
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Many of us complain about the stress of being 'always on' – here's what life could be like, if you actually disconnected.
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The #MeToo movement is growing among blue-collar workers
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"Very exciting!" Trump tweeted after Kim agreed to dismantle a nuclear complex
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One day in 1961, an American economist named Daniel Ellsberg& stumbled across a piece of paper& with apocalyptic implications. Ellsberg, who was advising the US government on its secret nuclear war plans, had discovered a document that contained an official estimate of the death toll in a preemptive...
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The Korean leaders also announced plans to host the 2032 Summer Olympics together
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Abortion rights activists say their protests of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh helped lay the groundwork for this moment.
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They arrived in New York from Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria ravaged the island in September 2017, leaving widespread devastation in its wake and a death toll that would spiral to almost 3,000. A year on, Joannelly Cruz and her mother Gloria Martinez are in a homeless shelter, part of a generati...
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Urban air pollution, mostly from vehicles, is associated with an increased risk of dementia, according to research published Wednesday. The link remained even after heavy drinking, smoking and other well established risk factors for dementia were ruled out, the researchers reported in medical journ...