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A Senate hearing Wednesday will focus on a GOP push to impeach judges who have ruled against President Donald Trump’s agenda.

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Agafia Lykova achieved what was previously thought impossible. When Soviet geologists flew over the Siberian taiga in 1978, ...

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Russian serial killer bludgeoned his victims to death and impaled their skulls with vodka bottles during a 14-year killing ...

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The Pawtuxet River, which once powered the mills that gave birth to this community, now flows peacefully through town, a metaphor for how life here continues to move – steadily, purposefully, but ...

As the last Ice Age waned and the Holocene dawned, deep-ocean circulation around Antarctica underwent dramatic shifts that ...

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