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A glacier outburst is underway in Alaska. It could send a wave of water downstream toward Juneau
A wave of water gushing out of an Alaskan glacier is threatening significant, potentially record-breaking flooding in Juneau ...
Trump claims Washington’s murder rate is higher than Bogotá or Mexico City. Here’s what the stats from those countries say
The murder rate in Washington today is higher than that of Bogotá, Colombia; Mexico City, or some of the places that you hear ...
Vaccinating young children against Covid-19 may be more challenging this respiratory virus season
Parents in the United States who want to vaccinate their young children against Covid-19 this fall may face a growing set of ...
Plague mysteriously spread from Europe to Asia thousands of years ago. Scientists now think they know how it was transmitted
Researchers recovered the first Yersinia pestis bacteria genome from a Bronze Age animal. It reveals how a plague spread in ...
Danielle Spencer, who played little sister Dee on ‘What’s Happening!!,’ dies at 60
Danielle Spencer, who played the wisecracking and tattling little sister Dee Thomas on the 1970s sitcom “What’s Happening!!” ...
Trump tells Goldman Sachs CEO to hire a new economist after bank says consumers will pay bulk of tariff costs
Days after Goldman Sachs’ top economists published research claiming price increases stemming from higher tariffs are poised to soon be borne mostly by consumers, President Donald Trump is urging the ...