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White Manager Pleads Guilty to Forcing Black Cook to Work for Years Without Pay

New Theory Attempting to Debunk ‘Planet Nine’ Mystery Shut Down by Expert

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New Horizons wakes for historic Kuiper Belt flyby

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The odd reality of life under China’s all-seeing credit score system

As California’s largest lake dries up, it threatens nearby communities with clouds of toxic dust

Murder with Impunity: Where killings go unsolved

A Defense of the Suburbs

The Mysterious Decline of Iceland’s American Invader

The people rethinking methods of execution

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On this day in 1979 boring Soviet scientists set the still-standing record for the deepest hole ever drilled

Inside Attica Correctional Facility and How Prisons Deal With Mental Health

Is “May You Live In Interesting Times” really an ancient Chinese curse?

Deep in the Pentagon, a secret AI program to find hidden nuclear missiles

Gravitational Waves Reveal the Heart of Neutron Stars

Archived news footage: 50 years ago today Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated

Nipah Virus, Dangerous and Little Known, Spreads in India

Five myths about the refugee crisis

Archeologist Spends Over 35 Years Building Enormous Scale Model of Ancient Rome

How the Ice Age Shaped New York

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The Kids Who Are Cleared to Leave Psychiatric Hospitals—But Can’t

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‘Planet 9’ might really be a gang of asteroids shooting comets at us

A debate over plant consciousness is forcing us to confront the limitations of the human mind

What You Told Us About Your Hometown’s Hidden Tunnels

France starts work on revolutionary ‘Alzheimer’s village’ where patients roam almost free

Eugenics today: where eugenic sterilisation continues now

When The U.S. Army Bombed Hawaii’s Volcanoes

Secret to longevity may lie in the microbiome and the gut

Maine man killed in hit-and-run ran over a girl in 1968

The Quietly Radical Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

These Physicists Watched a Clock Tick for 14 Years Straight

Is Exxon Mobil the next Philip Morris?

NASA: A Detailed Timeline of The IMAGE Mission Recovery

Black bears are going bald. It might be even worse than it looks.

Doctors hail world first as woman’s advanced breast cancer is eradicated

What It’s Like to Trip on the Most Potent Magic Mushroom

Small Asteroid Strikes Africa Just Hours After It Was Spotted

Is America Ready for the Next Superstorm?

The metamorphosis of masturbation

Toronto police officer on paid suspension for 11 years could finally be fired

‘I was looking for my mother but found my twin instead’

Hell on Wheels: The Rogue World of One of New York’s Major Trash Haulers

National Security Agency (NSA) security/motivational posters from the 1950s and 1960s (PDF)

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The Psychology of Money

The new lighter-than-air race for space

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