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Donald Trump wins Nevada

10:10am November 09, 2024

Former President Donald Trump has won Nevada's six electoral votes, according to a race call from the Associated Press. This is the first time in 20 years that Nevada has elected a Republican in a presidential election.

Dinosaurs unearthed in China may have ended with a collapse, not a catastrophe

8:30am November 09, 2024

There's an area in China that's home to a huge trove of dinosaur fossils. It used to be thought it was formed through a Pompeii-like volcanic eruption, stopping dinosaurs in their tracks. But new evidence has come to light about how it likely came to be.

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Opinion: Witnessing my daughters' first votes was a moment to remember

8:00am November 09, 2024

NPR's Scott Simon accompanied his daughters to the polls, as they voted in their first presidential election.

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Foreign influence efforts reached a fever pitch during the 2024 elections

7:58am November 09, 2024

by Huo Jingnan

While some fake videos made by actors with Russian ties received millions of views, researchers say there's so far no indication that these efforts swayed U.S. election results.

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The US and China flags stand behind a mi

From Taiwan to technology, China ponders what's to come under Trump 2.0

6:00am November 09, 2024

Chinese business people may be able to find creative ways to avoid U.S. tariffs, but for Beijing, its concerns for the incoming Trump presidency go beyond trade.

New DNA evidence upends what we thought we knew about Pompeii victims

6:00am November 09, 2024

The findings, which used DNA from the plaster casts of people who died in the Mt. Vesuvius eruption two millennia ago, challenge the traditional gender and familial assumptions about the Pompeiians.

Donald Trump Campaigns In Michigan In Final Days Before Election

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The transition to the Trump administration is underway. But it's already behind

6:00am November 09, 2024

by Tamara Keith

The presidential election is over, and the complicated two-month sprint has begun to hand over the levers of power from one administration to the next.

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Mail ballot challenges are dropped in Pennsylvania shortly after Election Day

5:00am November 09, 2024

Within two days after Election Day, right-wing activists and two Republican state lawmakers in Pennsylvania withdrew thousands of last-minute challenges to voters’ absentee ballot applications.

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2020's debunked election fraud claims are coming back due to Trump's 2024 victory

5:00am November 09, 2024

Election deniers have spent the past four years focused on false claims that 2020 was rigged. This year, it raised similar alarms about fraud — only for those claims to evaporate as returns came in.

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So your kid wants to quit soccer (or piano, or swim class). Should you let them?

4:00am November 09, 2024

Piano lessons and soccer practice can encourage grit. But if your kid isn't into it, it can become a stress-inducing obligation. Here's how to have hard conversations with your child about quitting.

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