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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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Death toll rises to 24 in suicide bombing at a rail station in southwestern Pakistan

2:21am November 09, 2024

The bomb exploded when nearly 100 passengers were waiting for a train to travel to the city of Rawalpindi from Quetta, the capital of the restive Balochistan province, said a senior police officer.

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Judge cancels court deadlines in Trump's 2020 election case after presidential win

11:49pm November 08, 2024

The judge overseeing Trump's 2020 election interference case canceled remaining court deadlines as prosecutors assess the “the appropriate course going forward” in light of the presidential victory.

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Slower winds aid firefighters battling destructive blaze in Southern California

11:17pm November 08, 2024

Southern California firefighters were gaining ground on a wildfire that ravaged more than 130 structures as gusty winds subsided with favorable weather conditions expected through the weekend.

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DOJ brings charges in an alleged Iranian murder-for-hire plot against Trump

7:01pm November 08, 2024

Federal prosecutors charged a man who said he had been tasked by a contact in Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard with planning the assassination of the Republican president-elect.

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It's legal for police to use deception in interrogations. Advocates want that to end

4:48pm November 08, 2024

Ten states have passed laws to ban the practice of lying to juveniles in custody during police interrogations. Now, one state wants to extend the ban to adults too.

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