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January 14, 2020 at 7:54 am

Thieves stole $8 million in rare texts from the Carnegie Library in a decades-long scheme

Over a quarter of a century, printed treasures and hundreds of other texts were stolen from Pittsburgh's Carnegie Library. And some of them were heading...

Nation & World

January 8, 2020 at 10:20 am

Did you get ‘drafted’ by the U.S. Army via text message? It’s a hoax.

The message seems urgent: The "United States Official Army Draft" has repeatedly tried to reach the recipient via email. The unwitting recipient has been marked...

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A photographer captures smoke at Parliament House on January 05, 2020 in Canberra, Australia. Smoke haze across Eastern Australian cities has become common in recent months as bushfires continue to burn. Hundreds of fires continue to burn in NSW, Victoria and South Australia, with the Australian Defence Force now called in to help with firefighting and rescue efforts. 14 people have died in the fires in NSW, Victoria and SA since New Year’s Eve. (Rohan Thomson/Getty Images/TNS) 1532817 1532817

January 5, 2020 at 9:54 am

Australia wildfires are turning the New Zealand sky an apocalyptic orange

The giant plume of smoke made its way across the Tasman Sea, spawned by the rampaging Australian wildfires and borne on a quick jet of...

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December 27, 2019 at 8:24 am

Tortoise blamed for Christmas fire at family’s home in England

Sometime after 4 p.m. on Christmas Day, the smoke alarm started blaring at a house in Great Dunmow, England. A small fire had sparked when...

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December 26, 2019 at 9:28 am

Trump sends holiday tweet attacking California governor over homelessness crisis

President Donald Trump spent part of the Christmas holiday attacking California Democrats over the homelessness crisis in their state, adding another volley of tweets to...

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December 16, 2019 at 9:48 am

This high-ranking Nazi was buried in Berlin. Someone dug up his unmarked grave.

On December 12, a worker at the Invalids' Cemetery in Berlin came across a plot that had been dug up overnight. This was no ordinary...

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November 26, 2019 at 11:40 am

These researchers are stranded in Antarctica. Help is finally on the way.

The French research crew had endured a long, difficult winter at their station on a tiny cluster of islands just off the Antarctic coast, but...

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November 2, 2019 at 9:36 am

Older iPhones need update immediately or GPS, email won’t work correctly, Apple says

If you've managed to hang on to your iPhone 4 or 5 for all these years: Congratulations! You've successfully navigated a yearslong gauntlet of cracked...

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October 23, 2019 at 2:16 pm

Allies take Trump’s call for an impeachment ﬁght underground

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump told them to "take the gloves off." A day later, House conservatives breached security on Capitol Hill, stormed a secure...

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September 27, 2019 at 11:36 am

Your tea bags might be releasing billions of plastic particles into your brew, study shows

Some manufacturers sell tea in plastic bags, even as the public becomes increasingly aware of how plastic is clogging our bodies of water, as well...