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FILE– Edward Snowden speaks via video remote at a research conference at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Mass., July 21, 2016. The Russian government said on Jan. 18, 2017 the former NSA contractor, who was granted asylum in 2013, would be allowed to remain for “a couple more years.” The statement came one day after President Barack Obama commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning. (Kayana Szymczak/The New York Times)

Snowden memoir tells life story — and why he leaked national secrets

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has written a memoir, telling his life story in detail for the first time and explaining why he chose to risk his freedom to become perhaps the most famous whistleblower of all time. Snowden, who now lives in Russia to avoid prosecution in the U.S.,...

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This artist’s rendering provided by University College London Centre for Space Exochemistry Data researchers shows Exoplanet K2-18b, foreground, its host star and an accompanying planet in this system. On Wednesday, the scientists announced they discovered water on the planet outside our solar system that has temperatures suitable for life. (M. Kornmesser/ESA/Hubble via AP) NY818 NY818
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A photo by Mary F. Calvert shows Jack Williams, 71, who says he was sexually assaulted by a drill sergeant at basic training in 1966 when he was enlisted in the Air Force, pictured in Everett, Wash., on July 9, 2017. As soon as Williams graduated, he reported what had happened to Air Force authorities, expecting them to jail his attacker and start an investigation. “No investigator ever called me,” he said. “Nothing was ever done.” (Mary F. Calvert via The New York Times) — NO SALES; FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH NYT STORY MILITARY MEN SEX ASSAULTS BY DAVE PHILIPPS FOR SEPT. 11, 2019. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED. – XNYT113
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Breaking the silence: Six men tell their stories of sexual assault in the military

This photo provide by the Berlin Zoo on Friday, Sept. 13, 2019, shows one of the new panda twins in an incubator at the Berlin Zoo. Female Panda Meng Meng gave birth to two panda babies in Berlin Zoo on Saturday evening Aug. 31, 2019. (Zoo Berlin/Zoologischer Garten Berlin via AP) DMSC107 DMSC107
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FILE – In tis Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019 file photo, agents with the FBI walk into the Truth Aquatics office, the California company that owned the scuba diving boat that caught fire and killed 34 people last week, as authorities issue a search warrant for the company and the sister vessels of the Conception dive boat on the Santa Barbara Harbor in Santa Barbara, Calif. Federal investigators say all six crew members were asleep when a deadly fire broke out in the scuba diving boat off the coast of California. (AP Photo/Christian Monterrosa, File) CAET338 CAET338

Boat fire wreckage taken to navy base for investigation  VIEW

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Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019, during a Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by ABC at Texas Southern University in Houston. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) TXKJ193 TXKJ193

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A rope made of bedsheets that was used to escape from the upper floor of the Badim Hospital, is seen tied to a window, where a fire left at least 11 people dead, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday, Sept. 13, 2019. The fire raced through the hospital forcing staff to wheel patients into the streets on beds or in wheelchairs. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) XLC105 XLC105

Fire at hospital in Brazil kills 11 people, many elderly  VIEW

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Nobel Prize laureates, from left, William Lipscomb, Richard Roberts and Dudley Herschbach, demonstrate the research which won them the acoustics award, by scratching a garden implement on a stone to simulate the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2006, during the Ig Nobel awards at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. The annual no-rules awards ceremony, where flying paper airplanes and interrupting honored speakers are commonplace, pokes fun at bizarre and improbable achievements in real-life scientific research. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) MACK103

Training surgeons like dogs, icky money win 2019 Ig Nobels  VIEW