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In Death Valley: The ‘super bloom’
‘Super bloom’ in Death ValleyRare occurrence results in barren landscape becoming ‘a valley of life’
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In an upset, ‘Spotlight’ wins best picture at Oscars
Tom McCarthy’s film about the Boston Globe’s investigative reporting on sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests won over the favored frontier epic “The Revenant.” The well-crafted procedural, led by a…
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Oscars 2016
actors will win, who should win and who should have been nominated for coveted award
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Analysis Super Tuesday begins election’s March madness Hundreds of delegates on the line in two days
The four early primary states have done what they always do – weed out weaker candidates and shape the field – but these small states don’t begin to tell the…
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Clinton cruises to big win over Sanders in South Carolina
Sanders already focused on Super Tuesday
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KABUL, Afghanistan – Suicide bombers targeted an anti-Taliban tribal leader in eastern Afghanistan and the Defense Ministry compound in the capital, Kabul, killing at least 23 people on Saturday and…
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Warren Buffett makes case for a bright American future
Billionaire optimistic in annual letter to shareholders
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TRUMP under attack
Cruz, Rubio escalate case against front-runner as Super Tuesday looms
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Top Apple executive defends resistance in FBI iPhone case
Apple CEO Tim Cook received a standing ovation Friday at a stockholder meeting for resisting a request by the FBI to unlock an encrypted iPhone used by a murderous extremist…
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Environmentalists seek to protect sage grouse
Loopholes riddle conservation plan, they say
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The Watergate’s private place in history
But when you work at the Watergate office building – the site for the most infamous “third-rate burglary” in American history – you get to brag. It was on the…
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Insurers could hold fate of health plan
of the exchanges having trouble making profit
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MOGADISHU, Somalia – A Somali police official says al-Shabab gunmen forced their way into a hotel in the Somali capital, exchanging fire with hotel guards before government security forces ended…
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Graham predicts disaster if Trump is GOP’s nominee
In no-holds-barred remarks at a celebratory dinner Thursday night, the South Carolina senator and unsuccessful presidential candidate said the GOP has lost all semblance of sanity and predicted the party…
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HESSTON, Kan. – A man who stormed into a Kansas factory where he worked and shot 14 people, killing three, had just been served with a protective order that probably…
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‘Martian’ plant finds new life thanks to Hollywood film
This 2015 photo provided by Bucknell University botanist Chris Martine works with her solanum watneyi plants at the university’s Rooke Science Center Greenhouse in Lewisburg, Pa. Scientists named the flowering…
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Dogs take Leap Year to new level
Labrador retriever Shayna jumps into the family pool at her owner’s home in Holiday, Fla. Judy Dunn said Shayna prefers leaping into the swimming pool these days after jumping into…
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Sheriff: Cop who killed Kansas gunman a ‘tremendous hero’
FBI agents look at evidence along Hesston Road outside Excel Industries in Hesston, Kan. A deadly assault on Thursday at the lawnmower parts plant in the small town of Hesston…
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U.S. economy ends 2015 on better note, starts 2016 with a bang
Economists said consumer spending rose 0.5 percent in January, the best showing since May.Lynne Sladky/Associated Press The Commerce Department said that consumer spending increased 0.5 percent last month, the best…
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California methane leak set record, study finds
The 16-week blowout from a well at a Southern California Gas Co. storage facility spewed 107,000 tons of the powerful greenhouse gas methane, according to a study published in the…