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Before 1995, we couldn’t have said that with any certainty. Now we know of more than 300 planets orbiting distant stars, and we have a fleet of telescopes looking for them. The ultimate goal is to find another Earth orbiting a star like the Sun, but...
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A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, according to an arrest warrant released Friday. Shaniya Davis was...
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Federal officials say they arrested a man who strapped 15 live lizards to his chest to get through customs at Los Angeles International Airport.
The U.S. Fish and...
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First, the charming American Zionists:
And this is how the “liberal” Zionists in America behave:
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The Oprah is coming to an end. For more than 20 years, the Chicago star has captivated audiences with her weight problems, Tom Cruise coach jumping, Gale shop talk;...
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As is well known the American people are well informed and versed in international affairs and when evaluating nations they draw on their deep understanding to form...
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This week marked the anniversary of two important historical events. Each took place in different time periods and in different parts of the world, but they remain...
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Forbes Magazine named drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman — a fugitive reputed to be hiding in the mountains of northern Mexico — to its list of the 67...
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President Obama said yesterday he is still several weeks away from adopting a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan.
What’s taking so long? Obama wants his...
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The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind...
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Two Chicago men accused of developing what federal prosecutors call a blueprint for a terrorist assault on a Danish newspaper also are being investigated for possible...
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President Obama’s diplomatic outreach to Iran deserves some award for its schizophrenic nature. Obama claims he wants to reach out his hand to an uncleanched...
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President Obama campaigned on “Change” in Washington that would reject the cynicism, partisanship and the political gamesmanship that have long dominated...
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The question was a plausible one Monday when it was announced that the Pontiac Silverdome — once home to the NFL’s Detroit Lions — was sold for $583,000, or about...
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In nearly a dozen recent terrorism cases in the United States, Britain and Canada, investigators discovered the suspects had something in common: a devotion to the...
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The Texas Department of Public Safety is warning parents across the state to be aware of efforts by Mexican cartels and transnational gangs to recruit Texas youth in...
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President Obama has admitted for the first time that the deadline he set two days into his Administration for closing the Guantanamo Bay detainee camp in Cuba will be...
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Christmas seems to start earlier and earlier every year, and with it comes the idiotic fringe-media meme that’s come to be known as the “War On...
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Israel: Busy Ethnic Cleansing Muslims and Christians from Holy Jerusalem
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Another hateful asshole at Fox
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Mars had floods from time to time, a new study has suggested.Astronomers claim to have found evidence that ancient features on the surface of Mars, called valley...
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Astronomers have taken the closest look ever at the giant black hole in the center of the Milky Way. By combining telescopes in Hawaii, Arizona, and California, they...
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Astronomers announced today that a new “minor planet” with an unusual orbit has been found just two billion miles from Earth, closer than Neptune. Using the...
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Just when we thought we were beginning to understand what supernovae and gamma ray bursts were all about. Astronomers have just uncovered the true nature of what they...
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A team of astronomers announced they have discovered the smallest and potentially most Earth-like extrasolar planet yet. Five times as massive as Earth, it orbits a...
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Whoa. That’s an open cluster, a collection of thousands of stars that are (in general) gravitationally bound to one another. In reality, over millions of years, the...
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Astronomers have known for years that something seems to be pulling our Milky Way and tens of thousands of other galaxies toward itself at a breakneck 22 million...
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The ancient astronomers once deemed the Moon, like Mother Earth, to be awash with water and gave fanciful names to its “seas.”
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Over the past three years three supernova explosions have left astronomers baffled. Not because of their locale or any such mundane mystery as that, but because they...
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Astronomers have found the remains of the youngest supernova, or exploded star, in the Milky Way Galaxy. The supernova occurred in 1868, but was hidden behind a thick...
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We cannot go back in time and stick a thermometer in the early universe, but astronomers have done the next best thing, using an indirect technique to find out what the...
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Images from the Hubble telescope reveal eight new Einstein rings, joining only three others previously known. Einstein rings are pairs of galaxies, with a foreground...
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Astronomers are now able to predict when a certain type of star will let loose a powerful eruption.The explosions occur on a neutron star, a city-sized remnant of a...
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Astronomers have discovered a distant “twin” solar system which looks very similar to our own.
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