How conspiracy theories fueled the US civil war
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SpaceX overcame never-before-seen parachute deploy and thruster problems during Crew Dragon development
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Protestors criticized for looting businesses without forming private equity firm first
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The design of the “Incalculable Loss” front page of The New York Times for Memorial Day, 2020
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US court grants permission to recover Marconi telegraph from Titanic wreckage—but NOAA is fiercely opposed to the controversial salvage mission
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New data indicates the Mississippi Delta is on borrowed time
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Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A Changing (1964)
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SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell on prospects for Starship launcher
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Underwater aircraft carriers: Imperial Japan’s secret weapon
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Weather scrubs SpaceX commercial crew launch, Demo-2
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If Trump kicks out Twitter, there's always Germany
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Boston Marathon canceled for the first time in its 124-year history
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"[R]iots do not develop out of thin air. [...] in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard." Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967
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From homeless refugee to chess prodigy, nine-year-old dreams of becoming youngest Grandmaster
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Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou loses key court battle as British Columbia judge rules extradition bid should proceed
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The Black American amputation epidemic
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Andrew Cuomo gave legal immunity to nursing home execs after big campaign donations. Critics say data proves New York's liability shield is linked to higher nursing home death rates.
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Inside the flour company supplying America’s sudden baking obsession
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US DOJ urges High Court to shield companies from slave labor suits citing 230 year old tort statute
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The cool history of ice cream (in America) | The Ice Cream Show Episode 9
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Early warnings: How American journalists reported the rise of Adolf Hitler
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White woman who called police on a black man bird-watching in New York's Central Park has been fired
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Hertz files for bankruptcy in the US after rental-car demand vanishes
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Chinese foreign minister warns US against taking the countries ‘to the brink of a new Cold War’
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As the US regains the ability to launch astronauts with its own rockets, the future of Russia's already struggling civil space program is unclear
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Trump team killed rule designed to protect health workers from pandemic like COVID-19
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US CDC: Coronavirus fatality rate could be as low as 0.26%
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New state-level model from Imperial College London suggests that epidemic is not under control in most American states, predicts major surge in cases and deaths over next two months
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Undercover at a Christian gay-to-straight conversion camp
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Henry Grimes, a jazz bassist. Disappeared in 1970 and was presumed dead. Was found by a social worker in 2002, destitute and with no bass. Eventually won a lifetime achievement award in 2016
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US critics of stay-at-home orders tied to fossil fuel funding
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John Krasinski's 'Some Good News' sells to ViacomCBS following massive bidding war
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The insane engineering of the A-10 Warthog
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Stephen Colbert interviews Joe Biden for fifty minutes
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Garlic shortage hits, a side effect of the coronavirus pandemic
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NASA and SpaceX have cleared the Demo-2 mission for May 27, will be the first launch of astronauts on an American rocket from American soil since 2011
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Interview with Elon Musk on his Twitter usage, selling off his possessions, and the historic upcoming launch
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One reason why coronavirus hits Black people the hardest
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Florida's strategy to protect seniors from COVID-19
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Education without loans
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CNBC reporter makes fake news website with plagiarized content, gets approved by ad tech companies
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Man who filmed Ahmaud Arbery video charged with murder
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Most watched American TV series 1951 – 2019
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America’s deadly obsession with intellectual property: Privatizing life-saving technology like vaccines and clean energy is bad both for the coronavirus and the climate crisis
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Ahmaud Arbery was lynched: He was killed in the street by White men. That’s how lynchings work
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Few US prisoners have been released since beginning of the pandemic: Nearly 3/4s of those held at jails are pretrial--meaning thousands of legally innocent individuals face a potential death sentence
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How white backlash controls American progress: Backlash dynamics are one of the defining patterns of the country’s history
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Scientists say social distancing has worked really well to reduce coronavirus's spread: new study finds measures saved thirty-five million Americans from contracting the virus
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How America is victim-blaming the coronavirus dead: As racism warps the US pandemic response, a health crisis has escalated into a culture war
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People are worried about BlackRock
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