A hunt was taking place on Thursday morning for Ted Cruz, the Republican senator from Texas, who appears to have been photographed lining up for a flight to the sunny Mexican tourist resort of Cancun as millions of his constituents endure deadly power out ...[
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Bitcoin mining may consume more than 120 terawatt-hours of electricity globally this year -- more energy than Argentina. ...[
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At a time when the Lone Star State is being battered by severe winter weather, record cold and widespread power outages, Tim Boyd â the far-right Republican mayor of Colorado City, Texas â lambasted residents of his city for complaining about be ...[
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Rush Limbaugh, a pioneer in popularizing right-wing talk radio, has died at the age of 70 after a months-long battle with cancer. ...[
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Twenty-six percent in a survey of 2,200 people conducted in 2012 answered that the Sun revolves around the Earth, and fewer than half correctly answered a question about human origins. ...[
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Guinea has declared an outbreak of Ebola after seven confirmed cases and at least three deaths, a leading health official in the West African nation said on Sunday.
In a region that was previously the starting point for the world’s worst outbreak of ...[
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In the wake of a spike of violent attacks against Asian and Asian-American residents, many of them elderly, outraged citizens from all different backgrounds in U.S. cities Oakland and San Francisco have joined in solidarity over the past weekend.
In San ...[
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Americans' support for the formation of a third political party has reached 62%, a 5-point uptick since last fall and an all-time high in Gallup's polling. Likewise, just 33% of Americans think the nation's two parties are adequately representing the inte ...[
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Monday that the US Congress will establish an outside, independent commission to review the “facts and causes” related to the deadly 6 January insurrection at the US Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump in the wanin ...[
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Water became a commodity traded on Wall Street in December amid fear of scarcity, and now oxygen is being speculated on in Mexico.
With most hospitals full, many Mexicans are battling COVID-19 at home. Oxygen tanks and oxygen concentrators (devices that ...[
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As Congress still struggles to pass a COVID relief bill, the rest of the world is nervously reserving judgment on America's new president and his foreign policy, after successive U.S. administrations have delivered unexpected and damaging shocks to the wo ...[
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