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This has been a bad week for the Yankees. They lost Aaron Judge, DJ LeMahieu and Zack Britton to the injured list last week, dropped five straight games to the Rays – including Thursday’s 10-5 defeat to close out a three-game game at home – and dropped out first place …

Washington Former White House adviser Stephen Bannon pleaded not guilty to charges of wire fraud and money laundering on Thursday after federal prosecutors in New York announced that Bannon and three others had been accused of abusing alleged donors in a $ 25 million money campaign to to build a …

“You know me.” It’s one of the most widely used lines of Joseph R. Biden Jr., a folksy introduction, a deflection and a defense. Fact-check: It’s true. Mr. Biden has been long enough to be on his third presidency in four decades. Long enough to have played a dubious role …

A team of researchers led by Professor Brian Fields hypothesizes that a supernova is about 65 … [+] light years away may have contributed to the ozone depletion and subsequent mass extinction of the late Devonian Period, 359 million years ago. Pictured is a simulation of a nearby supernova collision …

The deadly explosion in Beirut on August 4 was compared to 15 years of war in 15 seconds by Lebanon’s ambassador to the UN, Amal Mudallali. “It has been hell,” says Sahar Assaf, an actor, director and theater professor at the American University of Beirut. ‘We are still in disbelief …