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Evacuations were extensive last night in the San Francisco Bay Area as wildfires in the region shook hundreds of square miles of land, to the edge of San Jose, producing perhaps the worst air quality in the world. In all, more than 349,000 acres burned in Northern and Central California …

The no. 1-seeders in both conferences each lost their first game of the NBA playoffs for the first time since 2003, back when LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony were still NBA draft prospects and not grizzled veterans. One half of that dynamic duo goes home early this season. Will it …

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has confirmed that he will travel to New York’s headquarters in New York on Thursday to formally trigger a so-called snapback clause that would force the Security Council to reinstate sanctions against Iran over the years. for a 2015 agreement were forced to force …

In the Middle Ages, the plague caused tens of millions of deaths in Europe in a series of outbreaks known as the Black Death. And although it is extremely rare in modern times, the deadly bacterial infection is still prevalent today – but how likely are you to catch it? …

In 1604, a white dwarf star went supernova. This is very normal behavior for a white dwarf star; but this one, at a distance of just 20,000 light-years from Earth, was visible to the naked eye, and documented by astronomers around the world, including the German astronomer Johannes Kepler. Kepler’s …