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SSomething magical appeared at night over London and other parts of Great Britain on June 21: ripples of electric blue clouds gleamed in the twilight sky after sunset. These were noctilucent clouds, the highest clouds in the world, more than 80 km (50 miles) at the edge of space, and …

The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is photos from May 26, 2020 on Wall Street in New York City. Johannes Eisele | AFP | fake pictures Stock futures held steady in trading overnight on Monday after a strong rally on Wall Street to start the week. Dow Jones Industrial Average …

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday that the next round of coronavirus legislation could include an additional round of stimulus checks aimed at helping low-income Americans. When asked at one of three public events in his home state, Kentucky, if the relief bill would include more direct payments, McConnell …

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – A businessman who never held an elected position won the Dominican Republic’s presidency, according to Monday’s results, ending a 16-year run in power by a center-left party. President-elect Luis Rodolfo Abinader had won around 53 percent of Sunday’s votes with most polling places reporting, beating …

Ennio Morricone was not only the most important film composer of the 20th century, he was also the busiest. Morricone, who died Monday in Rome at age 91, is best known for his early work with Italian “spaghetti western” director Sergio Leone in films including “A Fistful of Dollars” and …