A 15-year-old boy died of bubonic plague in western Mongolia, health officials said. The teenager caught the often fatal plague after hunting and eating a groundhog in Gobi-Altai province, according to the Mongolian Ministry of Health. Two other teens were being treated with antibiotics after also consuming the large ground …
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A police car was set on fire and exploded in front of the Supreme Court on Wednesday, and authorities quickly detained a suspect who was allegedly burned while setting the vehicle on fire. Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg told the Washington Examiner that “an individual poured an accelerator and set …
Read More »Chinese state media editor-in-chief asks if the United States has “mental retardation”
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