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A plague mysteriously spread from Europe into Asia thousands of years ago. Scientists now think they may know how it was transmitted | CNN
Researchers recovered the first Yersinia pestis bacteria genome from a Bronze Age animal. It reveals how a plague spread in Eurasia for thousands of years, experts say.
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Would-be hitwoman from Wisconsin convicted in UK over failed murder plot | CNN
An American woman who was hired by her British lover as a would-be assassin, but then botched the attack and spent five years on the run, has been found guilty of conspiracy to murder.
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Trump set to announce Kennedy Center Honorees as he tries to put his stamp on DC | CNN Politics
President Trump will appear at the Kennedy Center, where he’s expected to announce the first recipients of its hallmark honors since he seized control of the institution’s board earlier this year.
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As Everest costs go up, Nepal just made it free to climb nearly 100 other mountains | CNN
“There are so many mountains (in Nepal),” Himal Gautam, a director in the Nepal Tourism Department, told CNN. “Until now the government of Nepal has opened 462 mountains for commercial expedition. Out of them 102 mountains are still virgin, they are waiting for the first climbers.”
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DC Mayor Bowser changes her tone on Trump as crackdown ramps up | CNN Politics
After Donald Trump won the presidential election, Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser flew to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate to see him. When Republicans pressured her over the giant “Black Lives Matter” lettering she installed in front of the White House during Trump’s first term, Bowser agreed to remove it. Her reasoning: The city had bigger fish to fry, particularly on managing the federal job cuts Trump has enacted this year. Now, as Trump federalizes the police in the capital and deploys the
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On social media, the Department of Homeland Security appeals to nostalgia -- with motifs of White identity | CNN Politics
Underlining the new strategy are undertones that historians and experts in political communication say are alarmingly nationalist — and fraught with appeals to a specifically White and Christian national identity.
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9-time grand slam champion Monica Seles reveals her diagnosis with myasthenia gravis | CNN
Monica Seles, who won her first major trophy at age 16 at the 1990 French Open and played her last match in 2003, said she was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis three years ago.
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Judge orders ICE to improve conditions after NYC immigration detainees complain of mistreatment | CNN
Cellphone video recorded last month by a detainee showed about two dozen men crowded in one of the building’s four hold rooms, many lying on the floor with thermal blankets but no mattresses or padding.
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The number of ICE flights is skyrocketing -- but the planes are harder than ever to track | CNN Politics
Since Trump’s inauguration, there have been more than 1,000 deportation flights to other countries, according to Witness at the Border. But recently, experts have noticed a new trend. Beginning in March, major companies operating the flights began requesting that their tail numbers — identifiers for planes akin to license plates on cars — be removed from public flight-tracking websites, according to Ian Petchenik of Flightradar24.
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Amazon just made it easier to order fresh food | CNN Business
Amazon is rolling out same-day delivery of fresh food to more than 1,000 cities.
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