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Israeli military suggests Netanyahu misleading people about Hamas war

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears increasingly at odds with both the U.S. government and his own military over his handling of the war in Gaza, and the divisions come amid mounting concern that another front in the war, with serious implications for U.S. forces in the region, could open up. A fracture appeared in […]

Huge earthquake 2,500 years ago rerouted the Ganges River, study suggests

A huge earthquake that shook southern Asia 2,500 years ago abruptly changed the course of the Ganges River, new research suggests. The earthquake was previously unknown to science, but researchers spotted clues of its immense force buried in the landscape near Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The team revealed its findings in a study published […]

GOP’s Matt Gaetz suggests he’s facing yet another ethics probe

It was early last year when Rep. Matt Gaetz learned that the Justice Department, which had been investigating him in a sex trafficking investigation, would not bring criminal charges against the Florida Republican. That was, of course, the good news for the far-right GOP congressman. The bad news for Gaetz, however, was that he still […]

Fewer people may need statins to prevent heart disease, new study suggests

A new way of determining heart disease risk may result in millions fewer people getting prescriptions for statins, according to new research. Heart doctors warned, however, that more information is needed and patients shouldn’t stop taking their medications. Statins, such as Lipitor, Crestor and Zocor, are widely used to protect against high levels of LDL […]

Interstellar Space Clouds Triggered the Ice Ages, Research Suggests

The Pleistocene Epoch—with its glaciers, woolly mammoths, and Neanderthals—still looms large in Earth’s rearview mirror, having ended a mere 12,000 years ago. Now, a team of researchers posit that those hundreds of thousands of years of our planet’s history may have been chilly due to a cloud in space that briefly removed Earth from the […]