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NASA ordered its astronauts to take refuge inside a docked SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and to prepare for potential ...

The Trump administration is officially conducting an investigation into the safety of the abortion pill mifepristone, the ...

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Mammograms, which are key to detecting breast cancer, could be paired with artificial intelligence to predict heart disease ...

At a White House briefing on Thursday, President Donald Trump invoked a national defense law to steer nearly $700 million to ...