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America’s federal-government debt passed $40trn for the first time, according to figures published on Wednesday. Earlier, the ...

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Takasaki Ryuji at Okayama University of Science, in Japan, decided to investigate. In a study published in Paleobiology, he ...

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Speaking on their behalf at the International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP) on August 5th, Jin Shan, of Nanjing ...

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Donald Trump announced that he had paused for three days a 50% tariff on billions of dollars worth of Canadian goods entering ...