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Pope Francis returned home to the Vatican on Sunday after he was hospitalized for five weeks with a life-threatening bout of pneumonia. The 88-year-old ...Timeline of Pope Francis' hospitalization for pneumonia at the 1-month mark
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They are known as forever chemicals and they keep our food from sticking and our clothes from burning. But per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances or ...Donating a kidney is even safer now than long thought, US study shows
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People who volunteer to donate a kidney face an even lower risk of death from the operation than doctors have long thought, researchers reported ...Zapping away high blood pressure
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The death toll from the deadliest U.S. wildfire in over a century has risen to 102, authorities in Hawaii said Monday. Claudette Heermance, 68, ...Independent UN experts say radical Saudi Arabia scholar held for years should be tried or released
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A radical Sunni scholar whose criticisms of Saudi Arabias government and the West drew praise from the l ate al-Qaida founder Osama bin Laden ...Dengue is sweeping through the Americas early this year
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Dengue is surging across the Americas early this year from Puerto Rico to Brazil, with 3.5 million cases of the tropical disease reported so ...Why some kidney cancer patients are living longer
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Kidney cancer is among the 10 most common cancers in both men and women. About 81,000 people will be diagnosed with it this year. ...The crane attacked potential mates. But then she fell for her keeper
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One of the great interspecies love stories of our time has come to an end. Walnut, a white-naped crane and internet celebrity, has passed ...'Fat Leonard' seeks new attorneys ahead of sentencing in Navy bribery case, causing another delay
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Defense contractor Leonard “Fat Leonard” Francis, who fled to South America weeks before he was scheduled to be sentenced in one of the biggest ...'Fat Leonard,' a fugitive now returning to the US, was behind one of the military's biggest scandals
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Returning convicted defense contractor Leonard “Fat Leonard” Francis to U.S. custody as part of the Venezuelan prisoner swap on Wednesday is the latest twist ...A look at the uranium-based ammunition the US is sending to Ukraine
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The U.S. has announced its sending depleted uranium anti-tank rounds to Ukraine, following Britain's lead in sending the controversial munitions to help Kyiv push ...Mishmash of how US heat deaths are counted complicates efforts to keep people safe as Earth warms
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Postal worker Eugene Gates Jr. was delivering mail in the suffocating Dallas heat this summer when he collapsed in a homeowners yard and was ...