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Buried in the desert for roughly 4,500 years, the skeleton of a single Egyptian man has yielded a complete genome that ...

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In January 2018, it was reported that, in a meeting with a group of senators at the White House, United States President Donald Trump had referred to Haiti and African nations as ‘shithole countries’.

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He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his ...