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A government shutdown is all but assured to begin at 12:01 a.m. ET Wednesday. The Senate will take a test vote to break a filibuster on a House-passed interim spending bill later today. But that needs ...

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A newly discovered comet will soon be gracing our evening sky. On Sept. 10, Vladimir Bezugly of Dnipro, Ukraine was examining online images of a low-resolution public website showing images obtained ...

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