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Princeton study maps 200,000 years of Human–Neanderthal interbreeding
For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...
FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from 100-year flood map before expansion, records show
Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening ...
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New report maps a “severe” shortage of local journalists in the U.S.
The report from Rebuild Local News and Muck Rack finds that more than 1,000 counties — one out of three in the nation — do ...
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'Equal dignity': U.S. map shows the impact of Obergefell v. Hodges ...
"They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law," then-Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote 10 years ago, in the Obergefell v. Hodges majority opinion. "The Constitution grants them that ...
University of Tennessee approves $483.5M for Knoxville buildings. Why only two this time?
The reason the Knoxville campus has fewer buildings on the University of Tennessee System's priority list is twofold. One has ...
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The Global Origins of Town Names in Every U.S. State (With Maps!)
Mapping the most highly populated U.S. towns with UK namesakes revealed a noticeable cluster of British-origin names in Massachusetts especially—including Worcester, Beverly, Weymouth, Plymouth ...