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Tensions Continue High Over Kashmir, With 500 Arrests And A Communications Blackout

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Tensions Continue High Over Kashmir, With 500 Arrests And A Communications Blackout

Indian-administered Kashmir is now in its fourth day of a communications blackout, following the government's decision to revoke its special status. Pakistan has downgraded diplomatic ties.

Scientists Find Out How Leaping Maggots Leap

A goldenrod midge maggot begins to form a loop. Reproduced/adapted with permission of Journal of Experimental Biology, Farley, G. M., Wise, M. J., Harrison, J. S., Sutton, G. P., Kuo, C. and Patek, S. N., 2019, Journal of Experimental Biology, volume 222, doi:10.1242/jeb.201129 hide caption

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Scientists Find Out How Leaping Maggots Leap

Scientists Find Out How Leaping Maggots Leap

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Dayton Victim Was An Intern Who Had Accepted A Full-Time Job Days Before Being Killed

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Dayton Victim Was An Intern Who Had Accepted A Full-Time Job Days Before Being Killed

Dayton Victim Was An Intern Who Had Accepted A Full-Time Job Days Before Being Killed

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Chain [From the Motion Picture Soundtrack "The Kitchen"] The Highwomen
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Entropy Reigns (In the Celestial City) Kelley Polar
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American With No Medical Training Ran Center For Malnourished Ugandan Kids. 105 Died

Renee Bach, 30, is being sued in Ugandan civil court over the deaths of children who were treated at the critical care center she ran in Uganda. She has left Uganda and is now living in Bedford County, Virginia, where she grew up. Julia Rendleman/for NPR hide caption

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American With No Medical Training Ran Center For Malnourished Ugandan Kids. 105 Died

American With No Medical Training Ran Center For Malnourished Ugandan Kids. 105 Died

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Chicken Plants See Little Fallout From Immigration Raids

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Chicken Plants See Little Fallout From Immigration Raids

Chicken Plants See Little Fallout From Immigration Raids

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Tensions Continue High Over Kashmir, With 500 Arrests And A Communications Blackout

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Tensions Continue High Over Kashmir, With 500 Arrests And A Communications Blackout

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Tensions Continue High Over Kashmir, With 500 Arrests And A Communications Blackout

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