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Presidents James Monroe and Theodore Roosevelt helped shape a policy that rationalizes U.S. intervention in Latin America and ...

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In an unprecedented move, NASA is bringing an astronaut crew home early from the International Space Station because one ...

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The derailment, in northeastern Thailand, occurred on part of an ambitious planned high-speed rail project that will ...

Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died. She was 86. Her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated ...