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A Bangladeshi national who repeatedly entered the US illegally after being deported has been indicted in the execution-style ...

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty involving an illegal alien who re-entered the U.S. after being deported and allegedly killed a Florida woman before fleeing to a sanctuary city. Bangladeshi ...

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The new discovery suggests that sugar, essential to life on Earth, may have come from space.

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Worcester police say Benjamin Willie called 911 himself to report that he had committed the stabbing.

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Ancient DNA can be a powerful tool for helping us reconstruct the long-dead past. Most surviving genetic material comes from ...