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The Dow Jones plunged more than 1,000 points on Thursday in another volatile day for the stock market. It was the second-worst single-day point drop in history, beaten only by the record set after this Monday’s 1,175-point drop. The Dow’s…
Congress may soon commit some cash to an opioid epidemic that has caused hundreds of thousands of drug overdose deaths since the late 1990s. But experts aren’t convinced the money will be enough — or if it will even go…
The MS-08 cargo spacecraft, expected to reach the International Space Station less than three and a half hours after launch, will be launched Sunday aboard a Soyuz 2.1a rocket. According to a press release by the Roskosmos State Corporation, the launch will…
The All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics in the town of Sarov is widely known for its petaflop-capable supercomputer, which was put into operation in 2011. Two employees of a closed nuclear hub in central Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region were detained after they…
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – China’s benchmark Shanghai Composite Index plunged 5.8 percent in the opening hours of trade on Friday after the US Dow Jones industrial average shed over 1,000 points. The Shenzhen Composite index lost 3.3 percent, while the Hang…
AP Photo/Pablo Martinez MonsivaisMilitary units march during the 58th Presidential Inauguration parade for President Donald Trump in Washington. Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. The Washington Post was first to report Tuesday that the president told senior officials he wanted a military…
