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religion Pacifist sect controls a Mayan-inspired pyramid in North Dakota Andrea James

politics Bolton book says House impeachment inquiry should have probed Trump beyond Ukraine Xeni Jardin

trump Trump insists he was trolling with the bleach suggestion, but he may have gotten the idea from a religious cult Thom Dunn

tabloids Unstoppable plague, Doomsday is here, and Cruel Meghan, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

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News NASA reports a "potentially hazardous" asteroid will come close to Earth on February 15, 2020 Mark Frauenfelder

security CIA secretly owned world's top encryption supplier, read enemy and ally messages for decades Xeni Jardin

radiation There's a new radiation-eating fungus strand growing at Chernobyl Thom Dunn

Technology Russian priests must stop blessing nuclear weapons, says Russian Orthodox Church patriarch Xeni Jardin

Business UK says OK to Huawei Xeni Jardin

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