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The Environmental Protection Agency fired five agency employees who had openly signed a June declaration critical of the Trump administration’s weakening of pollution, climate and health safety rules, ...

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People with a psychiatric disorder are more likely to marry someone who has the same condition than to partner with someone who doesn’t, according to a massive study suggesting that the pattern ...