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How Volunteer Sleuths Identified a Hiker and Her Killer After 36 Years

Technology /

Naming the victim In February 2018, investigators in Nevada heard about a method for identifying DNA developed by Colleen Fitzpatrick, a physicist turned forensic genealogist. They contracted the DNA Doe Project, an organization founded by Dr. Fitzpatrick and Margaret Press, a mystery writer and software developer. This was before GEDmatch, the genealogy database their investigation […]

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Trump Said He Would Tame Rogue Nations. Now They Are Challenging Him.

Politics /

North Korea has also struggled to negotiate with Mr. Trump. After a failed effort in Hanoi, Vietnam, in February to get Mr. Trump to lift sweeping American sanctions against North Korea, Mr. Kim fired his negotiating team. But Mr. Kim has one big advantage. In the absence of careful groundwork by American diplomats, North Korea

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The Latest: Warren wants politics out of addiction tax plan

Lifestyle /

The Latest on Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren‘s plan to tax the wealthiest U.S. households to address the opioid addiction crisis (all times local): 2:10 p.m. Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren says her tax plan to address the nation’s prescription pill addiction crisis would remove the middleman and instead send funding directly from the federal

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Simon Armitage: ‘Witty and profound’ writer to be next Poet Laureate

Entertainment /

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionSimon Armitage: “Poetry should respond to climate change” Poet Simon Armitage, whose “witty and profound” work spans sharp observations about modern life and classical myths, is to be the UK’s next Poet Laureate. The West Yorkshire writer will hold the historic post for the next decade, taking

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On Puerto Rico’s ‘Forgotten Island,’ Tesla’s Busted Solar Panels Tell A Cautionary Tale

Business /

VIEQUES, Puerto Rico ― It looks like something out a brochure advertising what renewable energy could offer a remote, storm-ravaged island. Electrical lines still hang perilously from poles across the street, but inside the mint-green, one-story Ciudad Dorada senior center, fans blow cool air and refrigerators stocked with insulin and other medicines run cold even

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