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Sen. Bernie Sanders skipped elevated garb – and his viral meme mittens from Joe Biden's inauguration – to celebrate newly minted New York mayor Zohran Mamdani's second swearing in. The Vermont ...

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It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about the behavior or nature and evolution. Now, USC researchers want to add a ...

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