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Study finds 9,000-year-old remains in Americas hold genomes of bacteria family that causes disease

America's global hegemony is in rapid, irreversible decline. But what happens after that?

In November 1620 the Mayflower deposited about 100 Pilgrims at the Wampanoag community of Patuxet, which the newcomers renamed New Plymouth. A year later, the English and Wampanoags enjoyed a three-day feast. For generations, Americans have celebrated that meal as the first Thanksgiving.

‘I drive from coast to coast, and this s**t is flat to me,’ the former NBA star claimed

Opinion: The theory syphilis came to Europe from the Americas is wrong, according to ongoing research by paleopathologists, scientists who study skeletal remains for evidence of disease.

That the arrival of Europeans in the New World in 1492 led to a massive shift in the ecological landscape has been widely accepted for the past 50 years. Suddenly a trans-Atlantic exchange – maize for wheat, tomatoes for apples, tobacco for horses – meant that plants and animals were…

From Friday's decision by Judge Janet C. Hall (D. Conn.) in American Italian Women for Greater New Haven v. City of New Haven: [T]he Columbus statue is government speech and, as such, AIW has no cognizable free speech interest in it. Indeed, the Supreme Court has directly foreclosed such a…