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The son and namesake of the Philippines’ former dictator Ferdinand Marcos said Tuesday he will run for president in the 2022 election, as the controversial clan seeks the ultimate political revival. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr — who has defended President

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken holds potentially delicate talks in Paris on Tuesday to patch up ties with France, which is still angry over the cancellation of a submarine contract. President Emmanuel Macron was furious last month when Australia

The Nobel Prize in physics was awarded for work on disorder, fluctuations and the ability to predict a changing climate. (Image credit: Fernando Vergara/AP)

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Beaches sit empty and fragile habitats hang in the balance as crews race to clean up a Southern California oil spill  CNN Why is California still drilling for oil despite its ambitious climate goals?  National Geographic Massive oil spill threatens California coast

Nicholas M. Perkins is driven by many things, chief among them a desire to deepen his impact and a nostalgia for the taste of a good burger. Growing up in Fayetteville, NC, a teenage Perkins attended baseball camp in Alabama

Stanley A. McChrystal’s only child, Sam, used to be in a punk rock band. Two, actually: The Welfare Babies and The Lucky Scars. They played the circuit a bit back in the early 2000s, when McChrystal was doing his own

Melissa Nelson was 20 years old when she was hired to work as a dental assistant for James Knight. Nelson had worked in his Fort Dodge, Iowa, office for more than a decade before he fired her in 2010. The

The report into abuses that date back to 1950 is the latest in a series of abuse studies that have shaken the Catholic Church in recent years.

Syukuro Manabe of Princeton University, Germany’s Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi of Italy were awarded the prize for the study of complex systems, including climate change.