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Chemical Industry Asks Trump for Exemption From Pollution Limits

The Biden-era limits were designed to reduce emissions of toxic pollutants, including a cancer-causing ingredient used in antifreeze and plastics.

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An Endangered Galápagos Tortoise Is a First-Time Mother at 100

Mommy, a Western Santa Cruz tortoise, recently welcomed four hatchlings at the Philadelphia Zoo, where she has lived since 1932.

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SpaceX Astronauts Splash Down Off California Coast for the First Time

After years of NASA and private crews returning to Earth near Florida, the company shifted its landing zone to the West Coast for the private Fram2 mission.

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Trump Rejects Proposal for Medicare to Cover Wegovy and Other Obesity Drugs

Administration officials reversed a decision made during the Biden presidency that would have given millions of people access to weight-loss drugs paid for Medicare and Medicaid.

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Ancient Hunting Kit Found in West Texas

The 6,500-year-old weapons, found in a cave near Marfa, could be among the oldest near-complete set of wood and stone hunting tools found in North America.

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Giant Sloths’ Hairy Truth Revealed by Scientists

New research painted a more accurate picture of the megafauna that spread widely around the Americas before they went extinct.

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Leonardo Patterson, Disgraced Dealer in Latin American Artifacts, Dies at 82

Born into rural poverty, he climbed to the top of the art market. But he fell after being convicted of selling fake and stolen items.

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Overlooked No More: Katharine McCormick, Force Behind the Birth Control Pill

She used her wealth strategically to expand opportunities for women, underwriting the development of the pill and supporting the suffrage movement.

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Ralph Holloway, Anthropologist Who Studied Brain’s Evolution, Dies at 90

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He found a creative way to prove it.

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Coal Plant Ranked as Nation’s Dirtiest Asks for Pollution Exemption

The facility, in Colstrip, Mont., used a new E.P.A. system for requesting special waivers from President Trump.

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