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Miami-Dade (1836): Originally just called Dade County after Francis L. Dade, a major in the U.S. Army during the Second ...

Dick Cheney, regarded as the most powerful vice president in U.S. history and former congressman of Wyoming, died Monday ...

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This year, eight school districts in Maine adopted Title IX policies favored by the Trump administration—with parents’ rights ...

Hurricane Melissa is twisting across Cuba, its eye passing over the long, thin island’s eastern shores. Cubans are huddled in ...

The ligament in your elbow that connects the bone in your upper arm to the one in your forearm is only about as strong as “a ...