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Nation
Jordan activates right-wing pressure campaign in push to win speakership
Even after Representative Jim Jordan, the hard-right Ohio Republican, won his party’s nomination for the post Friday, he remained far short of the 217 votes he needed to win the gavel, with scores of his colleagues refusing to back him. Continue reading →
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Nation
How megafires are remaking the world
On Aug. 15, a small wildfire was detected in the hills above West Kelowna, in British Columbia. The landscape was parched and the wind was fierce, and over the next few days the modest blaze exploded into a raging conflagration. It raced down into the valley and toward Okanagan Lake. Wind blew red-hot embers across the water, sparking new fires around the city of Kelowna. Continue reading →
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Obituaries
Ryuzo Yanagimachi, researcher who cloned mice, dies at 95
Ryuzo Yanagimachi, whose long career as a pioneer in fertility research culminated in 1997 with the successful cloning of multiple generations of mice — a leap ahead of the announcement of the first cloned mammal, Dolly the sheep, just months earlier — died Sept. 27 in Honolulu. He was 95. Continue reading →
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