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Unlike most people with cancer, this group can pinpoint when it likely took silent root, only to emerge years later. Lanham resident Marlene Manning, then a postal worker, remembers fleeing an office ...

In the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, al-Qaeda attacks on Manhattan and D.C., New York City officials—along with Republican ...

A hunter-gatherer who lived in Indonesia as early as 25,000 years ago may have regularly sucked on betel nuts to release ...

The number of victims receiving aid has tripled in recent years, a Post analysis finds, as the illness's toll becomes more ...

Humans everywhere use mind-altering substances, from stimulants and narcotics to hallucinogens. Yet surprisingly little is ...

Redmond High School was forced to close its main building due to the amount of asbestos found during construction work.

After hearing all the evidence at an inquest in Ballina Courthouse, Dr. Eleanor Fitzgerald, Coroner for the District of Mayo, ...