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Across drought-prone California, high-voltage power lines that haven’t been needed in years hang unused from steel towers — a fire risk hiding in plain sight. One, near Los Angeles, has been ...

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One woman, a self-proclaimed psychic from Leningrad, had apparently torn up a dismembered frog’s heart with her mental powers ...

Across drought-prone California, high-voltage power lines that haven’t been needed in years hang unused from steel towers — a fire risk hiding in plain sight. One has been accused of sparking ...

MANILA, Philippines — The over 32 million votes Vice President Sara Duterte got in the 2022 elections will be considered “useless” if the impeachment trial against her becomes successful ...

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Online life changed the way we talk and write—then changed it again, and again, and so on, forever. This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to ...