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More than 3 million years ago, the famous early human ancestor Lucy and her relatives shared the landscape of East Africa with a formidable predator.

From Science Daily • Jun. 13, 2026

For years, reformers rightly pushed back against scare tactics meant to keep marijuana illegal.

From Slate • Jun. 13, 2026

Scotland will play Haiti in their first World Cup encounter in 28 years.

From BBC • Jun. 13, 2026

Had the 2025 claims proven correct, they would have overturned that landmark discovery and called into question nearly 30 years of cosmological research.

From Science Daily • Jun. 13, 2026

He fulfilled the promise more than two years later, on October 20, 1944.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly