Parasite in cat poop could be reducing our fear of failure, study finds

Toxoplasma, found in cat feces, makes mice unafraid of cats, and it could give people the courage to start their own businesses. | Continue reading


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The New York Daily News announced on Monday plans to eliminate half of its newsroom as part of a broader effort to refocus the newspaper. | Continue reading


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After years of 'crisis actor' smears, Sandy Hook conspiracy targets ask Facebook for 'seat at the table'

“It feels like Facebook is waiting for someone to die before something gets done,” said Nelba Márquez-Greene, mother of a child killed in Sandy Hook. | Continue reading


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Inside Europe's people-smuggling networks: A journey from Afghanistan to Germany

NBC News met Zubair Nazeri in Serbia and tracked him for a year as he repeatedly tried to reach the West. | Continue reading


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Mandalay Bay owner files complaint against victims of Las Vegas shooting

The complaint doesn't seek money from them, but instead seeks to have their cases moved to federal court — where a 2002 federal act may provide more protection for MGM. | Continue reading


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NBC News: ‘Apple, Google Cashed in on Pizzagate-Offshoot Conspiracy App’

One of the App Store’s top entertainment apps pushed a conspiracy theory about a child sex ring and a Trump secret police force. | Continue reading


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Apple, Google cashed in on Pizzagate-offshoot conspiracy app

One of the App Store’s top entertainment apps pushed a conspiracy theory about a child sex ring and a Trump secret police force. | Continue reading


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Smart technology sees through walls to track and identify people

"RF-Pose" isn't X-ray vision, but it's getting there. | Continue reading


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What future Mars and lunar space colonies could look like

The habitats feature inflatable pods and modules covered in Martian or lunar "cement" to protect them from radiation and asteroid strikes. | Continue reading


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Rising rents mean 15 roommates isn't that weird anymore

Thirty-somethings in big cities like San Francisco are turning to communal living, or co-living, to afford rents. Start-up founder Brent Schulkin finds his community with 15 roommates. | Continue reading


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Coffee is good for you, more science shows

People who drank coffee, no matter how much or what kind they drank, were less likely to die over a 10-year period than non-coffee drinkers, according to a new report. | Continue reading


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Daily Mail, NBC, Yahoo, others indirectly paid Melania Trump thousands

The first lady earned six figures from an agreement with Getty Images that paid royalties to the Trumps and mandated photos be used in positive coverage. | Continue reading


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Citizenship application backlog 'skyrocketed' under Trump, report finds

The report found there were nearly 730,000 pending naturalization applications at the end of 2017, a more than 87 percent increase since 2015 under Obama. | Continue reading


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News Media Paid Melania Trump Thousands for Use of Photos in ‘Positive Stories Only’

The first lady earned six figures from an agreement with Getty Images that paid royalties to the Trumps and mandated photos be used in positive coverage. | Continue reading


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Best advice to U.S. dairy farmers? 'Sell out as fast as you can'

Small-dairy farmers are getting squeezed out by corporate agriculture. “That is not what America is about," a struggling farmer said. | Continue reading


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North Korea has increased nuclear production at secret sites

"Work is ongoing to deceive us on the number of facilities, the number of weapons, the number of missiles," said one U.S. official. | Continue reading


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How humans might outlive Earth, the sunand even the universe (2017)

It all starts with a little planet-hopping! | Continue reading


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"Work is ongoing to deceive us on the number of facilities, the number of weapons, the number of missiles," said one U.S. official. | Continue reading


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Boeing's planned hypersonic airliner could fly from NYC to London in two hours

The ultra-fast plane would be capable of flying five times the speed of sound. | Continue reading


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Any marijuana harvested this year or for sale July 1 must meet quality and safety standards or be destroyed. | Continue reading


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The end of memes? Campaigners dismayed at European internet ruling

Article 13 of a new E.U. law would place responsibility for enforcing copyright onto platforms rather than individuals, with potentially big implications for internet culture. | Continue reading


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NASA reveals new plan to stop asteroids before they hit Earth

Despite what the movies show, deflecting space rocks isn't something astronauts will do. | Continue reading


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Lawsuit alleges U.S. forcibly gave migrant children psychiatric drugs

The suit alleges the drugs are a preemptive way to manage trauma, known as a 'chemical straight jacket.' | Continue reading


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IBM robot debates with human

Project Debater gets its knowledge from hundreds of millions of journal articles, but humans still have one key advantage. | Continue reading


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Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, indicted on wire fraud charges, to step down

Holmes, founder of the blood-testing company, and Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, its former president, are accused of defrauding investors, doctors and patients. | Continue reading


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Behind the misleading claims fueling America's bourbon boom

Drawn to the "small batch" or "hand-crafted" bourbon at your liquor store? Turns out, those phrases might not mean much. | Continue reading


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In the shadow of Uber's rise, taxi driver suicides leave cabbies shaken

"What Uber and Lyft have done is come into the industry and wreck it," a Chicago taxi driver said. | Continue reading


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U.S. officials prepare to thwart Chinese spying at Singapore summit

The Chinese have used everything from bugged hotel keys to “friendship” pins to spy on Americans — and they’re getting better at it all the time. | Continue reading


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A major physics experiment just detected a particle that shouldn't exist

There's something strange happening in the universe that is making humanity's most cutting-edge physics experiments contradict one another. | Continue reading


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Why some scientists say physics has gone off the rails

Has the love of "elegant" equations overtaken the desire to describe the real world? | Continue reading


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New theory suggests Pluto may be a giant comet

New theory says all those 'dirty snowballs' came together to form the dwarf planet. | Continue reading


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Tim Wu: How Silicon Valley Lost Its Soul

The tech world needs to take a hard look at what it has become, and in particular what its business models have come to demand of it. | Continue reading


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Changed by #MeToo

NBC News’ THINK asked people in different professions across the U.S. how the #MeToo movement has changed the way they interact with people at work — if at all. This is a sampling of those responses. | Continue reading


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U.S. Fertility Rates Hit 30-year Low

Fertility rates hit 30-year low | Continue reading


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What is Nipah virus?

“It’s the worst disease no one has ever heard of.” | Continue reading


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Trump can't block users from his Twitter feed, federal judge rules

Blocking users from viewing his Twitter account is unconstitutional and a violation of the First Amendment, according to the judge. | Continue reading


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End at Cambridge Analytica: failed rebrands, fleeing clients and nerf basketball

Cambridge Analytica declared bankruptcy on Thursday, but its downfall started months ago with fleeing clients and failed rebrands. | Continue reading


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Amazon has finished visiting the top 20 contenders for its new HQ

Some cities are already seeing a 'halo effect' from making it onto Amazon's hot list. | Continue reading


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Supreme Court Allows Sports Betting Across the Country

The court struck down a federal law that required states to ban gambling on the outcome of sporting events. | Continue reading


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Major depression on the rise among everyone, new data shows

Biggest increase in diagnoses seen in teens | Continue reading


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Major depression on the rise among everyone, new data shows

Biggest increase in diagnoses seen in teens | Continue reading


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Senators force vote in last-ditch attempt to save net neutrality

The House of Representatives and Donald Trump would still need to support undoing the FCC's vote to take a 'light-touch' to regulating the internet. | Continue reading


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In wildfire-prone states, the wealthy pay to have private firefighters

"I could care less who owns the house, I just want to save as many people as possible," said one local firefighter. | Continue reading


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Feds tapped Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's phones

At least one phone call between a phone line associated with Cohen and the White House was intercepted, a source said. | Continue reading


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Black men arrested at Starbucks settlement results in fund to help entrepreneurs

The arrests of Rashon Nelson and Donte Robinson led the coffee chain to announce it will close 8,000 stores for an afternoon of "racial-bias education." | Continue reading


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Facebook fires engineer who allegedly used access to stalk women

The employee allegedly boasted that he was a 'professional stalker.' | Continue reading


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Trump's doctor says Trump bodyguard 'raided' his office, took files

Dr. Harold Bornstein said he felt "raped" after White House aide Keith Schiller and lawyer Alan Garten showed up unannounced and took Trump's files. | Continue reading


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Kelly says Trump is an idiot, mocks his policy ignorance, say officials

Some current and former officials said they expect Kelly to leave by July, and that Trump and Kelly seem to have tired of each other. | Continue reading


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