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Officials said on Saturday afternoon that they have found the remains and identified all nine missing workers after the deadly Longview chemical spill, bringing the death toll to 11. Later, on ...

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Roughly 50,000 people were allowed to return home after fire officials said a damaged tank had stabilized. By Soumya Karlamangla and Pooja Salhotra A sweeping evacuation order in Southern California ...

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Can you legally name your baby anything you want in America? Not quite. But you can name your baby almost anything you want. Having the right to select a name of your choosing for your baby is as ...

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I have a number of hang-ups — to paraphrase Avenged Sevenfold guitarist Synyster Gates, all of us are a little (screwed) up — but one I didn’t realize I had until recently is alexinomia: the fear of ...