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The Alaskan malamute adopted the baby bear, who was found in a weak condition earlier this year.
Trump accepted Putin’s help in 2016, refused to tell him to stay out of the 2018 midterms, and extorted Ukraine based on Russian propaganda in 2019.
Novichok, a Soviet-era nerve agent, was used to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Britain.
Wildfires burned around the world this year from Australia to California and the Amazon. These forest blazes are part of nature but climate change is making them more frequent and more intense.
It was ruled as a penalty for manipulating laboratory data.
The events in Syria could well influence the power dynamics of the Middle East for years to come.
The U.S. agency waged a mission to extract the informant from Russia in 2017 after Trump's election, multiple media outlets reported.
Wildfires in Russia’s Siberia continue to burn as emergency services fight to keep them under control. The country’s prime minister has ordered an investigation into the cause of the fires, which are currently burning over 3.1 million hectares of largely uninhabited forest.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller delivers a surprise press conference at the Department of Justice.