More than 620,000 miles of barbed-wire fences divide the American West. They keep cattle contained. They’re expensive to ...

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A robot dog modeled after the faces of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, and ...

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks at a press conference following recent elections as the government ...

When the Berlin Wall went up overnight, National Geographic correspondents were on hand to document a city that became a ...

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One baby Jesus lays in a manger in the snow, wrapped in a silver emergency blanket with his wrists zip-tied. Mary stands nearby ...

Today in History for Dec. 10: In 1520, in Wittenberg, northeast of Leipzig in present-day eastern Germany, religious reformer Martin Luther publicly burned the papal edict demanding that he recant or ...