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A groundbreaking discovery in Bulgaria reveals a 5,000-year-old celestial map.

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A jury will decide whether Tesla is partly to blame for the death of a university student, after a runaway car sent her ...

A rare trial against Elon Musk's car company began Monday in Miami where a jury will decide if it is partly to blame for the ...

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