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Is your child hooked on digital devices? These researchers hope to help.

The work could create a standard set of questions that pediatricians across the country can ask parents to gauge whether children are showing signs of compulsive screen use.

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Space-time is swirling around a dead star, proving Einstein right again

The theory of general relativity predicted a phenomenon known as frame dragging, which states that space-time will churn around a massive, rotating body.

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Hillary Clinton isn't running, but she hasn't gone away (even if some might like her to)

"Wouldn't we like to run against her?" Trump asked at a campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa.

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Euroviews. Trump is a threat to peace. It is time for the UN to act on uniting Korea instead ǀ View

It’s an historic mistake - potentially catastrophic - to leave the fate of the Koreas, as well as of Iran and the Middle East - indeed international peace itself - in the hands of an individual who has demonstrated seriously erratic political and psychological behaviour.

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Trump impeachment trial: Senate votes loom on witnesses, Trump's fate

The Senate vote on witnesses Friday could end in a tie, but it's considered unlikely the chief justice would decide the question.

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Children held hostage after party invite, captor killed by Indian police

The hostage-taker kept the children in the basement and was drunk when he was shot by police.

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Iowa could be Biden's last best chance to halt Sanders' rise

First Read is your briefing from "Meet the Press" and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.

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John Delaney ends presidential campaign

In a statement, the moderate former congressman warned about nominating progressives like Warren or Sanders.

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Sanders, Biden are neck-and-neck in new NBC/WSJ national poll

The two Democratic presidential contenders are statistically tied but Sanders has an edge in loyalty of his supporters.

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Coronavirus updates: The latest news on the outbreak and the global response

Countries around the world evacuate citizens from the center of the outbreak in China, as the virus continues to spread.

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Trump impeachment: Democrats dealt major blow in witness battle

Democrats needed four Republican senators to side with them in a vote to call more witnesses in the impeachment trial against President Donald Trump.

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GOP Sen. Lamar Alexander, key impeachment vote, to reveal decision on witnesses tonight

Alexander is one of a handful of Republican senators who may vote to hear from witnesses during the Senate impeachment trial.

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New video appears to show Trump and Lev Parnas at Florida club

The recording further calls into question Trump's assertion that he doesn't know Parnas and his associate Igor Fruman.

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Schiff slams GOP senators on whistleblower questions: 'Disgraceful'

"Members of this body used to care about the protection of whistleblower identities," Schiff told the senators.

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Memo shows CBP ordered agents to question Iranian-Americans at the border

Despite agency denials, a memo shows a Customs and Border Protection office ordered agents to question Iranian-Americans after Gen. Soleimani's death.

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Outside groups unite to back Bernie Sanders as Democratic attacks on him mount

The independent expenditure effort is dubbed "People Power for Bernie."

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Iowa anxiety: Caucus-goers say the pressure to get it 'right' has never been higher

Many voters in this first-in-the-nation contest say they feel special pressure to pick a winner this year, leaving them more conflicted and confused than ever before.

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3 states ask judge to declare Equal Rights Amendment part of the Constitution

The most recent states to ratify the ERA — Virginia, Illinois, and Nevada — filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Washington, D.C.

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'It's clearly working': Coronavirus misinformation surges, fueled by clout chasers

Misleading, unverified and clearly false information about the coronavirus has spread across social media platforms with a mix of fearmongering and racial stereotyping.

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700,000 Syrians flee intensifying bombing, U.S. envoy warns

U.S. special envoy for Syria James Jeffrey says the Syrian government and Russian warplanes had hit Idlib with 200 airstrikes "mainly against civilians."

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Possible coronavirus case on cruise ship with 6,000 passengers docked in Italy

A female passenger, 54, fell ill with symptoms of coronavirus on a ship that remains docked north of Rome.

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Thieves steal Dali works in Stockholm smash and grab raid

A gallery in Stockholm's upmarket Ostermalm district was holding an exhibition of work by the surrealist master, according to a local report.

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Cliffhanger: What you need to know about witnesses and Trump's trial

The vote on additional testimony — expected on Friday — looks like it could be exceptionally tight.

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Hot shot: Solar telescope captures the Sun in unprecedented detail

These pictures show the surface of the Sun in remarkable detail.

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Senate Republicans appear ready to fall in line on impeachment vote despite earlier concerns

First Read is your briefing from "Meet the Press" and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.

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Trump impeachment trial live coverage: Senators ask questions as witness battle looms

Senators asked more than 90 questions Wednesday on everything from executive power to the ability to call witnesses.

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