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Jimmy Buffett's death was officially confirmed through a statement posted on his website and social media profiles

Tim Scott is the only Black Republican presidential candidate who's campaigning aggressively these days in early-voting Iowa

Janno Lieber, who is also the chairman of MTA, has been embroiled in a legal battle with 64-year-old Naomi Cohn since August

The trial, which concluded on Thursday, August 28, revealed horrifying details of the incident that unfolded on March 30, 2017

The tragedy in East Palestine happened when a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed, releasing a hazardous mix of toxic chemicals into environment

Dean Henderson have given an emotional farewell interview after leaving Manchester United on transfer deadline day.

Billie Eilish did not disappoint her fans in Ireland on Friday night even though she wasn't in the best of health

Hamed Haddadi, the only Iranian to play in the National Basketball Association, retired from international play at the age of 38 after his team was eliminated from...

GOP hardliners in the House are eager to play a game of chicken over the end-of-the-month deadline to fund federal agencies, seeking to force the White House and Senate to make a choice: Accept a slew of conservative priorities or risk a debilitating government shutdown.

New research has shown that our early ancestors almost went extinct some 900,000 years ago. Using a new method called FitCoal (fast infinitesimal time coalescent process), researchers analysed the likelihood of present-day genome sequences to project current human genomic variation backwards in time. They applied the technique to the genomes of 3,154 people from 10 African and 40 non-African populations, and found a massive crash in genetic diversity during the transition between the early and middle Pleistocene. “Results showed that human ancestors went through a severe population bottleneck with about 1,280 breeding individuals between around 930,000 and 813,000 years ago,” the study authors wrote in the journal Science. “The bottleneck lasted for about 117,000 years and brought human ancestors close to extinction,” they say. Wiping out roughly 98.7 percent of the ancestral human population, “the bottleneck could also have increased the inbreeding level of our ancestors, thus contributing to the 65.85 percent loss in present-day human genetic diversity,” explained the researchers. This probably happened because of changes in the global climate as short-term glaciations became longer-lasting, triggering a drop in ocean temperatures, prolonged drought, and the loss of large numbers of species that humans might have relied on for food. Then, around 813,000 years ago, populations finally recovered, with a 20-fold increase in numbers because of fire combined with the return of warmer temperatures, researchers reckon. What a near miss, eh? Sign up to our free Indy100 weekly newsletter Have your say in our news democracy. Click the upvote icon at the top of the page to help raise this article through the indy100 rankings.

By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM Israel's central bank is expected to leave short-term interest rates unchanged this week, as

Dozens of firefighters are working to put out a blaze that is burning at an oil depot in St. Petersburg, Russian authorities said.