Lava flows downhill, in this image from a helicopter overflight of Kilauea Volcano.

PAHOA:  Lava from the erupting Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island flowed towards a geothermal power plant on Monday as workers scrambled to shut it down to prevent the uncontrollable release of toxic gases.

It was the latest danger from

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The asteroid dubbed 2015 BZ509 - lurks in Jupiter's orbit, where it circles the Sun

For billions of years, without our knowing it, scientists say, our solar system has harbored a visitor from another star.

This interstellar immigrant - an asteroid

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Cynthia and her husband William.

When her granddaughter needed help after a severe accident, Tisdale was there. The mother of three and grandmother of 11 was at her side during physical therapy for weeks in the past year, Cynthia's son Recie wrote.

It

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Roger Self has not filed a plea. No lawyer representing him could be located

The Sunday lunch rush was underway at the Surf and Turf Lodge in Bessemer City, North Carolina, a restaurant about 30 miles west of Charlotte. Inside the eatery's rustic

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Havana, Cuba:  One of the three women who survived Cuba's worst air crash in decades has died from her injuries, the health ministry said Monday, raising the toll to 111.

The 23-year-old, Gretell Landrove, was admitted to hospital with life-threatening injuries and she did not make medical progress, the ministry said in a

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Stefan Halper taught international affairs and American studies at Cambridge from 2001 until 2015.

Stefan A. Halper, the FBI source who assisted the Russia investigation and is at the center of a standoff between congressional Republicans and the

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