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What caused the collapse of a Florida condo building?
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    Miami condo collapse: death toll rises to four and more than 150 unaccounted for.
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    Early on Friday, officials announced that the death toll had reached four and warned it was likely to climb far higher. Relatives of those missing waited desperately at a community center in the tiny town of Surfside, on Florida’s Atlantic coast, where the 12-story condo building came crashing down in the early hours of Thursday.
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    An assistant Miami-Dade fire chief said that while listening devices placed on and in the wreckage had picked up no voices, they had detected possible banging, giving rescuers hope some remained alive beneath the rubble. Rescuers were tunneling into the wreckage from below, going through the building’s underground parking garage.
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    The Biden administration announced that six scientists and engineers were being sent from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency set up after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center towers in New York to look into structural failures, building codes and emergency responses to such disasters.
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    "Tragic day": Florida Gov. DeSantis on Surfside building collapse, rescue efforts.
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    Before condo collapse, rising seas have long pressured Miami coastal properties.
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Why did Derek Chauvin receive a longer sentence than guidelines recommended?


    "What the sentence is not based on is emotion, and sympathy," Hennepin County District Judge Peter Cahill cautioned before reading the sentence, noting that his decision is bas...

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Why were select Covid-19 sequences deleted from an online database?


    Online sleuthing has unearthed 13 genetic sequences of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, that were detected in the very early days of the outbreak in Wuhan...

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How does a decline in U.S. life expectancy compare to that of peer nations?


    In 2018, average life expectancy in the U.S. was about 79 years (78.7). It declined to about 77 years (76.9) by the end of 2020, according to a new study published in the British Medical Jour...

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