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Jerry Garcia’s guitar fetches $1.9M at New York auction

NA guitar that Jerry Garcia played everywhere from San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom to Egypt’s Great Pyramids fetched over $1.9 million at an auction Wednesday night.

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Man arrested at Trump Hotel in DC had 2 guns, ammo in car

A Pennsylvania physician who was behaving suspiciously and had made threatening remarks was arrested Wednesday at the Trump International Hotel in Washington after police found an assault-style rifle and handgun in his car, authorities said.

Trump poised to pull US out of Paris climate accord

President Donald Trump has decided to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, Axios news outlet reported on Wednesday, citing two unidentified sources with direct knowledge of the decision.

Death toll rising as massive blast rocks secured area of Kabul

A suicide attack in a highly secured diplomatic area of Kabul on Wednesday morning, killed more than 80 and wounded as many as 320, sending a huge plume of smoke over the Afghan capital.

Scott Pelley out as anchor of ‘CBS Evening News’

Scott Pelley is out as “CBS Evening News” anchor, and he’ll be returning to full-time work at the network’s flagship newsmagazine “60 Minutes.”

UNLV researchers find evidence of global thaw in Russian cave

A thaw is underway in Russia, and it has nothing to do with presidential politics. Inside a cave in Russia’s Ural Mountains, where Europe and Asia meet, a team of UNLV researchers has found evidence of steady warming since the end of the last ice age.

Pentagon calls missile defense test a success

The Pentagon scored an important success Tuesday in a test of its oft-criticized missile defense program, destroying a mock warhead over the Pacific Ocean with an interceptor that is key to protecting U.S. territory from a North Korean attack.