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Astronomers discovered a system of seven Earth-size planets orbiting a nearby star.
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The Trump administration Obama-era guidance that required public schools to allow transgender students to use the bathroom of their choice. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and other officials in Mexico later today. Astronomers a system of seven Earth-size planets orbiting a magazine. The U.S. Supreme Court gave Duane Buck, a Texas death-row inmate, a second chance to avoid the death penalty, that his lawyers had unconstitutionally introduced evidence that suggested he was more likely to commit future crimes because he is black. The 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C.

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