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Extreme temperatures — mostly heat — are projected to kill as many as 2.3 million people in Europe by the end of the century unless countries get better at reducing carbon pollution and ...

Jimmy Butler is still on the Miami Heat’s roster, but the post-Butler era has already seemingly begun for the Heat. On a day the Heat suspended Butler for the third time this month as it ...

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