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Somvati Amavasya, a significant day in Hinduism, is observed on Mondays that coincide with the new moon. In 2024, it falls on December 30. Devotees honor ancestors through fasting, worship ...

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Archaeologists have revealed a previously undocumented form of ritual sacrifice involving close relatives among the elites of an ancient culture. For a study published in the journal PNAS ...

The Minnesota Wild are set to receive a huge boost in their upcoming game against the Utah Hockey Club. Following multiple weeks of absence due to injury, the Wild announced that star forward ...

Every day, police officers respond to reports of all sorts of events and nonevents, most of which never make the news. Here is a sampling of lesser-known — but no less noteworthy — incidents ...