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Thursday, 07 November 2019

Americans have long been drawn to big, open spaces, so perhaps it’s no surprise that houses built in the United States are among the most expansive on the planet. And they keep getting bigger. 

On This Day in American History
On November 7, 1980, actor Steve McQueen dies of cancer at the age of 50. The legendary leading man starred in movies such as Bullitt, The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven, Papillon, The Sand Pebbles and The Towering Inferno. McQueen, whose nickname was “the King of Cool,” died in Mexico where he was undergoing an experimental treatment for mesothelioma, a type of cancer.

When you see billboards in Chinese, Korean and Japanese grocery stores and restaurants for nearly any Asian cuisine, you know you’ve entered California’s San Gabriel Valley.

VIDEO: It’s been 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. That event marked the beginning of the end to the Cold War and the Soviet Union. Plugged In with Greta Van Susteren examines the lessons learned and the invisible divisions left by the Wall on Germany and the rest of Europe.

VIDEO: A study in the journal Nature tracing the origins of modern humans to Botswana has drawn mixed reviews from experts in the Southern African nation. The study, based on genetics, points to humans emerging around an ancient, massive lake in northern Botswana. But some archaeologists question the study’s findings.

The foreign ministers of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan met Wednesday in Washington with President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to discuss the Grand Ethiopia Renaissance Dam. The massive hydropower project has been the focus of an escalating feud between Addis Ababa and Cairo over water resources.

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