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The steps to gaining asylum, it's shark season, California's first interplanetary space mission
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Apr 30, 2018
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The steps to gaining asylum, it's shark season, California's first interplanetary space mission

The many steps to achieving asylum status, Southern California's waters fill with baby sharks, inside JPL's latest project heading to Mars.

Central American migrants traveling in the "Migrant Via Crucis" caravan demonstrate at the US/Mexico Border at Tijuana's beaches in Mexico, on April 29, 2018
Central American migrants traveling in the "Migrant Via Crucis" caravan demonstrate at the US/Mexico Border at Tijuana's beaches in Mexico, on April 29, 2018
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The many steps to achieving asylum status, Southern California's waters fill with baby sharks, inside JPL's latest project heading to Mars.

At many group homes, there’s no sober in sober-living. They’re more like party houses, rife with the drug and alcohol use they’re supposed to prevent.
Many will enter; few get in. The asylum-seeking process can take months, and often ends in disappointment. Here's why.
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Creating safe paths along all ten lanes of Interstate 15 for wildlife won't be easy. But conservationists are starting now, before local mountain lion populations disappear.
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Shark researchers say funding will help purchase gadgets to learn more about Great Whites, like trackers, drones, and underwater selfie stations.
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"Avengers: Infinity War" broke all kinds of box office records on opening weekend...what else is new? Add it to the list of movies constantly "breaking records."
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The InSight lander may be studying Mars but scientists hope it will help them learn more about the story of our own planet, Earth.