Steve Russell / Toronto Star / GettyA swimmer checks out the smoke from Northern Ontario forest fires that has the...

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Well, thank you very much, J. D. Vance. Because of the vice president’s appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast this week,...

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is now the third-largest Ebola outbreak ever recorded. It will...