For the past 6,000 years, humans have cultivated poppy flowers, including Papaver somniferum, which is one of several species of poppies. They have been at the center of tales both good and bad and ...

There were signs that heroin from Myanmar is reaching markets in Europe previously supplied by Afghanistan, with several seizures over the past year that involved passengers travelling from Southeast ...

The FBI received a tip-off that Jeffrey Epstein had "tapes in a secret compartment" of his Bahamas home that relate to Andrew ...

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Halafian pottery shows that early agricultural societies practiced advanced mathematical thinking through plant-based art long before writing.

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The couple tied the knot in front of 350 attendees on the Sonoma property on Aug. 30 in a chic country-style ceremony ...

Bakersfield exists in that sweet spot of California living – not too fast, not too slow, and mercifully free of the traffic nightmares that plague its flashier coastal cousins. This Central Valley gem ...