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9M ago
In New Jersey, a collaborative effort to rescue a bald eagle who had gotten it’s wing caught in a comms tower resulted in the successful freeing and rehabbing of the innocent bird, but not before having to climb hundreds of feet in the air to get to it. Yair Ben-Dor has more ..read more
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9M ago
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has escalated measures to keep migrants from entering the U.S. The Republican is pushing legal boundaries along the border with Mexico to install razor wire, deploy massive buoys on the Rio Grande and bulldoze border islands in the river. Abbott has used disaster decla ..read more
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9M ago
According to Neptune Beach police, the cannabis rolled in with the tide on Saturday ..read more
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9M ago
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell briefly left his own press conference on Tuesday after stopping his remarks mid-sentence and staring off into space for several seconds, appearing to be disoriented. McConnell approached the podium for his weekly press conference and began speaking abou ..read more
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9M ago
The Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate Wednesday for the 11th time in 17 months, a streak of hikes that are intended to curb inflation but that also carry the risk of going too far and triggering a recession. The move lifted the Fed’s benchmark short-term rate from roughly 5.1% to ..read more
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9M ago
A look at the entertainers, leaders, athletes and other notable people we've lost this year ..read more
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9M ago
By the time Aaliyah Ibarra started second grade, her family had moved five times in four years in search of stable housing. As she was about to start a new school, her mother, Bridget Ibarra, saw how much it was affecting her education. At 8 years old, her daughter did not know the alphabet ..read more
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10M ago
With just five words, a recent tweet from Kraft Heinz sparked a bit of a debate about how you should store your ketchup ..read more
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10M ago
A look at the entertainers, leaders, athletes and other notable people we've lost this year ..read more
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10M ago
An international office to probe Russia for the war crime of aggression opened in The Hague on Monday in what Ukraine called a "truly historic" first step towards a tribunal for Moscow's leadership. The centre will investigate and gather evidence for any future trial that could bring Kremlin ..read more