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Pretty soon it will be beach season again at the Jersey Shore. If last year was any indication, it’ll be time to pack the voodoo dolls, whoopie cushions, zip ties and denture powder ..read more
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A dog missing in California since last summer turned up more than 2,000 miles away in Michigan. Police in a Detroit suburb responded to a call about a stray dog last week, picked up the terrier mix and contacted an animal welfare group ..read more
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A passenger has been fined for urinating in a cup during a delay in deplaning after landing at Sydney Airport ..read more
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The world’s oldest man says the secret to his long life is luck, moderation — and fish and chips every Friday ..read more
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Feral cats have long wandered the gardens and elegant halls of Mexicos’ presidential palace. But this week the 19 palace felines made history when the government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador declared them to be “living fixed assets ..read more
First an earthquake, now an eclipse. Yankees play ball on the same day as another natural phenomenon
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A 4.8 magnitude earthquake shook New York City on Friday as the Yankees went through batting practice before their home opener ..read more
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2w ago
A shortage of eggs in shops during Holy Week has led Norwegians to flock to supermarkets across the border in Sweden and hoard the traditional Easter food ..read more
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Police in Albuquerque, New Mexico, clearly had all the horsepower in a chase captured on bodycam video ..read more
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It has been raining marshmallows in suburban Detroit. A helicopter dropped thousands of the gooey sweet treats onto a park in Southfield Friday in the annual Great Marshmallow Drop ..read more
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2w ago
Trillions of evolution’s bizarro wonders, red-eyed periodical cicadas, are about to emerge in numbers not seen in decades and possibly centuries ..read more