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400-Year-Old Bonsai Stolen. Owner Posts Care Instructions On Facebook
Fuyumi Iimura has a message for whoever broke into her family's expansive garden outside Tokyo and made off with a small fortune's worth of some of the planet's most beautiful bonsai trees: Please water them.
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Hyundai's Super Bowl Advertisement Leaves Vegans Furious
The metaphor at the center of Hyundai's Super Bowl commercial was simple: An oversize elevator operated by a wisecracking Jason Bateman took passengers up to pleasurable experiences and down to life events everyone wants to avoid.
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Elephant Seals Took Over A California Beach During The Shutdown
It's unclear whether the initial incursion happened stealthily at night or brazenly during the day - though authorities are almost certain the invasion occurred by sea.
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Shattering Arctic Blast Keeps The US Midwest In A Deep Freeze
Millions of people across the Midwest are enduring a freeze normally reserved for the Arctic Circle as temperatures in some areas dropped below minus-50 degrees Thursday. The second day of frightful cold, bottoming out to record lows, was blamed for several deaths across the region, and fears grew for the most vulnerable populations.
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Stripper-Turned-Pharma Executive Gave Doctor A Lap Dance For Prescription
Physician Paul Madison is suspected of taking more than $70,000 in bribes from a drug company to churn out prescriptions for its highly addictive fentanyl spray. But on Tuesday, prosecutors wanted jurors to focus more on what, exactly, the pain management specialist was doing at "Chicago's sexiest nightclub" with an exotic dancer-turned-pharmaceuti...
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Nurse Who Rapped At Church Raped Incapacitated Patient, Got Her Pregnant
In interviews and government documents, Nathan Sutherland painted an inspirational image of himself: an abandoned child who grew up with an empty belly in a Haitian orphanage; a doting dad who wanted to help those who had also been dealt a difficult hand.
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In Tense Scene, Boys In "Make America Great" Hats Boo At Native American
The images in a series of videos that went viral on social media Saturday showed a tense scene near the Lincoln Memorial.
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Black Woman Sang For Trump To Build "A Bridge". It Derailed Her Career
Chrisette Michele held hands with her band members during a final prayer, posed for a pre-show Instagram photo and stepped out into what remains of a career battered by a five-minute-18-second association with Donald Trump.
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2-Year-Old Fell Into Spain Well, Rescuers Find It Difficult To Reach Him
Out for an afternoon in the Spanish countryside, Julen's parents were preparing lunch when their 2-year-old slipped into a hole. They heard the toddler's echoing cries as he plummeted into darkness - more than 30 stories deep - then silence
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McDonald's Staff Caught On Video In Racial Slur Incident Fired
Historians looking for an enduring symbol of American acrimony in the year 2019 might be tempted to focus on the latest government shutdown, an ongoing battle between President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats over a border wall
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"No Idea She Was Pregnant": 911 Call Details Vegetative Woman's Delivery
The unnamed nurse screamed into the phone at the 911 dispatcher: "The baby's turning blue! Baby's turning blue!" She urged the paramedics to come faster. "We're not prepared for this."
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A Woman In Coma Gave Birth. Now Police Are Investigating Sexual Assault
A near-drowning had left the woman in a persistent vegetative state for nearly a decade. Awake but immobile, and apparently unaware, her universe consisted mostly of a room at a Phoenix Hacienda HealthCare facility where she received round-the-clock care.
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"Underwater, I Could Only Pray": Tsunami Washes Away Band As It Played
The band was revving up the crowd at the private, beachside concert, the lead singer punctuating musical notes with pumping fists - "We. Are. Seventeen!" - unaware of the approaching danger.
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Taunted Over College Rejections, US Shooting Survivor Gets Into Harvard
In mid-December, Harvard's early-entry candidates began logging onto the application status portal to learn whether they'd been accepted to one of the world's most prestigious universities. But for one particularly famous member of the class of 2023, entry into Harvard brought a bit more than congratulations.
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In Christmas Killjoy Reveal, NASA Engineer Partly Staged Popular Prank
In a Christmas-joy-killing admission, the NASA engineer who constructed a glitter shooting, fart-smell-spraying device to get back at porch pirates told the world his video of package thieves getting their smelly, sparkly just deserts was at least partially staged
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400-Year-Old Bonsai Stolen. Owner Posts Care Instructions On Facebook
Fuyumi Iimura has a message for whoever broke into her family's expansive garden outside Tokyo and made off with a small fortune's worth of some of the planet's most beautiful bonsai trees: Please water them.
-
Hyundai's Super Bowl Advertisement Leaves Vegans Furious
The metaphor at the center of Hyundai's Super Bowl commercial was simple: An oversize elevator operated by a wisecracking Jason Bateman took passengers up to pleasurable experiences and down to life events everyone wants to avoid.
-
Elephant Seals Took Over A California Beach During The Shutdown
It's unclear whether the initial incursion happened stealthily at night or brazenly during the day - though authorities are almost certain the invasion occurred by sea.
-
Shattering Arctic Blast Keeps The US Midwest In A Deep Freeze
Millions of people across the Midwest are enduring a freeze normally reserved for the Arctic Circle as temperatures in some areas dropped below minus-50 degrees Thursday. The second day of frightful cold, bottoming out to record lows, was blamed for several deaths across the region, and fears grew for the most vulnerable populations.
-
Stripper-Turned-Pharma Executive Gave Doctor A Lap Dance For Prescription
Physician Paul Madison is suspected of taking more than $70,000 in bribes from a drug company to churn out prescriptions for its highly addictive fentanyl spray. But on Tuesday, prosecutors wanted jurors to focus more on what, exactly, the pain management specialist was doing at "Chicago's sexiest nightclub" with an exotic dancer-turned-pharmaceuti...
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Nurse Who Rapped At Church Raped Incapacitated Patient, Got Her Pregnant
In interviews and government documents, Nathan Sutherland painted an inspirational image of himself: an abandoned child who grew up with an empty belly in a Haitian orphanage; a doting dad who wanted to help those who had also been dealt a difficult hand.
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In Tense Scene, Boys In "Make America Great" Hats Boo At Native American
The images in a series of videos that went viral on social media Saturday showed a tense scene near the Lincoln Memorial.
-
Black Woman Sang For Trump To Build "A Bridge". It Derailed Her Career
Chrisette Michele held hands with her band members during a final prayer, posed for a pre-show Instagram photo and stepped out into what remains of a career battered by a five-minute-18-second association with Donald Trump.
-
2-Year-Old Fell Into Spain Well, Rescuers Find It Difficult To Reach Him
Out for an afternoon in the Spanish countryside, Julen's parents were preparing lunch when their 2-year-old slipped into a hole. They heard the toddler's echoing cries as he plummeted into darkness - more than 30 stories deep - then silence
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McDonald's Staff Caught On Video In Racial Slur Incident Fired
Historians looking for an enduring symbol of American acrimony in the year 2019 might be tempted to focus on the latest government shutdown, an ongoing battle between President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats over a border wall
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"No Idea She Was Pregnant": 911 Call Details Vegetative Woman's Delivery
The unnamed nurse screamed into the phone at the 911 dispatcher: "The baby's turning blue! Baby's turning blue!" She urged the paramedics to come faster. "We're not prepared for this."
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A Woman In Coma Gave Birth. Now Police Are Investigating Sexual Assault
A near-drowning had left the woman in a persistent vegetative state for nearly a decade. Awake but immobile, and apparently unaware, her universe consisted mostly of a room at a Phoenix Hacienda HealthCare facility where she received round-the-clock care.
-
"Underwater, I Could Only Pray": Tsunami Washes Away Band As It Played
The band was revving up the crowd at the private, beachside concert, the lead singer punctuating musical notes with pumping fists - "We. Are. Seventeen!" - unaware of the approaching danger.
-
Taunted Over College Rejections, US Shooting Survivor Gets Into Harvard
In mid-December, Harvard's early-entry candidates began logging onto the application status portal to learn whether they'd been accepted to one of the world's most prestigious universities. But for one particularly famous member of the class of 2023, entry into Harvard brought a bit more than congratulations.
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In Christmas Killjoy Reveal, NASA Engineer Partly Staged Popular Prank
In a Christmas-joy-killing admission, the NASA engineer who constructed a glitter shooting, fart-smell-spraying device to get back at porch pirates told the world his video of package thieves getting their smelly, sparkly just deserts was at least partially staged
