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OnlyFans model rescued after falling ill while trekking to top of tallest mountain in lower 48 states
Kamryn Renae attempted to summit Mount Whitney at 14,505 feet above sea level
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Report: Scott Pelley of ’60 Minutes’ accuses CBS News head Bari Weiss of ‘murdering’ the show
Reports say Scott Pelley has accused CBS head Bari Weiss of "murdering" the hugely successful “60 Minutes.”
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Washington state forced to close on-ramp after ‘dozens’ of drivers were going the wrong way
Crews spent the weekend digging a fish migration tunnel straight through southbound I-405, forcing drivers onto local detours
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Outback Steakhouse sued for $1.5M after customer slips on mashed potatoes and face-plants onto floor
Exclusive: Tracy J. Renshaw, 56, claims the wayward side dish caused ‘serious and permanent injuries,’ according to court filings
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‘Aggressive’ wild turkeys attack woman, 83, and dog in separate incidents sparking police warnings
Police are warning Alameda residents to keep a safe distance from the turkeys and not tempt them to their homes with bird seed or fallen fruit left out in their…
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Body of missing Los Alamos scientist tied to bizarre conspiracy theory found a year after she vanished
Melissa Casias went missing last June after dropping her husband at their Los Alamos laboratory and was last seen walking along a state highway.
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The photo that proves America has finally reached peak absurdity under Trump
Drone footage showing preparations for America’s — or perhaps Donald Trump’s — birthday have really thrown some issues into sharp relief, writes Holly Baxter
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Remote work blamed for rise in unemployment rate for recent college grads
These findings align with the current ‘low-hire, low-fire’ state of the job market
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Groom killed and bride injured when their helicopter leaving their wedding crashed
The groom’s father described him as a ‘gift from God’
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Outdoor balloon releases will be illegal in this state starting in August
Wildlife activists say the new law will help prevent animals from accidentally ingesting balloons after they eventually fall
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Googly-eyed robot gives dementia-stricken husband his freedom back – and his exhausted wife a much-needed break
The decades-long quest to build home robots that are both helpful and lifelike — spurred on by fictional machines like The Jetsons’ humanoid maid Rosie —- is still mostly a…
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Filipino lawyers move to raise legacy of Pablo Manlapit, forgotten leader of Hawaii labor movement
Recent allegations against César Chavez have sparked a renewed focus on Filipino contributions to the U.S. farmworker movement
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United Airlines flight to Spain diverted back Newark over Bluetooth device name
The incident reportedly stemmed from a passenger naming their Bluetooth device a ‘certain four-letter word’
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Osaka and Townsend’s dinner for Black players at French Open caused ‘bit of a stir’ on social media
Naomi Osaka and Taylor Townsend drew attention off the court for organizing a dinner for Black players before the French Open started
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Officials are warning about teen takeovers: Are they harmless fun or dangerous gatherings?
‘These teen meetups aren't going away because social media isn't going away,’ a former New York City detective says
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Sailboat becomes focus of search for woman who disappeared in the Bahamas while on vacation with her husband
The FBI is planning to search a region of the Sea of Abaco that matches GPS coordinates pulled from the couple’s boat
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Bus driver charged in Virginia crash that killed 5, including family traveling to wedding
The bus struck a Suburban, which then hit an Acura carrying the Doncev family, police said
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Worrying new bullying trend emerging in school cafeterias, mental health experts warn
Experts say the rise of smartphones has transformed a long-standing issue of cafeteria teasing into something more persistent and public
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East Coast rocked by sonic boom as meteorologist reveals cause
Some residents in Massachusetts said the boom even shook their homes
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Boys aged 11 and 12 airlifted out of state park after ‘roughhousing’ incident left one of them unconscious
An adult chaperone started CPR on the unconscious boy while emergency crews responded to the scene
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Flight diverted after man having ‘mental health crisis’ tried to breach cockpit in-flight
The flight from Chicago to Minneapolis was diverted to Madison after a 75-year-old passenger apparently tried to get into the cockpit
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Cops baffled after seven people filmed emerging from Brooklyn manhole, changing clothes and disappearing
The Gravesend incident came about an hour after a similar group was spotted entering and exiting a sewer on the other side of Brooklyn
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Crews scour site of deadly Dallas apartment explosion in search of more victims
Firefighters were rushing to investigate a reported gas leak when the building exploded
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Car crashes into Detroit airport terminal for the second time in months
It's unclear how the vehicle got around concrete barriers along the curb
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ICE officer wanted for shooting a man during the Minneapolis crackdown is arrested in Texas
A federal immigration agent wanted for shooting a Venezuelan man during the Trump administration’s Minnesota crackdown has been arrested in Texas
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The UN has to start taking more risks, secretary general candidate says
Comments from Costa Rican economist Rebeca Grynspan – who would be the first woman to take on the role of secretary general – come as the UN faces a daunting…
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Alaska Airlines bans staff from recently acquired Hawaiian company from wearing leis and aloha shirts on certain routes, report says
The restriction breaks a decades-old tradition for some Hawaiian Airlines crew members, who have worn flowers in their hair since the 1950s
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Why does it rain every darn weekend?
The Memorial Day holiday stretch was the wettest Vermont’s city of Burlington had seen in over 100 years as many other areas also experienced a near-total washout. Julia Musto asks…
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Bear attacks hiker in Montana national park in second assault in weeks: ‘We heard a scream’
A hiker said that a man from the group in front of him was screaming ‘bear attack’
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Questions dog tentative US-Iran deal as Iranian official says concessions come ‘through missiles’
Uncertainty is swirling around what the U.S. has called a tentative deal to extend the ceasefire in its war with Iran
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Five dead and 34 wounded after bus crashes into multiple vehicles on I-95 in Virginia
The bus failed to slow in a work zone and struck six vehicles
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Fire at NYC’s Penn Station sparks mass delays and cancelations as trains are halted for hours
Five people were wounded in the blaze and all rail service between New York and New Jersey was suspended
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Several people rushed to Miami hospital after falling ill on plane belonging to airline used by ICE, report says
The affected passengers were taken off the plane on stretchers
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National Spelling Bee winner’s prize and winning word revealed after dramatic victory
Parikh’s triumph comes with a substantial prize package
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Trump’s trade wars turn tomatoes into luxury items with some stores selling a box for $93
Prices for tomatoes are up 40% over the past year, the biggest increase tracked among products in the Consumer Price Index
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T. rex had massive jaws but tiny arms: Scientists now know why
A new study documents that the robustness of skulls in carnivorous dinosaurs began to evolve first, a direct response to the increasing size of the plant-eating dinosaurs they hunted, shortly…