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Heat waves currently happening in North America, Europe ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change: Report

Heat waves currently happening in North America, Europe ‘virtually impossible’ without climate change: Report

Tim Grist Photography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The dangerous heat waves currently plaguing North America and Europe would be “virtually impossible” without anthropogenic, or human-caused, climate change, according to a new report. Intense weeks-long heat waves have been continuously breaking heat records on both continents, with no relief in sight. […]

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Human remains found in three separate suitcases in Florida, police say

Human remains found in three separate suitcases in Florida, police say

Sheila Paras/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Human remains were found inside three separate suitcases on Friday in Florida, according to law enforcement officials seeking information related to the gruesome discovery. The Delray Beach Police Department responded to a 911 call from a person who said they saw something strange in […]

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Seaside North Carolina town overrun with hundreds of non-native ducks

Seaside North Carolina town overrun with hundreds of non-native ducks

Chef Cue / 500px/Getty Images (SWANSBORO, N.C.) — Make way for the ducks of Swansboro, North Carolina. The town’s population of Muscovy ducks has “exponentially multiplied” since last year, and hundreds have taken up residence in the town’s downtown area, according to Swansboro Mayor John Davis. The insurgency of ducks […]

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Scoreboard roundup — 7/24/23

Scoreboard roundup — 7/24/23

iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL INTERLEAGUE Toronto 6, LA Dodgers 3 (11) Detroit 5, San Francisco 1 Baltimore 3, Philadelphia 2 AMERICAN LEAGUE Kansas City 5, Cleveland 3 Minnesota 4, Seattle 3 Houston 10, Texas 9 NATIONAL LEAGUE Colorado 10, […]

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Former Columbia University OB-GYN to be sentenced for sexual abuse conviction

Former Columbia University OB-GYN to be sentenced for sexual abuse conviction

Jason Marz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Robert Hadden, the former Columbia University gynecologist who prosecutors said “abused his position of power to assault patient after patient, year after year,” is slated to be sentenced to 20 years in prison, but a federal court judge is mulling a request from his […]

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NASA’s mission to collide with asteroid sent ‘swarm of boulders’ into space

NASA’s mission to collide with asteroid sent ‘swarm of boulders’ into space

Space Telescope Science Institut/ESA/NASA (NEW YORK) — A “swarm of boulders” was sent careening into space after NASA successfully disrupted the orbit of an asteroid last year, according to the space agency. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, or DART, collided with Dimorphos, a small asteroid that is the moon […]

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K-9 officer put on leave after police dog attacks surrendering suspect

K-9 officer put on leave after police dog attacks surrendering suspect

Ohio State Highway Police (CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio) — An Ohio K-9 officer has been put on administrative leave, and his dog placed in a kennel, following an incident this month in which the animal was captured on body-camera footage attacking a truck driver as he was surrendering to state troopers with […]

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Obamas’ family chef found dead in pond on Martha’s Vineyard, police say

Obamas’ family chef found dead in pond on Martha’s Vineyard, police say

Google Maps (MARTHA’S VINEYARD, Mass.) — The body of a missing paddleboarder recovered from a pond in Martha’s Vineyard on Monday morning was an employee of former President Barack Obama, the Massachusetts State Police (MSP) said. Divers for the MSP Underwater Recovery Unit retrieved the body of 45-year-old Tafari Campbell […]

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Carlee Russell’s disappearance was ‘hoax’; charges possible, police say

Carlee Russell’s disappearance was ‘hoax’; charges possible, police say

Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (HOOVER, Ala.) — Carlee Russell, the Alabama woman who returned home on July 15 after she was reportedly missing for two days, was never missing, Hoover Police Department Chief Nicholas Derzis told reporters at a news conference Monday. Derzis read a statement he said was provided to […]

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Missing paddleboarder found dead in pond on Martha’s Vineyard, police say

Missing paddleboarder found dead in pond on Martha’s Vineyard, police say

Google Maps (MARTHA’S VINEYARD, Mass.) — The body of a missing paddleboarder was recovered from a pond in Martha’s Vineyard on Monday morning, the Massachusetts State Police (MSP) said. Divers for the MSP Underwater Recovery Unit retrieved the body of a 43-year-old man at Edgartown Great Pond. The victim’s body […]

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