Author: Amy B Wang
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A girl in Mexico attached her Christmas list to a balloon. A man across the border found it.
The spot of red was what first caught Randy Heiss’s attention last Sunday as he hiked the remote expanse of land behind his ranch in Patagonia, Ariz., a town near the U.S.-Mexico border. Draped against the sacaton grass was a balloon — or at least the tattered remnants of one. Heiss walked toward it with…
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‘I’m in your baby’s room’: A hacker took over a baby monitor and broadcast threats, parents say
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At first, it was a beeping that woke Ellen and Nathan Rigney in the middle of the night. Then it became something more sinister. A stranger’s voice, spouting “sexual expletives,” wafted through a baby monitor in the Rigneys’ room — one that was linked to a Nest camera in their infant’s room upstairs, according to…
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PETA wants to change ‘anti-animal’ sayings, but the Internet thinks they’re feeding a fed horse
Have you ever tried to feed a fed horse? Come home with a big paycheck and thought, “Man, I really brought home the bagels today!”? Or just . . . taken the flower by the thorns? Those, according to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, are the types of idioms humans should be using instead of “anti-animal language”…
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People are destroying their Nike gear to protest Colin Kaepernick’s ‘Just Do It’ campaign
Some sliced the swooshes right out of their socks. Others lit their shoes aflame, and filmed while they burned in their yards. All had strong feelings about Nike’s new “Just Do It” campaign and one of its newest faces: Colin Kaepernick. Nike revealed on Monday that Colin Kaepernick – the out-of-work NFL quarterback who generated…
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Champion crowned at National Spelling Bee from record-breaking field
Karthik Nemmani of McKinney, Tex., was declared champion of the 2018 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night, winning on the word “koinonia” and surviving what was arguably the most intense competition in the bee’s 93-year history. In doing so, the 14-year-old emerged the top speller from a record-shattering 515 contestants at the national bee, compared with…
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He was cleared of a rape charge. He had to show the jury his penis first.
A Connecticut man accused of rape was acquitted this week after employing an unusual defense tactic: dropping his pants in court and showing his penis to the jury. Defense attorney Todd Bussert said it was “the only real, viable option” in a case where a woman claimed she was raped in 2012 by a person…
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Lava spatter hits Hawaii man and shatters his leg in first known injury from Kilauea volcano
Hawaii officials on Saturday reported the first known injury related to heightened volcanic activity from Kilauea after a Big Island resident was hit by lava spatter while standing on a third-floor balcony. That person, identified only as a homeowner on Noni Farms Road, shattered his leg from his shin to his foot when lava spatter struck…
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For six decades, ‘the man with the golden arm’ donated blood — and saved 2.4 million babies
In 1951, a 14-year-old Australian boy named James Harrison awoke from a major chest operation. Doctors had removed one of his lungs in a procedure that had taken several hours — and would keep him hospitalized for three months. But Harrison was alive, thanks in large part to a vast quantity of transfused blood he…
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VIDEO: Two pelicans crashed Pepperdine University’s graduation. Hilarity ensued.
Pepperdine University’s graduation ceremony was just rounding into its scripted second half on Saturday when a pair of unexpected guests cut into the pomp and circumstance. Who knows why the pelicans chose to crash the festivities that day? Maybe it was the cloudless, sunny sky – or the visual sea created by hundreds of Pepperdine-blue…
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VIDEO: Two pelicans crashed Pepperdine University’s graduation. Hilarity ensued.
Pepperdine University’s graduation ceremony was just rounding into its scripted second half on Saturday when a pair of unexpected guests cut into the pomp and circumstance. Who knows why the pelicans chose to crash the festivities that day? Maybe it was the cloudless, sunny sky — or the visual sea created by hundreds of Pepperdine-blue…