Author: Amy B Wang
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‘He dived on top of me’: Woman injured in Yosemite rock fall says husband died shielding her
The person who was killed Wednesday after a large rock fell off Yosemite National Park’s popular El Capitan rock formation has been identified as Andrew Foster, a 32-year-old climber from Wales, according to British media. The falling rock also seriously injured Foster’s wife, 28-year-old Lucy Foster, according to the BBC, who described the pair as a…
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Model goes blind after tattooing eyeball, warns others of dangers
Purple is Catt Gallinger’s favorite color. Pictures of the Canadian model often showed her sporting purple hair or purple lipstick, or the purple tinge of her numerous tattoos peeking out from beneath a tank top. So when the already heavily inked Ottawa resident had the opportunity to “tattoo” her eyeball — a procedure called sclera…
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A father put on a clown mask to punish his 6-year-old. Now he’s charged with inducing panic.
An Ohio man who tried to discipline his 6-year-old daughter by chasing her around in a clown mask has been charged after she ran screaming to a stranger’s apartment — prompting that neighbor to fire a gunshot into the air, police say. The incident occurred just before 10 p.m. Saturday, when 25-year-old Vernon Barrett Jr. donned a clown…
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‘Alt-right,’ ‘troll’ and ‘dog whistle’ among new entries added to Merriam Webster dictionary
More than 250 new words have been added to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, from old terms now imbued with political meaning — like “dog whistle” — to newer portmanteaus like “froyo.” It’s the second batch of words to be added this year to the online dictionary, which frequently expands as the English language evolves. Unlike the 1,000…
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Trump shares GIF of himself striking Hillary Clinton in the back with a golf ball
President Trump retweeted a meme on Sunday morning that showed him hitting Hillary Clinton in the back with a golf ball. The animated GIF spliced together a clip of Trump swinging a golf club with footage of Clinton falling, apparently edited to appear as though a golf ball had struck her down. The image was…
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“Shut up, slave!”: A spilled Starbucks drink in Chicago leads to sidewalk fight, hate-crime charges
Felony hate crime charges have been filed against a man who was caught on video unleashing a racist tirade and turning violent outside a Chicago Starbucks three months ago, officials said. William Boucher, 24, was originally charged with misdemeanor battery June 6 after he “became irate” when someone spilled a drink on him inside the…
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School district apologizes after students told ‘Make America Great Again’ shirts not allowed in class
A Georgia school district has apologized after one of its teachers asked two high school students wearing “Make America Great Again” T-shirts to leave her classroom. The incident took place at River Ridge High School on Aug. 31, when a teacher “erroneously told two students their shirts with campaign slogans were not permitted in class,” Cherokee County…
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In parting letter, Obama urged Trump to guard ‘democratic institutions and traditions’
On Inauguration Day, in one of his final acts as president, Barack Obama left a letter to Donald Trump, welcoming him to the White House and offering him advice in an office that lacks “a clear blueprint for success.” For months, the contents of the parting letter remained private — until Sunday, when CNN published the message…
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Deputies were called about an ‘intruder’ at a flooded Texas home. It was a giant alligator.
In the wake of Tropical Storm Harvey, many Houston-area residents have returned home to unbelievable destruction: Overturned furniture, rotting wood and waist-deep floodwater, in some cases. At least one homeowner near Lake Houston, however, encountered a different kind of shocking, post-Harvey sight. Deputies with the Harris County Precinct 4 Constable’s Office responded Friday to an “intruder…
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As a Houston TV station flooded, this reporter kept broadcasting
A woman crashed into a pond in a southwest Colorado Springs neighborhood Saturday afternoon. (Photo via CSFD/Twitter)