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KFC And iPhones Are The Latest Targets For Chinese Nationalists
Since an international tribunal ruled last week against Beijing's claims to the South China Sea, Chinese nationalists have expressed their contempt in a number of ways.
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How Canada's Prime Minister Became A Super-Hero
A forthcoming issue of Marvel's "Civil War II: Choosing Sides" series features on its cover a smiling, well-toned Justin Trudeau sitting at the corner of a boxing ring. Even in comic book form, his eyes are a glistening green, his teeth perfectly straight and white.
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One Year After Woman Was Mistakenly Given Someone Else's Newborn, Her Baby Comes Home
When Mercy Casanellas laid eyes on her baby after her emergency Caesarean last year, it was love at first sight. He had her sharp nose, her husband's blue eyes. Then, because he was born prematurely, he had to spend the night at the specialist ward.
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Student Says She Went Missing To 'Escape' Her 'Ivy League Life'
While her family and friends posted frantic online pleas for help and the New York Police Department scoured the city, 19-year-old Nayla Kidd was moving into her new apartment in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood.
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Johnny Depp And Amber Heard: From Dog Fight To Divorce
Amber Heard and Johnny Depp, who were married on Depp's private Bahamian island last February, did not have any children together. But as has been well-documented, they did have dogs. Johnny Depp and Amber Heard met on the set of Rum Diary, a 2011 movie based on the Hunter S. Thompson novel
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'You Want To Record It Now?': Man Allegedly Killed Girlfriend While Her Cell Phone Taped Shooting
Wesley Webb and her boyfriend, Keith Smith, were having an argument in their Schuylkill Township, Pa., living room last week when she activated her cellphone's audio recording function. The kids were upstairs, and things were getting heated.
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This Sweet 7-Year-Old Gave His Hair To Cancer Patients, Then Life Took A Devastating Turn
Seven-year-old Vinny Desautels learned about cancer for the first time because his mother, Amanda Azevedo, was helping survivors of the disease get ready for a gala. She is a hair stylist who volunteered with a local lymphoma foundation, doing the hair of former cancer patients before they arrived at an annual benefit event.
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Harvard Wants Secretive Male Clubs To Go Co-Ed. All-Female Groups Seen As Being Punished In Their Wake.
"Once a Porcellian always a Porcellian," read a 1940 Time Magazine story about the oldest of Harvard University's secretive, all-male "finals clubs." "Porkies keep up their Porkie friendships all their lives, go back religiously to the annual Porkie banquet at which new members are initiated . . . From the Pore's clubrooms, non-Porcellians are reli...
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Turbulence So Bad On Plane People Were Flung From Seats. Some Hospitalized
The current weather in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, is a balmy 82 degrees. The skies are blue, the beaches plentiful, the vacationers giddy. Why wait for summer in mercurial America when you can escape to a place where the season of leisure is a humdrum default?
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Stepmother Put 4-Year-Old In Scalding Water And Let Him Bleed To Death, Prosecutors Say
On a morning last month, Robert Ritchie III awoke to find that his son was not breathing. The Cincinnati Enquirer reported that he sobbed into the phone to the police dispatcher: "I think my son died."
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Patient Secretly Recorded Doctors As They Operated On Her
Last summer, Ethel Easter wanted nothing more than to see a doctor. A hiatal hernia had caused her to suffer more than a hundred abdominal attacks within 24 hours, her stomach was bruised, and she found blood in her urine. The pain was excruciating, so Easter prayed that a surgery could be scheduled as soon as possible.
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Australian Feminists Get Rape And Death Threats For Charging White Men More For Cupcakes
Before frosting of her cupcakes was frosted and sprinkles sprinkled, Madeline Price's sugared goods became the subject of uproar online.
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Man Pays $400 A Month To Sleep In Wooden Box In Friends' San Francisco Living Room
By now, the high price of rent in and around San Francisco has become at once a familiar lament and an easy punchline. In 2014, BuzzFeed highlighted nine private islands that cost less than an apartment in the California tech capital; a year later, a local website found the same of five castles.
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Georgia Parents Offended By The 'Far East Religion' Of Yoga, Get 'Namaste' Banned From School
When school administrators at a Georgia elementary school implemented yoga to reduce students' stress, they probably envisioned peace in their future. Instead, they received a flurry of complaints.
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Flight Attendant Flees LAX, Allegedly Leaving Nearly 70 Pounds Of Cocaine And Gucci Heels In Her Wake
A flight attendant allegedly left behind a few precious valuables after an unceremonious departure from Los Angeles International Airport last Friday night.
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KFC And iPhones Are The Latest Targets For Chinese Nationalists
Since an international tribunal ruled last week against Beijing's claims to the South China Sea, Chinese nationalists have expressed their contempt in a number of ways.
-
How Canada's Prime Minister Became A Super-Hero
A forthcoming issue of Marvel's "Civil War II: Choosing Sides" series features on its cover a smiling, well-toned Justin Trudeau sitting at the corner of a boxing ring. Even in comic book form, his eyes are a glistening green, his teeth perfectly straight and white.
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One Year After Woman Was Mistakenly Given Someone Else's Newborn, Her Baby Comes Home
When Mercy Casanellas laid eyes on her baby after her emergency Caesarean last year, it was love at first sight. He had her sharp nose, her husband's blue eyes. Then, because he was born prematurely, he had to spend the night at the specialist ward.
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Student Says She Went Missing To 'Escape' Her 'Ivy League Life'
While her family and friends posted frantic online pleas for help and the New York Police Department scoured the city, 19-year-old Nayla Kidd was moving into her new apartment in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood.
-
Johnny Depp And Amber Heard: From Dog Fight To Divorce
Amber Heard and Johnny Depp, who were married on Depp's private Bahamian island last February, did not have any children together. But as has been well-documented, they did have dogs. Johnny Depp and Amber Heard met on the set of Rum Diary, a 2011 movie based on the Hunter S. Thompson novel
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'You Want To Record It Now?': Man Allegedly Killed Girlfriend While Her Cell Phone Taped Shooting
Wesley Webb and her boyfriend, Keith Smith, were having an argument in their Schuylkill Township, Pa., living room last week when she activated her cellphone's audio recording function. The kids were upstairs, and things were getting heated.
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This Sweet 7-Year-Old Gave His Hair To Cancer Patients, Then Life Took A Devastating Turn
Seven-year-old Vinny Desautels learned about cancer for the first time because his mother, Amanda Azevedo, was helping survivors of the disease get ready for a gala. She is a hair stylist who volunteered with a local lymphoma foundation, doing the hair of former cancer patients before they arrived at an annual benefit event.
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Harvard Wants Secretive Male Clubs To Go Co-Ed. All-Female Groups Seen As Being Punished In Their Wake.
"Once a Porcellian always a Porcellian," read a 1940 Time Magazine story about the oldest of Harvard University's secretive, all-male "finals clubs." "Porkies keep up their Porkie friendships all their lives, go back religiously to the annual Porkie banquet at which new members are initiated . . . From the Pore's clubrooms, non-Porcellians are reli...
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Turbulence So Bad On Plane People Were Flung From Seats. Some Hospitalized
The current weather in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, is a balmy 82 degrees. The skies are blue, the beaches plentiful, the vacationers giddy. Why wait for summer in mercurial America when you can escape to a place where the season of leisure is a humdrum default?
-
Stepmother Put 4-Year-Old In Scalding Water And Let Him Bleed To Death, Prosecutors Say
On a morning last month, Robert Ritchie III awoke to find that his son was not breathing. The Cincinnati Enquirer reported that he sobbed into the phone to the police dispatcher: "I think my son died."
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Patient Secretly Recorded Doctors As They Operated On Her
Last summer, Ethel Easter wanted nothing more than to see a doctor. A hiatal hernia had caused her to suffer more than a hundred abdominal attacks within 24 hours, her stomach was bruised, and she found blood in her urine. The pain was excruciating, so Easter prayed that a surgery could be scheduled as soon as possible.
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Australian Feminists Get Rape And Death Threats For Charging White Men More For Cupcakes
Before frosting of her cupcakes was frosted and sprinkles sprinkled, Madeline Price's sugared goods became the subject of uproar online.
-
Man Pays $400 A Month To Sleep In Wooden Box In Friends' San Francisco Living Room
By now, the high price of rent in and around San Francisco has become at once a familiar lament and an easy punchline. In 2014, BuzzFeed highlighted nine private islands that cost less than an apartment in the California tech capital; a year later, a local website found the same of five castles.
-
Georgia Parents Offended By The 'Far East Religion' Of Yoga, Get 'Namaste' Banned From School
When school administrators at a Georgia elementary school implemented yoga to reduce students' stress, they probably envisioned peace in their future. Instead, they received a flurry of complaints.
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Flight Attendant Flees LAX, Allegedly Leaving Nearly 70 Pounds Of Cocaine And Gucci Heels In Her Wake
A flight attendant allegedly left behind a few precious valuables after an unceremonious departure from Los Angeles International Airport last Friday night.
