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US - Sep 30, 2026 - A shelter dog was carried into a New York Starbucks in a backpack; one stranger met her and adopted her three days later

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US Supreme Court allows Trump admin to resume controversial 'third-country' deportations

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Drake Maye becomes athlete-owner of beverage brand sold at over 75,000 US retail locations; Patriots quarterback joins Athletic Brewing

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US - Sep 30, 2026 - 'Bigger than internet': Trump officially renames AI as 'super intelligence' US President Donald Trump has officially signed an executive order that replaces the term 'Artificial Intelligence' with 'Super Intelligence.' This shift mandates federal agencies to update their communications accordingly, showcasing the evolving technological landscape. At a White House gathering with tech executives, Trump emphasized this pivotal change, with a new legal definition expected to be proposed to Congress in the near future.

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21-year-old University of Georgia student Kristin Sargent survives eighth-floor fall after dancing on couch near window; father says she is badly injured but lucky to be alive

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Florida officials have cleared the way for a $100 million-plus surf park where developers plan a 35-acre attraction with a six-acre artificial wave lagoon and half-mile beach miles from the ocean

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Indiana removed 3,550 feet of dangerous mine walls and restored 71 acres in a former coal-mining forest

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A Pennsylvania dairy farmer spent 70 years watching bears and turkeys on his 170-acre farm; in 2026, after turning down two lucrative offers, he permanently protected the land from development

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Texas 'lionesses' win major prison air-conditioning fight after years of documenting extreme heat; court orders all prisons cooled by 2029, with 88,697 people lacking AC

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In the early 1970s, David Wolkowsky began stewarding a remote island near Key West and hosted famous guests there; decades later the 14-acre Ballast Key became part of a national wildlife refuge

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Forty-five North Carolina property owners sued over roads planned through their neighborhoods for the 1,800-home Hilton Bluffs project; the developer removed both links, then the county denied its revised one-access plan

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Meet Austin Koziarski, the high-school student who now leads more than 200 volunteers helping refugee children across 18 schools

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US to lend 40 million barrel oil from strategic reserve as Ukraine war strains global supply

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Venezuelan delivery driver shot by ICE in Texas charged with assault; faces up to 20 years in prison

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In 1964, an Arizona couple began building a carport with discarded bottles; years later, the project had grown into a 2,700-sq-ft home made with thousands of bottles and listed for $432,500

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Trump's own America.gov chatbot contradicts US president on 2020 polls, climate

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Lindsay Clancy, accused of killing 3 children, returns to court after mistrial

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How Joe Biden averted a wider war with Iran: Explained in 10 points

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A Utah man who spent 41 years behind bars after being sentenced to death in a 1985 murder case has been ordered released on bail after new DNA tests excluded him from crime-scene evidence

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More than 575 Nevada volunteers worked across 26 Truckee River watershed sites and removed 120,125 pounds of waste in one day, including 2,500 pounds pulled directly from the river and 64,320 pounds of invasive weeds

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Joshua Tree wildlife crossings planned in California's Mojave Desert to curb wildlife-vehicle collisions; two State Route 62 structures to protect bighorn sheep, mountain lions and bobcats with $6 million-plus funding

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In 2021, billionaire Orlando Bravo paid $39.25 million for Phil Collins's 1929 Miami Beach mansion; months later, he won approval to demolish it for a flood-resilient home with tropical gardens

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Meet Dani McTague, the 16-year-old who turned a childhood art project into a lifeline for children in hospitals, delivering over 3,700 art bags

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Who is Christa Pike? Woman set for Tennessee's first female execution in 200 years

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In 1979, Ted Turner bought a 4,680-acre South Carolina barrier island to prevent development; 38 years later he sold it to the state for $4.9 million, about one-third of its appraised value, and it became state parkland

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In 2023, Texas mogul Felix Sorkin paid $36 million for an 11,000-sq-ft Coral Gables home designed by Alfred Browning Parker; months later, the 1963 modernist house was demolished for a replacement

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US announces visa restrictions for officials blocking international child abduction cases

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AI 'kill chain': What happens when humans trust bad data at the worst possible moment

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Anti-South Asian hate speech on X surges 240% in US, Indians at centre amid H-1B row: Report

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Meet Kameirah Johnson, 18, the Renton, Washington student who won Doodle for Google from more than 10,000 entries, earning a $55,000 scholarship and a $50,000 technology package for her school

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A Colorado rancher spent $50,000 fighting oil infrastructure he did not want on his 7,000-acre ranch; after nearly a decade, officials approved a wind project that lets his family finally earn from energy on its own land

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Rubio urges Cuba to 'choose a different path', warns of consequences for resisting Trump

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In 1998, a Florida man mixed his father-in-law's ashes into concrete and sank the first memorial reef off Sarasota; the idea grew into more than 2,500 living reefs across 25 U.S. coastal sites

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In 2004, a New York truck driver began cutting tiny buildings from balsa wood; 22 years later, his handmade New York of more than 300 sections entered a city museum

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An Illinois waterfall and canyon photographed as a tourist attraction in 1903 remained largely closed to the public for generations; its corporate owner has now donated more than 50 acres so it can become a public park

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'Indian Americans are as American as anyone': US Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi terms debate on immigration racist, xenophobic

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In 2002, New Mexico mixed discarded toothbrush fragments and plastic tubing into a 2-mile interstate; it projected 25% longer life and 27% less waste

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Someone has been secretly poisoning Lake Tahoe trees since 2022 as 28 are already targeted; now community offers $147,000 to catch culprit

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In 2022, a designer bought a 4-acre Montecito estate for $11.5 million; three years of work later, it sold for nearly three times the purchase price

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23 US nuclear tests forced Bikini Atoll residents from their homes; decades later, scientists found giant corals thriving underwater

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In 2016, an investor paid $6.5 million for an 1840s Charleston mansion turned into a bed-and-breakfast; after a three-year restoration, it was listed for $22.25 million

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Starting in 1945, a Wisconsin builder carried materials up a rock cliff for decades; his handmade House on the Rock became a lasting roadside landmark

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In 2019, a Miami artist built a ceramic underwater reef to give coral a place to grip; her sculptures became a nursery-like habitat for reef animals instead of only gallery art

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Since 1977, a photographer has kept returning to America's changing inner cities; his decades-long record captured Harlem's decline and transformation

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'First' in 200 years: US woman who killed classmate at 18 faces execution at 50

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A Maryland factory built in 1920 once employed thousands making furniture, food and WWII rations; after sitting vacant, it has been restored as a business hub with a new $1 million oyster center

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A North Carolina land trust has saved the first 200 acres around Tuckertown Reservoir after 1,400 donors joined the campaign; another 3,800 privately owned acres remain at risk of sale and development

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In 1965, an artist proposed restoring Manhattan's lost native woods on one street corner; by 1998, the small pre-colonial forest had become a protected city landmark

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Between 1907 and 1928, a Kansas retiree built a home and garden from concrete, leaving more than 150 sculptures now preserved as the Garden of Eden

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From 1912 to 1945, a New York landowner planted up to 55,000 trees a year; the experiments helped shape America's tree-planting programmes

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In 1907, Frank O. Lowden began planting trees on bare land; over several decades, 500,000 trees grew into today's 2,291-acre Lowden-Miller State Forest

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Minnesota has picked a nearly 57-acre site for a $1 billion horticulture world's fair expected to draw millions; after the six-month Expo ends, the land is planned to become a permanent mixed-use district

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In the early 1900s, a United States plant explorer tested Japanese kudzu near Washington, D.C.; later promoted for soil protection, the "wonder plant" spread across millions of acres of the South

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Camp Mystic owners seek to sell the century-old Texas girls' camp after the 2025 flood; the bankruptcy plan puts its entire 749-acre riverfront property up for auction while families of victims fight over its future

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In 1914, a Connecticut writer opened one of America's first private songbird sanctuaries; her work helped shape a statewide bird-protection movement that still operates

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Over 50 years, a model maker built a 3,800-square-foot miniature circus by hand; it now anchors Florida's Ringling Circus Museum

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California thieves steal Nvidia-branded trailers expecting expensive AI hardware; find 40,000 pounds of sand instead

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Over 20 years, a New York painter hand-dug a lake and planted thousands of native trees; the private landscape survives as Olana State Historic Site

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